Re: Forms printing

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, PaulMmn wrote:

> An overlay is just a bitmap that you print on a page along with
> variable data from the iSeries.  Using IBM's special print drivers
> lets you use -any- PC-based program to create the overlay-- as long
> as it fits on the page!  So your backside overlay with all the text
> can be a page generated by Microsoft Word and run through the special
> print driver.

I tried to do this recently and discovered that the AFP driver was no 
longer included in iSeries Access (System i Access?) and appeared to no 
longer be supported.  Am I mistaken?

James Rich

if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
	- Paul Davis on ardour-dev