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SwiftConvert can add overlay markup to a file before sending it to a
printer. This allows such functionality as adding barcodes, text
overlays, and OMR marks. In this example we will be overlaying a
JPEG file, however SwiftConvert can also overlay text using any provided
TTF font. If you would like more information on this, please refer
to the SwiftView
Configuration Manual on page 22, or contact tech@swiftview.com.
We have a small JPEG file logo.jpg that is a
company logo, and we would like to add this to the top center of the first
page of each invoice. At the end of Part I we had an index file c:\indexfile.txt
that told us that pages 1,4,6, and 10 contain the first pages. With
this knowledge we can now tell SwiftConvert to add our company logo to
just these pages.
Markup is added using the markup commands starting on page 13 of the
ICS
Reference Manual. There are three basic steps when adding markup:
1) Set Markup Attributes
In this example we will not need to change any of the markup attributes
defaults, however take a look at the available attributes under the “markup
attributes” command in the manual. Attribute commands should be passed
before the original file is opened, as well as before the markup command
is passed.
2) Specify Markup File and Location
To specify the markup file to load, the page to load on, and the location
on the page to add the markup, use this command:
onpage 1 markup load
filename c:\logo.jpg rxloc 3.5 ryloc .25
This command places the markup file c:\logo.jpg at the location 3.5,
.25 . You will need to customize your coordinates for your markup
depending on where you want them to appear on the file. The above
command only specifies page 1 to have the markup though, so in order for
it to appear on the first page of each document we must change the command
to:
onpage 1,4,6,10 markup
load filename c:\logo.jpg rxloc 3.5 ryloc .25
3) Apply Markup
Now let's apply the markup and view the file by running the following
commands on the command line:
sview –ics”ldoc c:\invoice.pcl|
onpage 1,4,6,10 markup load filename c:\logo.jpg rxloc 3.5 ryloc .25”
Or view the file markup.zhp.
Notice that the file was opened with an ldoc before the markup was applied.
This is important: loading the file after the markup command may cause
inconsistency.
The result is invoice.pcl with our company logo applied at the top center
of the first page of each invoice. In the next example we will
show the additional commands to send this to the printer.
Part III: Print
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