Re: printing boilerplate info on a form

Hi Joel, if you're at V5R4 you can use AFP Toolbox, it provides a complete
set of "primitives" to write text in any kind of format, including
paragraph.

Sadly IBM doesn't support it anymore, so it's stuck at V5R4.

The general problem is that you must move the WHOLE printing system, not
just footers & headers...

We rewrote our own AFP Toolbox, if you want I can send you some examples
(copyright issues...).

HTH
MarcoF


2012/7/17 Stone, Joel <Joel.Stone@xxxxxxxxxx>

OK Thanks

We use the Word build and store as a page segment now. I was hoping that
there was a more elegant method using Iseries physical file data.



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To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: printing boilerplate info on a form

Creating a page segment or overlay is the way to handle that and you
will not be stuck with fonts that can't be scaled.

You can do either one using a pc application like Word but I prefer
Open Office Draw, which allows you to create raster based files that
afp print drivers can handle. The resulting print file is then used to
create
an overlay using Navigator.

You can use any font you want and the results can be very nice.
You will need 30 minutes including testing.

All of this can be stored in IFS.

The advanced printing you want requires learning these skills.

You can also do all of what you want using dds and learning some
things about various fonts. I am not aware of any printing function
that "wraps" a field. I am sure you can key the wording in a format
that looks correct. That will require more screwing around than is
necessary.



On 7/13/2012 12:57 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:

Using AFPDS with external printer file(DDS).

Within the bottom 3 inches of the form, I want to print the usual legal

mumbo-jumbo such as:

<company> makes no representation, warranty or guarantee of any kind,

express or

implied, to customer or any third party, including, without limitation,

with

respect to the completeness of the cleaning. Customer hereby relieves

CHS Inc.,

its owners and employees from, and shall indemnify, defend and hold

harmless such

parties from and against any and all claims, demands, causes of action,

damages,

etc
etc


The form will print on the usual 8.5 x 11 portrait.

How can I structure the DDS print lines so that the text somewhat wraps

at the end of line?

I found an OK font

A* Legal Disclaimer line 1 *
A PLDLN01 83 2
FONT(2304 (*POINTSIZE 8))
A SPACEB(005)


Is the only method to make the field length 150 or so and trial and

error until it looks right?

Is there a way to make the DDS field length 2000 or so and have it wrap

when it gets near the right edge?

Thanks

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