Uploading Form Image Text

To modify an image that is being rendered on a page, you must create a new or modified form image text file in encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format and upload it to an FTP site that you choose. You can then run the process to upload this text into the Form Image Text repository.

Access the Upload EPS Image File page (Set Up SACR, and then Common Definition, and then Forms Engine, and then Process, and then Upload EPS Image File).

Follow these steps to upload form image text.

  1. Create a run control record.

    The URL is the name of the FTP domain to which you had previously uploaded the EPS file. If you uploaded it to the FTP server called MYFTPSITE, then you would enter MYFTPSITE into this field.

  2. Enter the ID and password that you used to log on to the FTP site.

  3. Retype the password in the Confirm Password field.

    The unique system file name should be a file name in 8.3-format without any blank spaces.

    Note:

    Do not enter path information. For example, MYLOGO.EPS is used for the MYLOGO form image text file. The remote file name is the path and name of the file that you specified when you uploaded it to your FTP site. The form image name is the name that Oracle uses as the key to the Form Image Text repository. Our example is MYLOGO.

  4. Submit the process.

  5. Access the Form Image Text page after the process finishes successfully. Enter a description for the image and select the Cache Form On Printer check box.

To create or modify form image text, you can create or modify the corresponding EPS file in the data directory of ps_home. For example, to create a graphic image called MYLOGO, copy the FAPSULGO.EPS file from the data directory to a file called MYLOGO.EPS. Use a simple text editor to edit it and change every occurrence of FAPSULGO with MYLOGO. You can modify the contents of the image text using a simple text editor and enter PostScript command text to construct an image.

An alternative technique for creating an EPS file for your image is to use some other program to generate the PostScript file. Some JPG files convert to EPS files that are too large to cache on the printer. You have to clear the Cache Form On Printer check box if your image is converted from a JPG file.