RE: CPF6DF2 error

["Dan Kimmel" <dkimmel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan,

As I recall, you have to do something like this when rotating the page.

OVRPRTF FILE(MYFILE) PAGRTT(90) UOM(*INCH) FRONTOVL(OVLIB/OVERL 8.5 0)
OVRPRTF FILE(MYFILE) PAGRTT(270) UOM(*INCH) FRONTOVL(OVLIB/OVERL 0 14)
or some permutation

I can't try it right now, you'll have to experiment. When you change the page rotation, the origin goes with it. You have to compensate.

HPT assumes there's a non-print region and makes some assumptions about margins. You may have to scale the overlay back to allow for some shifting that would otherwise drive the overlay beyond the printable area.

Note that the generated overlay object has a sizing paramter that allows shrink to fit. There's also something to do with shrink to fit in the WSCST. All of these stars have to align.

You've done okay with 8.5 x 11 overlay. Why don't you make one of those with a black border around the very outside edge of it and run your job with that overlay. See exactly where it lines up on your page and adjust from there.

Dan Kimmel

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Subject: Re: CPF6DF2 error


Thanks for your reply Charles
but how do I get to the AFP viewer
I just looked for it in the Help index - nothing The Navigator is V5r3



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Alan,

See if you can bring the spool file witth the overlay up in the iSeries Navigator's AFP Viewer.

If it works, you may see what the system is having a problem with.

Charles

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Okay
> I revisited the creation of the spreadsheet from Excel, by saving the 
> spreadsheet, AFTER I had resized the cells to adjust to 100% of actual 
> size.
> I printed this spreadsheet and confirmed that it DID in fact fit on 
> one legal size paper in landscape format Saved the spreadsheet as an 
> overlay Imported it into the AS/400 Printed using the new overlay 
> LARGE EXASPERATED SIGH, followed by the excruciating wailings of a
banshee
> NO @#$%^&*() GO
>
> I then remembered I had the same spreadsheet but in letter sized
> (landscape)
> Using the same procedures as above, I printed the report using the 
> letter size overlay It prints (overlay smaller than I want) - thus 
> confirming that the legal size overlay is somehow larger than the 
> legal size paper
>
> I then used the letter sized spreadsheet and created a new legal sized 
> overlay
>
> blah blah blah
>
> LARGE EXASPERATED SIGH, followed by the excruciating wailings of a
banshee
> NO @#$%^&*() GO
>
> Thank god there are no windows in this building for me to jump out of 
> Not that it would do me any good, after all we ARE on the ground floor
>
>
> Again - if anyone has nay suggestions, ideas, thoughts pints of beer,
shots
> of gin
> It would be MUCH appreciated
>
>
>
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> Thanks for your reply Dan
> I'll give Generic IBM 300dpi AFP a try as well What you said about 
> "The message you get usually means you're trying to print something 
> beyond the page limits. Usually that's the overlay."
> got me to thinking.
> I created the spreadsheet in Excel, and printed it from Excel to 
> ensure that it would in fact ONLY be one page. The print was 
> successful,
HOWEVER,
> I saved the spreadsheet by choosing "to fit to 1 page wide by 1 page 
> tall in the page setup property"
> I am now wondering if this is what is causing my problem I have to 
> clear some other things out of the way, but I am going to
attack
> my problem from that direction.
> I'll keep you all informed of the outcome
>
>
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> I use Generic IBM 300dpi AFP. On advanced settings, Paper Size:Legal, 
> Orientation:Landscape, Output Type:Overlay, Inline Form Definition:On, 
> ClipLimits:<Default>, Image Options: <Default, but make sure Color 
> Option is Black / White>, Print Text as Graphics:On.
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> The message you get usually means you're trying to print something 
> beyond the page limits. Usually that's the overlay. Check in your 
> OVRPRTF for something about the origin of the overlay. I vaguely 
> remember that has to be set to something in y,x coordinates instead of 
> x,y since you've changed the PAGRTT.
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> Thanks for your reply Dan
> I agree - this IS complicated (and exasperating, and mind-numbing 
> etc.) This project has turned out to be a real albatross around my 
> neck The reason why I "didnt give enough information"
> I wasnt too sure what was required and if I started to write what I 
> thought was required, too many people would have been switching off
>
> I do realize that the PAGRTT doesnt rotate the overlay - only the data 
> on the page, but you may be onto something about doing something 
> special to the overlay so that it would be as landscape.
> I created the overlay in excel, to fit a legal paper, in landscape 
> format, then used a procedure to create an overlay from this.
> More and more it looks like that procedure may be incorrect for this 
> type of overlay
>
>
> Here is the procedure that I use to create an overlay - I deleted the 
> couple of screen captures so that (hopefully) this e-mail will go 
> through Add AFP Printer driver to your PC
>
>      Go to 'Start', 'Settings', 'Printer and Faxes',
>      Click 'Add a Printer' (follow the wizard)
>      Select 'Local printer attached to this computer'
>      Select 'FILE: (Print to file)' for 'Use the following Port'
>      Choose 'IBM' and 'IBM Infoprint 20 AFP'
>      Continue to click 'Next', accepting the defaults until you can 
> click
>            'Finish'
>
> Saving .XLS document as an overlay document
>
>      Open .xls document
>      Select 'File', 'Print'
>      Choose 'IBM Infoprint 20 AFP' from the dropdown
>      Check box 'Print to File'
>      Click on 'Properties' to the right of printer name
>      Select Paper Size
>      Select Orientation
>      Select 'Overlay' from the dropdown box under 'Output  Type'
>      Click 'OK' to close '...Advanced Properties...'
>      Click 'OK' again to accept all changes
>      Input 'Output file name' (include entire path)
>
>      Your file is ready to be imported to the AS400
>
>
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> Alan,
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> I'm afraid no one responded because it's complicated and you didn't 
> give enough information about your setup to determine the way to go.
>
> > From the information you've given now, we can see you're using HPT to 
> > a
> remote printer with AFPDS. Congratulations on finding the combination 
> that gets it rotated at the right resolution.
>
> Now you're going to have to rotate the overlay. The error you're 
> getting now says the overlay doesn't fit on the page. Your overlay is 
> probably
> 8.5 x 14 while your page length now is only 8.5 as rotation made the 
> width the length. You're going to have to scan an overlay at 14 x 8.5.
> In other words PAGRTT doesn't rotate the overlay. This is particularly 
> true with HPT. I think some of the drivers for AFP printers might do 
> it, but not HPT.
>
> Dan Kimmel
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> Hi guys
> unfortunately, it seems that nobody else has had this problem, but I 
> have persevered.
> I started from scratch, changing my OVRPRTF command on the LPI,CPI   
> one parameter at a time until I eventually arrived at the following 
> OVRPRTF    FILE(PICKLGL) DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) PAGESIZE(8.5 +
>             14 *UOM) LPI(8) CPI(16.7) FRONTMGN(.7 +
>             1.0) PAGRTT(90)  +
>             OUTQ(RMTIBM) SAVE(*YES)
> This produced data printed on legal size paper, landscape format that 
> looked close to where I want the data to print
>
> I then changed the above to include my overlay OVRPRTF    
> FILE(PICKLGL) DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) PAGESIZE(8.5 +
>             14 *UOM) LPI(8) CPI(16.7) FRONTMGN(.7 +
>             1.0) PAGRTT(90) FRONTOVL(AXSLIB/PICKLGL5) +
>             OUTQ(RMTIBM) SAVE(*YES)
> which resulted in the report NOT printing, and the error messages
>
> AFP data stream in user space  not valid.
> Error occurred while transforming data.
> Send request failed for spooled file PICKLGL.
>
> Obviously the culprit is the overlay. The question What in the overlay 
> is causing this problem, and how can it be rectified?
>
> Again, if anyone has any ideas, help or guidance, it is always MUCH 
> appreciated
>
>
>
> Alan Shore
> Programmer/Analyst, Direct Response
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> P:(631) 200-5019
> C:(631) 880-8640
> "If you're going through Hell, keep going" - Winston Churchill 
> __________________
>
> Hi guys
> I'm having a problem with attempting to print to legal size paper in 
> landscape mode The result is that instead of printing the full 14 
> inches width, I can only print up to 11 inches wide no matter what I 
> do with CPI etc on the ovrprtf command Investigating the problem shows 
> that I get the error message CPF6DF2 which translates to AFP data 
> stream in user space  not valid.
>
> Now I've googled CPF6DF2, and the answers I obtain don't help me to 
> determine the cause of this problem.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else had encountered this message id and how 
> they rectified it
>
> As always, any help and/.or guidance is MUCH appreciated
>
>
>
> Alan Shore
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