Re: Pictures in a report?

James,

An AFPDS spooled file (with overlays or page segments) can be viewed with iSeries Navigator>Basic Operations>Printer Output

The ovrprtf command will let you specify an overlay (front and back if doing duplex) and position on page
or
in DDS Printer file , something like this which is an AR Stmt form, a logo, and a credit card payment form. There are other parms to these stmts, found in the
DDS manual for printer files.
If I'm trying to "see" the report, especially on a remote system, I'd convert the afpds spool to a pdf and email it as an attachment.

A R OVERLAY1 OVERLAY(ARSTMT 0.0 0.0)
A R LOGO PAGESEG(LOGO1 0.0 0.4)
A R CCFORM1 PAGESEG(CCFORM 5.20 2.13 +
(*SIZE 5.9 6.0))

Jim Franz

----- Original Message ----- From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Pictures in a report?

I've just gone partway through the AFP Utilities Tutorial on our V6 box.

I now have an overlay, and a spool file of that overlay, but no apparent
way to see what it looks like.

Tried sending it to myself as a PDF, using MMAIL. Ended up with an error
message out of MMAIL, and a malformed PDF that was undisplayable.

I also looked at the customer's box. They don't have a QAFP library.

Definitely weird.

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JHHL
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