Intermate AS/400, i5, iSeries manual =Pcl-File

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Up to 300 ‘If..Then’ lines can be defined for an overlay.

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Only one level of conditioned sub-overlays is possible.’If..Then’ lines placed in

overlays, which are called by ‘If..Then’ are never executed.

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Totally blank lines are not considered for the If..Then line i.e. a condition on one or

more blank characters on a totally blank line will not trigger a call of the suboverlay. The OS/400 command DSPSPLF will show the lines which can be conditioned.

F=PCL-FILE

Insertion of a PCL-file might be one of the most important features of the system, as designing forms more and more is a job for a PC. InterForm400® allows a single overlay to be combined of several PCL forms as well as having standard elements included as described in the previous sections.

When overwriting (updating) a PCL-file on the system all overlays referring to this PCL resource will automatically be updated. An “encapsulated” PCL-file (including PCL and/or HP-GL/2) generated in any PC application equipped with an HPII, HPIII or HP4 driver can be transferred to the system by a File Transfer,a Virtual Print or copying between shared folders by means of Client Access 400 (PC Support) (see Importing PCL overlay from PC print file page 325).Note that inclusion of PCL-files for the Printer/Interface type chosen as default, has to be confirmed under 2. Set default output queue and printer type (page 268).

Seqnbr. Type			Inch.pel
1.0 F	PCL-file	From top edge	_______	(+ -)
		From left	_______	(+ -)
		File name	__________

The overlay element that defines the PCL file to be inserted is quite simple. It is, however, possible to fine adjust the placement of the PCL form compared to the positions defined in the original PCL-file. This frees you from starting up the PC applications if only the overall placement needs to be changed.

From top edge Inches, pels vertical position of the PCL file is made absolute to the upper edge of the paper. Vertical positioning of elements in the PCL file is added to this value. Adding a minus after the value, will cause an movement upwards. (e.g. 1,120- for 1½” negative movement)

From left edge Inches, pels horizontal position of the PCL file is made absolute to the left edge of the paper. Horizontal positioning of elements in the PCL file is added to this value. Adding a minus after the value, will cause a movement to the left. (e.g. 1,120- for 1½”movement to the left)

Color

printing: When working in a file-set defined for color printing the PCL-file settings will have an additional definition for color PCL-files.

The Black/White PCL-file definition is available to facilitate printing of the same overlay both on black and white and color laser printers.

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