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Xerox Printer User Manual

Xerox Printer
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XEROX
Host Forms Description Language 3.2
for IBM MVS
Creating Forms
HFDL 3.2
August 1995
720P30610

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Xerox Printer Specifications

General IconGeneral
BrandXerox
ModelPrinter
CategoryPrinter
LanguageEnglish

Summary

1. Overview

HFDL features

Details the capabilities and advantages of using HFDL with XPRM.

2. Planning your forms

Determining format

Outlines parameters to consider when designing a form's layout and appearance.

Page orientation

Explains portrait and landscape page orientations for form design.

Positioning form elements

Explains how to place elements like boxes, text, and images using coordinates.

3. Using HFDL commands

Creating forms with HFDL commands

Explains how HFDL commands translate form design into a format for the host.

Available specifications

Lists features HFDL commands allow specifying, such as page orientation and font selection.

Setting up your form

Outlines the initial setup commands required before describing a form.

FORM command

Specifies the form name and resolution, serving as the first command.

PAPER command

Used to specify the paper size for the form, replacing the ALIN option.

LANDSCAPE/PORTRAIT command

Specifies the form's orientation and virtual page size and origin.

GRID command

Specifies grid unit dimensions and the form origin relative to the virtual page.

FONT command

Specifies the fonts to be used for text within the form.

Description commands

Lists commands used to enter descriptive data into a form.

LINE command

Specifies how to draw lines, including direction, style, and repetition.

BOX command

Describes how to draw boxes, including size, shape, fill, and repetition.

TEXT AT command

Incorporates text into a form at specified locations, using font and ink index.

TEXT IN BOX command

Incorporates text into a box on a form, requiring pre-defined boxes.

4. Creating a sample form

Setting up the form

Provides step-by-step instructions for setting up basic form elements.

Using the sample description command

Shows how to place the form title and column headings using TEXT IN BOX.

5. Managing and printing sample forms

Using the COMPILE command

Explains the COMPILE command as the sole method for compiling HFDL forms.

HFDL compiler JCL

Identifies DDnames required for the HFDL compiler and resource data sets.

Downloading and printing a sample

Shows an example JCL for compiling, storing, downloading, and sampling a form.

6. Messages

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