Re: Page definitions/form definitions

[Buck Calabro <mcalabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,
        Yeah, we already do a bunch of that good stuff on Xerox printers, but 
since we are an IBM Business Partner, we have been trying to sell IBM 3130 and 
3160 printers, using AFP to create native AS/400 output.  I love the Xerox, but 
you need to have a Xerox guru to program it so that you can format your 
datastream properly.

If you read the manuals, you see constant references to the wonderful, 
spectacular things one can do with electronic forms using AFP.  It's a pity 
that the "run-time" needed to do this fancy stuff is an "additional fee" 
product.  More so, since support for actually *using* the high-end AFP 
functionality is hard to locate.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY


>I don't know your volume requirements, but I have used Xerox equipment at 
>several client >locations to print HIGH volume. Output has run the gamut, 
>including logos, shading, tumbled & >Head-to-foot tumbling in both letter and 
>legal sizes. There are several software packages to assist >in developing 
>output forms. A good Xerox rep would be able to assist you there.
>
>
>Buck Calabro wrote:
>
>> Is anybody using PSF/400 page and form definitions?  I have a need to print 
>graphic logo's, pie >>charts, boxes and shading all on the same bill.  All the 
>elements are floating, and I need to do 2->>UP landscape printing for the 
>"detail" pages, and 1-UP portrait printing for the "summary" (front) >>page.
>>
>> With DDS, I can print the logo's with PAGSEG, but I can't rotate them to 
>landscape.  The pie >>charts can be handled with GDF, and the boxes with LINE 
>and BOX.  Shading is a puzzler: do I >>use a PAGSEG that is, say, 50% grey 
>screen?  The floating element requirement means that I >>have to calculate how 
>far down the page everything I print falls, including "normal" text:  If I 
>print >>3 lines at 6lpi, I accumulate .5 inches so I know where the graphical 
>elements can go.
>>
>> DDS won't allow me to easily to N-UP printing, but FORMDF has N-UP as a 
>parameter...  thus my >>question!
>>
>> Anybody got any hints?
>>
>> Buck Calabro
>> Commsoft, Albany, NY

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