Re: HP PCL & PRTF?

[Vern Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:49 AM 8/12/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>I have a very nice AS400 RPG job that outputs its PRTF wonderfully under
>normal circumatances.  I am now trying to use PCL (Hewlett Packard Laser
>Jet 4 supplied character strings to embed in the output specs) these
>embedded strings allow your printout to be printed landscape and at 6
>LPI.  Every time my  printout encounters one of these strings it adds a
>blank page between my pages.  The start string I am using is ^E&l1o6D
>(this is a string to cause the printout to landscape @ 6LPI then at end
>of each page I send the reset PCL string ^E.  It is landscaping
>beautifully except thes skipped pages between printed pages, I even
>tried to use the just the PCL strings themselves to make my PRTF skip to
>next page.. instead of a SKIPB keyword.  Any suggestions are very much
>appreciated.
>-- 
>žžžžžžžžžžžžž
>ž-Tim Truax-ž
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Could be your pagesize is too long--should be 51 for landscape.

BTW, we've been doing a _lot_ of PCL stuff here, but we're moving away from
it, towards APF for graphical stuff. It seems to me you should not _need_
to use PCL for landscape--PRTF parameter PAGRTT(90) should take care of it.
Just don't use PAGRTT(*AUTO) for this kind of thing.

Good luck


Vernon Hamberg
System Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55401
(612) 371-1111 x480
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