Re: SCS to PDF via OVRPRTF

On our laser printers, overprinting DOES come out bold. Regular old
o-specs. We've been laser only for a long time and I remember being
pleasantly surprised that it worked that way.

We've used ESEND for a long long time. It has a PDFSPLF command to create
a PDF from a spool file and it also results in bold in the PDF.



On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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