RE: DDS for AFP printer file

Peter,

If what you want is this

*** blah1 blah1 blah1
*** blah2 blah2 blah2

Then reverse your position values

A R DET017
A *NONE POSITION(&POSY 0.625) '***'
A HLDCMT 60A POSITION(&POSY 1.000)
A POSY 5S 3P

DET001 should be looking like this

TAX ID on line 2.7
12-3456789 on line 3.3

CWVIDxxxxx on line 6.2

XXX on line 7.0

1234567 on line 7.310

If it is still scrambled then need to verify printer config - if you can convert spool to pdf you can see the image without any concern about printer.
If still an issue - what Xerox model?

Jim Franz



-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Dow
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2020 4:36 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: DDS for AFP printer file

I'm using POSITION(x,y) exclusively, and compiling with device type *AFPDS.

Here's some sample record formats in the printer file:

A R DET001
A 59 *NONE 'TAX ID'
A POSITION(2.700 0.833)
A 59 HTAX 10 POSITION(3.300 0.833)
A 78 CWVID 10 POSITION(6.200 0.833)
A HLDPR 3A POSITION(7.000 0.833)
A HLDN 7S 0 POSITION(7.310 0.833)

A R DET017
A *NONE POSITION(0.625 &POSY) '***'
A HLDCMT 60A POSITION(1.000 &POSY)
A POSY 5S 3P

A R ENDPAGE ENDPAGE

POSY is set to 1.0 (1") at the start of a check, and is incremented by
0.167 for a new comment or stub detail line.



On 6/2/2020 12:20 PM, midrange wrote:

Are you doing SPACEB SPACEA or actual positioning on the page ?
Is there a SKIPB to skip before starting to print?
Can you show some code?
And is compile type *SCS or *AFPDS - use *AFPDS
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Dow
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2020 1:09 PM
To: David G via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: DDS for AFP printer file

This is my first foray into DDS for AFP. I'm modifying a check printing program to use AFP and so far I've gotten all the O-specs converted to DDS, and the program runs fine, writes the formats in the expected order, followed by a format with the ENDPAGE keyword.

The problem is the results don't seem to have much relation to where I told it to put things. The top line should have a vendor id and check#, but instead it has the first line of the check stub detail. And horizontal positioning is way off.

I'm thinking something is wrong with the printer file definition, or the printer device it's being printed on. The front margin is (0 0), the UOM is *INCH, no page or form definition. The printer is some Xerox printer defined as *HP6 with Host Print Transform *YES.

I'm probably missing something glaringly obvious, but I don't know enough about AFP, PSF, etc. to see it.

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