Elements The elements are text, lines, boxes, bar codes, page segments, and graphics that
are defined in a source overlay and a printout format definition. In a page layout of
a printout format definition, you can define a record as an element.
See Chapter 13, “Design Operation” on page 219 for more information about
defining elements in a source overlay and a printout format definition.
AFP Utilities for AS/400 Displays
Several types of displays are shown when you use the AFP Utilities for AS/400.

Menu Display

When you start AFP Utilities for AS/400 by entering the STRAFPU command, the
menu for IBM Advanced Function Printing Utilities for AS/400 is shown. You can
start any function of AFP Utilities for AS/400 from this menu.
à ð
AFPU IBM Advanced Function Printing Utilities for AS/4ðð
Select one of the following:
Overlay Utility
1. Work with source overlays
2. Work with source overlay files
Print Format Utility
11. Work with PFD definitions
12. Work with PFD definition files
13. Print database file member
|14. Print AFP Utilities tutorial
|Resource Management Utility
|21. Convert to page segment
|22. Work with overlays
|23. Work with page segments
Selection or command
===>
F3=Exit F4=Prompt F9=Retrieve F12=Cancel F16=System main menu
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Figure 9. Menu for the IBM AdvancedFunction Printing Utilities forAS/400

Work with Display

To indicate fields on the Work with display, two different words are used in this
manual. They are prompts and columns.

Prompts:

A prompt is a request for information on a display that allows you to
type a response. For example, the

File

,

Library

,

Source overlay

, and

Position to

fields are prompts on the Work with Source Overlays display.
When

F4 for list

is shown to the right of the prompt, you can show a list by placing
the cursor in the field and pressing the F4 key.
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