RE: rotating a pagseg

Try adding dimensions keywords along with the PAGSEG and ROTATION keywords/parameters. There's a "clipping box" around a PAGSEG and you need to make sure the dimensions and direction of the clipping box match that of the graphic.

To really get up to speed on AFP you need to study several manuals. There's an AFP manual that refers also to PTOCA, MODCA, GOCA and one or two other subcomponents of AFP. Each of these has their own manual. When you're using DDS print files, you're using AFPDS which uses PTOCA for the most part wrapped within an AFP structure. A PAGSEG is a MODCA segment imbedded within the same structure.

BTW, AFPDS from a DDS print file doesn't give you access to all the tricks these components offer.

PTOCA = Printed Text Object Content Architecture
MODCA = Modified Object Document Content Architecture (JPeg and CCITT Group III/IV - TIFF - content for the most part)
GOCA = Graphic Object Content Architecture (Bar Charts, Pie Charts, etc)

Each of these has their own rules for clipping boxes, rotation, and alignment and they don't always play together the way you think they should.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 6:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: rotating a pagseg

I am using PAGRTT(90) to print an AFP PRTF in landscape mode. Works well
until I add a PAGSEG to the page. As per the DDS manual, page segments are
not automatically rotated when using the PAGRTT parameter.

Now I try ROTATION(90) as a parameter for the PAGSEG keyword and all I
see
is a portion of the PAGSEG image. Even when I print in the center of the
page in case something is being clipped.

Was thinking I could rotate the image I am printing from the AFP printer
driver, but the IBM supplied AFP printer does not have a rotate option.

Does this make sense to anyone? Why would ROTATION(90) not work for
me?
The DDS manual says "feature Print Services Facility (PSF) is required for
use of this keyword". But it has an effect when used.

thanks,
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