How to create form overlay on postscript printers...

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2 total messages Started by Greg_Mouning Fri, 28 May 2004 17:11

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Author: Greg_Mouning
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:11

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Hello Postscript Gurus,

I need to create a "form overlay" for a Canon IR-110 Postscript Printer. My particular form happens to be a graphic (jpeg) image which repeats on every page of a customized mail merge letter. Sometime this image will be a letterhead while other times it will be a signature. Can you tell me the best approach to resolving this task?

As a new member to this forum please forgive me if this question has already been addressed. I would appreciate a pointer to the answer in the archives if it exists.

Best regards,
Greg

Re: How to create form overlay on postscript printers...

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Author: tgreer
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:03

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You accomplish this, in PostScript, with a "form dictionary". The form dictionary must contain a /PaintProc entry, which is a procedure to mark the page.

With a JPEG, you can use the DCTDecode filter. To make the image data reusable, you need to use the SubFileDecode and ResuableStreamDecode filters.

Thomas D. Greer
 <http://www.tgreer.com>

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