Re: blank out a section of an AFPDS OVERLAY

["Salter, James" <JSalter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve, if the overlay isn't overly complicated, you may wish to generate
a new overlay using some other application.

I use Crystal Reports to design my overlays, however you can use Word &
other applications as well.

You may also try emailing the document to yourself as a PDF document &
editing it with Adobe Writer to remove the signature section.

You can then write to an AFPDS print driver, upload the file, create &
associate the overlay with the print file.

You then would have the source for future changes to the overlay.

Thanks.
James Salter
Systems Programmer
American Cast Iron Pipe Company
phone (205) 325-3033
fax      (205) 307-3833
 
from: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: blank out a section of an AFPDS OVERLAY

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Overlays are static.
>
> What you need to do is remove the signature and name from the overlay,
> instead put them in a page segment.  Then you can choose rather or not
> to print that page segment.
>
> Otherwise, about the only thing that might work would be to BLACK out
> that section of the page via a page segment.  In other words, draw a
> big black box.

I guess the only thing I can do is print the overlay, rescan it, use
MSPAINT to erase the part that is no longer supposed to print, then
import that resulting image into the system as another OVL object.

thanks for the help,

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