ZipPrint
ZipPrint provides an easy, automatic way to print
a displayed document in a 3270 Display session.
With a few mouse clicks you can print the entire contents of a displayed document.
This capability is similar to the ZipPrint capability in the IBM Personal Communications product.
ZipPrint is implemented as a Host On-Demand macro and is an example
of how powerful macros can be.
You might want to implement custom macros of your own like ZipPrint.
ZipPrint works by quickly paging through all the screens of the document,
capturing the data to be printed from each screen, and sending it to
the configured print destination.
ZipPrint then optionally positions the document to the same screen
that was displayed when you started the ZipPrint.
You can also print the current contents of the session window
just as you would do with File > Print Screen.
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A single ZipPrint operation can print a maximum of 10,000
application screens. If you use ZipPrint to print
an opened document of more than 10,000 screens,
information at the beginning and the end of the
document may not be printed.
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The Alternate Terminal interface does not support ZipPrint.
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Printer Setup options and Page Setup options
With ZipPrint you can use the same printer setup options that
are available for a 3270 Printer session,
including
Printer destination (Windows Printer, Other Printer, or File), Printer Definition Tables,
and Adobe PDF output for the File destination.
You can also use all the page setup options
that are available for a 3270 Printer session
and that are appropriate for 3270 Display datastream (LU2),
including Font, treatment of nulls, and Printer-Font Code Page.
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The Printer Setup options and the Page Setup options
that you set for ZipPrint in a particular 3270 Display session
affect all ZipPrints from sessions started from that same
session configuration.
However, the Printer Setup options and the Page Setup options
for ZipPrint
do not affect the printer setup options and page setup options for:
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Any 3270 Printer session.
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Any File > Print Screen in any 3270 Display session.
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ZipPrint in any 3270 Display session
started from a different session configuration.
However, if your print destination is a Windows printer,
and you use the Windows Print Setup dialog
to make configuration changes to that Windows printer,
such as an orientation of Landscape rather than Portrait,
then those particular configuration changes will affect
any Host On-Demand printing activity that uses that Windows printer, including:
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Printing from any 3270 Printer session.
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ZipPrint in any 3270 Display session.
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Document profile
In order to print the entire contents of the currently displayed document,
ZipPrint requires you to create a named profile that
contains three types of information:
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A simple description of the format of the application screen
(such as a string of characters that appears in the same place
on each application screen).
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The coordinates of the rectangular area in
which the application displays the content of a document.
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The keys that the application provides for paging forward
and backward through a document.
If the application displays all documents in the format that
you have described in the profile,
then you can use the same profile to print any document
displayed using the application.
Two predefined profiles are provided:
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OVNote, for the Office Vision Log Viewer
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ISPF, for the ISPF Editor.
ZipPrint operations
The ZipPrint operations are located on a submenu that appears
when you click File > ZipPrint.
- Print From Application - Auto
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Tells ZipPrint to search the available profiles
for a description that matches the currently displayed document,
and if a matching profile is found, to ZipPrint the document using
the parameters in the profile.
- Print From Application - Select Profile
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Tells ZipPrint to display a list of the available profiles and
to ZipPrint the currently displayed document
using the profile that you select.
- Print Screen
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Prints the currently displayed 3270 Display session screen.
- Customize Profiles
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Displays a window that allows you to create, edit, or delete
a ZipPrint profile.
- Printer Setup
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Displays a Printer setup window with the same options
that are available for a 3270 Printer session,
including
Printer destination (Windows Printer, Other Printer, or File), Printer Definition Tables,
and Adobe PDF output for the File destination, and others.
This printer setup is used only for ZipPrints, and is used
for all ZipPrints from this 3270 Display session.
- Page Setup
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Displays a Page setup window with the same options
that are available for a 3270 Printer session,
except those that are not appropriate
for a 3270 Display datastream (LU2).
This page setup is used only for ZipPrints, and is used
for all ZipPrints from this 3270 Display session.
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