RE: Overlay rotation problems

You may have to re-create the overlay-- and rotate the image before you create it!

We have a packing list that is created rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The only tricky part to remember is when you try to adjust the "down" and "across" alignment values-- they are still referencing the portrait orientation of the page-- the alignment origin (in our case) is the lower-left-hand corner of the page-- and increasing the "down" value moves the image to the right (as you're looking at the page in landscape position), and "across" moves the image up the page.

Normally we trim as much white space from the top and left of the overlay to make aligning things easier. For this packing list we trim as much as possible from the left and bottom.

Normal printing links the text and overlay together, so the overlay moves in relation to the text margin values.. There's a value that splits them apart, so that 'down' and 'across' both start at the physical page origin (in portrait mode, it's the upper-left-hand corner; in landscape it ends up as the lower-left-hand corner). This is data area QPRTVALS> This is a -<global>- setting, and affects all printing.

See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=%2Frzalu%2Frzaluoverly.htm
Also see http://www.guetlich.de/guwa/site97/gn/tips/8003615.htm

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Art Tostaine, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 4:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Overlay rotation problems

Pagrtt(0) didn't help. My text is fine, the overlay is rotated.

Here is what's happening:

https://imgur.com/2OArbDe

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 3:04 PM Musselman, Paul <pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Art-

Two possibilities

OVRPRTF PAGRTT({0|90|180|270}) We use this for several of our overlays.
We have a control file that includes the overlay name, rotation, etc. etc.

Use a *WSCST (Work Station Customizing Object) and force no page
rotation. This would require a separate device definition pointing to the
same device.

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Art
Tostaine, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12:43 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Overlay rotation problems

I am creating an overlay from an image that was provided by a customer.

The image canvas size is 8.35 X 7" I am using 8 1/2 x 14 page size, and am
placing the overlay offset at 7" down.

When I print the overlay to the AFP driver and try to print it on my page,
it's rotated 90 degrees. I'm not using any page rotation on the spool
file.

I do this all the time but I'm stumped. Any ideas? Thanks

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Art Tostaine