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| 2916.1 | You are not FORMATTING | IOSG::NEWLAND | Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2 | Fri Jun 25 1993 16:12 | 19 |
| The purpose of a Print Function is to FORMAT a revisable format file to
create a final-form file. Your script is just copying the revisable
WPS-PLUS file to another WPS-PLUS output file.
When Print to TERMINAL lists the output files it does so using the ALL-IN-1
text dataset mechanism. Your Print function will create a .WPL file,
which the text dataset mechanism will be process as a WPS-PLUS file.
When you Print to FILE or other destinations your Print Function will
create a WPS-PLUS file, which is not suitable to be printed or viewed by
anything which is unable to process WPS-PLUS files.
See Chapter 21 of the ALL-IN-1 Application Programming Guide, and in
particular section 21.3.3, for information on how to add Print Function
scripts.
Richard
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| 2916.2 | Got it now (or did I?) | COPCLU::COPLE4::GLARGAARD | Allan Glargaard, DS @DMO | Fri Jun 25 1993 19:11 | 8 |
| Richard, I read the 21.3.3 section a lot of times, but missed the
point you made.
If I make #PRINT_OUTFILE = "OAUSER:T.LIS" and #PRINT_DSAB = "TEXT"
instead I get much better results from my MINI.SCP
Hope I understand it better now ? :-)
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| 2916.3 | You've nearly got it | IOSG::NEWLAND | Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2 | Fri Jun 25 1993 19:49 | 17 |
| Your new script will work better because the COPY from .WPL to .LIS will
convert the WPS-PLUS file to an ASCII file, and ASCII files can be printed
or viewed.
It should not be necessary to set #PRINT_DSAB in your script. The input
symbols listed in table 21-6 are set-up by WPPRINT before it calls the
print function. The #PRINT_DSAB symbol will be set from the file cabinet
attributes for the document.
You have commented out a line in your script which invokes CONV/DOCU from
DCL. If you are intending to use CDA conversions you could use the
ALL-IN-1 CDA_CONVERT function instead, which will be more efficient because
it does not require performing operations in the sub-process.
Richard
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| 2916.4 | I think this is missing functionality ... | COPCLU::RUNE | Rune Gottschalk @DMO | Mon Jun 28 1993 13:48 | 28 |
| Hi Ricard and Allan,
I have done some testings on this in a customer project. We had a job
integrating a converter to handle MS-WORD documents from ALL-IN-1 (read,
print etc.).
We found out, after having read the ALL-IN-1 documentation, that the print
function didn't act as we expected. We thought that it was possible to
create a simple script for converting an MS-WORD document to WPS-PLUS and
then call it as a print function - exactly as you did, Allan.
We did the exact same observations and we sure expected WPPRINT to handle
the WPS-PLUS document for us. Actually we tried to do the formatting in our
script but then again, we didn't know what to format the document for
(PostScript, LN03, HP ...). Our customer didn't accept an ASCII output.
Our workaround was to format the document before calling WPPRINT with
#PRINT_DSAB and #PRINT_FILE. We then had to change all document print
functions (Named data to WP, EM ...) to test for the MS-Word format and if
found, call a special print function. Our customer was not happy about this
because they run a standard ALL-IN-1 IOS system with only very few
customizations. Now they got additional 6 or 8 i think ...
My conclusion was that this was a bug or lack of functionality in ALL-IN-1
V3. I think this was possible in V2.4 ...
Rune
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| 2916.5 | Print functions did not change | IOSG::NEWLAND | Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2 | Mon Jun 28 1993 20:15 | 10 |
| The functionality of Print Functions did not change from V2.4 to V3.0, and
anything that could be done in V2.4 can be done in V3.0.
What converter are you using to handle MS-WORD documents? Is this
converter able to perform formatting, or is this why you have to convert an
MS-WORD document to WPS-PLUS in order to format it?
Richard
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| 2916.6 | I Used the DES Converter | COPCLU::COPRUG::RUNE | Rune Gottschalk @DMO | Fri Jul 02 1993 11:39 | 5 |
| I used the DES converter (Document Exchange System) developed by a compagny
called Software Compatibility Centre Limited in UK. The DES converter can
convert between MS-Word for Windows and DX. It really does a good job !
Rune
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| 2916.7 | Missing symbols | IOSG::NEWLAND | Richard Newland, IOSG, REO2-G/L2 | Mon Jul 05 1993 23:50 | 25 |
| The list of available symbols for Format Scripts as documented in the
Application Prgramming Guide and in comments in WPPRINT.SCP is incomplete,
and should include:
#PRINT_FINAL_FORM the type of final form file to create
#PRINT_DEVICE_TYPE the device type value if the WPS-PLUS formatter
is being used
Therefore, a Format Script (or Print function) could do the following:
o use DES to convert from MS-Word to a temporary DX file
o use the WPS-PLUS Formatter to format the DX file to a final-form
file in the format specified in #PRINT_DEVICE_TYPE
o delete the temporary DX file
and it should not be necessary to change any named data.
Richard
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