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User’s Manual for InterForm400
®
Appendix J - Merging overlays with OV/400 and
InterWord400
TM
print jobs
If the system should operate on print jobs from OfficeVision/400, you should be aware
that some specific word processing features will disappear from the print job during merge
with an InterForm400
®
overlay.
The features in question are sub-script, super-script, font changes and justification
(bold and underline might work depending on the method used in the document). The
reason is that OS/400 does not allow these attributes with the Copy spool file function,
which 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 complex office print jobs.
1. Merging with OfficeVision jobs 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, the Interface must be ASCII850 or ASCII852 and Finishing functions are not
allowed. In addition the main overlay definitions Line Spacing, Rotation, Font and
Drawer should all be set to *INPUT.
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.
2. Downloading the overlay as a macro
The overlay should be downloaded as a HP macro and the command
APF3812/HPMACRO (see page 402, 416) 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.
3. PDF files cannot be created when merging with OV/400 or InterWord400
TM
spooled files.