Xerox FreeFlow manual PDE command points to note, PDE command examples

Specifying print format parameters

PDE command: points to note

•You may code PDEs as part of the JSL or create them as separate files so that they may be referenced by one or more JDLs or by DJDEs. PDEs are invoked by the OUTPUT FORMAT parameter or by the FORMAT DJDE. A PDE must have been previously compiled for a DJDE to access it.

•You can create a PDE as a separate disk file and use it as if it were part of the JDL that references it. To do this, create a JSL file containing only PDE commands and use the “xjdc” command to compile it. Refer to “Compiling a JSL” in the “PDL principles and procedures” chapter for information on using xjdc to compile files.

For each PDE command, xjdc creates a file with the .PDE extension, in the “lcds” folder on the system disk. The PDE command identifier becomes the PDE file name.

When the system encounters a reference to a PDE in a JDL, it searches the “lcds” resources folder for the PDE that was specified. If it finds it, the system loads the PDE into memory for use in processing the report.

PDE command examples

Example 1 Two PDEs are defined and are referenced in separate JDEs. PDE1 specifies a landscape page and two landscape fonts; PDE2 defines a portrait page and two portrait fonts with override line spacing.

PDE1: PDE		PMODE=LANDSCAPE, BEGIN=(.861,.7),
		FONTS=(L0112B, L01BOB);
PDE2: PDE		PMODE=PORTRAIT, BEGIN=(1.3,.37),
		FONTS=((P08TYA,6.8), (P080AA,6.8));
L1:	JDE;
	OUTPUT	FORMAT=PDE1;
P1:	JDE;
	OUTPUT	FORMAT=PDE2;

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