Creating Page Segments

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a problem thats giving me plenty of grey hairs :(

On a daily basis we print barcoded shop travelers,
based on the previous nights orders, using a PRTF
with AFPDS.  Now we would like to print a small
image in the corner of the shop traveler for
visual use on the floor. The images have been
downsized and stored in a GIF format on an NT box. 

I can create page segments using the C/A Express
AFP Workbench utility manually and move them to 
the IFS.  Once there its easy to create a segment
for DDS (CPYFRMSTMF,CRTPAGSEG) dynamically and then 
send them to an IBM Infoprint 40. 

>From reading the IBM manuals it appears that the IOCA
format is required for CRTPAGSEG and thats what I 
*thought* the AFP Workbench viewer produced.  I've tried 
a couple of PC packages (Hijaak Pro, ImagePro) to convert 
the GIF files to IBM's IOCA format (because their capable
of performing batch conversions).  Testing has indicated 
that the AFP print driver via Workbench produces a different 
file layout/size than the converted IOCA formats.  The 
ICA files won't make it thru CVTPAGSEG without errors.

Was wondering if anyone has had success creating page
segments dynamically, in a batch mode on the PC, using 
the AFP Windows print driver. 

Am not sure if this is the smartest way to accomplish
what we want but seemed logical.  I welcome any and all
suggestions :)

Thanks,
Terry