Xerox 4635 User guide

Xerox 4635 Laser Printing System

PDL/DJDE Reference

April 1995

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Related publications iii

Notice iv

Introduction xxi

About the reference set xxi

4635 Laser Printing System document set xxi

About this manual xxiv

PDL syntax conventions used in this manual xxv

1. Overview 1-1

PDL features and functions 1-1

LPS component types 1-2

Hardware 1-2

Software 1-2

LPS hardware components 1-2

Advanced Image Subsystem (AIS) 1-2

Rastor image processor (RIP) 1-2

LPS software components 1-3

PDL related programs and tasks 1-5

Operating system executive task (OSEXEC) 1-5

File control program (FCP) 1-5

Operator communication subsystem (OCS) 1-5

Editor task 1-5

Font editor task 1-5

Input processing task 1-5

Report task (RPT) 1-5

Dynamic job descriptor (DJD) task 1-6

Output processing task 1-6

Print description language (PDL) processor 1-6

Forms description language (FDL) processor 1-6

Preparing for a print job 1-6

Job flow process 1-7

Input data types 1-8

Unformatted data 1-8

Formatted data 1-10

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2. Print Description Language (PDL) 2-1

Purpose of PDL 2-1

PDL command structure 2-2

Command line length 2-2

Command components 2-2

Identifier 2-3

Command keyword 2-3

Parameter 2-4

Comments 2-4

Syntax rules 2-4

Right-part constants 2-5

Value constants 2-5

String constants 2-6

Job source library (JSL) structure 2-9

Command levels 2-10

ID level 2-11

System or JDL level 2-11

Catalog level 2-11

Job or JDE level 2-12

Examples-JOB command 2-12

END command 2-13

Creating separate files for grouping PDL commands 2-16

Hierarchy of replacement 2-16

Hierarchy within a job descriptor library (JDL) 2-16

Non-JDL hierarchy — START command 2-17

Start command 2-17

Points to note 2-20

Hierarchy of replacement in an errored job descriptor

library (JDL) 2-20

3. Creating a job source library (JSL) 3-1

Overview 3-1

What your JSL specified for LPS processing 3-1

Decisions to make before creating your JSL 3-2

Input data 3-2

Output specifications 3-3

Type of application to create 3-3

Special features 3-4

Interactions between JSLs, catalogs, and jobs 3-4

Review of PDL components and syntax 3-4

Command levels 3-4

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Command components 3-5

Command identifiers 3-5

Command keywords 3-5

Command parameters 3-5

Comments 3-6

PDL syntax 3-6

Hints and tips 3-6

Steps in creating a JSL 3-8

Using the Editor 3-8

Name the JDL identifier 3-8

Specifying VFUs 3-8

Setting up input parameters 3-8

Specifying LINE command parameters 3-9

Specifying ACCT command parameters 3-9

Specifying use of DJDEs 3-9

Adding logical processing specifications 3-9

Specifying formats 3-10

Using copy modification entries 3-10

Defining paper requirements 3-10

Specifying output requirements 3-11

Ending a JSL 3-11

Finished JSL 3-11

Compiling the JSL 3-13

Printing the job 3-14

Page considerations 3-15

Paper sizes 3-15

System page 3-15

Physical page 3-15

Edgemarking 3-15

Non-imaged elements 3-15

Page orientations 3-16

Landscape orientation 3-17

Portrait orientation 3-18

Registration shift and skew 3-19

Fonts 3-21

Font and graphic memory 3-22

4635 compatibility with the 4850, 4135 and 4050/4090/4650 LPS 3-22

Xerox 4850 and 4890 HighLight Color LPS 3-24

Running 4850/4890 applications on your 4635 LPS 3-24

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Downloading 4850/4890 LPS applications to your

4635 LPS 3-25

4850/4890 HighLight Color LPS forms 3-25

Points to note 3-25

4050/4090/4650 LPS 3-26

Creating 4635 LPS applications on a 4050,4090, or

4650 LPS 3-26

Running 4050, 4090, and 4650 jobs on your

4635 LPS 3-26

4. Specifying input parameters 4-1

Overview 4-1

BLOCK command 4-2

BLOCK command parameters 4-2

ADJUST 4-2

CONSTANT 4-3

FORMAT 4-3

LENGTH 4-3

LMULT 4-4

LTHFLD 4-4

OFFSET 4-4

POSTAMBLE 4-5

PREAMBLE 4-5

ZERO 4-5

Points to note—BLOCK command 4-5

Online versus offline JDLs 4-6

Example—BLOCK command usage 4-6

CODE command 4-7

CODE command parameters 4-7

ASSIGN 4-7

DEFAULT 4-8

Point to note — CODE command 4-8

Examples — CODE command usage 4-8

PCC command 4-9

PCC command parameters 4-9

ADVTAPE 4-9

ASSIGN 4-10

DEFAULT 4-11

INITIAL 4-12

MASK 4-12

Points to note—PCC command 4-12

Example—PCC command usage 4-13

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RECORD command 4-13

RECORD command parameters 4-13

ADJUST 4-14

CONSTANT 4-14

FORMAT 4-14

LENGTH 4-14

LMULT 4-15

LTHFLD 4-15

OFFSET 4-15

POSTAMBLE 4-16

PREAMBLE 4-16

STRUCTURE 4-16

Points to note—RECORD command 4-17

Example—RECORD command usage 4-17

SEFFNT command 4-20

Mapping files 4-20

SEFFNT command parameters 4-21

[label:] SEFFNT SEFMAP 4-21

SEFMAP 4-21

MAP 4-22

Points to note—SEFFNT command 4-22

Examples—SEFFNT command usage 4-23

TCODE command 4-24

TCODE command parameters 4-24

DEFAULT 4-24

TASSIGN 4-25

TRESET 4-26

Points to note—TCODE command 4-26

Examples—TCODE command usage 4-27

VOLUME command 4-28

VOLUME command parameters 4-28

BMULT 4-28

CODE 4-29

EOV 4-29

HOST 4-30

INTERPRESS 4-31

LABEL 4-32

LCODE 4-32

LPACK 4-33

MAXLAB 4-33

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MINLAB 4-33

OPTIMIZE 4-34

OSCHN 4-35

OSHDP 4-35

OSTLP 4-35

PLABEL 4-36

RMULT 4-36

RSAT 4-36

TCODE 4-37

UNPACK 4-37

Points to note—VOLUME command 4-38

Examples—VOLUME command usage 4-38

Input sources 4-39

Online printing systems 4-39

Channel-attached LPS 4-39

Online 3211/4245 mode 4-39

Online-specific commands 4-40

Creating a JDE or JDL 4-40

DJDE processing 4-40

Online optimization 4-41

Copy-sensitive copy modification entries (CME) 4-41

Report separation 4-41

Universal character set buffers (UCSBs) 4-41

UCSB processing 4-42

Forms control buffer (FCB) 4-42

Vertical format control processing 4-42

Online record length 4-43

Points to note 4-44

Online recovery 4-46

Online dump 4-46

Starting and ending dump sessions 4-46

Dump format 4-46

Points to note 4-47

Downloading files from the host to the LPS 4-47

Valid download file types 4-48

DJDE FILE command 4-48

Offline mode 4-49

Tape structure concepts 4-49

Host computer tape formats 4-49

Tape codes 4-49

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Packed data formats 4-49

Record formats 4-50

Record structure 4-50

Multivolume processing 4-50

5. Defining clusters 5-1

Cluster features 5-1

Cluster processing overview 5-1

What clusters do for the programmer and operator 5-2

Where clusters are stored 5-2

How applications use clusters 5-3

Simple and OTEXT applications 5-3

Stockset applications 5-3

Mixing applications 5-4

Defining clusters and stocksets with PDL and DJDE 5-4

PDL commands 5-5

DJDEs 5-5

Points to note 5-5

Steps for creating clusters 5-6

Keeping stockset changes to a minimum 5-8

Using clusters with ordered stocks 5-8

6. Print format commands 6-1

Overview 6-1

ABNORMAL command 6-2

Abnormal command parameters 6-2

ERROR 6-2

IMISMATCH 6-3

ISUBSTITUTE 6-5

OTEXT 6-5

PAGES 6-5

REP 6-6

SECURITY 6-6

Recovery 6-6

Marker page 6-7

ACCT command 6-9

Accounting data on report basis 6-9

Overall usage accounting 6-9

Installation accounting report 6-10

ACCT command parameters 6-14

DEPT 6-14

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USER 6-14

Points to note—ACCT command 6-15

Example—ACCT command usage 6-15

BARCODE 6-15

Points to note—BARCODE command 6-16

ac:CME command 6-17

Short form CME specifications 6-17

Cataloged CMEs 6-17

CME parameters 6-18

CONSTANT 6-18

FONTS 6-18

LINE 6-19

POSITION 6-19

Points to note—CME command 6-20

Examples—CME command usage 6-21

EXPORT command 6-21

EXPORT command parameters 6-22

SEPARATORS 6-22

SNUMBER 6-23

SPLIT 6-24

SRECOVER 6-24

STIMING 6-25

Points to note—EXPORT command 6-25

Examples—EXPORT command usage 6-26

LINE command 6-26

LINE command parameters 6-27

DATA 6-27

FCB 6-27

FONTINDEX 6-28

MARGIN 6-28

OVERPRINT 6-29

PCC 6-29

PCCTYPE 6-30

UCSB 6-30

VFU 6-31

Points to note—LINE command 6-31

Examples—LINE command usage 6-33

MESSAGE command 6-34

MESSAGE command parameters 6-34

ITEXT 6-35

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OTEXT 6-35

BTEXT 6-36

Parameter rules 6-39

Points to note 6-40

Points to note—Audit Log 6-42

OUTPUT command 6-45

OUTPUT command parameters 6-47

BFORM 6-47

COLLATE 6-47

COPIES 6-48

COVER 6-48

CYCLEFORMS 6-49

DENSITY 6-50

DESTINATION 6-50

DUPLEX 6-50

FACEUP 6-51

FEED 6-51

FORMAT 6-52

FORMS 6-52

GRAPHICS 6-53

INVERT 6-54

IMAGE 6-54

MODIFY 6-55

NTO1 6-55

NUMBER 6-56

OFFSET 6-57

OSTK 6-57

PAPERSIZE 6-58

PURGE 6-59

RESOLUTION 6-59

SF1FUNCTION 6-60

SF2FUNCTION 6-60

SHIFT 6-60

SIZING 6-61

STOCKS 6-62

SYSPPR 6-63

TMODE 6-63

TRANS 6-64

UNITS 6-64

XSHIFT 6-65

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XMP 6-65

Points to note—OUTPUT command 6-66

Examples—OUTPUT command usage 6-75

PDE command 6-77

Multiple logical pages on physical page 6-79

BEGIN 6-80

FONTS 6-80

PMODE 6-81

Points to note—PDE command 6-81

Examples—PDE command usage 6-82

ROUTE commands 6-82

Cataloged RTEXT files 6-83

ROUTE command parameters 6-83

RFORM 6-83

RTEXT 6-84

Example—ROUTE command usage 6-85

STOCKSET command 6-85

STOCKSET command parameters 6-86

ASSIGN 6-86

INIFEED 6-86

SYSPAGE 6-87

Point to note—STOCKSET command 6-87

Example—STOCKSET command usage 6-87

VFU command 6-88

VFU command parameters 6-89

ASSIGN 6-89

BOF 6-89

TOF 6-90

Points to note—VFU command 6-90

Example—VFU command usage 6-90

7. Using logical processing 7-1

Overview 7-1

Logical processing command format 7-1

Logical processing commands with TEST parameters 7-2

CRITERIA command 7-2

CHANGE 7-3

CONSTANT 7-4

LINENUM 7-4

Test expressions 7-4

Specifying one CRITERIA command 7-5

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Specifying two CRITERIA command 7-5

CONSTANT mode 7-6

CHANGE mode 7-6

LINENUM parameter 7-6

Combining CHANGE and CONSTANT modes 7-6

Points to note—CRITERIA command 7-7

Examples—CRITERIA command usage 7-7

String comparison concepts 7-8

String comparisons 7-8

Character types 7-8

Masked comparisons using default type assignments 7-9

Masked comparisons using non-default type assignments 7-9

BANNER command 7-10

HCOUNT 7-11

HJOBNO 7-11

HRPTNA 7-12

TCOUNT 7-12

TEST 7-12

TYPE 7-13

Points to note—BANNER command 7-13

Examples—BANNER command usage 7-13

BSELECT and BDELETE commands 7-14

TEST—BSELECT and BDELETE commands 7-14

TEST 7-14

Points to note—BSELECT and BDELETE commands 7-15

Examples—BSELECT and BDELETE commands usage 7-15

RAUX command 7-16

TEST 7-16

Points to note—RAUX command 7-16

Example—RAUX command usage 7-17

RBAR command 7-17

RFEED command 7-17

TEST 7-17

Points to note—RFEED command 7-18

RSELECT and RDELETE commands 7-18

TEST 7-18

Points to note—RSELECT and RDELETE commands 7-19

Example—RDELETE command usage 7-19

ROFFSET command 7-19

PASSES 7-20

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TEST 7-20

Points to note—ROFFSET command 7-21

Example—ROFFSET command usage 7-21

RPAGE command 7-21

RPAGE command parameters 7-22

SIDE 7-22

TEST 7-22

WHEN 7-23

Points to note—RPAGE command 7-23

RSTACK command 7-26

RSTACK delimiter modes 7-26

Delimiter display 7-27

Delimiter on accounting page 7-27

Status display 7-27

Online RSTACK usage 7-27

RSTACK command parameters 7-28

ACCTINFO 7-28

DELIMITER 7-28

HRPTNA 7-29

PRINT 7-29

TEST 7-30

Points to note—RSTACK command 7-30

Example—RSTACK command usage 7-30

RSUSPEND and RRESUME commands 7-31

BEGIN 7-32

TEST 7-32

Points to note—RSUSPEND and RRESUME commands 7-32

Example—RSUSPEND and RRESUME commands usage 7-33

TABLE command 7-34

CONSTANT 7-35

MASK 7-35

Examples—TABLE command usage 7-35

8. Specifying dynamic job descriptor entries (DJDEs) 8-1

Overview 8-1

Benefits of using DJDEs 8-1

Page- and record-oriented DJDEs 8-2

Page-oriented 8-2

Record-oriented 8-4

IDEN command 8-6

OFFSET 8-6

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OPRINFO 8-6

PREFIX 8-7

SKIP 8-7

Point to note—IDEN command 8-7

DJDE record specification 8-8

Application of DJDEs 8-9

DJDE operator information pages 8-11

Job parameter modification restrictions 8-11

Duplex DJDE page printing 8-13

Effect on multiple logical pages 8-13

COPIES=processing 8-14

Online DJDE restrictions 8-14

DJDE processing optimization 8-14

DJDE parameter definitions 8-15

ALTER 8-15

ASSIGN 8-15

BSEQ 8-16

BSIDE 8-17

BSKIP 8-17

Points to note—BARCODE command 8-18

BATCH 8-18

BEGIN 8-18

BFORM 8-19

BOF 8-19

BTEXT 8-20

Parameter rules 8-23

Points to note—BTEXT command 8-23

C text 8-26

CANCEL 8-26

COLLATE 8-27

COPIES 8-27

DATA 8-28

DEPT 8-28

DESTINATION 8-28

DUPLEX 8-28

END 8-29

FEED 8-29

FILE 8-29

FONTINDEX 8-30

FONTS 8-30

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Points to note—FONTINDEX and FONTS 8-31

FORMAT 8-31

FORMS 8-32

Points to note—FORMAT and FORMS 8-32

GRAPHICS 8-32

IMAGE 8-33

INVERT 8-34

ITEXT 8-35

JDE 8-35

JDL 8-35

MAP 8-35

MARGIN 8-36

MODIFY 8-36

NUMBER 8-36

OTEXT 8-37

OVERPRINT 8-37

PMODE 8-38

RFORM 8-38

RTEXT 8-39

SAVE 8-39

SEFMAP 8-39

SEPARATORS 8-40

SF1FUNCTION 8-41

SF2FUNCTION 8-41

SHIFT 8-41

SIDE 8-42

SNUMBER 8-42

SPLIT 8-43

SRECOVER 8-43

STIMING 8-44

STOCKS 8-44

TMODE 8-44

TOF 8-45

TRANS 8-45

XSHIFT 8-45

Points to note—DJDE parameters 8-45

Examples—SEFMAP usage 8-47

DJDE FILE parameter 8-47

Points to note 8-48

File effectiveness 8-48

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File replacement and deletion 8-49

Card-image file processing 8-49

LPS-labeled file processing 8-50

Delimited records for LPS-labeled files 8-51

9. Using graphics 9-1

Graphics considerations 9-1

Input for graphics 9-1

Processing modes 9-2

Random mode 9-2

Move mode 9-2

Block mode 9-2

Batch mode 9-3

Tape formats 9-3

Noninterleaved 9-3

Document interleaved 9-3

Page interleaved 9-4

Batch mode 9-4

Online formats 9-4

Noninterleaved 9-4

Document and page interleaved 9-4

Batch mode 9-5

Document interleaved graphic file transfers 9-5

Management of image files 9-5

PDL command and DJDE options for graphics 9-6

Performance 9-7

Random mode 9-7

Online 9-7

Document interleaved file creation 9-7

Restrictions 9-7

Graphic feature restrictions 9-7

Appendices

A. PDL command and DJDE summary A-1

B. PDL command quick reference B-1

C. Character code assignment tables C-1

D. Offline specifications D-1

E. Editor quick reference E-1

Glossary GLOSSARY-1

Index INDEX-1

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