(Box) Shading in AFP

[Simon Husin]

We are currently looking for ways to shade (in several levels of "greyness")
either a print area and/or a box on an AFP-based environment (layout
description, RPG, CL, or REXX).

We would very much appreciate your sharing this information by posting the
information here or by dropping me an e-mail at hu...@attglobal.net or
Simon...@aon.com

Hints and tips will also help.

TIA,
Simon
1-425-453-5556 ext. 2476

[Charles Wilt]

I use shading in my AFP invoices, every other line is shaded. However,
the shading is part of the overlay I created.

Note that I ended up using IBM's overlay utility, which is part of the
AFP Utilities LICPGM, to create my overlay. I was unable to do it from a
Windows application via the IBM AFP driver because the alignment was
never quite right. The invoice is designed to print at 8 lines to the
inch, therefore the location of the shaded box for every other line
needed to be quite exact.

Lastly, you can do different levels of greyness via the overlay utility,
but the number of levels and their appearances are dependent upon the
resolution of your printer. I had to use a 600dpi resolution to get my
lines to be as light as I wanted them.

HTH,
Charles

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[Simon Husin]

Charles,

We have never used the overlay utility. But if no other way(s) are possible, we
will need to know how to do it.

We scanned all possible resources on this but could not find any way to create the
shading dynamically, during printing of the document(s).

Thanks for your information.
Simon

[Charles Wilt]

Oh you want to create the shading dynamically. Well I'd say that will be
harder to do. My guess is you'll have to set up multiple page segments
and code the page segments in your DDS with indicators.

Have fun,
Charles

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