IBM G544-5774-01 manual Glossary, AFP. See Advanced Function Presentation

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) Vocabulary—Information Processing or from a published section of Vocabulary—Office Machines developed by Subcommittee 1, Joint Technical Committee 1, of the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC1) are identified by the symbol (I) following the definition. Because many ISO definitions are also reproduced in the American National Dictionary for Information Processing Systems, ISO definitions may also be identified by the symbol (A).

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.

Definitions that are specific to IBM products are so labeled—for example, “In SNA,” or “In the 3820 printer.”

These cross-references are used in this glossary:

vContrast with. Refers to a term that has an opposite or substantively different meaning.

vSee. Refers to multiple-word terms in which this term appears.

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 all-points-addressable concept to print on presentation devices. AFP includes creating, formatting, archiving, retrieving, viewing, distributing, and printing information. See presentation device.

AFP. See Advanced Function Presentation.

AFP data stream. A presentation data stream that is processed in the AFP environment. MO:DCA-P is the strategic AFP interchange data stream. IPDS is the strategic AFP printer data stream.

AFP Workbench Viewer. (1) An OS/2® or Windows IBM-licensed PC product that lets you see AFP output in a WYSIWYP (what-you-see-is-what-you-print) format.

(2)An OS/2 or Windows platform for the integration of AFP-enabling applications and services.

AFPDS. A term formerly used to identify the composed page, MO:DCA-P-based data stream interchanged in AFP environments.

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 cut-sheet printer. See also cassette.

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