Re: center/line wrap w/variable width fonts

[Marco Facchinetti <facchinetti@xxxxxxxxx>]

The only tool I know is AFP Toolbox, it's a very complete
set for printing. Can do paragraph, tables, outline fonts,
text justification, various allignements and so on... The
output is very professional and Infoprint server can
translate in pdf, don't know aboout other products.

With AFP utility you got some support to transform SCS
printer files in AFPDS adding overlays, page segment,
boxes, shadings and selecting fonts and allignement for the
text. I don't know if can do paragraph.

You can get more information about the various AFP tools in
this book:

AS/400 Guide to
Advanced Function Presentation and
Print Services Facility

code: S544-5319-03

HTH
Marco
--- Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have a recent post on centering text, but my problem
> is much more complex.
> I'm printing text using various typographic fonts, mostly
> Times New Roman (font 2308 and
> 2309 for bold), at various pitch sizes from 9 thru 14 in
> DDS print file type *afpds. 
> I need to center or line wrap that!
> So centering needs to be based on not only character
> count, but width, and different
> between pitch size & upper/lower. Need to output
> professional looking contracts 
> and letters, which are converted to .pdf for web
> printing. This is running currently now,
> but looking ragged at the end of each line in a
> paragraph. this is like 
> a MS Word function in an RPG program. Other than
> assigning a value (to accumulate)
> for each character within each font & pitch size, .like
> at pitch 10 character 'A' = 1.00 
> and character 'a' = 0.75.. at pitch 11 'A' = 1.10 and 'a'
> = 0.85 .... any other ideas?
>  
> btw-this used to be handled by Officevision to print till
> the .pdf requirement was added.
> Using Gumbo software to convert *afpds spool to .pdf.
> V4R5, no Domino (and no 
> budget). I know of a few MS based products where iSeries
> could send data to MS Word
> on server, assume it could convert .pdf, then web serve
> or print that ((owner won't spend
> many thousands for a product to connect a pc software &
> server)). This needs to be 
> totally hands-free, with no tech to watch, up 24x7x365
> (like it is now with RPG).
> Does the new Infoprint Server in 5.1 or 5.2 offer any
> features for this? any print API's for line wrap?
> tia
> jim


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