We dealt with this exactly... it has to do with the .25" unprintable area on laser printers.
Look at the parameters on CRTPRTF in the DDS. This is what works for our particular case
I "think" the issue was related to FRONTMGN - make it (0 0). You may have to move your boxes and such, but this got the printed output to look the same as the PDF output (download via ACS or OVRPRTF)
FILE(ASTHHOBJ/INVOICE)
DEVTYPE(*AFPDS)
PAGESIZE(66 135)
CPI(12)
FRONTMGN(0 0)
OVRFLW(66)
OUTQ(*DEV)
LVLCHK(*NO)
HTH,
Greg
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Overlays and PDFs
I have an RPG program that is creating a spool file with an Overlay. The overlay is basically boxes to make sections on the page. There is one format in the PRTF with BOX and POSITION keywords, which appears in the page footer area.
When the program finishes, I release the spool file to a network attached laser printer and it prints with the boxes and characters aligned.
When I convert it to a PDF and save it to the IFS via CPYSPLF and
WSCST(*PDF) option, I do get a PDF, but the boxes and characters are not in alignment anymore. It appears that the characters are too high by one line and about 4 positions to the right too far.
The PRTF is compiled with these parameters: DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) LPI(7.5)
CPI(10) OVRFLW(66). The OVRPRTF in the CL also specifies the Overlay and PAGRTT parameters.
Has anyone else experienced this? Our development system is on V7R4 with fairly recent PTFs.
Thank you,
Doug
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