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Customization

When you have installed and tested the sample formatting modules, additional modules can be created. It is possible to define:

• New formats, using the orientation, line spacing, and offset in the PAGEDEFs. It is good practice to define PAGEDEFs corresponding to already-used FCBs.
• Modules to select fonts located in cartridges in the printer
• Overlays instead of using preprinted forms

If the device type definitions supplied in XDEVTYPS in the samples cannot be used as is, it is necessary to have good working knowledge of how the printer and the protocol converter work to change these definitions. Similarly, defining more complex new definitions as FORMDEFs with overlays, new fonts, and other definitions, which make it necessary to specify a new specific printer command, does require some knowledge of the devices involved.

After the device types are set up to work properly with the devices used, more simple definitions such as PAGEDEFs with a new size or line spacing, can be created without much knowledge of the devices.