Why MakeAFP?

Ultimate Speed and Performance

The basic AFP requirements have not changed. From the beginning, throughput and performance were critical criteria - they still are. MakeAFP is designed so that even the most complex and dynamic formatting jobs can keep up at an extremely fast speed for the delivery of your mission critical AFP jobs on-demand.

MakeAFP provides user-friendly yet truly simple to use interfaces to harness the power of AFP, with which you can use very basic C programming to do your AFP application developments at ease. With MakeAFP programming in the most efficient C, you can achieve the ultimate best performance by utilizing only one processing flow from complex raw data to AFP.

Superior Quality with Smallest AFPDS

With the well-tuned MakeAFP Formatter you can generate AFP in superior presentation quality yet with an incredible smallest AFP data stream.

With MakeAFP, you can fully enjoy the advantages of the latest AFP technologies, such as BCOCA for barcode and GOCA for vector color graphics at a very small AFP data stream, using TrueType/OpenType fonts and open JPEG/TIFF/GIF/EPS/PDF object directly without any conversion.

Flexible Fonts and Universal Languages Support

With the amazing MakeAFP Formatter, you can use legacy AFP bitmap/outline fonts for your old IPDS printers, as well as the new generation of OpenType/TrueType fonts for the latest IPDS printers concurrently at ease with the same MakeAFP formatting program you developed, your investments and developments are fully protected.

With MakeAFP, not only you can use legacy ASCII/EBCDIC/DBCS- PC/DBCS-HOST encodes, but also Unicode in UTF-8 and UTF-16 are supported for your globalize AFP applications.

MakeAFP has provided the most powerful functions to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese in AFP.

High Performance AFP Archiving

MakeAFP Formatter generates the smallest AFP document file, resource file and index object file, which can be loaded into AFP archiving systems directly in high performance, like IBM Content Manager OnDemand.

IBM Content Manager OnDemand supports the advanced AFP data stream formatted with TrueType/OpenType fonts and color images in open JPEG/TIFF/GIF formats, providing superior presentation fidelity and quality.

Superior AFP Transformation Quality

MakeAFP Formatter generates the superior AFP data streams by using vector color graphics and vector outline fonts, and color images in open JPEG/TIFF/GIF formats, empowering you to achieve the best transformation performance and superior quality from AFP to your choices of e-Statements formats.

IBM AFP2PDF, AFP2XML and AFP2HTML are the recommended high performance solutions for e-Business.

Quick and Reliable e-Delivery

With AFP2EMAIL you can transform AFP to emails with attachments in PDF format on the fly in high performance, as well as import your marketing messages from a text file or the HTML messages from a HTML file including all images and other embedded items. It gives you the advantages and benefits of the quick and more reliable e-delivery, e-Statement high encryption, easy archiving and retrieving, and a much lower delivery cost.

Maximizing Efficiency and Simplify Operations

MakeAFP can be integrated with powerful and flexible Infoprint Manager seamlessly.

MakeAFP offers a suite of powerful, flexible and robust utilities for the AFP re-engineering, sorting & splitting, printing and reprinting, enhancing your AFP data stream on the fly and facilitating your production printing operations.

Secured and Automated Workflow

MakeAFP reads compressed/encrypted input file directly, and compresses/encrypts AFP output files in ZIP format on the fly with up to a 98% compression ratio and full protection using the unbreakable 256 bit AES encryption; input file can be deleted automatically according to your definitions once it is being formatted.

With the powerful multithreaded AutoMakeAFP utility, once your data file, or compressed & encrypted input data file is placed in the users designated watching directories, it is auto-dispatched to the appropriate procedures for the subsequent processes of formatting, AFP splitting & sorting, printing and input file retention or deletion.

Enjoy adding data security and automation workflow without adding complexity, saving disk space tremendously and keeping your data safely.

MakeAFP integrated solutions enable you to confidently build your AFP competitive advantages and successfully pursue new, profitable growth opportunities in AFP.