Re: CPYSPLF *PDF - Alignment issues

Tried reduce(*none) and that didn't help. I, too, had thought about the 300dpi driver. I need to test that.

Looked at retrieving the WSCST yesterday before I posted and that was pretty useless. Would have been nice as one issue people have with the cpysplf *pdf output for regular *scs output is it goes right to the edges of the page. I'd like to add some margin as a default.

The PDF overlay Brad mentioned would be a good option if available. I used to do that with ASC's Esend at a previous employer. I'm not sure how I would do that on my own though.

For now, I'll probably just kill the hard copy output and always mail the PDF to the requester. They can print that if they want. If it really becomes an issue, I can tweak the process to produce two spool files adjusted for the proper output.

I glad to hear I'm not alone in my issues but this should not be so difficult.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

 
 





From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Darren Strong <darren@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 5:56 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: CPYSPLF *PDF - Alignment issues
 
I don't have a concrete fix for you, because I struggle with the same
thing sometimes. For some reason, using the 300dpi printer driver
sometimes works better. Also, if anything gets close to the margins, it
seems like either the overlay moves or the text moves differently, so I
generally try to make sure everything is clear of any margins that might
take affect.  Definitely make sure that your printer file isn't set to
auto-size, meaning set REDUCE(*NONE).

My issue is usually also reflected in the spool to the printer, so it
might be a bit different than yours.  When I've seen differences between
the two outputs, that usually means REDUCE(*NONE) wasn't set, or a font
substitution was done differently in the PDF conversion compared to what
the printer chose.

___________________________________
Darren Strong
Dekko





From:   Richard Schoen <Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     "midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   04/04/2017 08:46 AM
Subject:        RE: CPYSPLF  *PDF  -  Alignment issues
Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



You already answered you own question.  Use our AFP to PDF converter 😊

However if you must use CPYSPLF, you can apparently retrieve the PDF
workstation customization object but there's not much good info on the IBM
site on how to tweak or modify it.

We were looking at it a few weeks ago but no good guidelines on using the
CPYSPLF and maintaining page fidelity.

You could always have a switch on your program to change the overlay
whether going to print or to PDF. We've had customers do that in the past
with our converter when there was oddness.

Regards,


Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com

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date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 22:08:32 +0000
from: Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: CPYSPLF  *PDF  -  Alignment issues

I have an AFPDS spool file with an overlay (full page form). ?I can get
everything to align fine for either printing hard copy or for CPYSPLF to
*PDF. ?

If the print version is OK, then the PDF version has?all the data pushed
down by about 1 line. ?If I move the overlay or the data to compensate,
that screws up the hard copy version.

The overlay was created in Word using the generic 600?DPI AFP driver.

Any thoughts/suggestions? ?(Sorry Richard S. ?Not looking for a commercial
product <grin>)

7.2 TR5 - current on PTF's (well, not counting I'm waiting for TR6 to be
installed...)

Thanks.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
 
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