Menu item16: Convert spool file into TEXT (CVTSPLTXT)

Determines if textual content derived from an overlay or page segment object will be included in the output.

Overlays often contain constants, labels, and heading text while the spooled file contains the variable data associated with those constants, labels, and headings. For example, an invoicing application where the overlay might contain text such as "Customer Name", "Invoice Number," and "Invoice Date" and the spooled file supplies the actual customer name, invoice number, and invoice date information to be printed alongside those labels.

In some circumstances, for example when creating PDF versions of the spooled file, it may be appropriate to include the overlay text. How-ever, in other circumstances, for example when identifying bookmark text, it might be more appropriate to exclude the overlay text and process the variable data from the spooled file.

This parameter indicates which option should be chosen.

This parameter defines if blank lines in the original spooled file should be duplicated in the output or data stream file.

This option determines the way in which i-effect defines the report's line numbers for text file creation and text selection ( e.g. for bookmarks, Split Key, and exit program parameters).
It is not clear how text lines for text parts should be defined by the *ROWCOL method if the spooled files text contains different font sizes, especially with proportional fonts.

This option specifies the CPI (Characters Per Inch) value which i-effect will use to calculate column positions in the text file.
Where the spooled file contains text with different font sizes, especially proportional fonts, it is not obvious how to calculate the column position for a piece of text. Both DSPSPLF and, by default, i-effect use the CPI attribute of the spooled file. If this does not render the desired results, for example, if characters overlay one another, try specifying a higher CPI value here than that given in the spooled file attributes.