part of the AFP architecture and enable the pages to be formatted independently of the application program. Infoprint Designer for iSeries is a fully graphical output composition system that uses these resources to design new applications or
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| Figure 1. iSeries Printing without Infoprint Server | |
| Infoprint Server opens up this print architecture. Figure 2 on page 5 shows the | |
| functional elements that Infoprint Server adds to the picture. The Infoprint Server | |
| components are shaded. The general focus is in two major areas: (1) projecting | |
| OS/400 output to the network, and (2) incorporating the network into the OS/400 | |
| print functions. | |
Infoprint Server has five functional components: | ||
v | PDF services | |
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v PDF, PostScript, and PCL to AFP datastream transforms | ||
v Create AFP Data command for AFP indexing and creation of portable AFP | ||
v Image transforms for GIF, TIFF, and JPEG to iSeries format | ||
Let’s go through the Infoprint Server functional elements one by one. First, | ||
transforms have been built into OS/400 that convert several types of input data to | ||
Printer Control Language (PCL), PostScript, or Portable Document Format (PDF) | ||
print data. This enables most ASCII output created in the OS/400 or on the network | ||
to be put in native OS/400 format (AFP), which lets users take advantage of the | ||
OS/400 print management capabilities. These transforms are managed by | ||
Transform Manager. | ||
A central component of Infoprint Server is the PDF subsystem. This subsystem | ||
enables the conversion of any standard OS/400 output (SCS, AFP, mixed data, | ||
IPDS, or OfficeVision/400™) to Adobe PDF. The conversion process is highly | ||
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