Re: SCS to PDF via OVRPRTF

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

It depends on how the IBM PDF conversion is handling the bold.

I know in our application, SPLTOOL, when we see this overprinting we know
it's for bold and use a different PDF font/keyword to make it bold.

I would contact IBM to see if they have an answer.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:29 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Working on a report that originates as a whole bunch of O-specs in an RPG
> program, and gets converted to a PDF via an OVRPRTF.
>
> Now of course, I already know that overprinting underscores on a line
> creates underscores.
>
> I was under the impression that overprinting a line on itself creates
> bolding. But in the resulting PDF, while the bolding might just barely show
> up on the screen, it doesn't show up at all if I print the document.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or was I simply wrong about there
> being a way to get bold in a report that starts out as SCS?
>
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