Re[2]: Xerox VIPP with QUIZ

[GGrimm@pcc-structurals.com]

     Thanks John.  The SET REP SPACING 0 option was the key to solving 
     this.  I'd never had occasion so use it and didn't even recall it!  
     Always too many trees to see the forest:)
     
     A few issues remain to be handled for the report tho, since it is 
     using a forms overlay and now my line spacing is goofy with NOFORMFEED 
     set.  But that's why we are paid the big bucks, eh!
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Subject: RE: Xerox VIPP with QUIZ 
Author:  "Pickering  John (NORBORD)" <PICKERIJ@norbord.com> at RDM-PO1
Date:    01/18/2000 12:27 PM

Don't know about this printer in particular but have messed about with too 
many others :-)
     
I'd recommend set NOformfeed and let the printer do the paging. 
     
Does your initial heading start in column 1? 
e.g initial heading tab 1 "sometext"
     
Is your initial heading just one string? If there's more than one thing in 
it then you'd better ensure there's no spaces either by counting characters 
and using tab or by set report spacing 0.
     
And maybe none of this will help at all :-)
     
John Pickering
Toronto
     
> -----Original Message-----
>      Has anyone experience with a successful use of Xerox's VIPP 
>      (Postscript page description language, PDL) with QUIZ reports? 
>      
>      The technique that I'm trying is to put the proper characters in the 
>      INITIAL HEADING but have two different problems.
>      
>      One is if I use SET FORMFEED, a control-l (^l) appears in the disk 
>      file for the report.
>      
>      The other problem is a single space character appears before the 
>      character string I've coded as a literal in INITIAL HEADING.
>      
>      Either of these seem to mess up the PDL performance.  If I edit the 
>      disk report file by deleting the ^l and space, things work perfectly. 
>      
>      Creating a script to process the disk file is not a viable option at 
>      this point.  We want to use the native capability of QUIZ.

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