Glossary
This glossary defines technical terms and abbreviations used in Infoprint Server documentation. If you do not find the term you are looking for, refer to the index of this publication or view IBM Dictionary of Computing,, located at:
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Definitions reprinted from the American National Dictionary for Information Processing Systems are identified by the symbol (A) following the definition.
Definitions reprinted from a published section of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Definitions reprinted from working documents, draft proposals, or draft international standards of ISO Technical Committee 97, Subcommittee 1 (Vocabulary), Joint Technical Committee 1 are identified by the symbol (T) following the definition, indicating that final agreement has not yet been reached among its participating members.
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vContrast with. Refers to a term that has an opposite or substantively different meaning.
vSee. Refers to
vSee also. Refers to related terms that have similar, but not synonymous, meanings.
vSynonym for. Appears in the commentary of a less desirable or less specific term and identifies the preferred term that has the same meaning.
vSynonymous with. Appears in the commentary of a preferred term and identifies less desirable or less specific terms that have the same meaning.
A
Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP). A set of licensed programs, together with user applications, that use the
AFP. See Advanced Function Presentation.
AFP data stream. A presentation data stream that is processed in the AFP environment.
AFP Workbench Viewer. (1) An OS/2® or Windows
(2)An OS/2 or Windows platform for the integration of
AFPDS. A term formerly used to identify the composed page,
anchor. The point in a document that signals to CRTAFPDTA the beginning of a group of pages, after which it adds indexing structured fields to delineate this group.
architecture. The set of rules and conventions that govern the creation and control of data types such as text, image, graphics, font, fax, color, audio, bar code, and multimedia.
ASCII. American National Standard Code for Information Interchange data encoding, which is the normal (default) type of data encoding in an AIX environment. Contrast with EBCDIC.
B
Bar Code Object Content Architecture (BCOCA). An
architected collection of control structures used to interchange and present bar code data.
BCOCA. See Bar Code Object Content Architecture.
bin. A paper supply on a
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