Re: Overlay rotation problems

Thanks Bill & Paul. I was struggling because whenever I set the overlay to
8.375 x 9 paint.net wanted to print it rotated. I just went with it and
it's rotated back now on my spool file!

Weird. Let the afp driver or paint.net or whatever rotate and IBM rotates
it back.

Art

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:39 PM Musselman, Paul <pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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

--
Art Tostaine

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