Re: More, Re: SCS to PDF via OVRPRTF

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

​How are you creating your overlay?

​I think that the using the AFP driver from MS Word tends to create a
"bitmap" overlay.

Whereas if you use an actual AFP overlay design tool, you'll get more of a
"vector" overlay.

The WYSIWYG PC based AFP tools were pretty pricey when I looked at them
back in the late 90's

I ended up getting the green screen AFP Utilities (5770AF1) to design the
overlays we use.  The resulting overlay takes about 30KB when the spool
file is converted to PDF.

Charles

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:48 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We've noticed that the PDFs tend to be very large, mainly the result of an
> extraordinarily large overlay. Any tricks for dealing with that?
>
> As to the original query, I think it may be time for me to learn how to
> use externally-described print files. Any advice there?
>
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