Re: Overlay File Generation

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Shane

Nothing to make overlays - that takes the AFP Drive in Windows to 
generate the source.

But an option might be - and I am thinking we should look at it - is to 
use the AFPRSC keyword inside the source for the PRTF - this might be 
able to work instead of the external overlay parameters on CRTPRTF and 
OVRPRTF.

AFPRSC can definitely work in place of the PAGSEG keyword, and you name 
an image file in the IFS, say, which is transformed on the fly into the 
AFP data needed to render the image in the result.

If this works as I hope, it would maybe eliminate problems when layout 
of an overlay change for whatever reasons.

Now I don't know if Eclipse has any plugins for working with images - if 
so, you could have that plugin in RDi along with the rest, right?

HTH
Vern

On 8/20/2018 1:36 PM, SReeves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Are there any add-ons or solutions that tie in with Rdi that generate
> overlay objects for use with printer files?  We are curious what other
> people are using for the purposes of generating overlay's for printer file
> definitions.  We are particularly interested in solutions that support
> double-bit character sets (Chinese characters). *(You can e-mail me
> directly for non-rdi related suggestions to help keep list on-topic).
>
> Thanks
>
> Shane Reeves