AS400 Printer files and Fonts

[Cather]

I am trying to do letters using form overlays. The only thing is my printer file texts are printing in a different font to the rest of the letter.
Has anyone tried form overlays for I-Series-As400 and how did they handle the printer file field positioning and fonts to match the letter?
Thanks.

 

[HitechUser]

Cather,

What does your Printer file look like?? It should look something like this.

A          R TEXT
 *               Sonoran Serif 12p
A            FROM1         20A         POSITION(0.20 .50)
A                                      FONT(2304)
A                                      CHRSIZ(2.0 2.0)
A            FROM2         20A         POSITION(0.37 .60)
A                                      FONT(2304)
A                                      CHRSIZ(2.0 2.0)

If you do not specify the font then the default is used.

Hope this helps...

 

[Cather]

Thanks for that. It did help. I now need to change the font to be Arial 10, would you know the font code for this?

Thanks

 

[HitechUser]

Cather,

You did not specify what version on OS/400 you are on so here goes...

This is for version V5R3...
Open the Information Center (or go online)
Click "Printing"
Click "Printer Device Programming"
In the resulting PDF document, jump to page 207. You can do that by clicking on the numbers "1 of 342" at the bottom, and then typing 207 followed by the enter key.

Also you may try this IBM utility (I have not used it).
PRTFNTC .

I hope this helps...