OT: PCL line background shading

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 11:13A Mon Apr 12 2004, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> I'm about to have to reimplement a client's invoices from one-line
> greenbar preprrint forms to Laser plain paper, and as fastidious as
> this guy is about getting his printing on the lines, I *know* he's
> gonna want me to put the alternating bars on the invoices.
> 
> Luckily, they're a full-page form not a report, so I can use a standard
> print code rather than having to stuff it into a dummy.
> 
> Does anyone have a print code laying around that puts about a 10%
> halftone graybar in the background of the current line?

The best approach is to overlay a "graybar form" and print the fp stuff as
you normally do.

If you are masochistic and want to lay wad of printcodes on the output format, 
then the code to draw a gray rectangle @ 10% ...

$1b *c2400a50b10g2P

You will have to position the gray to it aligns with the text.




Jim 
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