Chapter 3. Getting Started with the Overlay Utility This chapter describes how to create an overlay with the Overlay Utility by showing a practical exercise. The operational steps of creating an overlay with the Overlay Utility are as follows: 29 1. Some printers do not support bar code and graphics architectures. If your printer does not support graphics, you should not place graphics in a source overlay. If your printer does not support bar codes, you should specify your printer type on the Define Overlay Specifications display in the † Creating a Source Overlay † step. AFP Utilities for iSeries generates appropriate data to print a bar code on those printers. See IBM Printing Systems: Printer Information , (S544–5750), to check if your printer supports them. 2. To perform the following task, you need a page segment and a physical file. Page segment QFCLOGO and physical file QAFCGRPH should exist in library QGPL. If they do not exist, copy page segment QFCPAGS and physical file QAFCGDF from library QAFP to library QGPL as page segment QFCLOGO and physical file QAFCGRPH. You can use the Create Duplicate Object (CRTDUPOBJ) command to accomplish this. Step 1. Starting the Overlay Utility. Step 2. Creating a source overlay file in a library. Step 3. Creating a source overlay in the previously created source overlay file. This step consists of the following sub-steps: a. Designing a source overlay b. Viewing the overlay with the AFP Workbench Viewer c. Saving the source overlay 1) Defining a text element 2) Defining a line element 3) Defining a box element 4) Defining a bar code element 5) Placing a graphics element Step 4. Changing a source overlay. a. Designing a source overlay, including placing a page segment b. Saving the source overlay c. Creating an overlay from a source overlay Step 5. Using an overlay. This step consists of the following sub-steps: Notes: