Submitted by Kim Egekjaer on Mon, 05/31/2010 - 00:00
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For a normal InterForm400 training session I never go through the extended page definition, and it is also quite seldom that I use it myself, but it can help when you want to solve very difficuilt designs for spooled files, that are very fluent - so it is hard to write simple conditions.

The extended page definitions are simply a way to override the font, positions and line spacing for an interval of spooled file  lines. Regarding functionality it fits in between the settings on the overlay header and the detail lines (remap and tabulators). Any relative positioning and tabulators will use the new positions resulting from the extended page definitions.

This can be used e.g. to position the detail lines i.e. where they should be printed as default and this can be combined with conditioned overlays, remap window and tabulator lines to handle any exceptions from the default layout.

In the green screen designer you activate this function by stating a 'Y' for the 'Extended page def.' line on the overlay header. Then you press F6 to add new extended page definition lines. Finally state the spooled file line from where the definition should be active as well as font, line spacing and position of the lines.

In the graphical designer you click the yellow folder named 'Page definitions'. Here you can first change the default font, but also click the 'Create additional Page definition' button in the lower left properties window to add new extended page definitions.