Re: APF Printing Starting Help

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Us young punks need you dinosaurs to stick around to pass us your vast
amount of knowledge. So don't go dying off yet. ;-)

On 6/21/07, Gene Burns <burns.gene@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dinosaurs STILL roam the earth.  (Look in many IT departments) ;)
>
>
> On 6/21/07, Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there some good documentation somewhere on drawing lines in
> external
> > > printer files somewhere?
> >
> > When I started with AFP (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth) I just
> > used the DDS reference in conjunction with the Printing Redbook.  For
> > drawing lines, use the LINE keyword.
> >
> > The key to understanding AFP is that you aren't limited to drawing from
> > the top of the page down to the bottom.  It's perfectly acceptable to
> > draw a BOX at the top, another at the bottom, then fill in the headings
> > at the top, then the total at the bottom and finally stuff the detail
> > lines in the middle.
> >
> > Read up on POSITION and ENDPAGE.  You can't readily mix absolute (by
> > line) and relative (POSITION) on the same page, and you haven't finished
> > a page no matter how many lines you've printed until you've done
> ENDPAGE.
> >    --buck
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