Comments on: How to get different font sizes to print on an iSeries report

By: woodengineer

woodengineer — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:02:16 +0000

For many years we have used printers attached via TCP/IP which only have an output queue description and no device description. Most printer are HP laser jets.
Host Print Transform is *YES, device type is *SCS.
We do not use a workstation customizing object that references fonts. It is all quite vanilla. This setup handles various fonts, including MICR for check printing.

I do not believe you need to get as complicated as one answer suggests.

By: soclose

soclose — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:24:18 +0000

Please provide more information what you are doing and the printer you want to use. Aren’t you using HPT on the iSeries for printing on your laser printer? If YES, what is the printer device description? To use different fonts you need to specify individual font entries in the customized WSCST. Also, the printer file has to be *AFPDS.
And please avoid automatic COR by defining the correct paper size. No matter which font you use in de DDS, the paper size is determined by the LPI * LINES (length) and CPI * CHARACTERS (width) of the PRTF. Assuming you use *ROWCOL for the measurement method . This reflects the spacing as well.

By: pgmbob

pgmbob — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 04:20:57 +0000

A warning message is issued at create-time if a FONT DDS keyword is specified in a file created with DEVTYPE(*IPDS) and FONT(*DEVD). For SCS printer files, the FONT keyword is ignored when the record or field is printed. For IPDS printers, the FONT keyword can be changed at the record or field level. Use CRTPRTF with DEVTYPE(*IPDS) or *AFPDS

By: woodengineer

woodengineer — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:50:28 +0000

Here is an example that is working for us.

A          R HEAD01A                                                 
 *                                                                   
A*           $CONAM        32A     1  1                              
A            $DIVSN        32A     4  1FONT(761 (*POINTSIZE 12) )    
 *                                                                   
A  86                              2 34'* CANCELLED ORDER *'         
A                                       HIGHLIGHT                    
A  87                              2 34'*  HISTORY ORDER  *'         
A                                       HIGHLIGHT                    
                                                                     
A  42                              1 48'Fax Date:'                   
A  42        UDATE          6S 0   1 58EDTCDE(Y)                     
A  42                              1 68'Fax Time:'                   
A  42        TIMEX          6S 0   1 78EDTWRD(' 0:  :  ')            
 *                                                                   
A            $ADR1         55A     5  1FONT(1051 (*POINTSIZE 10) )   
                                                                     
A            $ADR2         55A     6  1FONT(1051 (*POINTSIZE 10) )