Overlay Utility
|The Overlay Utility enables you to create overlays (electronic forms). Once
|created, an overlay can be placed on pages of output using AS/400 printer file
|support, Data Description Specifications (DDS) in conjunction with High-Level
|Language (HLL) application programs, Advanced Print Utility, AS/400 page and
|form definitions, AFP Toolbox for AS/400, Print Format Utility, and other AFP
|document enabling applications. Figure 3 on page 7 shows how an overlay can
|be merged with data.
You can:
Design an overlay interactively on a display screen.
An overlay can contain text with several kinds of fonts, lines, boxes, images,
bar codes, and graphics.
Store the source data of the overlay (source overlay) that you designed in your
file.
Change the source overlay that was previously stored in the file.
Create an overlay object from the source overlay.
Print the overlay object that was created in the specified library.
Figure 5 shows a sample overlay.
Figure 5. Sample Overlay (Created by the Overlay Utility)
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