>Hi Marcus,
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>You are a lot further along than I on this. But I found this in my HP PCL5 Book. Apparently you must issue the command to enable macro for automatic overlay
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> ESC &f4X
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>Hope this helps. I'm watching this thread with much interest. Been looking for software that will convert a scanned form to a macro. Ed pointed me to "Inform" which I have not located yet. Possiblly it is Novell Informs.
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>Ken
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>

Thanks,
Ed was using 3 instead of 4 and I believe combining the macro control PCL with the specify macro ID PCL. 3 is call current macro vs. 4 which is auto overlay on. I think this is supposed to use the overlay for the next page printed. That is why he puts it the the footer for each page of the report. Ed gave me chr(27)+'&f#y3X' # is the 3 digit ID. I think this is a combination of ESC+'&f#y'(call current macro) and ESC+'&f3X'(call current macro). I've been able to get my overlay to print out using all these codes, but still am not at the finish line!

Did you try creating the macro through the print driver? I used pagemaker 6.5, but there were no special settings. It was all through the driver prompt.

Marcus