Comments on: Overlay and ‘print’ as pdf. Overlay not included !

By: bigkat

bigkat — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:06:49 +0000

whew — glad it does work!

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Featured Member: BigKat - ITKE Community Blog — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:17:02 +0000

[...] Overlay and ‘print’ as PDF. Overlay not included! [...]

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 01:45:23 +0000

6.1 seems to be including some nice bits that clean up difficulties in earlier releases. This one looks very nice indeed. Thanks, Dan, for posting a confirmation that it works.

Tom

By: danthedane

danthedane — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:53:41 +0000

Hi BigKat ,

Problem solved.

I’m sorry, – I must admit that I made a mistake.. I had placed the overlay in a wrong library. My documentation with the original question is right and works.

I can now produce an invoice with coloured logo and other graphics printed to a pdf-file to email; – and the best thing: I use no 3rd party sw, – it’s all standard with the system i from V6R1.

I’m a happy man.

DanF

By: danthedane

danthedane — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:13:24 +0000

BogKat,
From the url reference in my orig question, I refer
“The device type (DEVTYPE) parameter on these commands must be set to *AFPDS because only an Advanced Function Presentation data stream (AFPDS) can be converted to PDF with the new feature. AFPDS has the additional benefit of support for AFP resources, such as overlays, page segments, and even IFS resources (using the AFPRSC keyword in DDS) such as JPG, TIFF, and GIF files.

I read this text as if it actually IS an option to add an overlay…
DanF

By: bigkat

bigkat — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:46:38 +0000

Since overlay basically tells the printer to also print a second file on top of the first, rather than actually printing it, it might not be possible Dan. In fact, I have seen the same problem with tools that convert an existing spoolfile to a pdf. They get the data layout, but not the form.