Transforms

MakeAFP high performance transforms represent our commitment to deliver solutions to help our customers who do have multiple disparate systems to migrate from a print-centric report and document world to e-commerce, enabling enterprises to move from centralized print to electronic distribution and decentralized print if necessary, increasing efficiency and flexibility with their data transformation and delivery without changing legacy applications, reducing the operational costs associated with the production and delivery of paper-based documents, while supporting the new paperless Green World initiatives.

Quick PDF2AFP TransformsMakeAFP Transform PDF2IPM is an enhancement to Infoprint Manager for Windows or AIX running on a Dual-Core or Quad-Core processors server, with which you can achieve 2 or 4 times faster PDF2AFP ripping speed with the Dual-Core or Quad-Core processors respectively, and getting the PDF print job to be started quickly.

With latest Quad-Core processors server, you are capable to print PDF on monochrome IPDS production printers in above 1,300 PPM full speed and getting printing job to be started instantly.

Quick e-Statement DeliveryDelivering billing statements in e-Statement formats online via email systems has become a new market demand around the World, providing many benefits to both customers and billing service provider. Such as quick and more reliable e-delivery, e-Statement high encryption, easy archiving and retrieving, a much lower delivery cost, etc.

MakeAFP offers AFP2EMAIL, with this high performance AFP to email transformation, you can split indexed AFP pages by each tagged page-group boundary as an email attachment in AFP or encrypted AFP in ZIP format, or transform AFP to protected PDF as an email attachment directly on the fly, you can also import the marketing messages from a text file or the HTML messages from a HTML file including all images and other embedded items.

Quick Line/Text Data TransformsMakeAFP solutions for end-to-end line-data to indexed PDF and AFP are designed for enterprises that use document archiving systems, such as IBM Content Manager OnDemand for enterprise report management. Addressing the needs to archive high volume line and text data, and then transform to AFP or protected PDF for online delivery to customers or internal users on-demand.

MakeAFP high performance LINE2PDF and LINE2AFP transforms liberate and add value to high volume line and text data, supporting ASCII/EBCDIC ANSI/Machine CC (carriage control) codes and TRC (Table Reference Codes); supporting input data encoded in ASCII/EBCDIC, SBCS-PC/ DBCS-PC and SBCS-HOST/DBCS-HOST; including up to 10 overlays and 10 images on output pages; embedding subset of fonts in PDF and embedding resources in AFP; supporting Thai and Vietnamese vowels auto-composition and data fields auto-alignment; by using TRC codes with LINE2PDF, fonts can be easily switched with different size, color, style and boldness.

Quick SCS Data TransformsMakeAFP SCS2PDF and SCS2AFP high performance transforms can be integrated with either MakeAFP LPD Server or InfoPrint Manager for Windows, receiving SCS data stream from multiple OS/400 remote printing queues quickly; transforming SCS spooling data stream to PC native line or text data, AFP or PDF in ultimate speed; including of overlays/templates/images on output pages; embedding subset of fonts in PDF and embedding resources in AFP; supporting Thai and Vietnamese vowels auto-composition and data fields auto-alignment.

Quick AFP and PDF IndexersMakeAFP AFP Indexer accepts both TLE-tagged or non-TLE-tagged AFP inputs, does able generate AFP index, resource and document files, that can be archived into IBM Content Manager OnDemand directly in high performance. It does able compress and encrypt AFP output files in ZIP format on the fly.

MakeAFP PDF Indexer lets you add page-group bookmarks into your PDF documents, that can be used by the PDF archiving and content management systems.

AFP to PCL/PostScript TransformMakeAFP AFP2PRINT is a cost effective transform to integrate AFP printing on the low to medium speed PCL/PostScript printers, providing a smooth solution to AFP customers who want to print their AFP quickly without making any costly output applications and architectures changes.

AFP2PRINT supports paper medium control for AFP to PCL/PostScript cut-sheet printing, such as input paper trays and simplex/duplex switching. It is able to print both legacy and the latest advanced AFP data stream formatted by color vector graphics, open data-objects of images and True Type/OpenType fonts, data encoding in ASCII/EBCDIC/DBCS-PC/DBCS-HOST and Unicode UTF-8/16.

Image to AFP TransformMakeAFP offers a cost effetive high performance transform to convert your single-page or multi-page images to AFP documents or AFP page segments, supports most of popular image formats to AFP, such as GIF2AFP, JPEG2AFP, PNG2AFP, TIFF2AFP, etc, and able merge multi-pages images into single AFP output document.

AFP to Text TransformMakeAFP also provides an AFP2TXT transform and professional services required to effectively extract and re-purpose information from high-volume AFP document.