| – In VSE, specify variable length records for the record format (variable
| blocked with ANSI carriage control characters [VBA] or variable blocked
| with machine carriage control characters [VBM]).
| You can include more than one inline form definition in an input file, and you
| can change the form definition name in the FORMDEF parameter on different
| printing jobs to test different form definitions.
|Notes:
| 1. If the name specified for the FORMDEF parameter does not match the
| name of an inline form definition, ACIF looks for the form definition in the
|FORMDEF search path.
| 2. If you specify FORMDEF=DUMMY, and you do not include an inline form
| definition, ACIF reports an error condition and terminates processing.
| 3. Also, the FORMDEF parameter is required. If this parameter is not
| specified, ACIF reports an error condition and terminates processing.
GROUPNAME=INDEX1 | INDEXn
Specifies which of the eight possible INDEX values should be used as the
group name for each index group. Using the most unique index value for the
group name is recommended. The intent is to have a unique group name for
every group ACIF produces in the output file. If this parameter is not specified,
ACIF uses the value of INDEX1 as the default. The value includes the FIELD
definitions from the INDEX parameter but does not include the attribute name.
ACIF uses this parameter only when the file is indexed. The Viewer application
of AFP Workbench displays this value along with the attribute name and index
value. You can use the group name to select a group of pages to be viewed.
IMAGEOUT=ASIS | IOCA
Specifies the format of the image data produced by ACIF in the output
document. ASIS specifies that ACIF produce the same image format as in the
input file. IOCA specifies that ACIF produce all image data in uncompressed
IOCA format.
INDEX
n
=
‘attribute name’
, FIELDn[,FIELDn...]
Specifies the content of the indexing tags for the entire file. A maximum of 8
indexes can be defined (INDEX1, INDEX2,... INDEX8), and each index can be
made up of one or more FIELD definitions.
If literal values are specified for every index, ACIF treats the entire file as one
page group and uses this information to index the document. ACIF reports an
error condition and terminates processing if literal values are specified for all
INDEXn parameters and if any TRIGGERn parameters are also specified.
For FIELD parameters that specify data values within the file, ACIF determines
the actual location of the indexing information based on the indexing anchor
record, set by the TRIGGER parameters.
A valid set of index parameters comprises:
FIELD definitions containing only constant data (literal values), or
FIELD definitions containing both constant data and application data (data
fields in the print file)
You can also specify the same FIELD parameters in more than one INDEX
parameter.
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