Re: PRTF and hex codes

Long ago I designed a complicate print using postscrip. It still is in use,
works great, and, once you learn a little of the language you can do a lot
of things. Different fonts, size, color, orientation, lines, circles,
centered text, etc.

Now, for new reports I just design a web page, whith a style sheet.
The user can see it in the screen, and print it, comes out beatifull.

El mié, 20 de dic de 2023, 08:53, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
escribió:

Hello Mark,

Am 19.12.2023 um 22:53 schrieb Mark Waterbury <
mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The way we used to deal with this, back when SCS printers were the only

kind, was to arrange to "over-print" only those characters that you wanted
to appear as "bold"...

My PDF workflow is as follows: OS/400 => Remote LPR *OUTQ with
transform(*yes), type is SCS => Linux lpd => GhostPCL => PDF in User's home
directory on Linux.

If you zoom in a lot into the generated PDF, you can even see that bold is
in fact this kind of overprint you mention, with just a tiny amount of
horizontal spacing. :-)

For anyone curious or not being able to use the IBM i integrated PDF
converter: https://github.com/PoC-dev/lpd-pdfif might help.

:wq! PoC

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