InterForm Manual - System & Method

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A ppendix J - Handling InterWord400 Spooled Files
If the system should operate with InterWord400, you should be aware that some specific word
processing features will disappear from the spooled file during merge with an InterForm400 ®
overlay - if you use conditions, tabulators, remap windows or other simular functions in your
overlays.
The features in question are sub-script, super-script, font changes and justification. The
reason is that OS/400 does not allow these attributes with the Copy spool file function, which
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is one of the basic operations of the InterForm400 system. OS/400 will report a message if
such unsupported attributes are found in the spool entries when the Copy spool file operation
is carried out.
There are, however, two ways to avoid using the Copy spool file operation and still add
overlays to InterWord400 spooled files.
1. Merging with InterWord400 spooled files with limited overlay features
Merge in Auto Forms Control or 3. Merge spool entry with overlay are used as normal, but the
overlay must not include any of the following elements:
Tabulators
Remap Window
If-then statements
Copy management
Extended page definition
Besides this, Finishing functions are not allowed. In addition the main overlay definitions Line
Spacing, Rotation, Font and Drawer should all be set to *INPUT.
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InterForm400 will add the overlay and make conversions of the advanced word processing
features of the Office Spool file (SCS/DCA). If however just one of the above restrictions are
not obeyed the spool file will be regarded as a normal SCS spool entry, and the advanced
features will be ignored.
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A good idea is to make use of the overlay selector possibility for InterWord400 spooled files.
You can include information in line 1 of the spooled file via the PAGDTA field on the
DCA400/PRTPCD command. (This command is used for printing in InterWord400).
2. Downloading the overlay as a macro
The overlay should be downloaded as a HP macro and the command APF3812/HPMACRO
(see page 457) should be used to create the spool entries containing the HP macro. The
macro can then be called directly from the document by inserting a call command in the
header or footer text.
Note that this method neither uses Auto Forms Control nor the interactive merge with option
3. Merge spool entry with overlay.
Limitations for InterWord400 spooled files
InterW ord400 spooled files are quite special so they need to be handled in a special way in
InterForm400. This means that not all functions in InterForm400 are supported for
InterWord400 spooled files.
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