How page definitions, form definitions, and printer files interact
You can use a printer file to specify some of the same options as you can specify with a page definition and a form definition. This topic describes how PSF chooses an option when a printer file is used with a page definition and form definition.
Page definition and the printer file
- If you send line data with a printer file to an Advanced Function Presentation (AFP)
printer, PSF ignores these printer file parameters:
- CDEFNT
- CHRID
- CPI
- FNTCHRSET
- FOLD
- FONT
- LPI
- MULTIUP
- PAGESIZE
- PAGRTT
- REDUCE
- If you send the line data with a page definition to a non-AFP printer with a device type of *LINE, the page definition parameter is ignored and the printer file parameters are used. The line data is converted to SNA character string (SCS) or Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS).
Form definition and the printer file
- BACKMGN
- CORNERSTPL
- EDGESTITCH
- FORMFEED
- FRONTMGN
- MULTIUP (N_UP)
- PAGRTT
- PRTQLTY
- REDUCE (N_UP)
- SADLSTITCH
However, if you send the line data with a form definition to a non-AFP printer with a device type of *IPDS or *SCS in this example, the form definition parameter is ignored and the printer file parameters are used.
When specifying a form definition, the values you specify on the printer file's DRAWER and DUPLEX parameters override those values specified in the form definition. To use the drawer and duplex values specified in the form definition, specify DRAWER(*FORMDF) and DUPLEX(*FORMDF) on the printer file.