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The special functions supported for InterWord400 spooled files are: • Use of soft fonts • Creation of both PCL and PDF output - if you use MRGSPLFPDF to create the PDF files. • Output Schedule Control • Overlay selectors: Please note that only information in line 1 of the spooled files (generated via the PAGDTA field on the DCA400/PRTPCD command) are placed in fixed positions so they can used for conditions in e.g. overlay selectors Special functions that are unsupported for InterWord400 spooled files are: • Split definitions • Sort definitions • Finishing definitions Please ask you local InterForm400 contact if you want to use an InterForm400 function for InterWord400 spooled files that are not listed above. 470 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ®
A ppendix K - Forms Server for non-System i environments ® InterForm400 can act as a Forms Server for other environments, such as WindowsNT, UNIX, Novell etc. For instance it is possible with iSeries Access to create a printer in Windows, which directs print jobs either as PCL (datatype *ASCII) or print jobs which has been converted to SCS (datatype *SCS) to an System i attached printer. The latter function was originally designed for ® printing PC print jobs on twinax printers, but can be used as input for InterForm400 to print electronic forms. Adding Overlays to *SCS PC Print Jobs (PC Mail Merge) This function is a popular way of doing large mailings with advanced graphics. For example the normal situation when merging database records with a graphical MS-Word document is, that each page in the resulting output will have all graphics included. This takes long time to process on both the PC and the printer, it requires lots of hard disk space and not least, it generates a lot of network traffic. ® With InterForm400 , you can load the form document as an overlay and send the data records ® as a simple SCS print job to a queue monitored by InterForm400 . This is an extremely effective way of making large mailings. The following is a short description of the procedure for setting up the environment in Windows with iSeries Access: 1. In Windows Click Start, Printer and Click the “Add Printer” icon. The same printer ® should be used as input to InterForm400 . Tag “Network Printer” and click Continue, Locate your System i under the “iSeries Access network” and chose a printer on the System i. Note: If no printers are displayed (if all printers are defined as remote writers), or if you do not have a printer available on the System i to use as input queue to Auto Forms Control, you must create a “dummy” writer. This automatically creates an output queue, which you can use as input queue to AutoFormsControl: CRTDEVPRT DEVD(LAN_FSP) DEVCLS(*VRT) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) FONT(11) ONLINE(*NO) The printer installation wizard will now ask you to select a driver for the printer. Select an older twinax printer type like an IBM 5256 or IBM 4214. Now finalise the add printer wizard. 2. Create a simple forms document in e.g. MS-Word to merge the data into. This forms document should be without any formatting. It should contain nothing but the fields where the data from the data source are inserted. Now merge the data source with this forms document, and send the merged document to the printer created in step 1. The spool file would look like this on the System i: InterForm A/S 471
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InterForm A/S Hyldalvej 11 DK-9541
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Table of Contents 4 User’s Manual
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6 User’s Manual for InterForm400
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About This Manual This manual is in
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W hat is new in the 2012 versions T
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PCL/PDF output • Images and fonts
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The m odules of InterForm400 Below
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G e ting Started The idea of the fo
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2. Installation Installation/upgrad
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4. Work With Overlay/AFC Sample You
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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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8=TABULATOR (Paragraph tabulation)
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Step 4. Edit Subject Text Now we wi
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Step 8. Defining the Column Headers
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The logo now needs to be dimmed in
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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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Selector Name: The name you will be
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G e ting Familiar with Overlay Sele
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G eneral Description of Auto Forms
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Auto Forms Control Hints Some are s
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How to distribute E-mails and faxes
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Totals 2 = Text constant: 240 User
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4. Configure WinPrint WinPrint is a
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H ow to create PDF files ® InterFo
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The Result view 520 User’s Manual
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Page Management 524 User’s Manual
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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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