InterForm Manual - System & Method

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
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