Re: Creating page segments natively

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carl

I think I'll mention this stuff here - I'm getting good support of this 
process here in the list.

Cheers
Vern

On 3/28/2016 12:12 PM, Carl J Novit wrote:
> Vern,
> We use iForms for several forms, including invoices and purchase orders.
> They are printed, emailed, or run through RJS's Sign Here depending on the
> situation.  We have it set up to be user driven.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Carl Novit
> Vice President
> Extension: 7708
>
>
>
> From:   Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   03/28/2016 12:00 PM
> Subject:        Re: Creating page segments natively
> Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> Hi Rich
>
> iforms has been in the back of my mind. The issue for now is, we still
> need to print to local printers from both batch and interactive
> processes on the i.
>
> If you have ideas for this withOUT too big a change to process, I'm all
> ears!
>
> Vern
>
> On 3/28/2016 9:35 AM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> > Hey Vern,
> >
> > Maybe it's time to consider a new forms product ?
> >
> > Our iForms product can consume those images without custom conversion.
> >
> > Might even be able to generate those forms with SEQUEL.
> >
> > Food for thought.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Schoen | Director of Document Management Technologies,
> HelpSystems
> > T: + 1 952-486-6802
> > RJS Software Systems | A Division of HelpSystems
> > richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > ------------------------------
> >
> > message: 2
> > date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:58:18 -0500
> > from: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > subject: Creating page segments natively
> >
> > Y'all
> >
> > I have to look at converting signature images to page segments. I am
> > looking at examples of the output from the AFP printer drive, as well as
> > the MO:DCA & IO:CA documentation, and I feel I'm close. I think I can
> > put together most of the structured fields.
> >
> > Where I am is figuring out what to put into the image picture data (IPD)
> > structured field. I think my best bet is to use TIFF Group 4 - a bitmap
> > (regular, not RLE) would be too large.
> >
> > And then, which part of a TIFF file do I use.
> >
> > One thing I've seen that is confusing, I think - I have used the AFP
> > driver with a BMP to create the PRN used to create a page segment. I
> > also have converted the BMP to a TIFF using ImageMagick (BTW, got that
> > installed on our 7.1 box and it works great). The content of the PRN is
> > larger than that of the TIFF - the PRN describes the picture data as
> > Group 4 compression - so is the TIFF option I selected - so maybe Group
> > 4 can have different results? Ah to be such a novice!
> >
> > So if anyone has done this and is willing to share, please post here or
> > contact me privately.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Vern