Chapter 13. Design Operation Element Types Text Line Box Bar Code Page Segment A page segment is an image in the AFP resource library. When you want to place a page segment in an overlay, you must create the page segment using the Resource Management Utility or the CRTPAGSEG command. You can refer to this page segment by its name and specify a print position to define it as an element. You can include the same page segment repeatedly in an overlay, a page layout, and a record layout. A bar code element is a set of bars and spaces of various widths created from data by IPDS printers or the AFP Utilities for iSeries It can be placed at any specified position on the overlay. You can specify the following: bar code data; position to be placed; type of bar code; and optional attributes such as size, color, whether or not to print a human-readable interpretation (HRI), or whether or not to include a check digit. A box element is a rectangle that is defined by two diagonally opposite corners. It can be placed anywhere on the overlay. You can select the shade pattern inside the box, the type of box line, either dotted, dashed, or solid, and line width. You may define text inside the box. Optionally, the text may be justified inside the box. A line element is any straight line that connects two points either vertically or horizontally. You can select the type of line, such as dotted, dashed, or solid, and line width. Text that is specified in an overlay, such as ABCDE$_{, is called a text element. It can be}$ placed at any specified position on the overlay. Text attributes may also be specified to describe text characteristics such as font selection, format, and highlighting by underline, overstrike, and/or color. You can define six elements types in a source overlay, a record layout, and a page layout. In a page layout, you can also place a record layout as an element. This chapter describes the following information about the design operation of a source overlay, a record layout, or a page layout. v The element types that you can define in an overlay, a record layout, or a page layout v How you define the elements v What you can define with the elements 227