Form Layout for Line Printers
Before you start to lay out the form, you need to decide where the
position of the first line (Line 1) is going to be. This is the line on
which the form is to be aligned in the printer to print correctly.
Usually it is best to make Line 1 the first line where printing is to
take place. This means that after printing, the form advances as far
out of the printer as possible.
The form is laid out on the Document
Layout dialog by selecting database and/or text fields, entering a
number in the Line field, and
specifying their Starting and
Ending positions on the form.
For a one-character field, such as Sex, the starting and ending position
will be the same. You can use the ending location to truncate text to
be printed.
Important: Due to a
defect in the code that we elected not to correct, an additional space
is inserted after each field on a line. So if you have three fields—each
5 characters—that you want to print in positions 10 - 14 ,20 - 24, and
30 - 34, the second field will appear one character too far to the right,
and the third field will appear two characters too far to the right. This
is easily corrected by deducting 1 from the starting position of the second
field and two characters from the third-field starting position.
Bar Codes can be printed on an MT691
line printer, but no other printers are qualified at this time.
To add a database field:
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Click New.
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In the Field Type box,
select Database.
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In the Database Field Name
pane, select the required data field you want to add. The field and
its location
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In the Line Printer Layout
box, enter the Line number,
Start position and End
position of the field.
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Click Save.
To add a text field:
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Click New.
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In the Field Type box,
select Text Field.
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In Text to Print, type
the text you want to add.
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In the Line Printer Layout
box, enter the Line number,
Start position and End
position of the field.
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Click Save.
