Xerox FreeFlow manual Line command points to note

Specifying print format parameters

LINE command: points to note

•Line spacing with multiple fonts: The vertical spacing of a line is the line spacing of the largest font in use in the previous line. The current line can also be adjusted downward by the difference in height between the first and the largest font in the current line.

The line spacing of the first line in a report is determined by the first font in the PDE, provided the FONTINDEX parameter has not been specified. When FONTINDEX is specified, the height of the first line of a report is determined by the height of the font selected by the font index value in that first line. If there is no font index value in the record and FONTINDEX is specified, the spacing for the first line of the report is determined by the first font in the PDE.

•Positioning of the first line on subsequent pages. The position of the first line, and the spacing of subsequent lines, on the pages following page 1 is determined a different font from the previous page, depending on the printing system.

–FreeFlow Print Server LCDS systems: Each time a new font list is downloaded for a page, font 0 is used to position the first line of that page.

–Other LPS: When a page transition occurs, the line positioning and spacing is determined by different fonts, depending on the conditions.

•When the FONTINDEX or CME parameters are specified, the line spacing of subsequent pages is determined by the index of the last font on the previous page into the current PDL font list. The height of the last font used determines the initial base line of that first print line.

•If the index of the last font used on the previous page is greater than the number of fonts on the current page, the first font on the current page is used to determine spacing and positioning.

•Print line data: When you are changing the font index or a print data offset (pdo) to a value greater than the default value (150), the RECORD LENGTH command must also be changed accordingly. Otherwise, the record is truncated to the length that was specified in the initial JDL.

Using LCDS Print Description Language 4-37