If you care to send me an overlay the works and one that does not, I'll run them through several AFP tools and tell you what the differences are. I might be able to fix the overlay so that it both prints and PDFs cleanly.
This type of thing comes up frequently since most of our IPDS printers are edge-to-edge and perf-to-perf.
Bill Scott
Océ North America, Inc.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Schoen
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 2:42
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PDF's with overlay are not generated correctly
Ran into this quite a lot with Host Print transform as well.
Never did determine why some work fine and others need to be tweaked. I presume it's probably something related to how the overlay was generated, but can't say for sure.
You will most likely need to tweak your Front Overlay offset positions to get things to align.
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Richard Schoen
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message: 2
date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:37:18 -0500
from: Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: PDF's with overlay are not generated correctly
Pat,
I too am having that problem.
I was told it had to do with "unprintable area" around the document.
We wound up giving up and we have two overlays, one for direct printing, and one for PDF output.
On 9/28/2011 10:03 AM, Pat Barber wrote:
I have started testing the PDF generation feature on V7R1 and ran
several tests with various *scs print files and that works exactly as
I would expect.
I then ran a print job that is a *afpds with a full overlay.
Either the print or the overlay has "shifted" both vertical and
horizontal by what looks like a line or two.
Anybody have any ideas on what is causing the shift ????
The overlay print job prints just fine going to a printer.
midrange.com
