Appendix C. Format of the Index Object File

General-use Programming Interface and Associated Guidance Information i contained in this appendix.

One of the optional files ACIF can produce contains indexing, offset, information. The purpose of this file is to enable applications such retrieval applications to selectively determine the location of a pag within the AFP data stream print file, based on its index (tag) valu

The following example shows the general internal format of this object

BDI

IEL GroupName=G1

TLE (INDEX1)

...

TLE (INDEXn)

IEL PageName=G1P1

TLE (INDEX1)

...

TLE (INDEXn)

...

IEL PageName=G1Pn

...

IEL GroupName=Gn

TLE (INDEX1)

...

TLE (INDEXn)

IEL PageName=GnP1

TLE (INDEX1)

...

TLE (INDEXn)

...

IEL PageName=GnPn

EDI

The example illustrates an index object file containing both page-level group-level Index Element (IEL) structured fields. Because ACIF can c structured fields only at the group level, the print file that was create this example of an index object file already contained page group-level TLE structured fields.

Group-Level Index Element (IEL) Structured Field

IfINDEXOBJ=GROUPis specified, ACIF creates an index object file following format:

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