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IBM eServer iSeries Printing VI : Delivering the Output of e-business.
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IBM eServer iSeries Printing VI : Delivering the Output of e-business.
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Redbooks, IBM.
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1 online resource (390 pages)
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Contents -- Notices -- IBM trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Notice -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. iSeries printing software to create, manage output -- 1.1 Formatting your application data -- 1.1.1 Printer files and DDS -- 1.1.2 Infoprint Designer for iSeries -- 1.1.3 AFP Printsuite - Page Printer Formatting Aid/400 -- 1.1.4 AFP Printsuite - Advanced Print Utility (APU) -- 1.1.5 AFP PrintSuite - AFP Toolbox -- 1.1.6 AFP Utilities for iSeries - Print Format Utility -- 1.2 Building or obtaining external resources -- 1.2.1 Infoprint Designer for iSeries -- 1.2.2 AFP Utilities for iSeries -- 1.2.3 AFP Font Collection for Workstations and OS/400 -- 1.2.4 AFP Fonts/400 -- 1.2.5 AFP Driver for Windows -- 1.3 Driving the printer -- 1.3.1 OS/400 for SCS and IPDS twinaxial printers -- 1.3.2 Print Services Facility/400 -- 1.3.3 Host Print Transform -- 1.3.4 Infoprint Server for iSeries -- 1.3.5 Convert Line Data (CVTLINDTA) -- 1.3.6 SAP R/3 AFP PrintSuite feature -- 1.4 Managing the printed output -- 1.4.1 OS/400 spool support -- 1.4.2 PSF/400 spool support -- 1.4.3 Client Access/400 -- 1.4.4 AFP Viewer -- 1.4.5 Infoprint Manager for AIX and for Windows NT/2000 -- 1.5 Complementary IBM offerings -- 1.5.1 Facsimile Support/400 -- 1.5.2 Content Manager OnDemand for iSeries -- 1.5.3 Content Manager for iSeries -- 1.5.4 Backup Recovery and Media Services -- 1.6 Complementary non-IBM offerings -- 1.6.1 Office Vision/400 replacements -- Chapter 2. Advanced use of IBM Infoprint Designer for iSeries -- 2.1 Getting started with Infoprint Designer -- 2.2 Setting up the PC libraries -- 2.3 Starting a project -- 2.3.1 Overlay projects -- 2.3.2 Layout project -- 2.4 Designing and creating an overlay -- 2.4.1 Saving your work -- 2.4.2 File names -- 2.4.3 Importing existing electronic overlays -- 2.4.4 Converting pre-printed forms.

2.5 Miscellaneous hints and tips -- 2.5.1 Using the grid -- 2.5.2 Using the right mouse button -- 2.5.3 Using the Shift key -- 2.5.4 Using the Ctrl key -- 2.6 Using the Image Editor -- 2.6.1 Creating separate AFP page segments -- 2.6.2 Using Image Editor -- 2.7 Layout Editor -- 2.7.1 Selecting sample data from the iSeries server -- 2.7.2 Selecting sample data from the PC -- 2.7.3 Mapping data to the layout -- 2.8 Introduction to form and page definitions -- 2.8.1 Form definition components -- 2.8.2 Page definition components -- 2.8.3 Infoprint Designer and suppression -- 2.9 Introduction to advanced examples -- 2.9.1 Using subgroups -- 2.9.2 Adding a constant back to a subgroup -- 2.9.3 Using conditional processing -- 2.9.4 Constant text in the layout -- 2.9.5 Creating a landscape project -- 2.9.6 Multi-up barcode labels -- 2.10 Putting the application into production -- 2.10.1 Changing printer file to *LINE data -- 2.10.2 Overriding the printer file to use *LINE data -- 2.10.3 Adding page and form definitions to the printer file -- 2.10.4 Duplex and drawer selection -- 2.10.5 Library lists -- 2.10.6 Creating, copying a printer file with *LINE data and placing it higher in a library list -- 2.11 Problem quick-fixing -- 2.11.1 Library profile must exist -- 2.11.2 Missing resources -- 2.11.3 Data shown on constant back overlay -- 2.11.4 License issues and information -- Chapter 3. OS/400 V5R1 printing enhancements -- 3.1 Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) Server -- 3.1.1 IPP as a standard -- 3.1.2 IPP clients, servers, printers -- 3.1.3 IPP on the iSeries -- 3.1.4 Setting up the IPP Server for iSeries -- 3.2 DDS and printer file enhancements -- 3.2.1 CVTLINDTA -- 3.2.2 Data Description Specifications (DDS) enhancements -- 3.2.3 DDS support for Record Format Line Data -- 3.3 Unicode -- 3.3.1 OS/400 implementation of Unicode -- 3.3.2 Examples of use.

3.4 Java print support -- 3.4.1 Java classes for creating documents with XSL FOs -- 3.4.2 Java classes for creating documents with AFP -- 3.5 Miscellaneous print enhancements -- Chapter 4. Using the Infoprint Server for iSeries PDF transform -- 4.1 Why use the Infoprint Server PDF transform -- 4.2 How Infoprint Server PDF transform works -- 4.3 Setting up your PDF virtual printer -- 4.3.1 Creating the virtual printer device description -- 4.4 Installing and planning the PDF transform -- 4.5 Creating a PDF file for storing in the IFS -- 4.5.1 Creating directories to store the PDF file -- 4.5.2 Creating a PSF configuration object -- 4.6 Creating a PDF file for placing on an output queue -- 4.7 Preparing a single PDF file for e-mail -- 4.7.1 Using USRDFNDTA to specify an e-mail address -- 4.7.2 Addressing your e-mail with USRDTA and an e-mail exit program -- 4.8 Creating multiple PDF files -- 4.8.1 PSF configuration object for multiple PDF files -- 4.8.2 Printer file for multiple PDF file -- 4.8.3 Segmenting the spooled file -- 4.8.4 Naming convention for multiple files -- 4.8.5 Results of sending multiple e-mails with user exit -- 4.9 Additional considerations -- 4.9.1 Other documentation -- 4.9.2 PDF file size -- 4.9.3 E-mail exit extras -- 4.9.4 Using the e-mail exit to customize storage on the IFS -- 4.9.5 Other information available in the exit -- 4.9.6 Sending a file to multiple destinations -- 4.9.7 Using open and close to segment a spooled file -- 4.9.8 Proliferation of the PSF configuration object and device description -- 4.9.9 Using the PDF data queue -- 4.9.10 Other e-mail solutions -- 4.10 Comparing AFP and PDF indexed files -- 4.10.1 Considerations choosing the file format -- 4.11 Viewing AFP indexed files with AFP Workbench Viewer -- 4.11.1 Indexing an AFP file -- 4.11.2 Using AFP Workbench with indexed AFP files.

4.12 Viewing and indexing PDF files with Adobe Acrobat -- 4.12.1 Introduction to bookmarks in a PDF file -- 4.12.2 Creating a new bookmark -- 4.12.3 Adobe bookmark hierarchy -- Chapter 5. Infoprint Server for iSeries: CRTAFPDTA -- 5.1 Scenarios that use CRTAFPDTA -- 5.2 CRTAFPDTA overview and concepts -- 5.2.1 Example of using CRTAFPDTA -- 5.2.2 Understanding the data streams used by CRTAFPDTA -- 5.2.3 Advanced uses of CRTAFPDTA -- 5.3 CRTAFPDTA command details -- 5.3.1 Common parameters -- 5.3.2 Converting line and mixed-mode data to AFPDS -- 5.3.3 Indexing the document -- 5.3.4 Retrieving and packaging AFP resources -- 5.3.5 Creating a merged file -- 5.4 Locating and naming the output of CRTAFPDTA -- 5.5 Using the AFP Viewer with the output of CRTAFPDTA -- 5.5.1 Using the AFP Viewer via Operations Navigator -- 5.5.2 Viewing an AFP stream file -- 5.5.3 Using the IBM AFP Workbench for Windows V2 -- 5.5.4 Using the AFP Viewer plug-in with a Web browser -- 5.6 Command comparison with OS/390 ACIF -- Chapter 6. Image file transform -- 6.1 Converting PC images to AFP objects -- 6.1.1 Other image transforms available on OS/400 -- 6.2 Image transform setup -- 6.2.1 Setting the configuration -- 6.3 Converting TIFF, GIF, and JPEG images to AFP objects -- 6.3.1 Uploading your AFP resources with AFP Manager -- 6.4 Image transform options -- Chapter 7. Converting PCL, PostScript, or PDF to AFP -- 7.1 PCL and PDF/PostScript to AFP -- 7.2 Defining the PCL, PostScript, and PDF transform environment -- 7.2.1 Creating the work directory -- 7.2.2 Setting up the configuration files -- 7.2.3 Creating a device description -- 7.2.4 Creating a printer file -- 7.2.5 Starting and stopping the transform -- 7.2.6 Exit point -- 7.2.7 Font substitution for PostScript and PDF transform to AFP -- 7.3 Sending PCL or PostScript/PDF data to the iSeries.

7.3.1 Sharing the printer with NetServer -- 7.3.2 Creating your NetServer printer -- 7.3.3 Printing your file with LPD -- 7.3.4 Setting the LPD as a printer port under windows -- Chapter 8. PostScript to AFP using a different input paper tray -- 8.1 How PostScript drivers work -- 8.2 Modifying the PS2AFPD configuration file -- 8.3 Creating a PostScript document using different paper input trays -- 8.3.1 PostScript driver setup -- 8.3.2 Paper input tray statement in PostScript -- 8.4 Understanding the transform paper input tray allocation -- 8.4.1 Debugging the AFP data stream -- Chapter 9. AFP Manager -- 9.1 Importing AFP resources from a PC to the iSeries server -- 9.2 Installing AFP Manager -- 9.3 Starting AFP Manager -- 9.4 Displaying objects from other libraries -- Chapter 10. PSF configuration object and the iSeries server -- 10.1 Overview of the PSF configuration object -- 10.2 Creating a PSF configuration object -- 10.2.1 Resource configuration -- 10.2.2 Sharing options -- 10.2.3 Recovery option -- 10.2.4 PDF transform options -- 10.2.5 PSF configuration object advanced options -- Chapter 11. Font mapping table -- 11.1 Introduction to font mapping table types -- 11.1.1 Printer-resident to host-resident font character set (PHFCS) -- 11.1.2 Host-resident to printer-resident font character set (HPFCS) -- 11.1.3 Printer-resident to host-resident code page font (PHCP) -- 11.1.4 Host-resident to printer-resident code page (HPCP) -- 11.1.5 Printer-resident to printer-resident font character set (PPFCS) -- 11.1.6 Font mapping table flow -- 11.2 Using AFP Manager to manage your font mapping table -- 11.2.1 Displaying font substitution tables -- 11.2.2 Creating user font substitution tables -- 11.2.3 Related OS/400 commands -- 11.3 Example of creating user font substitution tables.

11.3.1 How the printer-resident to printer-resident mapping table works.
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