Oce DJDE, Reference Manual

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General Points to Note Dynamic Job Descriptor Entries (DJDEs)
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5.4 General Points to Note
Note the following when using DJDE parameters:
The DJDE top-of-form (TOF) command affects the first data record following the DJDE
record. Depending on the time of a page transition, this may not take effect on the desired
page. In other words, even though a DJDE TOF is processed during the processing of the
next record, a page transition may have occurred before the DJDE TOF value could take
effect. For example, if the initial TOF and BOF values are 2 for every job, every time a data
record is processed, a page transition occurs since the TOF and BOF have the same value.
If a DJDE TOF with value 1 is processed and the page transition has already occurred, this
DJDE TOF value is too late and does not take effect until the next page transition.
FONTINDEX
When multiple fonts of various sizes are used on a single page, the line spacing of any par-
ticular line is determined by the largest font in use in the previous line. The current line can
also be adjusted downward by the difference in height between the first and the largest font
in the current line. The line spacing of the first line in a report is determined by the first font
in the PDE, provided the FONTINDEX parameter has not been specified. When FONTIN-
DEX is specified, the line spacing of the first line of a report is determined by the font indi-
cated by the font index value in the first line of the report. If there is no font index value in
the record and FONTINDEX is specified, the line spacing for the first line of the report is
determined by the first font in the PDE. When the FONTINDEX or CME parameters are
specified, the line spacing of the first line of subsequent pages is determined by the line
spacing of the font called out by the last font index of the previous page into the current XDL
font list. If a PDE DJDE has occurred prior to the page transition, the font used for the line
spacing comes from this list.
FONTINDEX, OVERPRINT=MERGE
FONTINDEX, used in conjunction with overprinting, is handled as follows: for OVER-
PRINT=PRINT, the LCDS-Module overprints records analogously to an impact printer if the
fonts are the same size. If the fonts differ, records are overprinted without regard to char-
acter spacing. For OVERPRINT=MERGE, the LCDS-Module replaces characters in the
previous record which are blank. Character spacing values are adjusted; thus proportionally
spaced or different size fonts may be used, and the LCDS-Module performs the character
placement.
If FONTINDEX and OVERPRINT=MERGE are specified and proportional fonts are being
used, data lines are not properly aligned if printing in landscape mode, and the data switch-
es to a larger font in the middle of the line.