>>Marcus.
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>>I've been trying to do this off an on for over a year. I have a client who prints 2,000 to 5,000 claim forms (UB92's and HCFA's) a day and I would LOVE to be able to create overlays for these forms. As it works now, I use a VFP 5.0 report form that completely duplicates the claim form, and of course all the grid lines, boilerplate etc. has to be sent down the line for every claim.
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>>I've tried embedding the overlay macro escape sequences in the report forms, calling functions from within report forms that call ??? commands, and nothing seems to work.
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>>Would it be too much to ask you to post the code you're using to do the following:
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>>1. Load/Reload the PCL file as a permanent macro (??? command I assume)
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>>2. Load / unload the overlay. (This is the part I've had the most trouble with, and I know now most of my problem has been that I have not used permanent macros.) Is it something like
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>> ??? Load Macro Command
>> REPORT FORM UB92 TO PRINT NOCON (PROMPT?)
>> ??? Unload Macro Command
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>>Of course I just realized that maybe you're not using REPORT FORM and are printing using ?,?? and ???, if so, has anyone succeeded in using PCL overlay macros in conjunction with REPORT FORM?
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>>Thanks.
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>Did you ever get this working? I too had been working on it off and on, but have finally met with some success. Let me know if you need any more help.
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>Marcus.

I completley shelved the project for a couple of reasons Marcus, but it would still be nice to get it working some day.

1. I couldn't find a product to create the PCL file. The products mentioned months ago are no longer available at the online software stores I checked. To be honest, I'm not even sure what their names were.
2. Even when I created my on little dinky overlays, the data and overlay always seemed to come out on different pages, which I see is what you were responding to in your other post.

So.... I've gone on to fry other, slightly less bonier fish, but I'm willing to give it another shot, but I confess I'd have to be walked through it pretty specifically.

Thanks for asking,

Mike Kiser