IBM AS/400 Chapter 1. What are the IBM Advanced Function Printing Utilities for AS/400?

Chapter 1. What are the IBM Advanced Function PrintingUtilities for AS/400?

|The IBM Advanced Function Printing Utilities for AS/400 (AFP/U), Version 4

|Release 2, is a licensed program consisting three integrated utilities that provide

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

|utilities enable you to create and manage electronic forms (overlays), to create and

|manage image resources, and to create AFP applications from AS/400 database

|files. The three AFP Utilities are:

|Overlay Utility: Enables you to create electronic forms directly on AS/400 for use

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

|providing an interactive design interface. Overlay Utility functions include:

|Create AFP electronic forms from any AS/400 terminal

|Place text, lines, boxes, shading, bar codes, graphics, and page segments at

|any location on the overlay page

|Present text in a wide variety of fonts using either downloadable fonts

|(AS/400-resident) or printer-resident fonts

|Present text in either single byte character sets (SBCS) or double byte

|character sets (DBCS)

|Present text in four orientations (across, down, back, and up) and three formats

|(horizontal, vertical, and vertical right to left)

|Define horizontal and vertical lines, with control of line type (solid, dashed, or

|dotted) and line thickness

|Define boxes, with control over box type (solid, dashed, or dotted) and shading

|Define any of 14 standard bar code symbologies with control over sizing,

|human-readable information, and orientation. Supported bar codes are:

|– 3-of-9 code, MHI/AIM US-3

| – Interleave2-of-5

| – MSIPlessey

| – Industrial2-of-5

| – Codabar

| – UPC-A

| – UPC-E

| – EAN-8

| – EAN-13

| – Matrix2-of-5

| – POSTNET

| – Code128

| – JapanPostal

| – RoyalMail

|Position overlay, page segment, and graphic elements by row/column or direct

|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 be

|processed, resized, rotated, created, and printed. Resource Management Utility

|functions include:

|Manage overlays and overlay source files, including print and view options

|Create page segments from scanned image files, with sizing and rotation

|options