Re: Overlay File Generation

Just a warning about AFPRSC vs Overlay or Pageseg, scenario:

Convert a spool file into a Pdf (1000 pages with the same image (500Kb)
on each page)

Using AFPRSC the resulting pdf is 515 Mb, using Overlay or Pagseg only 2 Mb.

This was true until 2015, since then we have given up with DDS printer
files so I do not know if it is still valid.

HTH

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2018-08-20 23:18 GMT+02:00 Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi Shane

Nothing to make overlays - that takes the AFP Drive in Windows to generate
the source.

But an option might be - and I am thinking we should look at it - is to
use the AFPRSC keyword inside the source for the PRTF - this might be able
to work instead of the external overlay parameters on CRTPRTF and OVRPRTF.

AFPRSC can definitely work in place of the PAGSEG keyword, and you name an
image file in the IFS, say, which is transformed on the fly into the AFP
data needed to render the image in the result.

If this works as I hope, it would maybe eliminate problems when layout of
an overlay change for whatever reasons.

Now I don't know if Eclipse has any plugins for working with images - if
so, you could have that plugin in RDi along with the rest, right?

HTH
Vern


On 8/20/2018 1:36 PM, SReeves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Are there any add-ons or solutions that tie in with Rdi that generate
overlay objects for use with printer files? We are curious what other
people are using for the purposes of generating overlay's for printer file
definitions. We are particularly interested in solutions that support
double-bit character sets (Chinese characters). *(You can e-mail me
directly for non-rdi related suggestions to help keep list on-topic).

Thanks

Shane Reeves

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