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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 3 Document IF-003-29 Users Guide for Intermate InterForm400 ® V2006.M01 Printed in Denmark 2006 No part of this guide may be photocopied or reproduced in any way, except where noted, without the written consent of Intermate A/S. All the names in this manual are fictional and any resemblance to existing people or [...]

4 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Table of Contents Table of Contents ...................................................... 4 About This Manual .............................................. 14 How the manual is organized ...................................... 14 What is new in the 2006 version ......................................... 17 What[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 5 8=TABULATOR (Paragraph tabulation) ....................... 61 9=REMAP WINDOW (re-mapping text areas) .................. 63 I=IMAGE ................................................ 66 ?=IF...THEN (conditional nesting of overlays) .................. 67 F=PCL-FILE ............................................. 70 G=[...]

6 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 12. Work with Active Subsystem AUTO_FORM ...................... 133 Overview of AFC Main Definitions ...................................... 134 Auto Forms Control Definitions ........................................ 136 Entering queue and job names to an AFC definition ................... 136 Default Output Out[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 7 Split Definitions ..................................................... 173 Split Definition Entries ........................................... 173 Calling a User Exit Program with the extracted spool pages ............. 175 Defining the spool file attributes for the result of a Split ................. 176 Exam[...]

8 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® User exit program ............................................. 223 Detail lines .................................................... 223 Totals ....................................................... 226 Footer ....................................................... 228 Insert reformatting in production ......[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 9 5. Work with file sets ............................................ 273 6. Connect Users with Overlay File Sets ............................ 274 Working with Fonts .................................................. 278 7. Work with Fonts ............................................. 279 1. Description of Additio[...]

10 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 8. Work with images ................................................. 319 Working with black and white images .............................. 320 Importing black and white images. .......................... 320 Working with color images ....................................... 321 Import color images ...........[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 11 Relations to Other Applications ................................... 362 Performance .................................................. 363 Printing ................................................ 363 Processing ............................................. 363 Appendix B - Attaching Printers to the iSeries ...[...]

12 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Save/Restore and Export/Import Commands ........................ 401 The Export Chart Command ............................... 401 The Import Chart Command ............................... 402 The Restore Library from Folder Command ................... 402 The Save Library to Folder Command .....................[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 13 The &&CHA Chart commands .................................... 446 Appendix N - Sending E-mails from the AS/400 ........................... 459 Setup of SMTP ................................................ 459 Combining SMTP and Domino/400 on the same machine .............. 460 Appendix O - Graphical De[...]

14 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® About This Manual This manual is intended for the person or people responsible for production printing on the site. For instance the system administrator. InterForm400 ® is designed to operate completely transparent to the user, which means this manual is only used for designing overlays, setting up printers [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 15 L TROUBLE SHOOTING L Did you remember to ... M WARNING M Do not do that, as you will end up in deep.. G NOTE G Important information[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 17 What is ne w in the 2006 version This Users Guide describes functions available in version 2006M01 and newer. Below are listed most of the new features added in InterForm400 since the last Users Guide (version 3-28) intended for InterForm400 version 2004M01. • Bookmarks and links can now be added to output PD[...]

18 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® • Additional copies of each page can now be printed by inserting the command &&CPY in the *SCS spooled file that you merge. Refer to page 396 for more information. • Stapling is now supported for additional printers. Stapling for additional Minolta, Ricoh and Lexmark printer models have been added.[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 19 The modules of InterForm400 From the 2004 versions of InterForm400 a number of modules are offered for InterForm400. Below basic InterForm400 package and the modules are described. As minimum you need to buy either the InterForm400 Light version or the basic InterForm400 package. If wanted you need to install t[...]

20 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The PDF and E-mailing Module If you want to create PDF files in InterForm400 and/or send E-mails with attached PDF files you need this module. This module is included in the classic package. The PDF Security Module If you want to encrypt PDF files created by InterForm400 and/or digitally sign them, then you ne[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 21 Getting Started The idea of the following procedure is to give you a safe and easy start on the InterForm400 ® system. No knowledge on InterForm400 ® is required, and only minor OS/400 knowledge is needed. The final result of the following will print a sample spool entry with a predefined overlay by means of [...]

22 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® InterForm 400 version 2004.M01 INTER03 DE: Wählen Sie bitte eine Sprache aus, während verwendet zu werden installieren Eingabetaste --> Weiter DK: Vælg sprog for instruktioner under denne installation. Tryk på Enter for at fortsætte. ES: Seleccione por favor un lenguaje para ser utilizado durante insta[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 23 INS0121 InterForm 400 version 2004.M01 INTER01 Select primary language, press Enter. Primary language . . . . . . . GB DE=Deutsch, DK=Dansk, ES=Españoles, FR=Français, GB=English, PT=Português Primary language is used for: 1. The language of commands. 2. The language of displays. 3. The language of the manua[...]

24 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® INS0129 InterForm 400 version 2004.M01 INTER03 Start installation with selected options. Device . . . . . . . . . . . : OPT01 Category . . . . . . . . . : *OPT CISC/RISC . . . . . . . . . : *RISC License type . . . . . . . . : *Demo Licensed modules . . . . . . : *Classic, *PDF-Security, *InterWord Primary lan[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 25 3. Setting Up the System The system is now ready for setting up administrators, file-sets, print queues and printers. Enter the InterForm400 ® menus: APF3812/APFMENU When entering InterForm400 ® for the first time, you will be asked to appoint an administrator. Enter option 80. Administration Menu and go thro[...]

26 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Configure InterForm 400 APF101D 2/7 Specify default form type for the InterForm 400 system. Users may override value when using the system. Form type *STD ______ Select paper size 4 1 = LETTER 5 = COM-10 A = LEDGER 2 = LEGAL 6 = MONARCH B = A3 3 = EXECUTIVE 7 = C5 C = A5 4 = A4 8 = DL Do you want to define pap[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 27 are in doubt you can also specify the IP address of the AS/400 - without surrounding ‘’. Sharename can be used for situations, where you do not want to share the complete QDLS (In InterForm400 it used mainly for the possibility of a graphical view). If you instead have shared either the APF3812 folder or th[...]

28 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Configure InterForm 400 APF101D 7/7 Do you want to use the APF3812/STRWTRCHK program as validity checking program for the STRPRTWTR and STRRMTWTR commands, to avoid a writer to be started with FORMTYPE(*ALL) on one of the output queues defined in Auto-Forms-Control, and if yes, what formtype has to replace *AL[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 29 4. Work With Overlay/ AFC Sample You are now ready to start working with the overlay, SAMPLE delivered with the package. First we will make sure that our device is changed to use the sample queue which the InterForm400 ® demo is preset for:. Printer Writer (Twinax, or TCP/IP (TN5250E or Raw Socket)) Make sure [...]

30 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® You could work with spool entries of your own as input to the AFC_INPUT1 job. A new spool entry will, after a while, appear in output queue AFC_OUT1 as a result of the merge process. However, for best understanding of the example we recommend that you create a demo spool entry according to the following descri[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 31 5. About The Print Results Maybe you noticed that page 2-4 was printed slightly faster than page 1. The reason is that the overlay is loaded into the printer as a macro at the beginning of the spool entry and is being called from the printer memory on page one and the succeeding pages. The example contains some[...]

32 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Illustration of the demo spool entry merged with the overlay IF400DEMO delivered with InterForm400 ® (The illustration is a screen shot of the InterForm400 ® PCL viewer function:) :[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 33 Menu Structures and General Operation The InterForm400 ® system can be included in one of your menus and can be called from here (refer to the section Relations to other applications page 362 ). You can also enter the InterForm400 ® system via a command line by entering: APF3812/APFMENU You will then be prese[...]

34 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Version: The release number of InterForm400 ® , also reflecting the year of the release. The number will be followed by an M##, which is the modification number. M23 would mean modification 23. At the bottom of the display you can see which command keys can be used everywhere in the system. How to use them is[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 35 1. Design Overlay Note, that InterForm400 ® comes with a graphical designer. See Appendix O on page 461 and onwards to see how to install and use it. In this menu overlay definitions and manipulation with spool data are defined. Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name __________ F4=List F3=Exit F4=Pr[...]

36 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Copy Overlay from Another Overlay Type in a name of the new overlay you want to copy to and press Enter. Press F9 to enter a overlay name to copy from and press Enter Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Name of overlay to copy from _______________ F3=Exit F4=Prompt F9=Copy from another file set F12=Cancel F10[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 37 Global settings of an overlay The global settings of the overlay depends on the type of file set in which the overlay is placed. These are the settings for file sets used for PCL printers and PDF output: Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name TEST Overlay text __________________________________ Line [...]

38 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® otherwise specified by Extended Formatting or the overlay definitions Remap Window and Tabulator . By stating *INPUT the value is set according to the attribute of the spool entry F4: Gives a list of available fonts. The standard IBM 3812 font ID’s is predefined (refer to page 382 or look at the font list in[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 39 separate ways. I.e. removing of headers and footers of the additional pages included in multi-up print. Copy Management : Stating N in this field, will enable you to define advanced pagination within the overlay for use with spool entries consisting of different types of contents (see using Page control page 52[...]

40 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name TEST Overlay text Line spacing 040 in 1/240 of an inch (*INPUT, 1-720) Rotation 000 (*INPUT, 0, 90, 180, 270) Extra left margin positions ............................................ Maximum number of : Variable Back Page Overlay : print positions : : Extra bla[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 41 Select Parameters for view / Print APF730D Overlay name __________ or Overlay Selector ________ Primary/Secondary set _ 1=Primary 2=Secondary Spooled file: Job name __________ User __________ Job number ______ File name __________ Spool file no. ______ Number, *ONLY, *LAST Code page ______ Number, *INPUT Form t[...]

42 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with Output Queue Queue: PRTHP3 Library: QUSRSYS Type options, press Enter 1=Select 2=Change 3=Hold 4=Delete 5=Display 6=Release 8=attributes Opt File User User Data Sts Pages Copies Form Type Pty 1 QPRINT INTERMATE INVOICE RDY 1 1 *STD 5 _ QPRINT INTERMATE PROFIT RDY 5 1 *STD 5 Parameters for option 2 ==[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 43 F19: DSPPFM This function works like F18 , but prompts the commands DSPPFM for displaying the spool entry as a physical file. This is useful for revealing reprinted lines (bolding), which is not displayed with F18 DSPSPLF. Remember to subtract the first 4 positions containing SKIP/SPACE information, when calcul[...]

44 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® image on top of the black frame (without specifying white in an Ink command). In this manner you reverse the part of the text or image, that overlaps the black frame. G NOTE G Make sure, that the label length stated is correct. If not this will affect the positioning of elements placed with rotation 90 and 270[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 45 Extended Page Definition Extended formatting is used to format intervals of lines from the spool entry. This method can be used as alternative to using the design command type 9. Remap Window , and will work with 8. Tabulator lines If the global setting Extended Page Definition equals Y , the following screen w[...]

46 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Copy Management Copy management is used to define the number of copies one single overlay should produce when triggered. The following screen will automatically appear when pressing Enter from the global settings menu where Y is filled in for Copy Management : Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name:[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 47 Source Drawers for Copies After having stated the number of copies, pressing Enter will extend the screen to include definitions of source drawers: Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: IF400DEMO Overlay text: Demo overlay for InterFomr400 Number of copies of each page Primary set . . . . . . . 2 *[...]

48 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Measuring Methods All coordinates entered in InterForm400 ® must be dissolved into inches and pels. Digits before the decimal point specify inches, and the digits after the decimal point specify pels and must not exceed 239. An inch is dissolved into 240 pels. Examples of values: 1" 1,000 = 1,000 1 ½”[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 49 The Design Screen Note: Refer to Appendix O on page 461 for information of how to install and use the InterForm400 ® graphical designer. When you press Enter from the previous screens you will finally reach the screen where the entry of overlay elements are made: Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay na[...]

50 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Service Options By pressing F5 you will get a list of service options: Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: IF400DEMO Overlay text: Demo overlay for InterForm 400 Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition Select one of the following options: 1. Move the placement on the page 2. Move definitions to another [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 51 In this function you can copy lines into this overlay definition. Overlay to be copied from . . . . . . . . TEST______ blank = this overlay Sequence numbers from/to to be copied . . 0000_ - 0000_ Inserted at sequence number . . . . . . . ___1_ F4 = overview overlays F24 = shift to look at FROM-overlay 4. Delete[...]

52 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Overlay Element Selection Filters When entering a sequence number and you press Field Exit the following entry screen will appear: Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: IF400DEMO Overlay text: IF400DEMO Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition Seqnbr. Type Page control 1,0 _ 1 = Frame 2 = Horizontal _ BLAN[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 53 Seqnbr. Type Page control 1,0 1 = Frame 2 = Horizontal _ BLANK = all pages 3 = Vertical 4 = Line 1 = first page only 5 = Text 6 = Print-info 2 = page 2 and succ. 7 = Ink 8 = Tabulator 9 = last page only 9 = Remap window I = Image _ BLANK = all pages ? = If .. then F = PCL-file 1 = odd pages G = HP-GL/2 file S =[...]

54 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Overlay elements Up to 9999 overlay elements can be made in one overlay. 1=FRAME Seqnbr. Type Inch.pel Repetition 11,0 1 Frame Top edge ______ Move right ______ Left edge ______ Move down ______ Right edge ______ Extra times ___ Bottom edge ______ Thickness in pels ___ NW NE SW SE Round/Sharp (R S) _ Radius __[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 55 NW: Radius in pels for the North West corner of the frame NE: Radius in pels for the North East corner of the frame SW: Radius in pels for the South West corner of the frame SE: Radius in pels for the South East corner of the frame Color Printing: When working in a file-set defined for color printing, the frame[...]

56 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 3=VERTICAL LINE Seqnbr. Type Inch.pel Repetition 1 3 Vertical line From top edge ______ Move right ______ From left ______ Move down ______ Lower end ______ Extra times ___ Thickness in pels ___ F3=Exit F12=Cancel F18=View Spool entry From Top Edge: Inches, pels absolute to the upper edge of a portrait page re[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 57 Endpoint 2 From Top: Inches, pels absolute to the top edge of a portrait page regardless of the rotation specified by the global settings for the overlay. From left: Inches, pels absolute to the left edge of a portrait page regardless of the rotation specified by the global settings for the overlay. Thickness i[...]

58 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 6=Print-info (Print information) Seqnbr. Type Inch.pel 1.0 6 Print-info From top edge ______ From left ______ Rotation ___ Font ___0 F4=List Info-type __________ F4=List F3=Exit F4=Prompt F12=Cancel From Top: Inches, pels absolute to the top edge of the rotation specified by the global settings for the overlay[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 59 7=INK (fill pattern for succeeding sequence lines) Seqnbr. Type 1,0 7 Ink Select ink for the succeeding lines Pattern 8 blank = unchanged, 0 = 100% white shading, 1-8 = 1-100% shading, ... F3=Exit F12=Cancel F13=Set view/print parameters F14=PCL-view Normally the system overwrites whatever might be the original[...]

60 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Black Ink Slash (/) Ink (0) Ink followed by Ink(/) / Ink(!) (0) Ink You can also insert an image as a watermark, if you change the ink to be shading . Note however, that you cannot use Ink to change PCL files into watermarks. Color Printing: When working in a file-set defined for color printing the INK setting[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 61 8=TABULATOR (Paragraph tabulation) A "tabulator" performs formatting and horizontal movement of an interval of lines in the spool date. Almost the same result can be obtained by using command type 9. Remap Window. The line and position numbers to be entered are those appearing in the input, regardless[...]

62 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® + Opens up for Extended Adjustement for definition of Underline of text in the tabulator and/or lines of periods (known as punctuation or dot leaders) made after each line of the tabulator. The following options appear when + is entered: Adjustment: The adjustement of the underlined or punctuated lines. Values[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 63 M WARNING M If two or more overlapping tabulators are defined the first defined will take the text it needs and leave blank positions in the relevant place for the next tabulator. A maximum of 200 tabulators per overlay can be defined. J TIP J You can use a tabulator (left or unadjusted) to delete areas of text[...]

64 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Seqnbr. Type 1 9 Remap window Input line ___ - ___ Position ___ - ___ Print: From upper edge ______ Line spacing . . ___ From left edge ______ Ignore blank lines _ (Y N) Adjustment _ (U L R C N B E +) Rotation ___ Font ____ F4=List Blank original _ B = blank original version Condition: Position ___ - ___ Is &g[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 65 Right margin adjustment: Defines when a text line should not be justified. This is based on the percentage of text characters versus blank spaces left on the last line of a remapped paragraph.(0-100%) Escape sequences: Used when working with spool files having escape sequences integrated. (See Appendix H, page [...]

66 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® field. U Unacceptable characters. None of the characters in the marked interval must be one of the characters in the following field. (See page 66 for a tip on use of ‘>’ and ‘<‘) Blank After: Stating B will remove the text string or the number which has been used for the condition from the resul[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 67 some scanning utilities which saves TIFF reversed. Note, that performance wise it is better to reverse if necessary during install of the image in InterForm400 - refer to page 319 for more information. Resolution: The resolution by which the image was scanned. This option can also be used to scale the image. Fo[...]

68 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Seqnbr. Type 1,0 ? If . . . . . Input line ___ - ___ Position ___ - ___ Is > = < N _ _________________________ Then . . . . Overlay __________ Nos. of lines to remap ____ Upper edge ______ A/+/- _ Left edge ______ A/+/- _ Blank after _ B = blank original text F18=View Spool file Input Line: The line inte[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 69 Vertical cursor repositioning before execute of sub overlay Position related to actual position Number of pels . . ___ ( -99 - 99 ) Or reposition related to previus non blank input line Number of pels . . ___ ( 0 - 999 ) F3=Exit F12=Cancel W ith this function you can vertically reposition the rest of the spoole[...]

70 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® M WARNING M Up to 300 ‘If..Then’ lines can be defined for an overlay. M WARNING M Only one level of conditioned sub-overlays is possible .’If..Then’ lines placed in overlays, which are called by ‘If..Then’ are never executed. M WARNING M Totally blank lines are not considered for the If..Then line [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 71 M WARNING M The system does not check the contents of the PCL file to be PCL4, PCL5 or PCL5e code. Printing code made for a PCL5e on a PCL5 printer might cause problems, as well as printing PCL5 on a PCL4 printer definitely will go wrong. It is recommended to use an HPIII driver to create the PCL files on the P[...]

72 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® S=SUBOVERLAY If you are printing general company info in several overlays, i.e. the company letter head, it is convenient to place this info in a separate overlay. W ith this function you can place such information in an overlay that can be called as a sub-overlay from any other overlays. Ie. changing e.g. the[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 73 Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0001 * Insert Intermate Logo in Upper Right Corner 0002 I Image DEMOIMAGE Top 01.100 Left 04.180 0003 * Recepient Frame 0004 1 Frame top 01.100 left 00.200 right 04.120 bottom 02.160 0005 * Remap Recepient Adress into Recepient frame 0006 9 Remap window 06-011 pos 08-040 top 1.16[...]

74 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® How the sequence lines in overla y design are executed The execution order is of the sequence lines is depending on the type of the line. They are executed in this order: 1st. Frames, Lines, Text (option 5), Print-info, Ink, Images, PCL-files, HP/GL-files and Suboverlays. 2nd. 9=Remap W indow 3rd. ?=If..Then L[...]

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76 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Getting Familiar With Overlays The following sections are structured so you will be brought through a process of improving the visibility of the sample spool entry IF400DEMO introduced in the Getting Started section. The chapter requires you have: • Run the Getting Started section. • A PCL5 capable printer[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 77 Step 1. Making a Work Copy of the Overlay IF400DEMO In order to keep the original sample we should first make a copy of the overlays to work with. To prevent the changes we make to be overwritten by future updates of the SAMPLE file-set, we will do the changes in our TEST file-set which was created on page 28 i[...]

78 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® copy from another overlay: Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Name of overlay to copy from __________ F3=Exit F4=Prompt F9 = copy from another file-set F12=Cancel We know that the IF400DEMO overlay is in another file-set, so we have to press F9 once more to get a list of file-sets to choose from. ...........[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 79 We have now made a copy of the overlay IF400DEMO from file-set SAMPLE and stored it by the name MYDEMO in file-set TEST. Step 2. Make a Test Print of the Overlay+Spool Data Before we start changing things we will make a printout of the overlay so we know what we have to begin with. We press F3 to exit to the ma[...]

80 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with Output Queue Queue: AFC_INPUT1 Library: APF3812 Type option, Press Enter. 1=Select 2=Change 3=Hold 4=Delete 5=Display 6=Release 8=Attributes Opt File User User Data Sts Pages Copies Form Type Pty 1 QPRINT PETER PRTCTL HLD 2 1 DEMO 5 Parameters for option 2 ===>_____________________________________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 81 section are remembered, which means you do not need to select F13 in the overlay to set these attributes for PCL viewing. Refer to Appendix L - PCL Viewing L TROUBLE SHOOTING L No printout? select option 10 to view your output queue. Are there any messages ?. Is the queue AFC_OUT1 still attached to your printer[...]

82 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 4. Printing the Overlay Definition List Print out a list of the definitions by pressing F5 : Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: MYDEMO Overlay text: Mydemo Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0001 I Image DEMOIMAGE Top 01,100 Left 04,180 0002 8 Tabulator lin.003-003 pos 72-072 left12,000L font[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 83 Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: IF400DEMO Overlay text: IF400DEMO Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0001 I Image DEMOIMAGE Top 01,100 Left 04,180 0002 8 Tabulator lin.003-003 pos 72-072 left12,000L font 0011 0003 9 Remap window 06-011 pos 08-040 top 1,160 left 1,000 L 0004 1 Frame top 01,100 le[...]

84 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 6. Edit Subject Text Now we will change the appearance of the subject header text (Re. Your new...). We therefore type 8 and press Field Exit in order to add our first new sequence line. As we want the text to remain in the same vertical position, we can use a Tabulator command to adjust the text and chan[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 85 DISPLAY OUTPUT FILE File . . . . . : QPRINT Page/Line 1/3 Function . . . . Columns 1 - 78 Search for . . . *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+... 1 Herring Marine Research Seaweed Street 14 9000 Battleaxe DK-Denmark --------------------- Att: Martin Merman 1004/PH.30-04-9[...]

86 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: MYDEMO Overlay text: Mydemo Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0001 I Image DEMOIMAGE Top 01,100 Left 04,180 0002 8 Tabulator lin.003-003 pos 72-072 left12,000L font 0011 0003 9 Remap window 06-011 pos 08-040 top 1,160 left 1,000 L 0004 1 Frame top 01,100 left 00[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 87 Step 7. Formatting the body text We now want to format the body text to print centered with a proportional spaced font. We use the same procedure as in the previous section, and we therefore type 9 to create a new sequence line and we press Field exit followed by type 8 to create a new tabulator: Design InterFo[...]

88 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 8. Making Equal Distance Between Column Headers We now want to Format the column headers in the middle of the page (Model, P-Group...) in intervals of 1 inch. As we want to adjust the vertical position as well we will use the Remap Window command. We type 11 to create a new sequence line followed by Field[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 89 Seqnbr. Type 13,0 9 Remap window Input line _ 28 - _ 28 Position _ 26 - _ 39 Print: From upper edge 05,060 Line spacing . . _ 40 From left edge 000004 Ignore blank lines N (Y N) Adjustment C (U L R C N B E +) Rotation 000 Font 9902 F4=List Blank original _ B = blank original version Condition: Position ___ - __[...]

90 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 9. Making Equal Distance between Item Line Columns We now want to perform the same actions for the item-line columns below the dotted line. As the horizontal positions of the item line columns are identical to the column headers, we can copy the sequence lines 11 to 15 and just correct the vertical positi[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 91 Seqnbr. Type 17,0 9 Remap window Input line _ 30 - _ 42 Position _15 - _25 Print: From upper edge 05,060 Line spacing . . _40 From left edge 000003 Ignore blank lines N (Y N) Adjustment C (U L R C N B E +) Rotation 000 Font 9902 F4=List Blank original _ B = blank original version Condition: Position ___ - ___ I[...]

92 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: MYDEMO Overlay text: Mydemo Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0017 9 Remap window 30-042 pos 15-025 top 5,060 left 3,000 C 0018 9 Remap window 30-042 pos 26-039 top 5,060 left 4,000 C 0019 9 Remap window 30-042 pos 40-053 top 5,060 left 5,000 C 0020 9 Remap wind[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 93 We use our ruler to find proper coordinates for our frame (see page ? on how to print a ruler). We prepare the values for the edges to match the formatting we will make for the item lines later. This step usually requires some test printing in order to find the exact values unless very exact calculations are pe[...]

94 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: MYDEMO Overlay text: Mydemo Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0017 9 Remap window 28-028 pos 54-070 top 5,060 left 6,000 C 0018 9 Remap window 30-042 pos 08-014 top 5,100 left 2,000 C 0019 9 Remap window 30-042 pos 15-025 top 5,100 left 3,000 C 0020 9 Remap wind[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 95 line 11) ends 5,068 from the top. We add 42 pels to 5,068 and get 5,110 . We state the same values for left and right edge as the black frame, and define the thicknes of our frame to be 1/6" (40/240") by adding 40 to the top edge. We do not want a border only a raster filling, and therefore we leave t[...]

96 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® We press Enter to save our new sequence line 20 . Step 13. Defining the logo as a water mark Instead of a signature we want to place the logo as a watermark in the bottom of the page. For this we use the logo already used in the top of the overlay, but manipulate it to work as a watermark. We intend to do the [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 97 Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: MYDEMO Overlay text: Mydemo Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0001 I Image DEMOIMAGE Top 01,100 Left 04,180 0002 I Image DEMOIMAGE Top 09,100 Left 02,120 0003 8 Tabulator lin.003-003 pos 72-072 left12,000L font 0011 0004 9 Remap window 06-011 pos 08-040 top 1,160[...]

98 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 14. Defining the Copy Management We will now add the text COPY on “page two" copies only. To do this we will first have to enable and configure the copy management . We press F12 to exit to the global settings. Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name IF400DEMO Overlay text _______________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 99 Copy Primary Secondary 1 ________1 ________1 Valid drawers 2 ________4 1-255 valid paper types: F4=List Do you want stapling . . Y/N N F3=Exit F12=Cancel F13=Set view/print parameters F14=PCL-view F18=DSPSPLF F19=DSPPFM We define that the originals (copy one) should be taken from drawer 1, and copies from drawe[...]

100 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® We now proceed by entering type 5 for Text : Seqnbr. Type Inch.pel 3,1 5 Text constant From top edge _ 2,120 From left _ 1,120 Rotation 000 Font 7001 F4=List Text COPY _______________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________ F[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 101 Step 16. Defining the Relatively Positioned Sub-form When looking through the demo spool entry some may wonder why the number “2" appear in the “No. of dev.” column for InterForm400 ® license codes. The customers might have had the same question, and we would therefore like to add a note next to th[...]

102 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: LIGHT Sub overlay for MYDEMO Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition Seqnbr. Type Inch.pel 1,0 5 Text constant From top edge _1,000 From left _6,120 Rotation 000 Font 9903 F4=List Text (Light version)____________________ ______________________________________________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 103 We create a new sequence line 30 and select ? to make an If-then statement: Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: MYDEMO Overlay text: MYDEMO Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0025 9 Remap window 30-042 pos 08-014 top 5,100 left 2,000 C 0026 9 Remap window 30-042 pos 15-025 top 5,100 left 3,000 C 00[...]

104 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 17. Cleaning the Overlay for Remaining Text If you printed the overlay at this stage, you will discover that the original text used for re- mapping are still visible. On purpose we have not used “B=Blank after” in the Remap W indow commands, as we have not been sure that we would have needed the text[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 105 Step 18. The Result Now we print the overlay merged with the spool entry using 3. Merge Spool entry with overlay . If your printout looks like the illustration on the next page, and you understood what went on, you can consider yourself quite familiar with InterForm400 ® . We have brought you through the heav[...]

106 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Final print of MYDEMO merged with the sample spool entry.(The illustration is a screenshot of the InterForm400 ® PCL viewer function:)[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 107 Example of Advanced use of Sub-overlays (Random text lines) A very strong feature of InterForm400 ® , is the ability to handle spool entries with randomly positioned text lines so each line gets an individual formatting. The general description on using sub-overlays are described on page 67, ?=If..then . The [...]

108 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Creating the Main overlay: This overlay will be used to call the different sub-overlays, which will perform the actual formatting of the spool entry: We enter 1. Design overlay , and we create a new overlay named MAIN . We leave the global overlay settings untouched and enter the design window. Here we define[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 109 search for the footer : Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: MAIN Overlay text: Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0001 ? If lin 001-070 pos 011-014 = ITEM Then SUB1 Seqnbr. Type 2,0 ? If . . . . . Input line __ 1 - _ 70 Position _ 11 - _ 14 Is > = < N = This __________________________ Then . [...]

110 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: SUB1 Overlay text: Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition Seqnbr. Type 1,0 9 Remap window Input line __ 1 - __ 1 Position _ 10 - _ 14 Print: From upper edge ______ Line spacing . . _ 40 From left edge _ 2,000 Ignore blank lines N (Y N) Adjustment L (U L R C N B E +)[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 111 We press Enter and we define a new Remap W indow line, that will remap the item sub- headers: Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: SUB1 Overlay text: Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0001 9 Remap window 01-001 pos 10-014 top 0,000 left 2,000 L Seqnbr. Type 2,0 9 Remap window Input line __ 1 - __ 1[...]

112 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Creating the sub-overlay for formatting the footer We press Enter and F3 , and we enter 1. Design Overlay again to create our second sub- overlay SUB2 : Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name: SUB2 Overlay text: Seqnbr. Type Overlay definition 0001 9 Remap window 01-070 pos 01-070 top 7,000 left 1,[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 113 The result Below is the result when the spool entry is merged with the overlay MAIN . The result is not intended to be a graphical wonder in any way, but is merely intended to demonstrate the flexibility of this feature. Page 1:[...]

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116 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Main Menu Local Environment Setup 2. Test Print Overlay W ith option 2 on the main menu you are able to make a test print of an overlay. The choice of overlay is made in this display: Test Print Overlay APF720D This program prints a test version of a given overlay. No data is merged with it. Overlay name ____[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 117 3. Merge Spool Entry with Overlay W ith option 3 on the main menu you are able to create a printout in which a spool-entry is merged with an overlay and placed in the default output queue for your session. Merge Spooled File with Overlay APF730D Overlay name __________ or Overlay Selector ________ Primary/Seco[...]

118 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with Output Queue Queue: PRTHP3 Library: QUSRSYS Type options, press Enter 1=Select 2=Change 3=Hold 4=Delete 5=Display 6=Release 8=attributes Opt File User User Data Sts Pages Copies Form Type Pty 1 QPRINT INTERMATE INVOICE RDY 1 1 *STD 5 _ QPRINT INTERMATE PROFIT RDY 5 1 *STD 5 Parameters for option 2 =[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 119 current label to be peeled off. (This also requires additional hardware). 4=Cut (requires hardware cutter) normally cuts the media for each print job unless you use 2=Continuous - then 4=Cut will cut out each label. Output Queue: The name of the output queue where the spool entry to be merged is placed Library[...]

120 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 9. Select Output Queue and Printer Type When you enter the InterForm400 ® main menu, the system is connected with the output queue which has been specified as the user output queue in your user profile for the InterForm400 ® system (refer to the page 268 and 272 ). If you choose option 9 on the main menu yo[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 121 (datatype *ASCII). Refer to Appendix L for more information on the PCL Viewer. The following command can be entered from outside InterForm400 ® . APF3812/APFWRKOUTQ You can also see the number of pages that a merged spooled file consists of. If you have used a PJL printer type for the merge in InterForm400, y[...]

122 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Working with O verlay Selectors An Overlay Selector will allow you to make conditioned overlay selections on certain character combinations in the print data of the spool entry. The overlay selector decides what overlay to merge with for each page of the merged spool file. J TIP J It is not necessary to defin[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 123 Selector Name: The name you will be referring to in the AFC function 1. Merge with overlay in Functions attached to output queues (see page 140), and when making interactive merge using option 3. Merge spool entry with overlay (page 117 ) Description: For your information. File set: The file set which the over[...]

124 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Add Overlay selectors AFC300D Selector name . . . INTERMA_ Description . . . . Selection for INVOICE____________________________ File-set . . . . . TEST______ Seqnbr. Overlay name Overlay description Seqnbr Overlay name 1,0 INV_FRONT_ AND/OR Print line Position Oper Compare value ___ ___ - ___ PAGE *FIRST____[...]

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126 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Getting Familiar with O verlay Selectors The following makes use of the demo spool entry delivered with InterForm400 ® . You can print this from the menu 12. Service Functions under the administration menu. Our intention is to make a selector which prints all letters of the spool entry regarding the MateSert[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 127 Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Name of overlay to copy from __________ F3=Exit F4=Prompt F9 = copy from another file-set F12=Cancel We know that the IF400DEMO overlay is in another file set so we have to press F9 to get a list of file sets to choose from. ............................................... :[...]

128 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 2. Examining Spool Entry Selection Criteria Before we create the overlay selector we need to examine the spool entry in order to find something that distinct the pages. Press F13= Set view/print parameter . Enter the overlay name and go to the bottom of the screen to enter the Output Queue where the spoo[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 129 DISPLAY SPOOL FILE File . . . . . : QPRINT Page/Line 3/ 15 Function . . . . P+1 Columns 1 - 78 Search for . . . *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+... Re. Your new InterMate/400 Forms Management System. --------------------------------------------------- Congratulations [...]

130 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Add Overlay selectors AFC300D Selector name . . . MYSELECT Description . . . . Selection for MateSert and InterMate letters______ File-set . . . . . TEST______ Seqnbr. Overlay name Overlay description Seqnbr Overlay name 1,0 IF400DEMO_ AND/OR Print line Position Oper Compare value _15 _21 - _28 EQ__ MateSert_[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 131 Step 4. Testing the Selector We now enter menu point 3. Merge Spool Data with Overlay on the main menu. Merge Spooled File with Overlay APF730D Overlay name __________ or Overlay Selector MYSELECT Primary/Secondary set _ 1=Primary, 2=Secondary Spooled file: Job name DSP010700_ User PETER_____ Job number 073534[...]

132 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® General Description of Auto Forms Control Sub- system Auto Forms Control (AFC) is a unique facility of the InterForm400 ® system, which enables you to define automatic control of merging spool entries with overlays without the need of any programming. Auto Forms Control is monitoring data queues of defined o[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 133 merge in AFC. This function is found as option 4 in the main menu. 10. Start AUTO_FORM subsystem Auto Forms Control is running as an ordinary AS/400 subsystem, and therefore has to be started as such. It is a good idea to let the subsystem start automatically at IPL. This is done by inserting the following com[...]

134 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The default output queue for AFC to send the processed print. “OUTPUT OUTPUT QUEUE” Name of output queue AFC is monitoring for incoming spool files. “INPUT QUEUE” Name of other AFC defintion which functions also should be used for this AFC defintion. “TEMPLATE” “AFC Functions” for the monitore[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 135 The “INPUT QUEUE” mentioned above is a created output queue without a device attached. This enables InterForm400 ® to pick up the spool files, without the printer writer is processing the spool file. AFC usually operates with both an “INPUT QUEUE” and the standard defined “OUTPUT QUEUE” with a pri[...]

136 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Auto Forms Control Definitions When selecting option 1. Functions Attached to Output Queues in the menu 5. Work with Auto Forms Control on the main menu we get this screen: Work with Auto Forms Control output queues AFC300D Start with . . . . . . . Type option, Press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 137 Additional parameters Type additional info and press Enter. Press F12 to exit. Job name AUTO_FORM job . . . *OUTQ_____ *OUTQ, Name Job description . . . . . . *DEFAULT__ *DEFAULT, Name Library . . . . . . . . . __________ Library list option . . . . *JOBD_____ *CURRENT, *JOBD, *SYSVAL, *NONE Separator drawer .[...]

138 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Template AFC-definition to be executed after this definition Output Queue/ Library: If these options are filled in, the same spool entry will be processed by the AFC definitions defined for the output queue stated here. This is done immediately after the processing of this set of AFC definitions, as if the ot[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 139 Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . : AFC_INPUT1 Library . . . . . : APF3812 Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file Program Seqnbr Function 1,0 _ 1 = Merge with overlay 9 = Exit 2 = Send Network Spooled File A = Change Attributes 3 = Transform *AFPDS to[...]

140 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 1=Merge with Overlay Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . : PRTHP3_AFC Library . . . . . : QUSRSYS Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file Program Seqnbr Function 1,0 1 Merge with overlay Output queue for merged print . __________ Library . . . . . . . .[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 141 Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . : PRTHP3_AFC Library . . . . . : QUSRSYS Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file Program Seqnbr Function 1,0 1 Merge with overlay Overlay name . . . . . . . . . . __________ File set . . . . . . . . . . . __________ Or[...]

142 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Seqnbr Function 1.0 1 Merge with overlay Labels/Continuous . _ 1=Labels 2=Continuous Media type . . . . . _ 1=Termo transfer 2=Termo media Print mode . . . . . _ 1=Tear off 2=Rewind 3=Peel off 4=Cut Labels / Continuous: Select 1=Labels if the media contains of separate labels. select 2=Continuous if the media[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 143 Seqnbr Function 1,0 1 Merge with overlay .................................... Output spooled file : Text before number of pages : User data . . . . : ______ : ... Seperator drawer . : F3=Exit F12=Cancel : mmer Hold output spooled : : Save output spooled :..................................: Archive in InfoStore[...]

144 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Address: Refer to the above Data format: You can either use *RCDDATA or *ALLDATA. *RCDDATA can be used for *SCS files, While *ALLDATA is required, when sending merged PCL files. For more information refer to the description of the DTAFMT parameter of the OS/400 SNDNETSPLF command. 3=Transform AFPDS to *USERAS[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 145 4=Copy Spooled File Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . : PRTHP3_AFC Library . . . . . : QUSRSYS Seqnbr Function 1,0 4 Copy Spooled File New output queue . . . . . . . . __________ Library . . . . . . . . . . . __________ Hold output spooled file . . . . *NO_ *NO, *YES S[...]

146 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Save output spooled file: This will affect the spool file attribute SAVE of the moved spooled file. 6=Hold Spooled File This function holds the original input spool entry for the AFC definition. 7=Delete Spooled File This function deletes the original input spool entry for the AFC definition. 8=Call Program S[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 147 9=Exit This function will cause all remaining AFC functions (sequence lines) to be skipped. If you want to insert AFC functions, that are to be executed for all spooled files not specifically handled in previous lines you could use this function. Just after handling a specific spooled file insert this function[...]

148 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® indicate that a spool entry has been processed. B=Split spooled file Seqnbr Function n,0 B Split spooled file Split definition name __________ F3=Exit F4=prompt F11=Delete F12=Cancel This function is used to split a spooled file into several separate spool files which can be processed independently. A Split d[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 149 M WARNING M Even though *DEFAULT is the default value it is most likely WRONG. *DEFAULT will place the temporary spooled files on the outq where the printer is attached and making it impossible to make them run through the P=Send E-mail function. Form type: The form type entered here should be used as conditio[...]

150 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® As the new spooled file afterwards will be input to a merge operation, *INPUT will often be appropriate. Note that the keyword *DEFAULT and *INPUT apply to both Output queue and library . Formtype: The formtype entered here should be used as condition for a 1. Merge with overlay following this AFC definition.[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 151 J TIP J Using option F can sometimes fail to change the writer job, if the printer is very fast. Fast printers might print out before Auto Forms Control can get to the print. Therefore it is recommended to use the more efficient way as described on page 27. G= Archive to MultiArchive/400 This option is only vi[...]

152 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® P = Send PDF E-mail Seqnbr Function 1.0 P Send spooled file as PDF email Overlay name . . . . . . . . . __________ File set . . . . . . . . . . __________ or overlay selector . . . . . ________ Primary/Secondary set . . . . *PRI *PRI, *SEC Save email . . . . . . . . . . *NO_ *NO, *YES This function is used to[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 153 Control commands (CR, LF, FF) in SAP spool entries are formatted as text and not as hex values. For instance is 0Dh0Ch formatted as F0hC4hF0hC3h. SAP generated spool entries has no meaningful attributes like page length/width. Instead the formtype indicates the format (eg. DINA4 or 51X132). InterForm400 ® doe[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 155 Getting Familiar with Auto Forms Control The following sections are structured so you will be brought through a process of creating AFC definitions for processing of the IF400DEMO from the Getting Started section. The chapter requires you have: • Performed step 13 , 14 , 18 and 19 in the Getting Started sect[...]

156 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with Active Jobs INTER01 27.02.98 10.20.02 CPU %: 9,7 Elapsed time: 00.03.36 Active jobs: 131 Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 3=Hold 4=End 5=Work with 6=Release 7=Display message 8=Work with spooled files 13=Disconnect ... Opt Subsystem/Job User Type CPU % Function Status __ AUTO_FORM QSYS SBS 0,3 DE[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 157 Update Auto Forms Control Definition AFC302D Output queue . . . . . . : AFC_INPUT1 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Type choices and then press Enter. Press F3 or F12 to exit. Description . . . . . . . . Job for sample printout___________________ Autostart job . . . . . . . Y (Y N) Code page . . . . . . . . . *[...]

158 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Update AFC-functions attatched to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . . . : AFC_INPUT1 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file Program 0001 1 DEMO Merge, Overlay: IF400DEMO Fileset: SAMPLE 0002 6 Hold Spooled File Seqnbr Function 0,1 5 Move Spooled File [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 159 Update AFC-functions attatched to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . . . : AFC_INPUT1 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file Program 0001 5 *STD Move spooled file, new outq: AFC_OUT1 library: APF3812 0002 1 DEMO Merge, Overlay: IF400DEMO Fileset: SAMPLE[...]

160 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Example 2, Using same Queue for Input and Output We will now create a new AFC queue, which will be used for both input and output for Auto Forms Control Step 1. Checking the Writer First we will make sure our printer only prints out one specific form type, and leave others to AFC. The easiest way to do this i[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 161 with formtype *STD in order to limit the subsystem QSPL to process jobs with this formtype only, thus leaving all jobs regardless of formtype to be processed by subsystem AUTO_FORM.: STRRMTWTR OUTQ(APF3812/AFC_OUT1) FORMTYPE(*STD) J TIP J When using the same output queue for both Input and output it is highly [...]

162 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 3. Restricting the writer to process type *STD jobs only Note: This step can be ignored, if you restrict the writer jobs using the STRWTRCHK option as first mentioned. We create our first AFC function by entering 1 followed by Field Exit Update AFC-functions attatched to output queues AFC305D Output queu[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 163 By function 9=EXIT we define that all spool files with form type *STD should not be processed further by any sequence line after this.. Step 5. Defining the Overlay Merge Now we want to define the merge of our demo spool entry with our overlay IF400DEMO . We enter sequence line 3 and press Field Exit . We ente[...]

164 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® We define that we do not want to search an overlay table, and we press Enter to get the entry field for defining the overlay: Update AFC-functions attatched to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . . . : AFC_INPUT2 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file P[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 165 We press Enter to save this AFC definition. Step 6. Cleaning up processed jobs The spool entry which was used for creating the new spool entry with overlays, will stay in the queue with status ready, unless we define an AFC function to handle it. We have several possibilities. We could just hold it with functi[...]

166 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 7. Activating the AFC job AFC_INPUT1 We now press F3 to exit our AFC definition and we select option 8 to start the AFC job. Work with Auto Forms Control output queues AFC300D Start with . . . . . . . __________ __________ Type option, Press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display 8=Start AFC-job 9=End[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 167 Using a “TEMPLATE” AFC defintion As all printers being used together with InterForm400 ® has to have an AFC-definition defined, the use of a TEMPLATE AFC definition is very useful. A lot of the printers being monitored by AFC, will often have the same requirements in terms of which spool files are to be m[...]

168 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® We will create a simple AFC entry for this AFC definition, where we want to merge the spool files with Form Type DEMO, with overlay IF400DEMO and send the resulting print to the DEFAULT output queue, as follows: Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . . . : TEMPLATE Library[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 169 Seqnbr Function 1,0 1 Merge with overlay Output spooled file name . *INPUT____ *INPUT, Navn User data . . . . . . . . *INPUT____ *INPUT, *JOB, *USER ... Seperator drawer . . . . . *NONE___ *NONE, *DEFAULT, Nummer Hold output spooled file . *NO_ *NO, *YES Save output spooled file . *NO_ *NO, *YES F3=Exit F13=Fo[...]

170 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 2. Form Type Table An alternative to stating the Form Type directly in 1= Merge with Overlay (refer to page 139 ) is to create a table which has all available form types listed. Apart from having the forms listed in a well-arranged manner, the form types table gives the possibility of defining 3 copies with 3[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 171 AFC definition 1.Merge with overlay which has Find overlay in forms type table = Y . (refer to page 140 ) File-set: The file-set where the overlay is placed. Prompt available file-set with F4 Overlay name: The overlay to use from the above file-set Form type: The form type for the merged output. It is recommen[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 173 Split Definitions W ith the Split Definition you will be able to select specific pages in a spool entry on basis of contents of these pages. A split function will create a new spool entry with pages meeting the criteria. The conditional selection of pages works in the same way as the overlay selector described[...]

174 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Change Split Definition SPL310D Split definition name . : SHIPPING_ Description . . . . . . : Extract invoices only Seqnbr. Seqnbr Split detail description 1,0 ______________________________ AND/OR Print line Position Oper Compare value ___ ___ - ___ ____ ________________________________ ____ ___ ___ - ___ __[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 175 Calling a User Exit Program with the extracted spool pages Change Split Definition SPL310D Split definition name . : IF400ONLY Description . . . . . . : Sort IF400 Pages Split detail description : IF400 ONLY User exit program Program name . . . . . . *NONE_____ *NONE, name Library . . . . . . . __________ name[...]

176 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Note that there are no user exit programs delivered with InterForm400 ® , as they must be written specifically for the application or database they should integrate to. J TIP J You can only add to (not overwrite) the contents of the spooled file by use an exit program. If you want to overwrite the contents y[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 177 Example Using Split The following makes use of the demo spool entry delivered with InterForm400 ® . You can print this from the menu 12. Service Functions under the administration menu. The distinction between MaterSert/400 and InterMate400™ letters is the text “MateSert” or “InterMate” which is loc[...]

178 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Change Split Definition SPL310D Split definition name . : IFLETTER Description . . . . . . : Extract InterMate letters Seqnbr. Split detail description Seqnbr Split detail description 1,0 Split InterMate/MateSerter___ AND/OR Print line Position Oper Compare value ____ _15 _21 - _29 EQ __ InterMate____________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 179 Change Split Definition SPL310D Split definition name . : IFLETTER_ Description . . . . . . : Extract InterMate letters Split detail description : Split InterMate/MateSerter Output queue . . . . . . . . . . . . AFC_INPUT1 *INPUT, *NONE, Name Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . APF3812 ____ Page size Length, Line[...]

180 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® We can now merge the new spool entry with an overlay conditioned by the Formtype IFLET or by using an Overlay Selector: Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D Output queue . . . . . . : AFC_INPUT1 Library . . . . . . . : QUSRSYS Seqnbr Funct Form type Save New output queue 0001 B DEMO Split, d[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 181 Finishing Definitions This function is used for departmental printing with need for immediate stapling, folding and/or insertion into envelopes and other related functions. Currently the following finishing functions are supported: 1. Folding and insertion into envelopes using the Prinserter® ( W inserter in [...]

182 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Create Finish Definition PRS310D Definition name . . . . . . PRINS Description . . . . . . . . ................................................................ Ty : : : Already during the Prepare for Finishing function, the : : system has to know the number of copies of the individual : : page. If a succeedin[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 183 Seal envelope: Seal envelope with water. When pressing Enter the Prinserter definition is updated. Go to section Using the Prinserter definition with Auto Forms Control on page 216 in order to test the definition. You can use the spool entry which can be created under Service Functions in the administration me[...]

184 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Pages per envelope Group 1 - 5: Up to 5 different postage franking groups can be defined. Valid values are 1 to 5. If none of the postage groups are defined, all pages will be printed to the upper bin. If only the first group is filled in with 5 pages, all sets of pages will be inserted into envelopes in the [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 185 Pages per envelope group . 1 Enclosure group-1 . . . . 1 Pages per envelope group . 2 Enclosure group-2 . . . . 1 Pages per envelope group . 3 Enclosure group-3 . . . . 1 Pages per envelope group . _ Enclosure group-4 . . . _ Pages per envelope group . _ Enclosure group-5 . . . . _ Try running this example wit[...]

186 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Defining PFE MailPrinter ® Pre-process Definition This pre-processor can on basis of boolean equations determine the level break between pages in a spool entry, and thereby allow varying number of pages to be inserted into envelopes. The pre-processor can additionally define that the varying pages should be [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 187 Create Finish Definition PRS310D Definition name . . . . . : PFEDEF1 Description . . . . . . . : Finish definition for PFE Mail Printer Type of Finishing . . . . : 04 PFE Mail-Printer Envelope type . . . . . . : 2 Printed envelope Overlay for envelope Overlay name . . . . . ________ File set . . . . . . ______[...]

188 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Seal envelope: Seal envelope with water. Pages per envelope Group 1 - 5: Up to 5 different postage franking groups can be defined. Valid values are 1 to 5 . If none of the postage groups are defined, all pages will be printed to the upper bin. If only the first group is filled in with 5 pages, all sets of pag[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 189 Pages per envelope group . 1 Enclosure group-1 . . . . 1 Pages per envelope group . 2 Enclosure group-2 . . . . 1 Pages per envelope group . 3 Enclosure group-3 . . . . 1 Pages per envelope group . _ Enclosure group-4 . . . _ Pages per envelope group . _ Enclosure group-5 . . . . _ Try running this example wit[...]

190 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Defining Stapling Pre-process Definitions Enter Menu point 4. Finishing Definitions on the menu 5. Work with Auto Forms Control . Enter F6 to create a new finishing definition and select 02 for making the definition valid for stapling: Create Finish Definition PRS310D Definition name . . . . . . STAPLE Descri[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 191 Select printer type for stapeling Printer Manufacturer . . . . _ 1 = HP 2 = Lexmark 3 = IBM 4 = Kyocera 5 = Xerox 6 = Océ 7 = Canon 8 = Ricoh 9 = Minolta Notice: Stapeling requieres use of printertype HP4_PJL or HP4D_PJL. F3=Exit F12=Cancel Continue with section Define Level Break Conditions on page 212, to f[...]

192 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Defining Insertion Pre-process Definitions Enter Menu point 4. Finishing Definitions on the menu 5. Work with Auto Forms Control . Enter F6 to create a new finishing definition and select 03 for making the definition valid for external insertion systems: Update Finish Definition PRS310D Definition name . . . [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 193 Placement of optical marks: Refer to the documentation of your insertion system for further information on the optical marks. Rotation: The available values for rotation are: 000, 090, 180, 270 degrees. From top edge: Absolute margin from top edge of the page dissolved in inches and pels (see Measuring formats[...]

194 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® What to do if more than max. pages to a recipient: Outsorting. InterForm400 ® will inform the Insertion system to outsort the pages for this recipient ID according to the selections on the next screen. More than 1 envelope: InterForm400 ® will automatically continue insertion in new envelopes. Can there be [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 195 How to distribute E-mails and faxes in InterForm400 ® : Setup of E-mailing is done in three steps: 1. Create a new type of finishing Definition (Type 05=E-mail). This splits up the spool file depending on the spool file page data and places details in the User Defined Data field. 2. Insert execution of the e-[...]

196 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with E-mail/Fax definition MAI300D Definition name . . . . . : DEMO Description . . . . . . . : Distribution of the Demo spool file Select one of the following options: 1. How to find E-mail address / Fax number 2. Key definition 3. Definition variables 4. Default PDF-file name 5. Definition E-mail text [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 197 2. Key definitions Change E-mail/Fax key definition MAI310D Definition name . . . . . : DEMO Description . . . . . . . : Distribution of the Demo spool file Length key field-1 . . . . __4 (1 - 30) Field type key field-1 . . 1 1=Numeric 2=Alfanum. 3=Alfanum. lowercase Allow blank key field-1 . N (Y N) Key field[...]

198 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 3. Definition variables Change variables MAI315D Definition name . . . . . : DEMO Description . . . . . . . : Distribution of the Demo spool file Variable Length Description *V1 _25 Company name_______ *V2 _25 Contact person_____ *V3 __4 Customer number____ *V4 _50 Subject____________ *V5 ___ ________________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 199 Change E-mail / cover page text MAI345D Definition name . . . . : DEMO Description . . . . . . : Distribution of the Demo spool file E-mail text version . . : GB________ Description . . . . . . . Demo spool file (English ver.)__ E-mail subject . . . . . . *V4_____________________________________________ Text a[...]

200 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® In this example the keys and variables are always placed in a fixed position, and therefor the page selection criteria is left blank. Update Finish Recipient-ID PRS330D Definition name . . . . : DEMO Sequence number . . . . : 1 Description . . . . . . . Demo Spool: Get keys and vars. Page selection criteria P[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 201 number' defined, that you want to find the e-mail address in the spooled file this screen will also include fields that. 7. E-mail addresses and fax numbers E-mail addresses and fax numbers are lists of addresses, that InterForm400 can send to. The addresses are identified by the keys defined earlier. For[...]

202 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Create E-mail address / Fax number MAI330D Definition name . . . . . : DEMO Description . . . . . . . : Distribution of the Demo spool file Customer number . . : 1001 Recipient name . . . . Herring Marine Research___________________________ E-mail address . . . . Herring@intermate.com_________________________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 203 Use the name and E-mail address specified in the bottom for all E-mails. 2=Use owner of spooled file as sender: If you specify this, then the user profile of the original spool file will be retrieved, and the name and E-mail address is extracted from information in the list of E-mail sender addresses found in [...]

204 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® PDF Master Password: State a password if needed, that will open all the created PDF files with authority to do all. User access limitations: *NONE Use this if you want no limitations on what the receiver can do with the created PDF file. *NOPRINT This limitation make it impossible to print the PDF file. *NOCO[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 205 8. Work with E-mail senders Note: This option is reached from the Auto Forms Control menu. Work with E-mail senders MAI360D Position to . . . . . . __________ User profile Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display Opt User User name _ KSE Kim Egekjaer _ PDC Poul D. Christiansen End F3=Exit [...]

206 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The File Naming Finishing Definition By creating a finishing definition of type '06 = PDF File naming ' you can create PDF files in InterForm400 using advanced functions - without any programming! You can use information from the spooled file to break up the spooled file as it is merged into PDF fil[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 207 Create Variable Definition PNM325D Definition name . . . . : DEMO_MAN Description . . . . . . : Demo for manual Type choices and then press Enter. Press F3 or F12 to exit. Variable . . . . . . . . . *VA *VA-*VZ, *V1-*V9 Description . . . . . . . Customer Name Max. outputlength . . . . 30 1 - 40 Variable type .[...]

208 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® G NOTE G All the autonumerators change for each new PDF file. Except *TASKKEY and *KEY. Normally you would create a new PDF file for each new key, but not necessarily. Date: Inserts the current date. It can be the: 1=System date , 2=Job date (the date of the AFC job) or the 3=Spoolfile creation date . Many di[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 209 3. PDF File Name Composition Select this option to state how the PDF file name is determined: Create PDF Filename Composition PNM330D Definition name . . . . : DEMO_MAN Demo for manual Type choices and then press Enter. Press F3 or F12 to exit. PDF output path/file . . . /Invoices/*KEY1/Inv *VB.pdf____________[...]

210 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® As the document break definitions you need to state a place on the spooled file, that will trigger a break i.e. whenever this information changes a new PDF file will be created. This will normally be the positions of the key(s), but it does not necessarily need to be so. After creating a sequence line you mus[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 211 G NOTE G Any program called by InterForm400 must be owned by QSECOFR. You can change the owner (if you have enough authority with the command: CHGOBJOWN. M WARNING M NEVER place any objects e.g. programs or output queues in the APF3812 library. Those objects will NOT be copied to the new release, when later do[...]

212 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Define Level Break Conditions for Finishing The screen below appears automatically in the process of creating any finishing definition: This section is used for creating definitions for determination of the level break between recipient information. Or in other words, when to start insertion into a new envelo[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 213 Print Line: The print line in the spool entry to search. Position: The column interval to search Oper. The operator relating to the compare value. The operators used are standard Query operators. EQ Equal to compare value NE Not equal to compare value LT Less than compare value LE Less than or equal to compare[...]

214 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Page selection criteria Print line Position Oper Compare value __3 _72 - _72 EQ 1______________ ___ ___ - ___ __ _______________ ___ ___ - ___ __ _______________ In the test spool entry you will discover that the two letters for Florence Flowers are numbered in succession. The above definition will therefore [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 215 Page selection criteria Print line Position Oper Compare value ___ ___ - ___ __ _______________ ___ ___ - ___ __ _______________ ___ ___ - ___ __ _______________ Find recipient ID in the following positions Print line Position _13 _57 - _60 ___ ___ - ___ ___ ___ - ___ ___ ___ - ___ ___ ___ - ___ ___ ___ - ___ [...]

216 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Using the Finishing Definition with Auto Forms Control Prior to making the following definitions for Finishing control in Auto Forms Control, a Finishing Definition must exist. Enter menu point 5. Auto Forms Control on the main menu, and select 1. Functions Attached to output queues . Either create a new AFC [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 217 Finishing Definition name: Finishing Definition created with option 4. Finishing Definitions on the Auto Forms Control menu. Output queue: The Finishing pre-process will generate a *SCS spool entry. This spool entry will be formatted with Finishing preprocessing information (can be viewed from position 341 usi[...]

218 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D Queue: PFE_IN Library: QUSRSYS Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file Program 0001 C DEMO Finish def: PFEDEF1 outq: PFE_IN library: QUSRSYS form type Seqnbr Function 2,0 1 Merge with overlay Output queue for merged print . *DEFAULT __ Li[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 219 Seqnbr Function 1.0 C Prepare for Finishing Prepare for E-mail requires settings for print that will not be send. Output queue non E-mail print . *INPUT____ Library . . . . . . . . . . . __________ Form type . . . . . . . . . . . PRINT_____ On this screen it is specified what to do with spool file pages, that [...]

220 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® M WARNING M The Finishing definitions will not work with copies. If more copies have been defined for the merge it will result in faulty insertions. (NOT valid for the PFE MailPrinter) J TIP J Copy Management defined for the overlay is only supported for the overlay entered in the pop-up window when you defin[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 221 The Reformat finishing definition In InterForm400 you are always limited by the page breaks of the original *SCS spooled files. You never able to move information from one page to another or to change the height of the page making it possible to print more information on the final output. BUT with the Reformat[...]

222 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Here you can state how many of the first lines (including the blank lines) from the input spooled file, that are considered a part of the header i.e. that they are not detail lines. If you state e.g. 10, then all line 1-10 of the input spooled file is considered to be the header. If you specify *VAR this will[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 223 User exit program From the reformat finishing definition you can call a user exit program in order e.g. to extract certain information from the spooled file, transfer that to the program, where you e.g. calculate other values which then are placed back into the new spooled file. When you select this option you[...]

224 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with reformat definition RFM300D Definition name . . . . . : DEMO_REFOR Description . . . . . . . : Reformat the Demo spooled file Number of detail lines per output page 1st page per level break . ____ Following pages . . . . . ____ Maximum number of blank lines between 2 detail lines . . __ F3=Exit F12=[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 225 Position The starting position of the text compare. Length The length of text to compare. Compare type The type of compare to do. Refer to page 67 for an explanation. Compare value The text, that should be compared with. Occurrence States which of the lines (fitting the condition), that should be selected: *FI[...]

226 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 2 = Text constant: Seqnbr. Type Text constant Output line position 2.0 2 ________________________________ __ ___ W ith these 2 types of lines you can decide how the input detail line(s) should be presented in the output spooled file. M WARNING M Plan how you want to structure the sequence of these lines as th[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 227 Work with reformat definition RFM300D Definition name . . . . . : DEMO_REFOR Description . . . . . . . : Reformat the Demo spooled file Placing of totals Select one of the following options: 1. Just after the last detail line 2. Like 1, if there is space for all total lines, otherwise next page. 3. In foot Opt[...]

228 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® If only 1 total page This denotes the line-ID to be inserted if the total is not spread across 2 pages. If 2 total pages, first total The specifies the line-ID for the part of the total lines, that are placed on the page before the last - if the total lines are split across pages. If 2 total pages, extra tota[...]

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230 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Sort Definitions This function is used if pages in a spool entry for the same receiver ID are not consecutive, and there is a demand for them to be sorted this way. The function should be used prior to an overlay merge or a prinserter or PFE MailPrinter pre- process. Enter Menu point 5. Sort Definitions on th[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 231 Definition name: This name will be referred to by the AFC function D=Sort Spooled File (hidden). Insert Pages before start of new group: Stating *YES will produce an extra page in the sorted spool entry with the text SEPARATOR PAGE inserted between each sorted group within the resulting spool entry. The page w[...]

232 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Create Sort Definition Details SOR330D Definition name . . . . : DEMO Sequence number . . . . . __1 Description . . . . . . . Sort_by_Customer_ID__________ Page selection criteria Print line Position Oper Compare value ___ ___ - ___ ____ _______________________________ ___ ___ - ___ ____ _____________________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 233 Print Line: The print line in the spool entry to search. Position: The column interval to search. Ascending/ Select the way you want to order this sorting field. If you leave it decending: blank it will default to ascending. Examples Using Sort The following makes use of the demo spool entry delivered with Int[...]

234 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® DISPLAY SPOOL FILE File . . . . . : QPRINT Page/Line 3/15 Function . . . . +1 Columns 1 - 78 Search for . . . *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+... Re. Your new InterMate/400 Forms Management System. --------------------------------------------------- Congratulations w[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 235 Find sort fields in the following positions Sort field no. Print line Position Ascending/Descending 1 _15 _23 - _23 A 2 ___ ___ - ___ _ Example 3. Sort by Type and Customer ID: To increase the detail level of the search we could have the groups of MateSert/400 and InterMate/400 letters sorted according to Cust[...]

236 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Update AFC-functions attached to output queues AFC305D Queue: AFC_INPUT2 Library: APF3812 Seqnbr Funct Form type Save Jobname Filename Device file Program 0001 D DEMO Sort, def: SORTDEMO outq *DEFAULT &form type: SORTDONE Seqnbr Function Attributtes of input file for which to execute the function 2,0 1 Fo[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 237 DISPLAY SPOOL FILE File . . . . . : QPRINT Page/Line 1/1 Function . . . . Columns 1 - 78 Search for . . . *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7... ** SEPERATOR PAGE ** 1001 InterFor Florence Flowers Tulip Road 16 4000 Marigold DK-Denmark --------------------- Att: Wolly Weed 10[...]

238 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® PDF File Bookmarks From the InterForm400 main menu select 5. Work with Auto Forms Control followed by 6. PDF bookmark definitions. Here you can define how bookmarks should be inserted when you create a PDF file in InterForm400. Note, that alternatively you can also include &&BMK commands in the *SCS s[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 239 Create PDF Bookmark details BMK330D Sequence number . . . . . 000 Description . . . . . . . ____ Type option, Press Enter. 1=Select Opt Definition _ Page selection _ Initial open level _ Level-1 _ Level-2 _ Level-3 _ Level-4 _ Level-5 _ Level-6 F3=Exit F12=Cancel Page selection : If you want to use more than o[...]

240 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® G NOTE G Text for bookmarks must be placed in a fixed position on the page. If you want to search for a certain text and insert bookmarks if found you could consider to use the APF3812/CRTPBSPLF command to do copy the floating information into a fixed spot of a new *SCS spooled file before merging. This could[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 241 Getting familiar with PDF Bookmarks In order to demonstrate how to insert PDF bookmarks we will go through the process necessary to insert these bookmarks when creating a PDF file based on the InterForm400 demo spooled file: The idea is, that the first level contains information of the customer number. Each cu[...]

242 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Create PDF Bookmark details BMK330D Sequence number . . . . . 000 Description . . . . . . . All_pages_________________________ Type option, Press Enter. 1=Select Opt Definition _ Page selection _ Initial open level _ Level-1 _ Level-2 _ Level-3 _ Level-4 _ Level-5 _ Level-6 F3=Exit F12=Cancel Through Page sel[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 243 Level-3 Field Prefix Print line Position 1 _______________ _11 __8 - _35 2 _______________ ___ ___ - ___ Color _8 F4=List When done defining the levels you just press Enter several times and the bookmark definition has been saved. As the final thing we want to use the PDF Bookmark definition. You can do it in [...]

244 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® User Output Queue This feature offers the possibility to move any spooled file to a user dependent output queue. It can be reached from the InterForm400 Main Menu by first selecting 5. Work with Auto Forms Control and then 7. User output queue . Work with user output queues AFC315D Position to . . . . . . ___[...]

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246 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® General Description of OSC (Output Schedule Control) Output Schedule Control (OSC) is a sub-system in InterForm400 ® which main purpose is to optimize the daily mail procedures in an organisation and thereby reduce the postage costs significantly. The key element with this function is that rather then sendin[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 247 InterForm 400 - Output Schedule Control System.......: INTER02 Workstn ID...: IF400_PDC2 Select one of the following options: User ID......: POULD 1. Functions attached to Output Queues 10. Start OSCCTL subsystem / server 11. End OSCCTL subsystem and server 12. Work with OSCCTL subsystem Option: __ F3=Exit F6=[...]

248 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Opt Subsystem/Job User Type CPU % Function Status OSCCTL QSYS SBS .0 DEQW OSCSERVER AFCOPER ASJ .0 PGM-OSC500C MSGW Note that the status MSG W (message waiting) is normal, and does not indicate an error (as it usually does). Describing the OSC definition lines If you from the InterForm400 ® main menu choose [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 249 The various definition lines does the following: Specify input spooled file priority : This definition line is only used for defining what spool file attributes to sort on, if no sorting fields are selected. Normally it is not necessary to fill this out. Specify placement of input spool file attributes at outp[...]

250 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Principle of OSC (Output Schedule Control) In short OSC merges all spool files into one and sorts the pages by spool file attributes and/or text on each spool page. This merge can be done at certain times of the week, and it can also be initiated by choosing option 1=Run OSC from the OSC menu. The merged SCS [...]

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252 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Getting Familiar with OSC (Output Schedule Control) When selecting option 1. Functions Attached to Output Queues in the menu 6. Work with Output Schedule Control on the main menu we get the screen below: Work with OSC definitions OSC100D Position to . . . . . . Output queue Type options, press Enter. 1=Run OS[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 253 Specify input spooled file priority: Specify input spooled file priority OSC300D Output queue . . . . . . : OSC_OUTQ01 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Type choices, press Enter. Sorting- Input spooled file priority Form type . . . . . . . . _10 Job name . . . . . . . . . ___ Job number . . . . . . . . ___ Spoo[...]

254 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Define Sort Fields: Work with OSC sort definitions OSC330D Output queue . . . . . . : OSC_OUTQ01 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Position to . . . . . Sequence Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display 7=Change sequence Opt Seqnbr. Description 2 1 Find inserted sort fields End F3=Exit F5=R[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 255 Specify Grouping and separator page: Specify grouping and separator page OSC300D Output queue . . . . . . : OSC_OUTQ01 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Type choices, press Enter. Group by number of sort fields . . . . . . . 1 1-6 Insert separator page before start of new group . . . . Y Y=Yes, N=No A new group [...]

256 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Specify automatic start scheduling: Specify automatic start scheduling OSC300D Output queue . . . . . . : OSC_OUTQ01 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Type choices, press Enter. Monday Tuesday Wed.day Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 15:00 15:00 15:00 15:00 14:00 _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 257 Specify output queue for processed spooled files: Specify output queue for processed spooled files OSC300D Output queue . . . . . . : OSC_OUTQ01 Library . . . . . . . : APF3812 Type choices, press Enter. Output queue . . . . . . . ARCHIVE Output queue, *DELETE Library . . . . . . . . APF3812 All input spooled [...]

258 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Working with Joint Reports Enter menu point 7. Work with Joint Reports on the main menu. 1. Compose Joint Report In this menu point you can compose a report from a number of overlays. Work with report composition APF310D Report name __________ F3 = Exit F4 = Overview reports Report name: The name of the repor[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 259 Work with report composition APF310D Report name MONTH_REP Description Monthly Report________________ F3 = Exit F9 = Copy from another report F12 = Cancel Description: A descriptive text for the report you wish to make. This text is used solely in connection with the displaying of a list of reports in this fil[...]

260 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Overlay + spool entry: This is the reference to the overlay used with a spool entry which is being included in the report. Spool entries included in the report will each require a sequence line of this type. 1=Empty Overlay (front page) Seqnbr. Type Description 1,0 1 Empty overlay Overlay name................[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 261 Indention, page no. The horizontal start position of the index page numbers in Inches, pels absolute to the left edge of the page according the rotation specified by the global settings for the Overlay . Rotation: Rotation of the index lines. Valid values are 000,090,180,270. Note that 180 and 270 rotation is [...]

262 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Link name: This field only have to be filled in if you want to use the APFLNK command for printing the report instead of doing it interactively from within the InterForm400 ® menus. 2. Test Print Report Overlays W ith option 2. Test Print Report Overlays you are able to make a test print of a report composit[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 263 Print Joint Report APF710D Report name __________ Form type A4_______ Copies 1 (1-99) F3 = Exit F4 = Overview report definitions Report name: The name of the report you wish to print out. If you do not remember the name you can press F4 to get a list of report names to choose from. Form type: The Form type of [...]

264 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® If you do not know the identification, or perhaps find it too labourious to enter all information, you may instead specify the output queue to which the spool entry belongs. This is entered at the bottom of the screen. You can then fetch the information about the spool entry by selecting it with option 1 : Wo[...]

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266 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Administering InterForm400 ® Environment and Users When the InterForm400 ® system is installed for the first time, the option Administering InterForm400 ® is open to everyone. Once an administrator of the system has been appointed, this person is the only one who can select this option. When you choose opt[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 267 1. Appoint Administrator When you choose the option 1. Appoint administrator on the administration menu, you get the following screen: Appoint InterForm 400 Administrator APF100D Choose a user to be administrator of the InterForm 400 system, or enter *ALL to indicate that all users are given authority to the a[...]

268 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 2. Configure InterForm 400 When you choose option 2. Configure InterForm 400 on the administration menu, you get the following screen: Configure InterForm 400 APF101D 1/7 Specify default output queue for users with no individual output queue. Users may override value when using the system. Output queue ______[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 269 Configure InterForm 400 APF101D 2/7 Specify default form type for the InterForm 400 system. Users may override value when using the system. Form type *STD______ Select paper size 4 1 = LETTER 5 = COM-10 A = LEDGER 2 = LEGAL 6 = MONARCH B = A3 3 = EXECUTIVE 7 = C5 C = A5 4 = A4 8 = DL Do you want to define pape[...]

270 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Configure InterForm 400 APF101D 4/7 Do you want to use DDM to InterForm files on other AS/400 Use DDM . . . . . . . _ (Y N) F3=Exit F12=Cancel This screen will allow InterForm400 ® to copy overlays from an installed InterForm400 ® on another AS/400 using DDM (Distributed Data Management). When applying Yes [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 271 Configure InterForm 400 APF101D 6/7 Select primary language for: 1. The language of displays. 2. The language of the manual. Language code . . . . GB DE=Deutsch, DK=Dansk, ES=Españoles, FR=Français, GB=English F3=Exit F12=Cancel This menu sets the primary language for the InterForm400 ® menus. This can be o[...]

272 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 4. Work with InterForm400 ® Users When you choose the option Work with InterForm400 ® users on the administration menu, you get the following screen: Work with InterForm Users APF220D Position to . . . . . . __________ User profile Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display 9=File set acc[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 273 5. Work with file sets The files in which overlay and report definitions are kept are subdivided into members. The idea is to enable individual users or user groups to maintain their own file-sets. It is not possible to operate on more than one file set at a time in the system. This means, for example, that al[...]

274 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® text. The purpose of the text is primarily to ease the management for users with access to more than one file. The Printer Class specifies the type of printers, which this file set should include overlays for. Depending on this selection, the menus and available functions will change throughout the program. N[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 275 Connect users with overlay and report file sets A user can be connected with one or more specific file sets Several users may be connected with the same file set. User profile PETER Peter Hansen This user is connected with the following file-sets: Specify name of file-set to be connected with / disconnected fr[...]

276 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Connect users with overlay and report file sets A user can be connected with one or more specific file sets Several users may be connected with the same file set. User profile PETER Peter Hansen This user is connected with the following file sets: TEST Peter Hansen's personal test file set Specify name o[...]

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278 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Working with Fonts InterForm400 ® exploits resident and down loaded PCL fonts of HP compatible printers independent of their attachment to the AS/400. Intermate InterForm400 ® has a built-in conversion table between IBM font ID’s, known from the IBM 3812 page printer, and the substituted “look-alike” [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 279 7. Work with Fonts Work with Fonts FNT001D Select one of the following options: 1. Description of additional fonts 2. Work with Soft Fonts for PCL 3. Auto download soft fonts 5. Create barcode soft font 7. Work with TrueType font for PDF Work with ZEBRA fonts. 11. Description of ZEBRA fonts 12. Work with ZEBRA[...]

280 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Create Font APF370D Font . . . . . . . . . . . 4400-9999 4400-4499 PDF417 barcode 4500-4599 EAN8/EAN13/UPC-A soft fonts 4600-4699 Code 39 soft fonts 4700-4799 Code 128 soft fonts 4800-4899 IDA bar codes 4900-4999 Interleaved 2 of 5 soft fonts 5000-9999 Other fonts F3=Exit F12=Cancel Additional fonts must have[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 281 Spacing : Indicates whether the font is mono spaced (fixed pitch) or proportional spaced. 0=monospaced 1=Propotional spaced Pitch : This field is only of importance if you have chosen fixed spacing. Then enter e.g. 10,00 for 10 CPI. If you have chosen proportional spacing, just enter a value within the valid i[...]

282 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 1p = Proportional (Spacing) ___v = Empty field for point size (Height) 1s = Italic (Style) 3b = Bold (Stroke Weight) 4148T = Univers (Typeface) “Blank” = Use the default We now only need to define the font ID which will be used to select the font when designing forms. By pressing F4 we will get a list of [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 283 2. Work with soft fonts for PCL This function gives you the possibility to work with soft fonts, create soft fonts from TTF files and to download soft fonts to printers. Work with PCL Soft Fonts FNT310D Position to . . . . . . __________ Font member name Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 4=Delete 5=Display 6[...]

284 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Create spool entry to download of soft font FNT700D Font member . . . . . . . . __________ Font-id . . . . . . . . . . (0001-9999) Description: __________ Place into Flash Memory . . _ 0 = No 1 = HP Flash memory option 2 = Lexmark Flash memory option 3 = File system for HP5, HP4000 .. F3=Exit F4 = Prompt Font[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 285 Install TrueType font to PCL from the folder APF3812 FNT431D Document name . . . . . . . ____________ F4=List F3=Exit F12=Cancel Now you can either specify the name of the uploaded TTF file or press F4 to get an overview of all files in the APF3812 folder, and then select the TTF file. Press Enter and this scr[...]

286 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® File transfer HP SFP Font files from a PC If you have HP PCL fonts in the DOS format *.SFP these can be file transferred to InterForm400 ® as they are. The file on the AS/400 to receive the PC-file is: APF3812/FONT The SFP file is stored as a file member in this file. The rules for the file transfer is the s[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 287 3. Auto download Soft Fonts This menu enables you to create groups of HP compatible printers which should have ordinary soft fonts and bar code soft fonts downloaded automatically when the soft fonts are addressed in an overlay. The printers are defined for auto download according to their AS/400 printer queue[...]

288 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with auto download soft fonts PGR300 Start with . . . . . . . . __________ Type option, press Enter 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 6=Update output queue 8=Update fonts Opt Printer group Description _ *PDF Output to PDF files _ HPIII HPIII printer group _ HPIISHIP HPII Shipping department _ HP4 HP4 group (no Fl[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 289 J TIP J Even though the same font member can not be used for both PCL and PDF output, you can associate one font number to a PCL font member and a PDF font member. Therefore if you install a TTF as a PCL font member and a PDF font member you can get the same output on both PDF and PCL using one font number. 5.[...]

290 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® MICR Soft Font (Font ID 3998) The MICR E-13B font is used for check printing in USA, and exist per definition only in one size. The font include the decimal digits 0-9 plus four special characters. The fours characters will be printed when the following characters is included in the text: A=Amount symbol D=Da[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 291 The selection of Symbol set should match the code page you are using. The section Getting Familiar with Soft-fonts and Barcodes includes download of the OCRB font.[...]

292 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Barcode Support When using a HP PCL compatible printer, the system can print bar codes. If you are using an IDA converter (interface IDA3X, IDA5219 or IDA812) it is possible to use the bar code facilities of the protocol converter (refer to the manual delivered with the protocol converter). In order not to lo[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 293 Inches and dots: 1 inch(240 pels) = 300 dots Centimeters and dots: 1 cm(95 pels) = 118 dots 5. Create bar code soft font Selecting option 5. Create bar code soft font will result in the following screen: Create barcode Soft font FNT000 Select one of the following options: 1. Code 39 2. Code 128 / EAN 128 3. In[...]

294 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 3. Interleaved 2 of 5 This bar-code consists of the digits 0-9 only. There can be blanks before or after the digits if the figure contains an odd number of digits, the system will add a preceding zero. The system also adds start and stop codes before and after the number. If you try to use Interleaved 2 of 5 [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 295 You use the PDF417 font number by remapping a window of text. When you specify a PDF417 font number you are prompted for a ‘Maximum line width’ and ‘Maximum line height’. You are expected to specify only one of them. Normally you would probably use a maximum line width and let the height vary with the [...]

296 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® J TIP J If you want easy to see the connection between the font number and the font file member name, you can insert ‘ BARCOD ’ followed by the font number for the FONT-file member name instead of *GEN . If you do not do this, then the only way to find out which soft font fits with what font number is thr[...]

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298 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Getting Familiar with Soft-fonts and Barcodes This example will bring us through all the menu items under 7. Work With Fonts . At the end of this section we will have made the following: 1. Installed the TrueType Font ARIAL from the PC environment and stored it as a resource (soft font member). 2. Created a C[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 299 You can either write the name of the TTF file to be installed or prompt with F4, to get a list of all files in the APF3812 folder. Select the TTF file here with option ‘ 1 '. Press Enter . 7. A description is retrieved from the TTF file and displayed as the font name. Following you are prompted for the [...]

300 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Step 2. Creating the Code128 Barcode 5. Select option ‘7. Work with fonts’ in the InterForm400 ® administration menu and then select ‘5. Create bar code soft font’. We select Code 128. Create CODE-128 soft font FNT402D Font number . . . . . . . . 4700 4700-4799 Font height dots . . . . . . 40 30-1200[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 301 Step 3. Create font ID for the Arial soft-font 8. Before we can use the arial font in an overlay we must describe the font to the system. We select option ‘7. Work with fonts’ in the InterForm400 ® administration menu and then option ‘1. Description of additional fonts’. We will define a font number f[...]

302 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with auto download soft fonts PGR300 Start with . . . . . . . . Type option, press Enter 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 6=Update output queue 8=Update fonts Opt Printer group Description _ *PCL Automatically created by auto download _ *PDF Output to PDF files F3=exit F5=Refresh F6=Add F12=Cancel In this case t[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 303 fonts’ for printer group *PCL and we press F6 to add a download font to our printer group. Add Auto download Soft Font PGR332D Printer group name . . . : *PCL Font number . . . . . . . 5001 F4=List Symbol set number . . . . 3 0=All symbol sets (barcodes only) 1=Roman-8 2=PC-8 DM 3=CodePage850 4=CodePage852 5[...]

304 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 14. The barcode (font number 4700) was added automatically earlier and we will get the following updated screen: Soft Fonts to be down loaded automatically PGR300 Printer group name . . . : *PCL Start with . . . . . . . . _____ Type option, Press Enter 2=Update 4=Delete Opt Font number Symbol set Font member [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 305 Step 5. Testing the Barcodes in an Overlay 15. We can now try to create an overlay with text constants using the fonts 0003, 5001 and 4700. The following example is testing the OCRB font (font 3) and the barcode (font 4700) only. The spool entry used for testing will be the demo spool entry delivered with Inte[...]

306 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® TESTFONT is already filled in because it was the last overlay active in the design menu. Now go to the lower part of the screen and fill in queue AFC_INPUT1 and library APF3812 . Here we will select the spool entry created by option 1. Create demo spool entry page 337. We press Enter to look at entries in que[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 307 DISPLAY OUTPUT FILE File . . . . . : QPRINT Page/Line 1/28 Function . . . . +1______ Columns 1 - 78 Search for . . . _____________________________________ *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+... Model P-Group Serial No. No. of dev. License Code ---------------------------[...]

308 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with Zebra fonts Fonts and soft fonts which are created/installed for PCL or PDF output cannot be used for Zebra output. You need to create/install special (soft) fonts for zebra. The options below are reached through 7. Work with fonts , which can be reached from the InterForm400 Administration Menu. No[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 309 Create ZEBRA font ZEB370D Font . . . . . . . . . . . ____ 2000-9999 2000-2999 CG Triumvirate Bold Condensed 3000-3999 Dot Matrix fonts 4400-4499 PDF417 barcode 4500-4599 EAN8 / EAN13 / UPC-A Barcode 4600-4699 Code 3 of 9 barcode 4700-4799 Code 128 barcode 4900-4999 Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode 5000-9999 Other fo[...]

310 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Dot matrix Change ZEBRA font ZEB370D Font . . . . . . . . . . : 3001 Dot matrix font Description . . . . . . . . Dot Matrix 11x7 H= 5 /W= 5 Font source . . . . . . . : 2 1 = 9x5 dot matrix 2 = 11x7 dot matrix 3 = 18x10 dot matrix 4 = 26x13 dot matrix 5 = 60x40 dot matrix 6 = OCRA dot matrix 7 = OCRB dot matri[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 311 Create ZEBRA font ZEB370D Font . . . . . . . . . . . 4344 Data Matrix Bar Code - ECC200 Description . . . . . . . . Datamatrix_demo_barcode________________ Symbol element size in dots ZEBRA203 . . . . . . . . 4__ (1-999) ZEBRA300 . . . . . . . . 6__ (1-999) Colums to encode . . . . __ (10-48) or Blank = Based [...]

312 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Using soft fonts for printing on Zebra When you create fonts in the range 5000-9999 this screen is shown: Create ZEBRA font ZEB370D Font . . . . . . . . . . . 5655 Other fonts Description . . . . . . . . Arial 12___________________________________ Height . . . . . . . . . . _12.00 1.00-792.00 Relative width .[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 313 12. Work with ZEBRA soft fonts When you select this option all installed soft fonts for Zebra printers are shown: Work with ZEBRA soft fonts FNT461D Position to . . . . . . __________ Member name Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 4=Delete 5=Display 6=Print Opt Member Symbolset Description _ FRUTBOCE Central [...]

314 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® When installing you are prompted for what symbol set to use. Use the symbol set, that you want to use this soft font for. If the font is a specially designed font including e.g. the company logo you should use 9 = Special . 13. Work with fonts in ZEBRA flash memory As opposed to PCL output the soft fonts used[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 315 This will create an entry in the list above, that InterForm400 will use for remembering NOT to download this soft font when used on this output queue. This will also create a spooled file on the specified queue (which should be the one, where the printer is attached). The spooled file name will be ‘ZEBRAFONT[...]

316 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Substitution for internal fonts when printing non-western code page Substitute for Substitute for Code page triumvirate dot matrix font Central European __________ __________ Baltic __________ __________ Turkish __________ __________ Cyrillic __________ __________ Greek __________ __________ Arabic __________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 317 Initiate ZEBRA flash memory and reload fonts and images ZRL300D Output queue . . . . . . . . . ZEBRA_____ Library . . . . . . . . . . QUSRSYS___ Flash drive . . . . . . . . . E (E, B) Form type . . . . . . . . . . *STD______ F3=Exit F12=Cancel State the output queue where the printer is attached, the flash mem[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 319 8. Work with images Images can be imported from the AS/400 folder system. The following image standards are supported for black and white images: • TIFF format Rev. 4.0 non-compressed or with data compression Scheme-2. • TIFF Huffman Compressed • TIFF format CCITT T.6 (fax group 4) • MOD:CA including b[...]

320 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Working with black and white images Selecting option 1. Work with black and white images the following screen will appear. Work with Images IMG360D Start with . . __________ Select option. Press Enter. 2=Change description 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=View 6=Print 8=Display attributes 9=Convert to PCL5 Opt Name Descript[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 321 Select the TIFF file you want to read into InterForm400 ® and specify the member into which you want to add the image, and which is referred to in an overlay definition. If you select an image with grey tones you will see a screen like this: Load Image from Folder APF3812 IMG375D Document name . . . . : 17117[...]

322 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Import color images To load a new BMP image from the AS/400 folder system press F6 . Type in an image name to be used in InterForm400 ® and a description of same. In the field From PC-file press F4 to retrieve a list of available BMP files. Select with option 1. Load BMP-file BMP200D Image name . . . . . . .[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 323 Work with Zebra images Images that you want to use for Zebra printers must be installed for Zebra (using option 11. Work with Zebra images ). You cannot use images installed for PCL or PDF output. G NOTE G Creation of ZPL output (for Zebra) requires the purchase of the ZPL module for InterForm400. 11. Work wit[...]

324 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 12. Work with images in ZEBRA flash memory Work with images in Zebra flash memory ZIM391D Position to . . . . . . __________ Outq __________ Library _______ Image member Type options, press Enter. 4=Delete Opt Outq Library Image member Orientation Flash drive _ ZEBRA QUSRSYS LOGO E E _ ZEBRA QUSRSYS LOGO N E [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 325 9. Work with PCL Files The InterForm400 ® system features a possibility to import PCL-files from a PC by the following methods: • From a PCL spooled file (*USERASCII) on an AS/400 output queue. • PCL print file placed in folder APF3812 using Client Access Shared Folder. The PCL-file can be created in any [...]

326 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Work with PCL-files PCL001D Select one of the following options: 1. Work with B/W PCL-files 2. Work with color PCL-files Option: _ F3=Exit F6=Display messages F12=Cancel The menus for black/white and color files appear identical, but InterForm400 ® needs to operate with the two file types separately. Selecti[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 327 Import PCL file Press F6 to load a PCL file into InterForm400 ® Load PCL-file PCL110D PCL-file . . . . . . . . . ________ Description . . . . . . . _______________________________________________ Load from . . . . . . . . _ 1=PC-file in folder APF3812 2=Output queue F3=Exit F12=Cancel Enter the member name in[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 329 10. Work with palette Change the definition of the colors. This option is designed for optimizing the color palette for your color printer. Work with palette PAL100D Position to . . . . . . Color nbr Type options, press Enter. 2=Change Opt Color nbr Description Red Green Blue _ 1 Black 0 0 0 _ 2 Grey 128 128 1[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 331 11. Work with paper control options 1. Paper t ype to PCL-drawer conversion Some few (old) printers does not support the possibility to select the drawer by paper type. For these few printers this function has been added, that enables the user to map all of the standard paper types to a PCL drawer number for e[...]

332 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 2. Output Sorter Bin Support This function is used in departmental printing environments with the following purposes: • Several users share the same printer, and want their print output in a specific output tray depending on the User name. • Printing of jobs where an output tray should be selected dependi[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 333 Create Output Sorter Definition Output queue . . . . . . . PRT02 Library . . . . . . . . QUSRSYS Sorter type . . . . . . . HP5SI Default output bin . . . . 1 F3=Exit F12=Cancel Output Queue: The output queue holding the HP5Si or Lexmark Optra printer. Sorter Type: Not yet inspected. Any value entered for Sorte[...]

334 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® You can add additional Sorter Detail lines for each User profile and/or each overlay which should result in addressing of a particular sorter bin: Create Output Sorter Details Output queue . . . . . . : PRT02 Library . . . . . . . : QUSRSYS Overlay name . . . . . . . __________ Primary/Secondary . . . . _ 1=P[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 335 Work with Output Sorter Details Output queue . . . . . . : PRT02 Library . . . . . . . : QUSRSYS Start with . . . . . . . Type option, Press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display Opt Overlay Pri/Sec User profile Binno. _ IF400DEMO 1 PETER 009 _ IF400DEMO 1 008 _ PETER 004 End F3=Exit F5=Refresh F6=Add F12=[...]

336 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 20. Import Certificates Refer to page 481 for details of how to import certificates to be used for digital signatures in PDF files.[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 337 Service Functions The service functions are accessed by selecting option 12 on the administration menu: Service Functions APF900D Select one of the following options: 1. Create Demo Spool Entry 5. Display all displayable characters 6. Save spooled file to the folder APF3812 7. Print Saved file to the folder AP[...]

338 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 5. Display All Displayable Characters This option is meant as a tool to solve problems with character set mappings. By making a print screen of this screen you can verify if the displayable characters will appear the same in print. Displayable characters First hex char -> 01456789ABCDEF First hex char ->[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 339 7. Print Saved Spooled File from the folder APF3812 This function provides a possibility to restore a spool file from a folder, which has originally been saved through menu 6. Save spooled File to the folder APF3812 . Reprint Spooled File from the APF3812 Folder Document name . . . . ____________ F3=Exit F4=Pr[...]

340 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Information inserted in autodownload will also be listed. Here you will be able to see what soft font is downloaded with what font number and in which printer group(s) this is defined. It will also list all user exit programs referenced, and list each place where they are referenced. 9. Work with Journaling T[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 341 21. Export of InterForm400 resources This option is to enable users in distributing InterForm400 ® resources i.e. by tape, SNDDST or E-mail. By using the Export function, resources are copied from InterForm400 ® to a so called Export library. The Export – and Import libraries can be considered as being tem[...]

342 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Note that when entering a specific overlay, only the definitions of the overlay are copied. Any images, PCL-files, fonts etc. which the overlay definitions is referring to, has to be copied separately (e.g. by use of option 3). M WARNING M If you use option ‘3. Copy the resources used in already copied over[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 343 You have the possibility of choosing conversion to a save-file only or both a save-file and a PC-file. The suffix you enter is a way for you to separate the distribution from other already created distributions. After you have entered the details for a particular distribution, a save file will be created in th[...]

344 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Receive Distribution into Import Library IMPORTD Select one of the following: 1. Receive distribution from tape 2. Receive distribution from network file 3. Receive distribution from PC-file in the APF3812 folder 4. Receive distribution from save file. Option ===> _ F3=Exit F6=Display messages F12=Cancel T[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 345 Confirm move of all resources to production library IMP820D Press F10 to move all resources to production. Press F3 or F12 to cancel. Resource Type Notice SAMPLE/IF400DEMO *OVERLAY Exists SAMPLE/RULER *OVERLAY Exists End F3=Exit F10=Move all resources to production F12=Cancel This screen will inform you if the[...]

346 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 40. Install/upgrade InterWord 400 This option can be used for installing or upgrading Inter Word400 TM . This is done by installing a PTF, which must be placed in the APF3812 folder. You are prompted for what PTF you want to install like option 50. Apply PTF from folder APF3812 . Enter the PTF number, that yo[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 347 60. Install Swiftview at drive C: W ith this option library APF3812 is created on a PC`s C-drive and the Sview.exe file is copied from AS/400 folder QDLS/APF3812 to the created C:APF3812. See further information about the PCL-viewer, SwiftView on page 430. 70. Install InterForm Designer on your PC This instal[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 349 Ho w to create PDF files InterForm400 ® is capable of creating PDF output. This can be done using the CL- command, APF3812/MRGSPLFPDF - Merge Spool File PDF. This command merges a spool file with an overlay or overlay selector like a normal PCL merge. Note: You can also create PDF files with the PDF File nami[...]

350 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Merge spooled file and overlay (MRGSPLFPDF) Type choices, press Enter. To e-mail address: TOADR ________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 351 Merge spooled file and overlay (MRGSPLFPDF) Type choices, press Enter. CC e-mail address: CC ________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _________________[...]

352 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Special parameters for this command include: COLORSUP Specify if the PDF output is to be B/ W or color. BMKDEF If wanted you can refer to a bookmark definition and get bookmarks in the created PDF file. See on page 238 how you create a bookmark definition. This value can also be determined by a used PDF file [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 353 G NOTE G Password protection and/or digital signature of the PDF file requires a purchase of the PDF security module for InterForm400. The subject and message is used for the e-mail. The End of line escape character parameter states which characters are to be interpreted as an end-of-line code in the message f[...]

354 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Refer to page 459 for information of how to enable SMTP on the AS/400.[...]

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356 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix A - Installation System Requirements Your AS/400 system must run at least OS/400 version 4 release 4 modification 0 or newer. Note, that from the next year version i.e. the 2006 versions only OS400 V5R1M0 or newer will be supported. Disk space required for InterForm400 is 500 Mb not including additio[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 357 License Information for InterForm 400 LIC320D InterForm 400 version . : 2006.M01 Model / Feature . . . . : 270 22A2 Serial number . . . . . : 65BD1BB Operating system . . . . : V5R2M000 Type choices and then press Enter. Press F3 or F12 to exit. InterForm 400 license code . ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ _[...]

358 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® System . . : INTER03 ****************************************************************************** * Security changes required * * * * Owner of all InterForm exit programs must be changed to QSECOFR * * * * Press F10 to change owner to QSECOFR. * * Press F3 or F12 to cancel. * * * ***************************[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 359 INS0104 InterForm 400 version 2006M01 INTER02 A previous version of InterForm 400 is currently installed. Current version . . . . . . : 2003M04 Library . . . . . . . . . . : APF3812 Press Enter to continue. Following you will be prompted for entry of the InterForm400 ® license code - unless your machine is a [...]

360 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® INS0121 InterForm 400 version 2006M01 INTER02 Select primary language, press Enter. Primary language . . . . . . . GB DE=Deutsch, DK=Dansk, ES=Españoles, FR=Français, GB=English, PT=Português Current value . . . . . . . : GB Primary language is used for: 1. The language of commands. 2. The language of disp[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 361 INS0123 InterForm 400 version 2006M01 INTER02 Select installation method, press Enter. Installation method . . . . . 2 1=Rename without warning 2=Rename with warning During install the library APF3812 will be reanmed APF3812OLD. For method 2 a display will be shown before the library is renamed and subsystem A[...]

362 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® You should keep the old InterForm400 ® library (APF3812OLD) on the system until you are sure that you have tested that everything operates to your satisfaction with the new version of InterForm400 ® . Upgrade remote sites You can upgrade InterForm400 ® on another AS/400 from your local machine as follows: [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 363 Performance Printing InterForm400 ® generates very compact PCL code. You will notice that using large images can increase the time to download the merged spool files to printers. If printing multiple pages the system makes extensive use of PCL macros, which are stored in the printer and called for all pages i[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 365 Appendix B - Attaching Printers to the iSeries This chapter provides information on how to configure the physical attachment of HP compatible Laser printers to your AS/400 network. Note: Below it is proposed to change the system value, QAUTOCFG. This change may cause problems in certain rare setups. Remember a[...]

366 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® 2. An available Twinax device address (0-6) should be provided by the system administrator. Follow the instructions of your protocol converter in order to alter this switch setting. 3. Attach the protocol converter to the Twinax network and power it on. After a while a printer device and an output queue is cr[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 367 STRPRTWTR DEV(PRTXXX) 8. Note that if Auto Configuration is enabled on the AS/400 the protocol converter might change the device description back to 5219 the next time it is powered ON. Disable auto configuration to prevent this problem: CHGSYSVAL SYSVAL(QAUTOCFG) VALUE(‘0') Changing Device Description [...]

368 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Attaching through a TCP/IP Raw Socket (Port 9100/3700) Some LAN Print Servers from e.g. HP, Lexmark, Kyocera and IBM offer the possibility of attaching through a raw TCP/IP socket, which enables the host to communicate bidirectionally with the printer using HP PJL. Support for this print method was introduced[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 369 In most cases the terminal will emulate either a 5219 or 3812 SCS printer. Some may only provide a 4214 emulation which will require Host print transform to be enabled on the system in order for ASCII transparency to be transmitted. In case the printer session of your terminal configures as eg. a 4214 you shou[...]

370 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® name in the Workstation ID field. This definition is the same as for a 5250 SNA printer emulation sessions and is saved in the [5250] section of the user's workstation profile, as are SNA connections. Under Type of emulation, click the Printer option and then click the Setup button. 3. At the PC5250 Prin[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 371 transfer, and others will automatically default to binary transfer if a random name is entered. Consult the manual for your Printer Server, or try with eg. PR1). Examples: Use ‘ raw1 ' for the HP JetDirect, and ‘ lp ’ for ZebraNet PrintServer. See a list of some of the possible queue names at this s[...]

372 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Testing the Connection In order to test if the connection is working you can print the InterForm400 ® font list. If this list prints properly, the connection is working. Compare the list with the list in the back of this manual. Note that the font list should be printed directly to the output queue where the[...]

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374 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix C - Printer Types The InterForm400 ® system can be used in connection to the following printer types: • IBM4019, IBM4029, IBM4039 • IBM4216 model 010 (prim. data stream) • HP LaserJet II, IID, IIP • HP LaserJet III, IIID, IIIP, IIISi • HP LaserJet 4, 4+, 4Si, 4V, 5, 5Si, 4000, 8000 • HP [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 375 You will have no possibility of printing text with different rotation on the same page either. Text constants with a different rotation than the rotation defined for the contents of the overlay will be ignored. On the same printer types printing white text on black background (reverse printing line type 7=ink [...]

376 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Cassette Mapping (Drawers) Selecting the drawer on an overlay can be done either by specifying a drawer number (*INPUT, *PRINTER, 1-255) or a paper type . Whenever possible it is recommended to select the drawer by use of the paper type as described below. Selecting drawer by drawer number When selecting a dr[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 377 PREPRINTD LTRHEAD TRNSPRNCY PREPUNCHD LABELS BOND RECYCLED COLOR CARDSTOCK Note, that these names may be translated into your native language on your printers, but InterForm400 ® will still select the same correct paper type. Refer to page 38 for a description of how to put this into production. Refer to page[...]

378 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix D - Interfaces (Protocol Converters) Note, that it is recommended always to use ASCII850 as the interface in InterForm400 ® as this will work in the majority of setups/printers. • ClientAccess (PC-support) • Parallel output from 3197 display station • Parallel output from 3477 display station [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 379 WORKSTN : Used for the Client Access (PC-support) printer session. (Note that the Rumba printer session can not be used with the InterForm400 ® system). This selection will imply the Printer Conversion table to work with the HP ASCII symbol set PC-8. When using IBM Client Access a print function table that ma[...]

380 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix E - Codepage Support InterForm400 ® makes a complete protocol conversion of EBCDIC/SCS data to ASCII/PCL data. This requires the National Code Page ID of the system to be known as well as the available ASCII codepage in the PCL Printer. InterForm400 ® determines the System Code page from the system[...]

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382 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix F - Font-ID Information This appendix lists the standard fonts shipped with InterForm400 for both PCL/PDF and Zebra printers. Also a list showing typefaces of the most used resident fonts of PCL printers is included. IBM 3812 font-ID Information The system uses the IBM font ID’s to select fonts. Th[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 383 IBM Compatible Font List Font Name CPI Font-ID OCRB 10 3 Orator 10 5 Courier10 10 11 Prestige Pica 10 12 Artisan 10 10 11 Courier Italic 10 10 18 Pica 10 12 Orator Bold 10 38 Gothic Bold 10 10 39 Gothic Text 10 10 40 Roman Text 10 10 41 Serif Text 10 10 42 Serif Italic 10 10 43 Courier Bold 10 10 46 Gothic Tex[...]

384 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Essay Italic PS 162 Essay Bold PS 163 Essay Light PS 173 Document PS 175 Gothic Text 13 13 204 Prestige 15 15 230 Courier 15 15 230 Serif Text 15 15 229 Gothic Text 15 15 230 Courier 5 5 244 Courier Bold 5 5 245 Courier 17 17 252 Courier Bold 17 17 253 Courier 17 (sub/super) 17 254 Gothic Text 20 20 281 Gothi[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 385 Shipped Zebra Fonts These fonts are known by the Zebra printers and the font definitions are shipped with InterForm400 ® : Font number Description 6 Triumvirate 6 pt 7 Triumvirate 7 pt 8 Triumvirate 8 pt 9 Triumvirate 9 pt 10 Triumvirate 10 pt 11 Triumvirate 11 pt 12 Triumvirate 12 pt 13 Triumvirate 13 pt 14 [...]

386 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Typefaces known by PCL-Printers PCL printers normally have several resident fonts. Below a few possible resident fonts and the most likely typeface number are listed. Font Description Typeface number Albertus 4362 Antique Olive 4168 Arial 16602 CG Omega 4113 CG Times 4101 Clarendon Cond 4140 Coronet 4116 Cour[...]

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388 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix G - Limitations of the Light Version The following are rules given for the Light version: 1. Spool entries for manual merge can only be selected from the queues named AFC_INPUT1 and AFC_INPUT2 . 2. The program will support only two sets of AFC print queues. These queues are named AFC_INPUT1 , AFC_OUT[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 389 13. No PDF and e-mail support. Conditions for new features will be added as they are being implemented.[...]

390 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix H - Commands in Spooled Files The system contains a command interpreter. This means you have a possibility of inserting command lines as a part of the print out. When InterForm400 ® identifies a command line, the system will execute the command instead of just printing it. A command line is a line, [...]

Command Position Contents Description User’s Manual for InterForm400® 391 VAN 1 - 2 3 - 5 6 - 6 7 - 11 12 - 12 13 - 17 18 - 18 19 - 23 25 - 27 28 - 28 29 - 33 34 - 34 35 - 39 41 - 43 < &&’ < VAN’ sign (+/-) distance to paper top edge distance to top edge INPEL sign (+/-) left end point distance left end point to left paper edge[...]

392 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Command Position Contents Description TXT 1 - 2 3 - 5 6 - 6 7 - 11 12 - 12 13 - 17 19 - 21 23 - 26 28 -198 < &&’ < TXT’ sign (+/-) distance top edge distance to paper top edge INPEL sign (+/-) distance left edge distance to left paper edge INPEL rotation font text for print Prints a text lin[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 393 Command Position Contents Description OVL 1 - 2 3 - 5 7 - 16 17 18 - 22 23 24 - 28 < &&’ < OVL’ overlay name sign (+/-) distance top edge distance to paper top edge INPEL sign (+/-) distance left edge distance to left paper edge INPEL Prints an overlay containing the definitions listed in an [...]

394 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Command Position Contents Description PCL 1 - 2 3 - 5 7 - 16 17 18 - 22 23 24 - 28 36 - 45 47 - 56 < &&’ < PCL’ PCL-file name sign (+/-) distance to top edge distance to paper top edge INPEL sign (+/-) distance to left edge distance to left paper edge INPEL file name library (36-56 is only u[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 395 Command Position Contents Description BLA 1 - 2 3 - 5 6 - 6 7 - 11 12 - 12 13 - 17 19 - 21 23 - 26 28-32 34-36 38-40 42-44 45-48 50-52 53-56 58-60 61-64 66-68 69-72 74-76 77-80 82-84 85-88 90-92 93-96 98-100 101-104 106-108 109-112 114-116 117-120 122-124 125-128 < &&’ < BLA’ sign (+/-) dista[...]

396 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Command Position Contents Description BMK 1-2 3-5 7 9 11-13 15 17 18-22 24-103 '&&' 'BMK' Bookmark level code 0-6 Code telling if bookmark on higher level should be open to start with: 0=Closed, 1=Open Colour number. Non numeric will be interpreted as black. Code for focus. 0= Show[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 397 Example of using Escape Commands in the Data Stream Using the Edit Print Command APF3812/APFEDTPRT in InterForm400 ® below example has been created, based on the Demo Spool Entry in InterForm400 ® . In the example below we have made use of the escape commands for Font, Frames, images, and Block formatting. F[...]

398 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Escape sequences in the spool file to take effect. Create a similar overlay as defined below, and call this overlay in a AFC definition. Design InterForm 400 overlay APF300D Overlay name NOOVERLAY Overlay text Escape sequences in datastream Line spacing 040 in 1/240 of an inch (*INPUT, 1-720) Rotation *INPUT [...]

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400 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix I - InterForm400 ® CL Commands NetServer Commands The Add Netserver File Share Command The APF3812/ADDFILSHR command can be used for sharing objects on the AS/400. It can e.g. be used for sharing the QDLS as below: Add NetServer File Share (ADDFILSHR) Type choices, press Enter. Share name . . . . . [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 401 Display NetServer Attributes Server name . . . . . . : QS4449079 Domain name . . . . . . : WORKGROUP Text . . . . . . . . . . : Os/400 The End Netserver Command The APF3812/ENDNETSVR command ends the netserver on the AS/400. The Remove NetServer share Command The APF3812/RMVNETSHR command can be used to remove[...]

402 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The Import Chart Command The APF3812/IMPCHT command is used for importing charts from the APFIMPORT library. Previously the chart have to be exported using the APF3812/EXPCHT command. When importing it can be specified, wether or not an existing chart can be overwritten. Important notes are stated below the d[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 403 Save Library into Folder (SAVLIB2FLR) Type choices, press Enter. Library . . . . . . . . . . . . LIB ______ Name To folder . . . . . . . . . . . TOFLR ______________________ _______________________________________________________________ To document . . . . . . . . . . TODOC ______ Character value Replace docu[...]

404 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® APFLNK command which contains the following parameters: Link spooled file to joint rep (APFLNK) Type choices, press Enter. InterForm 400 file set . . . . . KARTSET ______ Character value Report name . . . . . . . . . . RAPNVN ______ Character value Link name . . . . . . . . . . . LNKNVN ______ Character value[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 405 The Start Auto Forms Control Job Command The APF3812/STRAFCJOB command can be used for starting one specific Auto Forms Control job. Using this command it is e.g. possible to schedule a CL-program calling this command in order to start merging and printing at a giving time. Remember, in order for the job to be[...]

406 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Merge spooled file and overlay (APF3812) Type choices, press Enter. InterForm 400 file set . . . . . KARTSET __________ Character value Overlay name . . . . . . . . . . KLICHE __________ Character value or Overlay Selector name . . . . SELNAM ________ Character value Primary/Secondary set . . . . . VRSION ___[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 407 program must be specified for the PAGBLDPGM parameter on the CRTPBSPLF command. Description of the Create PageBuilder Spooled File command, CRTPBSPLF Create PageBuild Spooled File (CRTPBSPLF) Type choices, press Enter. PageBuilder program . . . . . . PAGBLDPGM __________ Name Library . . . . . . . . . . . ____[...]

408 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Find 'string': Type in e.g. *PAGE to transfer the contents of whole spooled file page to the page builder program without the use of DATA01- DATA10. Use of *ANY tells that you do not want to search after any specific text. Other values are interpreted as a string to search for in each spooled file p[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 409 12)) FILE(QSYSPRT) JOB(*) SPLNBR(*LAST) APPIDPARM(‘MY ID’) OUTQ(DIAG) This will process the last QSYSPRT spooled file for the current job, calling the program BPSAMP in library LIB1 for every page in this spooled file. Keyword DTAPARM describes where to find the values for parameters DATA01-DATA10 (see Pag[...]

410 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Convert PCL Spooled File (CVTPCLSPLF) Type choices, press Enter. Spooled file . . . . . . . . . . FILE __________ Name Job name . . . . . . . . . . . . JOB *_________ Name, * User . . . . . . . . . . . . . __________ Name Number . . . . . . . . . . . . ______ 000000-999999 Spooled file number . . . . . . SPLN[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 411 select *CONTINUOUS if the media is not separated into labels (in this case you would probably select *CUTTER for the print mode parameter). Media type (MEDIATYPE): Select *TRANSFER if you use a non heat sensitive media otherwise use *THERMAL . G NOTE G Creation of ZPL output from InterForm400 requires the purc[...]

412 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The purpose of this feature is, that InterForm400 ® can look for a special string in a spool file and change the form type of the spool file depending on wether the string was found or not. This can be done without any programming. To maintain SFI definitions use the APF3812/WRKSFID command. (See Sample SFI [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 413 ZIP stream file(s) (ZIP) Type choices, press Enter. Archive path . . . . . . . . . . ARCHIVE _______________________________ __________________ Create / Add to archive . . . . CREATE *CREATE *CREATE, *ADD Current directory . . . . . . . CURDIR _______________________________ _________________ From stream file [...]

414 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Copy and edit print (APFEDTPRT) Type choices, press Enter. Input spool file . . . . . . . . FILNVN *SELECT Name, *SELECT Input output queue . . . . . . . FROMOUTQ _______ Name Library . . . . . . . . . . . _______ Name, *LIBL Output queue for edited print . TOOUTQ _______ Name Library . . . . . . . . . . . __[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 415 Output Queue APFOUTQD Queue: AFC_INPUT2 Library: APF381_A04 Status: RLS Type options, press Enter. ----------------------------------------------------------- ase 7=Messages | Send spooled file | | | | Select one of the following options: | s Form Type Pty | | DEMO 5 | 1. Send Network Spooled File | 1001 5 | 2[...]

416 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Encrypt InterForm400 PDF File W ith this command (APF3812/ENCIFPDF) you can take an existing InterForm400 PDF file and copy it to another encrypted PDF file. You can add an owner password, which will enable any function and a user password, that will open the PDF file with the restrictions stated under '[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 417 into the HPMACRO command. Download overlay as a HP-macro (HPMACRO) Type choices, press Enter. InterForm 400 file set . . . . . KARTSET ______ Character value Overlay name . . . . . . . . . . KLICHE ______ Character value Printer type . . . . . . . . . . PRTTYP ______ IBM4019, IBM4029, IBM4039... Interface . . [...]

418 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® When you wish to download the macro you only have to release the spool entry. The Import InterForm400 Resources Command W ith this command you can import InterForm400 resources directly into production (into the APF3812 library) without a lot of menu selections: Import InterForm resources (IMPAPFRSC) Type cho[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 419 have to be placed as members in the APF3812/PCL file (for Black and white) or the APF3812/PCLCOL file (for colour files). PCL files not placed in PCL and PCLCOL can only be used by inserting &&-commands in the spool file. TIF files can be inserted with a simular command, as seen at page 422. The Print [...]

420 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Print TIFF file (PRTTIFF) Type choices, press Enter. From IFS path name . . . PATH _________________________________________ ___________________ Output queue . . . . . . OUTQ *JOB______ Name, *JOB Library . . . . . . . __________ Name, *LIBL Form type . . . . . . . FORMTYPE *STD______ Character value, *STD Pa[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 421 Work with Job WRKPRFJO Position to . . . . . . __________ Job name Type options, press Enter. 5=Work with Opt Job name User Job number _ QGYSERVER QUSER 029983 _ QNPSERVS QUSER 029837 _ QNPSERVS QUSER 029972 _ QPADEV000B KSE 029982 _ QRWTSRVR QUSER 029849 _ QZHQSSRV QUSER 029843 _ QZRCSRVS QUSER 029956 End F3=[...]

422 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The TIF-file from folder to member Command The APF3812/TIFTOMBR command can be used for inserting one or several TIF files (from a folder) as members in a physical file. The TIF files can be specified as generic or *ALL. TIF-file from folder to member (TIFTOMBR) Type choices, press Enter. From folder . . . . [...]

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424 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 a[...]

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426 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix K - Forms Server for non- AS/400 environments InterForm400 ® can act as a Forms Server for other environments, such as W indowsNT, UNIX, Novell etc. For instance it is possible with Client Access to create a printer in W indows, which directs print jobs either as PCL (datatype *ASCII) or print jobs [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 427 DISPLAY SPOOL FILE File . . . . . : QPRINT Page/Line 1/800 Function . . . . Columns 1 - 78 Search for . . . *...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+... Florence Flowers Tulip Road 16 4000 Marigold DK-Denmark --------------------- Att: Susan Sunflower Forrest Friends Inc. Oak [...]

428 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® will pick it from the same file set. Note that the string “##overlayname” must be written in the document with a font that is resident in the printer (e.g. Courier). In order to avoid the overlay to be added to certain pages in the overlay, you must create an empty overlay (eg. with the name “blank”),[...]

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430 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix L - PDF and PCL Viewing The PCL Viewer SwiftView included with InterForm400 ® will view PCL spool files with data type *ASCII containing PCL4, PCL5 and PCL5e data. This is a true WYSIWYG feature, which is unique for verifying results of forms design, and to view the contents of spool files in the AS[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 431 commands. 2. The user must have full authorisation over the folder systemQDLSAPF3812VIEW . You can grant these rights with the command: CHGDLOAUT DLO(VIEW) FLR(APF3812) USRAUT((*PUBLIC *CHANGE)) 3. The user must be added to the system directory. You can add a user to the system directory with the followin[...]

432 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® - to display the NetServer Name and Domain of the AS/400. The Netserver name is the name, that you should use for your AS/400 when configuring Client Access Express. M WARNING M The NetServer Name should not be the same as the AS/400 System name. The system name can be displayed with the command, DSPNETA. If [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 433 NetServer share commands: ADDFILSHR Add NetServer File Share ADDPRTSHR Add NetServer Printer Share RMVNETSHR Remove NetServer Share Troubleshooting problems using SwiftView: If you receive an error when starting up SwiftView (using e.g. F14), you might get some help here. When using the full Client Access the [...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 435 Appendix M - InterForm400 charts InterForm400 supports the following two types of charts: - Bar charts and - Line charts Samples are seen below: A Chart height B Chart width C Chart margin, left D Chart margin, right E Chart margin, top F Chart margin, bottom G Legend margin H Legend width I Legend spacing J D[...]

436 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The Work with Charts command, WRKCHT When using the Work with Charts command, APF3812/WRKCHT , the following display is shown: Work with Chart definitions CHA100D Position to . . . . . . _____________ Chart Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display 6=Print chart Opt Chart Description _ DEM[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 437 Press F6 to create a new chart: Create Chart definition CHA110D Chart . . . . . . . . . . __________ Type . . . . . . . . . . . __________ *BAR, *LINE Description . . . . . . . ___________________________________ F3=Exit F12=Cancel Chart: The name of the chart, which is been created. Type: Write *BAR for a Bar[...]

438 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Define general layout When selecting ’ Define general layout ’ the display below is shown. Here it is possible to set up parameters, that describe the general layout of the chart. Define general layout CHA300D Chart . . . . . . . . . : MYBAR Type . . . . . . . . . . : *BAR Type choices, press Enter. Chart[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400®S 439 Define layout of the X-axis When defining the layout of the X-axis, it is possible to define the layout of the axis it self, but also direction and displacement of the text belonging to the X-axis groups, if used. Define layout of the X-axis CHA300D Chart . . . . . . . . . : SAMPLELINE Type . . . . . . . . . [...]

440 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Define X-axis points and X-axis groups When selecting Define X-axis points you get the screen below, which overviews the existing X-axis groups: Work with X-axis groups CHX100D Chart . . . . . . . . . : MYBAR Type . . . . . . . . . . : *BAR Position to . . . . . Seq number Type options, press Enter. 2=Change [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 441 Work with X-axis points You can assign X-axis points to an existing X-axis group, by using option 12=Work with X-axis points in front of the group as described above. In the example above, where we have created a group called Month, we might add 12 X- axis points for that group, marking the 12 months of the ye[...]

442 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Define layout of the Y1 (and Y2)-axis InterForm400 ® offers the possibility to define two Y-axis’. This can be used for printing graphs on the same chart with two different units of measure. Choose this option from the chart definition display, and the following is displayed: Define layout of the Y1-axis C[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 443 Define observation set When selecting Define observations from the Create chart definition menu, the following will be displayed: Work with Observation sets CHS100D Chart . . . . . . . . . : MYBAR Type . . . . . . . . . . : *BAR Type options, press Enter. 2=Change 3=Copy 4=Delete 5=Display 7=Assign new seq nbr[...]

444 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Change Observation set CHS110D Chart . . . . . . . . . : SAMPLELINE Type . . . . . . . . . . : *LINE Seq number . . . . . . . : ___ Observation set . . . . . ___ Text . . . . . . . . . . . _______________________________________ Text font . . . . . . . . ____ Text font color . . . . . ___ Use Y1/Y2-axis . . .[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 445 Marker Description Blank No point C Point 0 % filled C1 Point 2 % filled C2 Point 10 % filled C3 Point 20 % filled C4 Point 35 % filled C5 Point 55 % filled C6 Point 80 % filled C7 Point 99 % filled C8 Point 100 % filled When you press Enter , you will return to Work with Observation sets . Now it is possible [...]

446 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The &&CHA Chart commands General format of the &&CHA commands From To Description 1 5 &&CHA 6 7 Format version 9 18 Chart name 20 23 Function ID 25 Dep. Function data General description of the &&CHA commands Chart naming: To create an internally defined chart the first command[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 447 &&CHA01 *INT1 XPLO ... (Define X-axis point - 2. point) &&CHA01 *INT1 OSLO ... (Define observation set layout) &&CHA01 *INT1 OSDA ... (Add data) &&CHA01 *INT1 PRCH ... (Print chart) Create/delete internal chart commands Create internal chart (CRIC 01): From To Description 1 5 ?[...]

448 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Load commands Load external chart (LOEC 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘LOEC’ 25 34 Load sample data for observation set ID / *NONE / *ALL Description : Loads (or reloads) a chart definition.[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 449 General layout commands Define general layout (GNLO 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘GNLO’ 25 74 Chart header / *BLANK 76 79 Chart header font 81 83 Chart header font color 85 89 Chart height INPEL 91 95 Chart width INPEL 97 101 Chart margin, left INPE[...]

450 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® X-axis commands Define X-axis layout (XALO 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘XALO’ 25 26 X-axis line width in points 28 30 X-axis line color 32 32 X-axis text direction 34 38 Displacement, group texts 40 42 Bar width in % *1 Note: *1 For *BAR charts on[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 451 Y1-/Y2-axis commands Define Y1-axis/Y2-axis layout (Y1LO 01/Y2LO 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘Y1LO’/’Y2LO’ 25 74 Text 1 / *BLANK 76 125 Text 2 / *BLANK Description: Describes layout of the Y1- or Y2-axis.[...]

452 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Y1-/Y2-axis commands continued Define Y1-axis/Y2-axis layout (Y1LO 02/Y2LO 02): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘02' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘Y1LO’/’Y2LO’ 25 28 Text font 30 32 Text font color 34 34 Text direction 36 37 Line width in points 39 41 Line color 43 50 Minimum (Integer [...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 453 X-axis group commands Add/change X-axis group layout (XGLO 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘XGLO’ 25 27 X-axis group ID 29 31 Copy definition from X-axis group ID 33 82 Text / *BLANK 84 87 Text font 89 91 Text font color Description: Adds or changes th[...]

454 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® X-axis point commands Add/change X-axis point layout (XPLO 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘XPLO’ 25 27 X-axis group ID *1 29 31 X-axis point ID 33 35 Copy definition from X-axis point ID 37 86 Text / *BLANK 88 91 Text font 93 95 Text font color 97 99[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 455 Observation set commands Add/change observation set layout (OSLO 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘OSLO’ 25 27 Observation set ID 29 31 Copy definition from observation set ID 33 82 Text / *BLANK 84 87 Text font 89 91 Text font color 93 93 Use Y1/Y2-axi[...]

456 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Observation set commands continued Clear observation set data (CLOS 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘CLOS’ 25 34 Observation set ID / *ALL Description: Clears a single or all observation sets.[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 457 Data commands Add/change data by ID (OSDA 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘OSDA’ 25 27 Observation set ID 29 31 Observation ID 1 33 40 Value 1 (Integer part) 42 46 Value 1 (Decimals) 47 47 Sign Value 1 ( - indicates negative value) 49 51 Observation ID[...]

458 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Print chart commands Print sample chart (PRSM 01): From To Description 1 5 ‘&&CHA’ 6 7 ‘01' 9 18 Chart name 20 23 ‘PRSM’ 25 25 Sign (+/-) distance top edge 26 30 Distance to paper top edge INPEL 32 32 Sign (+/-) distance left edge 33 37 Distance to paper left edge INPEL 39 41 Rotation D[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 459 Appendix N - Sending E-mails from the AS/400 G NOTE G In order to get PDF output you need to purchase the PDF module for InterForm400. InterForm400 ® can be used for sending email using the OS/400 SMTP feature. To email spooled files as attached PDF-files do one of the following: 1) Sending a complete, merged[...]

460 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® should use: 1) CFGTCP - Option 10. Work with TCP/IP host table entries - Insert IP-address and Hostname of the mail server - if used. 2) CHGTCPDMN - Insert the IP-adresses of Domain Name Servers at INTNETADR 3) Add possible unknown routes to the mail server CFGTCP - Option 2. Work with TCP/IP routes 4) CHGSMT[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 461 Appendix O - Graphical Designer: Install and use From InterForm400 ® an unlimited number of graphical designers can be installed. Below is a description of the requirements and how to install and use the designer. Requirements for the Graphical Designer Requirements for the iSeries (AS/400): • The iSeries m[...]

462 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® *DTAQ 8472 *FILE 8473 *NETPRT 8474 *RMTCMD 8475 *SIGNON 8476 *SVRMAP 449 TCP-server Port number *DDM 446 Apart from that this port number must be open in order for to be able to activate Swiftview: Service Port number Microsoft-DS 445 Limitations of the Graphical Designer • Barcodes are not displayed correc[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 463 You install the graphical designer from InterForm400 ® by entering InterForm400 with the command APF3812/APFMENU and selecting ‘80. Administering InterForm 400', ‘12. Service functions’ and ‘70. Install InterForm Designer on your PC’. If this installation fails you can also find the installatio[...]

464 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The job number in the heading refers to the job number of the corresponding job with the name QZRCSRVS in subsystem QUSR WRK on the iSeries. Use the command ‘APF3812/WRKPRFJOB ’ to display all jobs used by a specific user profile -including server jobs. Refer to page 420 for more information of this comma[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 465 Settings and tools for the design Before you start the actual design you want to setup the graphical designer. Changing the displayed size You can zoom in or out by selecting ‘Display’ and ‘Zoom In’, ‘Zoom Out’ or ‘Size’ or by use of the icons looking like magnifying glasses. You can also click[...]

466 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Activate ‘Conditional repositioning’ to reposition the grid when designing conditioned suboverlays. Press this icon to (temporarily) disable the grid and place elements freely without the corsor is snapping to the grid. Designing for colour or B/W (For laser/pdf overlays only) You can shift between lookin[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 467 The tool bar changes its function: • If you activate copy management you can use this to see each of the resulting copies. P1 denotes e.g. the first primary copy/version of the output. • If you use an If..Then line and you transfer 1 or more lines onto the conditioned overlay, then you can press the '[...]

468 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Duplex Activate duplex if needed. (Not available for ZPL output). Zebra Sets specific Zebra (ZPL) parameters: Printing speed and relative temperature. Copy Management Here you can activate or change the attributes of Copy Management. Refer to page 46 for more information. Page definitions refers to Extended P[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 469 The spool view When you design, you can view the original spooled file and the resulting spooled file on the right. Select the ‘Spool ’ view to see the original spooled file. Text, that has already been remapped or tabulated will be shown in grey: If the mouse pointer is placed in the spool view the curren[...]

470 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® The Result view The result view looks like this: You can mark an element and drag it to the position you want. The current position of the mouse pointer is shown in the bottom in inches and pels.[...]

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472 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Inserting design elements To start editing or adding design elements for an overlay you need to open the ‘Elements’ folder of the overlay: Press this icon to move the marked element upwards in the list. In the screen above it would move ‘Pattern (Black) above the Text command. Press this icon to move th[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 473 Line. Inserts a line. (Same as type 4=Line - refer to page 56 ) Inserts a frame. Refer to page 54 . Tabulator. Mark first the area of text on the input view, that you want to tabulate and then mark the place where it should be printed. Refer to page 61 for more information. Remap window. Mark the window of tex[...]

474 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Inserts a HP-GL/2 file in the design. HP-GL/2 files are not displayed in the graphical designer. Refer to page 71 for more information. Inserts a comment. Comments are shown in blue in the graphical designer. Refer to page 72 for more information. When you have finished the design you need to upload/save onto[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 475 Grouping and ungrouping elements You can group several elements in order to reposition them all in one process. Note, that you can only create one, current group. You can group elements together in the following manners: • By holding down the <Ctrl> key and marking each element in the element listing t[...]

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User’s Manual for InterForm400® 477 Appendix P - Import/Export extension This Appendix describes the following extensions to InterForm 400 import/export functions: • The multiple export libraries feature. • Description of the Import InterForm400 Resources (IMPAPFRSC) command. Multiple Export Libraries (MEL) feature Description By default Int[...]

478 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Transfer to production . . . . . TFRPROD *YES___ *YES, *NO, *PROMPT Display errors . . . . . . . . . DSPERR *YES *YES, *NO Restrictions: This command can only run from an interactive job. Parameters: SAVF This is required. Specifies the qualified name of the save file to be used to restore the resources.The n[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 479 Escape messages: CPF9801 Object &2 in library &1 not found. CPF9810 Library &1 not found. APF9801 Error code &1 loading InterForm400 resources. Possible error codes for message APF9801: Error code Description IMP0001 The InterForm APFIMPORT library can not be used. IMP0002 The InterForm import [...]

480 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Appendix Q: The PDF Security module The PDF Security module of InterForm400 is installed with InterForm400 and can be enabled if you insert the correct license code. It opens up for the possibility to: • Encrypt PDF files created by InterForm400 • Encrypt already existing PDF files (created by InterForm40[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 481 M WARNING M When you recover a system that includes Cryptographic Access Provider (5769AC1), (5769AC2), or (5769AC3); the Cryptograhic Access Provider product fails when you use it. You must reinstall Cryptographic Access Provider after completing the recovery process in order to use it. G NOTE G If you try to[...]

482 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® certificate has been installed on your PC you can export it so it can be installed on other machines. Make sure, that you export the certificate as a PKCS#12 with x.509 certificate. Select this option and you will see a list of the installed certificates: Work with Certificates CER200D Position to . . . . . .[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 483 Description A description of what/who this certificate is for. Path The path to the certificate file (in the IFS - not in QDLS) that you are importing. The path must end with '/' as this is concatenated with the file name. File name The name of the file in the IFS containing the certificate. Cert. al[...]

484 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® MAXACT for the *BASE pool You could increase this value to reduce tread transitions into the ineligible state. OS/400 S ystem values These are the system values you could consider to change to get better JAVA performance on your iSeries: QACTJOB (Initial number of active jobs) Increase this (from default of 2[...]

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486 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Index *=Comment ........................... 72 && Commands ....................... 390 &&CHA commands .................... 446 &&CPY ............................. 396 About this manual ...................... 14 Access to the file is not permitted ......... 433 Add file share ..........[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 487 APF3812/PCLTOMBR .............. 418 APF3812/PRTTIFF ................ 419 APF3812/PRTXREF ............... 420 APF3812/RSTLIBFLR .............. 402 APF3812/SAVLIB2FLR ............. 402 APF3812/SNDMAIL ................ 420 APF3812/STRAFCJOB ............. 405 APF3812/STROSCJOB ............. 405 APF3812/TIFTOMBR ..[...]

488 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® OCRB soft font ................... 290 Soft font, example ................. 298 Soft fonts ........................ 293 Form type table ....................... 170 Overlay selection entry field .......... 170 Forms server for non-AS/400 environments . 426 Frame ............................... 54 Function Keys[...]

User’s Manual for InterForm400® 489 OneWorld spool file (Convert) ............ 409 Operators ........................ 124, 174 Orientation of design elements ............ 48 OSC(Output Schedule Control) ........... 246 Other Environments Mail merge ....................... 426 Merging with *ASCII ................ 427 Output Bin support ..........[...]

490 User’s Manual for InterForm400 ® Start OSC Job (CL command) ........... 405 Storing macros permanent .............. 416 STRAFCJOB (CL command) ............ 405 STRNETSVR ........................ 401 STROSCJOB (CL command) ............ 405 STRWTRCHK ......................... 27 Sub-overlays ....................... 67, 107 Suboverlay Condition[...]