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Re: OFLIND Problems

White space doesn't consern me, but wasted pages conserns the users. 


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:04:21 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is your concern about the amount of blank space at the end of the page?  Do
> you have concerns about one or two line widows and orphans? Is it desirable
> to keep all 12 lines on the same page?  If you always have 12 lines then
> perhaps you want to consider page-at-a-time printing?  Print a page at the
> end of every 4th record, and laying out the page as a 4-record page format?
> That'd give you a 51 or 55 line body, with room for headers and footers.
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Booth Martin
> http://www.martinvt.com
> ---------------------------------
> -------Original Message-------
> 
> From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Date: 03/29/05 11:53:55
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: OFLIND Problems
> 
> Okay, this works, but I don't like to output. Is there a something I
> am missing on my manual paging logic. I set my max lines (about 60), I
> add to to a line count for every record making sure I add the right
> number of lines to the counter. Then when a new page is needed
> (Line_Count >= MAX_LINES), then I print my page header which contains
> a SKIPB(1) in the record. I got an CPF5008 or something like that
> error.
> 
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:47:03 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
> Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If you have a possibility of a  12 line record printing 12 lines then you
> > need to set your overflow at somewhere about 48 to 52, depending on where
> > your overflow output prints.
> >
> > Once a detail record starts printing, it prints til done, even if there is
> > overflow.  In this instance I would suspect a 12 line record that started
> > printing on line 59 would print right down to line 5 of the next page, and
> > overflow would never activate for that page break.
> >
> > So, if you want your footer lines to print on, say, line 63 and 64, then
> > your 12th line must print no lower than line 62, which means you need to
> set
> > your overflow line at 51.
> >
> > (Don't confuse form length with overflow line, btw. )
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Booth Martin
> > http://www.martinvt.com
> > ---------------------------------
> > -------Original Message-------
> >
> > From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> > Date: 03/29/05 10:23:29
> > To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> > Subject: Re: OFLIND Problems
> >
> > But what would that cause problems for some of my other records? One
> > of them is 12 lines long. I tried manual paging but kept on getting an
> > overflow error.
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:03:40 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Booth
> > Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I wonder if you need to change your overflow line from 60 to 58 or so?
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > Booth Martin
> > > http://www.martinvt.com
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > -------Original Message-------
> > >
> > > From: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> > > Date: 03/29/05 09:55:51
> > > To: Midrange_RPG400_L
> > > Subject: OFLIND Problems
> > >
> > > I am working with an external printer file and am having some problems
> > > with the OFLIND. The page header works fine for pages 1 and 2, but
> > > page 3 has problems. The last record on page 2 is 2 lines a appears to
> > > print on line 65, then line 66 prints a new page without the heading.
> > > Is there way fix this?
> > >
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