This is the document that I have for creating an overlay
Add AFP Printer driver to your PC
1. Go to 'Start', 'Settings', 'Printer and Faxes',
2. Click 'Add a Printer' (follow the wizard)
3. Select 'Local printer attached to this computer'
4. Select 'FILE: (Print to file)' for 'Use the following Port'
5. Choose 'IBM' and 'IBM Infoprint 20 AFP'
6. Continue to click 'Next', accepting the defaults until you can click 'Finish'
Saving .XLS document as an overlay document
1. Open .xls document
2. Select 'File', 'Print'
3. Choose 'IBM Infoprint 20 AFP' from the dropdown
4. Check box 'Print to File'
5. Click on 'Properties' to the right of printer name
6. Select 'Overlay' from the dropdown box under 'Output Type' [cid:image001.png@01D029AE.DF8A3750]
7. Click 'OK' to close '...Advanced Properties...'
8. Click 'OK' again to accept all changes
9. Input 'Output file name' (include entire path)
[cid:image002.png@01D029AE.DF8A3750]
10. Your file is ready to be imported to the AS400 via the i-series Navigator
Creating an Overlay
1. Login to iSeries Navigator
2. Expand the IP address of the system you would like to create the overlay
3. Follow the path below:
[cid:image003.png@01D029AE.DF8A3750]
4. Right click on 'Overlay' and select 'Import'
5. The following screen appears:
[cid:image004.png@01D029AE.DF8A3750]
6. 'Browse' to the location of the Overlay
7. Enter in the 'Resource Name' (8 character name for overlay)
8. Enter in the 'Library Name' to save the Overlay
9. Add a 'Description'
10. Choose 'Object Authority'
11. Keep the default 'Data Type' as 'AFPDS'
12. Click 'OK' - Overlay is now located in the LIB you specified above
Alan Shore
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Howie
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 12:25 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Problem with creating AFP overlays
Hello all,
I'm having an issue with creating an AFP overlay on our iSeries. I currently have a 600 DPI MS Word document (with an embedded JPEG) that I'm using as my basis for creating a new overlay on the iSeries. I have both a
300 and a 600 DPI AFP driver set up (the generic InfoPrint one) and I print
the document to a 600 DPI .prn file. Then I've tried both importing the
file into an overlay via iSeries Navigator and FTPing the .prn file up to
the iSeries and then using the CRTOVL command. Both methods yield the
following error:
File not valid for creating an *OVL. Reason code is 02.
The text for reason code 02 is:
2 - The structured field identifier in the incoming data for the printer resource is not correct or is not supported. The error was detected while processing record 1, byte number 17. The structured field which is not correct may be caused by a length that is not correct on the previous structure field. The structured field which was being processed at the time is '5A0010D3A8C6'X.
Is it that I can't use 600 DPI? Is it that I'm using a JPEG? I tried doing it straight from the JPEG and also from embedding it in a Word doc and then trying to create the overlay from that.
Any help/suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks!
Bill
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