Re: page n of x

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary Guthrie wrote:

>Regarding the "simple column in 
>the magazine" suggestion - The concept
>is simple, but the amount of code 
>would be too large to publish in its
>entirety. 
-snip-
>The question has been asked enough 
>that perhaps that would be useful to the public.

I asked this question in a somewhat more complicated form in this list some
time ago (AFP print files complicate things a lot) and again in IBM's AS/400
magazine.  I need to do the page x of y thing, print the bills in reverse
order (last page first) duplex the detail (but not the summary) and include
AFP graphics.

My current approach involves two passes through the data - once to generate
a simple SCS version of the bill with "markers" for the graphics, x of y,
etc.  The second pass involves a cpysplf, some lookups for replacing those
markers and reading the bills backward so I can print them in reverse order.

IBM's answer was published in the September issue.  They advise using the
AFP toolkit and build each customer's bill individually, page by page and
then going back to put the page x of y on.  Visit
http://www.as400magazine.com/ to subscribe.  This is an extremely complex
way to handle the problem - I actually run up against internal limits for
large customers (5000+ pages for one bill and yes, they get an electronic
copy but insist on mailing that case of paper each month as well.)

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


Billing Concepts Corp., a NASDAQ Listed Company, Symbol: BILL
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