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AFP Utilities

 


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FontRAT utility

  • Creates and updates RAT (Resource Access Table) for TrueType/TrueType Collection/OpenType Fonts quickly
  • Supports TrueType/TrueType Collection/OpenType fonts to be embedded by an AFP application, like IBM ACIF
  • Allows TrueType/OpenType fonts to be captured by the new generation of IPDS printers for achieving the best processing performances, the captured fonts are retained in the IPDS printer’s memory across the job boundaries and power cycles

 Image conversion utility

  • Allows a single AFP OCA color to be defined for the monochrome AFP page segment
  • Provides high speed conversion of over 20 of the popular image file formats to the monochrome color AFP page segments, and allows the parameters of brightness, contrast, threshold, resolution, scale to be defined for the output AFP page segments

 Print submit utility

  • Enhancement to the IBM Infoprint Manager print submit command, submits the flat file, compressed file, encrypted file, or AES encrypted file (compatible with PKZIP 8.0 & WinZip 9.0 AES, or compatible with 7-ZIP AES) directly to the logical or physical destination of the IBM Infoprint Manager for AIX or Windows
  • Supports compressed/encrypted input file in the formats of 7ZIP, ARJ, BZIP2, CPIO, GZIP, TAR, ZIP directly
  • Can be integrated as a transform for IBM Infoprint Manager for Windows to receive compressed and encrypted jobs directly
  • Allows a server host name or IP address of Infoprint Manager Server to be specified, for submit a job to a target Infoprint Manager server easily
  • Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided

 AFP reprint by mail-piece or multiple page ranges

  • Supports reprinting of AFP pages or page-groups by referring multiple page numbers or page ranges which can be in random order
  • Supports reprinting of AFP page-groups by per mail-piece, such as by account numbers or mail-piece numbers
  • Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided
  • Supports searching of AFP pages directly from the indexed or non-indexed flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format
  • AFP input files can be specified by an AFP filename if only one AFP file is being searched, a job name if all of the AFP files under the same job name are being searched, or an AFP filename prefix if only part of the AFP files with the same filename prefix are being searched. It gives you a flexible criteria to select the AFP files to be searched

 AFP sorting by the number of pages per mail-piece

  • Supports sorting of AFP pages by the number of pages per mail-piece
  • Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided
  • Supports sorting of AFP pages directly from the indexed or non-indexed flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format
  • AFP input files can be specified by an AFP filename if only one AFP file is being sorted, a job name if all of the AFP files under the same job name are being sorted, or an AFP filename prefix if only part of the AFP files with the same filename prefix are being sorted. It gives you a flexible criteria to select the AFP files to be sorted

 AFP sorting by the postal code and mail-piece

  • Supports sorting of AFP pages by the postal code and the number of pages per mail-piece
  • Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided
  • Generates details of statistic report/log and cost of postage, supports inserting of the summary page between each sorting group on which numbers of pages and accounts for the group will be printed
  • Supports sorting of AFP pages directly from the indexed or non-indexed flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format
  • AFP input files can be specified by an AFP filename if only one AFP file is being sorted, a job name if all of the AFP files under the same jobname are being sorted, or an AFP filename prefix if only part of the AFP files with the same filename prefix are being sorted. It gives you a flexible criteria to select the AFP files to be sorted

 AFP splitting with the mail-piece boundary control

  • Supports splitting of AFP pages by the number of pages per file, with the mail-piece grouping boundary control the pages belonging to a group are impossible being split into the separated PDF files
  • Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided
  • Supports splitting of AFP pages directly from the indexed or non-indexed flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format
  • AFP input files can be specified by an AFP filename if only one AFP file is being split, a jobname if all of the AFP files under the same jobname are being split, or an AFP filename prefix if only part of the AFP files with the same filename prefix are being split. It gives you a flexible criteria to select the AFP files to be split

 Extracting AFP resources and data-object resources

  • Extracts the inline AFP resources from an AFP file that has embedded inline AFP resources
  • Extracts the inline non-AFP data-objects resources (TrueType/ OpenType fonts, EPS, JPEG, GIF, PDF, TIFF, etc) from an AFP file that has embedded data-objects

 Extracting AFP document or merging AFP documents

  • Extracts the AFP document portion (all of the pages) from the fully composed AFP files in which inline resources are embedded
  • Merges multiple AFP files belonging to the same job into an AFP file
  • Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided
  • Able to specify which type of resource still need to be kept inline within the AFP file
  • Supports extracting or merging of AFP pages directly from the flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format

 Replacing legacy AFP raster fonts with outline fonts

  • Substitutes legacy AFP bitmap fonts with TrueType/OpenType fonts
  • Substitutes legacy AFP bitmap fonts with AFP FOCA outline SBCS/ DBCS fonts
  • Optional conversion can be done between East Asian legacy codepages or to Unicode UTF-16
  • Complex composition of Thai characters is supported with transformation from the legacy AFP Thai data stream

 Secured AutoMakeAFP workflow

  • Runs as a multithreaded Windows service, pulling input files by the Windows file system change notification or watch-looping interval
  • Automation of job dispatching, AFP formatting, AFP reengineering (sorting, splitting, reprinting, extracting AFP document and replacing AFP legacy raster fonts with outline fonts), printing submission and delete or retain input files
  • Supports compressed/encrypted input files in the formats of 7ZIP, ARJ, BZIP2, CPIO, GZIP, TAR, ZIP directly
  • Retain and compress flat input files in ZIP compress/encrypt format
  • Supports compress/encrypted output AFP files directly in ZIP format

 Input record exits for ACIF

  • Supports your mixed ASCII/DBCS-PC (BIG5, GB18030, KSC, SJIS) line-data from open systems with IBM Infoprint Manager or Content Manager OnDemand directly without any pre-conversion from ASCII/DBCS PC to EBCDIC/DBCS-HOST
  • Supports Thai line-data with Thai vowel auto-composison and data fields auto-alignment
  • Supports Vietnamese line-data with Vietnamese vowel auto-composison and data fields auto-alignment

 JES2AFP Exit Program for Infoprint Manager for Windows

  • Runs as an exit program on Infoprint Manager for Windows, receives JES2 spool data via PSF Download for z/OS in high performance
  • Converts EBCDIC, SBCS/DBCS host line data to PC native line data, and even with compression and 256 bits AES encryption on the fly
  • Formats data to AFP or compressed/encrypted AFP via IBM ACIF or your MakeAFP program

MakeAFP LPD Server

  • Runs as a Windows Service or GUI program for receiving of the print jobs via the LPR/LPD protocol from IBM mainframe, OS/400, UNIX/Linux, and Windows in high performance
  • Applies special data processes as well as operations by calling a MakeAFP program or a third party application program for a designated queue, for example, calling MakeAFP SCS2AFP Transformer for the transformation from OS/400 SCS spooling data stream to line data or AFP.
  • Flexible naming control for the received file, by a combination of the job-name, client's host-name, queue-name, source-filename and client's user ID, etc

 Other utilities

  • Change monochrome color of AFP page segment image
  • Converts an AFP page to AFP overlay
  • Transforms legacy multiple-up AFP (generated by some AFP software) from physical 2-Up to 1-UP
  • Counts the AFP pages from the AFP files or zipped AFP files
  • Converts IBM mainframe data (fixed length, variable length, delimited) to PC native text with universal encoding conversion
  • Deletes the expired retain-files from your hard disks automatically
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