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Table of Contents 4 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Table of Contents........................................................... 4 About This Manual. .................................................. 16 How the manual is organized. .......................................... 17 What is new in the 2012 versions............................................. 18 Auto Forms Control................................................... 18 Graphical Designer................................................... 18 E-mailing........................................................... 19 Export/Import........................................................ 19 PCL/PDF output. .................................................... 20 User Interface....................................................... 20 General............................................................ 20 InterFormNG/Modules................................................. 21 What is new in this manual............................................. 21 The modules of InterForm400................................................ 22 The Basic InterForm400 package........................................ 22 The InterForm400 Classic package. ..................................... 22 InterArchive400...................................................... 22 The ZPL Module..................................................... 22 The PDF and E-mailing Module. ........................................ 23 The Digital Signature / PDF Security Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The InterWord400 Module. ............................................ 23 The InterFax400 Module............................................... 23 The WinPrint Module.................................................. 23 Getting Started............................................................ 24 iASP installation ..................................................... 24 1. Preparation....................................................... 25 2. Installation........................................................ 26 Installation/upgrade without a CD. ................................ 26 Alternative install without CD (via FTP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Installing from a CD............................................ 27 3. Setting Up the System............................................... 31 4. Work With Overlay/AFC Sample....................................... 38 5. About The Print Results. ............................................ 40 Unicode, DBCS and multiple codepage support in InterForm400 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Important: To notice after upgrading from a pre 2007 version. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using DBCS or multiple code pages in the same print out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 1. Simple setup - spooled file with a single code page.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 2. DBCS support .............................................. 43 3. Unicode setup - unicode spooled file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Menu Structures and General Operation....................................... 45 1. Design Overlay.......................................................... 47 Selecting an existing overlay............................................ 47 Creating a new overlay................................................ 47 Copy Overlay from Another Overlay...................................... 48 Global settings of an overlay............................................ 49 Duplex options................................................ 51
Function keys for display of a spool file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Considerations for Zebra overlays. ...................................... 55 Extended Page Definition.............................................. 57 Copy Management. .................................................. 58 Measuring Methods................................................... 61 Orientation of design elements. .................................. 61 The Design Screen................................................... 62 Service Options...................................................... 63 Overlay Element Selection Filters . ...................................... 65 Page Control. ................................................ 65 Copy Management............................................. 66 Overlay elements. ................................................... 67 1=FRAME.................................................... 67 2=HORIZONTAL LINE.......................................... 68 3=VERTICAL LINE............................................. 69 4=LINE...................................................... 69 5=TEXT. .................................................... 70 6=Print-info (Print information).................................... 71 7=INK (fill pattern for succeeding sequence lines).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Examples on use of Ink:......................................... 72 8=TABULATOR (Paragraph tabulation).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 9=REMAP WINDOW (re-mapping text areas).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 I=IMAGE..................................................... 80 ?=IF...THEN (conditional nesting of overlays). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 F=PCL-FILE.................................................. 83 G=HP/GL-2-FILE.............................................. 84 S=SUBOVERLAY ............................................. 85 * = COMMENT ............................................... 85 How the sequence lines in overlay design are executed.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Getting Familiar With Overlays............................................... 87 Step 1. Making a Work Copy of the Overlay IF400DEMO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Step 2. Make a Test Print of the Overlay+Spool Data.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Step 3. Adding Round Corners to the Address Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Step 4. Edit Subject Text............................................... 90 Step 5. Formatting the body text......................................... 91 Step 6. Making Equal Distance Between Column Headers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Step 7. Making Equal Distance between Item Line Columns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Step 8. Defining the Column Headers White on Black. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Step 9. Defining the Item Line Bars....................................... 98 Step 10. Defining the 5 Item Coloumn Frames.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Step 11. Defining the logo as a water mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Step 12. Defining the Copy Management................................. 101 Step 13. Defining the COPY Symbol as Watermark.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Step 14. Defining the Relatively Positioned Sub-form.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Step 17. Cleaning the Overlay for Remaining Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Step 18. The Result.................................................. 104 Example of Advanced use of Sub-overlays (Random text lines). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Creating the Main overlay:...................................... 107 Calling the first conditioned overlay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Calling the conditioned, fixed overlay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 The result................................................... 111 Main Menu Local Environment Setup. ....................................... 113 2. Test Print Overlay................................................. 113 InterForm A/S 5
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Copy Management Copy management is
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Stapling This option defines if the
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The Design Screen Note: Refer to Ap
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Endpoint 2 From Top: Inches, pels a
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7=INK (fill pattern for succeeding
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8=TABULATOR (Paragraph tabulation)
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I=IM A G E 80 User’s Manual for I
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How the sequence lines in overlay d
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Step 1. Making a Work Copy of the O
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Step 4. Edit Subject Text Now we wi
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Step 6. Making Equal Distance Betwe
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Step 8. Defining the Column Headers
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Step 9. Defining the Item Line Bars
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The logo now needs to be dimmed in
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You can see that the element is inc
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Step 18. The Result Now we can prev
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Example of Advanced use of Sub-over
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We insert a frame element, select t
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We remap line 1, positions 1-70 and
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3. Merge Spool Entry with Overlay W
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Selector Name: The name you will be
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G e ting Familiar with Overlay Sele
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Step 2. Examining Spool Entry Selec
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G eneral Description of Auto Forms
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Template AFC-definition to be execu
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Auto Forms Control Hints Some are s
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G e ting Familiar with Auto Forms C
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Using a “TEMPLATE” AFC defintio
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Finishing Definitions This function
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Placement of optical marks: Refer t
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How to distribute E-mails and faxes
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2. Key definitions 206 User’s Man
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The variables can be referred to in
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The addresses are identified by the
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2. User profile 3. Organisation 3=I
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The File Naming Finishing Definitio
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Page selection criteria 228 User’
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Totals 2 = Text constant: 240 User
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S ort Definitions This function is
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G e ting familiar with PDF Bookmark
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G eneral Description of OSC (Output
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Getting Familiar with OSC (Output S
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Define Sort Fields: 280 User’s Ma
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Configuration and licenses If you w
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2. Configure InterForm 400 When you
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3. Configure email With this option
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4. Configure WinPrint WinPrint is a
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® 1. Work with InterForm400 Users
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4. Work with Fonts 302 User’s Man
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Spacing: Indicates whether the font
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3. Create barcode soft font for PCL
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6. Work with TrueType font for UCS2
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Working with black and white images
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H ow to create PDF files ® InterFo
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Upgrade remote sites If you do not
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A ppendix B - Attaching Printers to
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Changing Device Description from 52
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Typefaces known by PCL-Printers PCL
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The Import Chart Command The APF381
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The Merge Spooled File PDF Command
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The special functions supported for
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A ppendix L - PDF and PCL Viewing
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Page Management 524 User’s Manual
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Appendix R - Install/Upgrade on mir
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Appendix S - Install/Upgrade on iAS
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Index 548 User’s Manual for Inter
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