Hey Ricky,
I typically use a selection of fonts. Below I added about 10 fonts to my AFP source. In the example listed below, I used the Helvetica and a Helvetica Bold font, then I just selected which one to use in my layout.
Change Source Overlay Font
Font number . . . . . . . . : 1
Font type . . . . . . . . . : 1 Font and character identifier
Type choices, press Enter.
Font:
Identifier . . . . . . . . 2304 1-65535
Point size . . . . . . . . 12.0 0.1-999.9, *NONE
Character identifier:
Graphic character set . . *SYSVAL 1-32767, *SYSVAL
Code page . . . . . . . . 1-32767
Text 'description' . . . . . 2304 Helv 12pt
Change Source Overlay Font
Font number . . . . . . . . : 2
Font type . . . . . . . . . : 1 Font and character identifier
Type choices, press Enter.
Font:
Identifier . . . . . . . . 2305 1-65535
Point size . . . . . . . . 10.0 0.1-999.9, *NONE
Character identifier:
Graphic character set . . *SYSVAL 1-32767, *SYSVAL
Code page . . . . . . . . 1-32767
Text 'description' . . . . . 2305 Helv Bld 10pt
Work with Source Overlay Fonts
Type options, press Enter.
2=Change 5=Display 9=Set initial font
Font
Opt Number Text
*DEFAULT Courier 10
1 2304 Helv 12pt
2 2305 Helv Bld 10pt
3 2305 Helv Bld 7 pt
4 2304 Helv Bld 22pt
5 2304 Helv 7pt
6 2305 Helv bld 8pt
7 2304 Helv 9 pt
8 10 CPI Courier
-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ricky Thompson
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 2:51 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Advanced function printing bolding
Hey guys I'm not much of a expert on AFP so I was wondering if someone might be able to answer this for me.
We have a report that they would like to bold certain words in a long description.
So say we had Chevy Pickup Truck C1500 Extended Cab for example.
They want to bold the C1500. This is a concatenated string. They want the string trimmed so it reads like a sentence so I can't break it up into different fields. Printing it twice in AFP does not bold it since it has a font.
Is there any type of control character I could put in the string to make it bold? All my other work arounds are pretty hairy. I would have to use a fixed font like courier print the line and then print the C1500 on a line by itself with a bold font in the correct position. I'm even finding that does not always work as it seems to shift the data sometimes and creates a double image.
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