Re: Overlay, HPT question -- MIDRANGE-L

Brad

Are you doing anything strange with PCL? The HPT function puts in the right
stuff for you, no extra work, when you specify it on a DEVD or remote OUTQ.

Oh, wait, you're transferring it to the PC, not printing it directly. I've
never seen that done. If you want to use the PC's printer, either set up a
printer session in PCOMM or CA, or get an lpd server on the PC and create a
network DEVD to it.

How are you creating the overlay? IIRC, it's a graphic image object - there
should be no text to convert, but I could be wrong - don't know all the
details of the data format.

Just be sure to use the Windows AFP driver and use the appropriate
resolution for the printer in question - 300, 600, whatever.

Vern

At 11:39 AM 9/20/02 -0500, you wrote:

Pat,

Without using the API, how could I create a stream file
containing the PCL?  If there is an easier way, I'm all
ears.

As for the other comment, the overlay contains text of a
different font (smaller, different typestyle).  If there are
any blanks between works in this text, the character @ is
replaced.

It's like it's not doing the EBCDIC to ASCII conversion
correctly for text inside of an overlay.

Brad
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 11:28:34 -0400
 Pat Barber <mboceanside@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> You "might" be trying too hard... why are you using the
> API
> in lieu of letting the system do the HPT ??? I'm not
> familar
> with the sample program, is it using the API ???
>
> Brad Stone wrote:
> >
> > Alright, so I decided to goof around with AFP spooled
> files
> > and overlays and PCL and stuff.  :)
> >
> > Anyhow, I'm using IBM's sampler from their AFP info web
> > page.  Program INVNEW1 creates an invoice.  When I
> create
> > PCL out of this (using host print transform API), and
> > transfer it to my PC things look good except for one
> thing.
> >
> > In the overlay, it looks like some certain characters
> aren't
> > getting converted correctly.  For example a space
> becomes a
> > @, a period becomes a weird "K", and a few others like
> > colons and dashes are also converted weird.  But this
> is
> > only in the text that is part of the overlay.
> >
> > I have used a few different WSCST objects for the
> conversion
> > and still everything comes out like that.
> >
> > As an example, the text:
> >
> > Ship Via:
> >
> > Comes out as:
> >
> > Ship@Viaz
> >
> > I've pretty much traced this to the transform and not
> ftp
> > process.  I'm using the host print transform API to do
> this.
> > Any ideas?  Even where to start looking?
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