6 Printing Forms

Display Enhancements and Fill Characters

When the form is displayed on the terminal, special characters such as the line drawing set are used to enhance the form. Most printers cannot print these characters, so an alternate character may be selected. If a character other than blank is selected, that character replaces all special characters. (A special character is any character which is not on the local language keyboard.) If a blank is specified for special characters, the printer will attempt to print all special characters.

You may also select a character to be used as a fill character for the different types of fields. If a blank is entered, blanks are printed.

After the printer and message are selected, the following menu allows these character selections:

The default values for all fill characters are shown on the menu.

INPUT FILL -- changes the default printer input field fill character.

OUTPUT FILL -- changes the default output field fill character.

IN/OUT FILL -- changes the default input/output field fill character.

SPECIAL FILL -- changes the default character which appears anywhere on the form (except in fields) where a non-printable character appears.

HEADER OFF -- enters or modifies a two-line header to be printed above each form. The softkey definition changes to HEADER ON. If pressed a second time, it returns to its initial definition.

SOFTKEYS OFF -- enters softkey definitions to be printed below each form.

CONTINUE -- selects the version of the forms to be printed.

EXIT PFORM -- exits the program without printing any forms.

Eloquence Forms Manual - 19 DEC 2002