Re: Centering with proportional font

On 9/5/2013 10:35 PM, Roger Harman wrote:

Buck...
Certainly there is a tipping point as to the effort vs. reward. But, the
printed document is what the customer sees and aesthetics should not be
underestimated. 1/10"? Probably OK. 3/4"? Likely not OK. When I did
the PCL stuff, we needed to right justify some things. Could get it
accurate to the dot level.

Understand perfectly.

PAGSEG may be doable. Only about 6 offices to deal with and I could put a
reference in the Office Master table. The gist of things is to soft code
what is now all hard coded and is an issue due to expansion.

One hurdle would be that a given print run (invoices, etc) encompasses
multiple (or all) offices.

PAGSEG can be soft coded:

A R PRTSEG
A PAGSEG(&SEGLIB/&SEGNAM +
A &SEGDWN +
A &SEGOVR)
A SEGLIB 10A P
A SEGNAM 8A P
A SEGDWN 5S 3P
A SEGOVR 5S 3P

Thanks for the suggestions. Need to read up on PAGSEG.

I find that I like choice. PAGSEG may or may not be useful, but it
gives another avenue to walk down.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Frzakd%2Frzakdmstptpagse.htm

QGYOLAFP might be the API you were thinking of to interrogate font
widths. Never used it myself, but format HPCS0100 might be the one.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fapis%2Fqgyolafp.htm

--buck