PDFing Home Page Font-size correction for un-transformed *SCS spooled-files
When the control "Use OS400 dims?", on the [Convert] tab of the configuration and markup forms, is set to YES and the OS400 output-queue is configured to send a spooled-file and its attributes, then both the size of the font and the size of the page is specified by these attributes, therefore page and font size controls have no effect. When the control "Use OS400 dims?" is set to NO or when the spooled-file does not contain OS400 attributes, then the following controls on the the [Paper] tab of the configuration and markup forms determine page-size, page-margins and font-size.


The selected size of the font will be automatically corrected so that the spooled-file text can fit completely within the selected page. Font-size correction can be modified by specifying values for the [Paper] tab of a markup form. In situations where the same OS400 program may produce spooled-files with varying number of text rows and/or columns, you will find that PDFing reduces font-sizes by different amounts for different spooled-files and this may cause constant-text or graphic-images on the page to be misaligned relative to the text. For such spooled-files, values specified for the "Maximum rows" and "Maximum columns" controls will cause the font-size to be corrected identically for all spooled-files selecting this markup and this makes it easier to place constant-text or graphic-images relative to the text. Font-size correction may be switched off and exact font-sizes may be specified by setting the control "V1 compatible" to YES, which displays the relevant controls.


The size of the page and its margins are determined by the page-size controls on the [Paper] tab of the configuration form. These controls allow you to specify a page-size and margins for both portrait and landscape pages. The page size selected for a spooled-file is determined by the orientation of the spooled-file, as determined by analysis of its contents, alternatively the EML= tag may be sent with the spooled-file. The selected page-size and its margins may be overridden by specifying values for the page-size controls on the [Paper] tab of a markup form.


The size of the font is determined by the font-size controls page-controls on the [Paper] tab of the configuration form. By default, landscape spooled-files with between 1 and 132 columns of text select a font of 6 lines per inch (LPI) and 10 characters per inch (CPI) and those with between 133 and 198 columns select a font of 6 LPI and 15 CPI. Portrait spooled-files with between 1 and 82 columns of text select a font of 6 LPI and 10 CPI and those with between 82 and 100 text columns select a font of 6 LPI and 15 CPI. These font-size defaults may be reviewed and changed by setting the control "V1 compatible" to YES, which will display the relevant controls. The selected font-size may be overridden by specifying values for the [Paper] tab of a markup form.


This document ©Jane Hearn 2008.