IBM AS/400 manual Chapter, Utilities, For, Advanced, Printing

Chapter 1.

What

are

the

IBM

Advanced

Function

Printing

Utilities

for

AS/400?

The

IBM

Advanced

Function Printing Utilities for AS/400 (AFP/U), Version

Release

2,

is

a

licensed program consisting three integrated utilitie

support for Advanced Function Printing (AFP) applications on AS/400. These

utilities enable you to create and

manage

electronic

forms

(overlays)

manage

image resources, and to create AFP applications

from

AS/400

data

files. The three AFP Utilities are:

Overlay

Utility:

Enables

you

to

create

electronic

forms

directly

on

AS/400

in AS/400 AFP applications. The Overlay Utility works with any

AS/400

termi

providing

an

interactive

design

interface. Overlay

Utility

functions

inc

Ÿ

Create

AFP

electronic

forms

from

any

AS/400

terminal

Ÿ

Place

text,

lines,

boxes,

shading,

bar codes,

graphics,

and page

any

location

on

the

overlay

page

Ÿ

Present

text

in

a

wide

variety

of

fonts

using

either

downloadable

(AS/400-resident)

or

printer-resident

fonts

Ÿ

Present text in either single byte character sets (SBCS) or doubl

character

sets

(DBCS)

Ÿ

Present text in four orientations (across, down, back, and up) and

(horizontal,

vertical,

and

vertical

right

to

left)

Ÿ

Define horizontal and vertical lines, with

control of

line

type

(so

dotted)

and

line

thickness

Ÿ

Define

boxes,

with

control

over

box

type

(solid,

dashed,

or

dot

Ÿ

Define

any

of

14

standard

bar

code symbologies with control over

human-readable information,

and

orientation. Supported

bar

codes

are:

– 3-of-9

code,

MHI/AIM US-3

–

Interleave 2-of-5

–

MSI Plessey

–

Industrial 2-of-5

–

Codabar

–

UPC-A

–

UPC-E

–

EAN-8

–

EAN-13

–

Matrix 2-of-5

–

POSTNET

–

Code128

–

Japan Postal

–

Royal Mail

Ÿ

Position

overlay,

page

segment, and

graphic elements by row/column or

page offset in inches or

centimeters.

Resource

Management

Utility:

Provides full management of overlay and page

segment (image) resources. Images scanned on a client workstation can

processed, resized, rotated, created, and printed. Resource Manageme

functions

include:

Ÿ

Manage

overlays

and

overlay

source

files, including print and view

Ÿ

Create page segments from scanned

image

files,

with

sizing

and

rot

options

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IBM

Corp.

1996,

1998

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