IBM S544-5285-01 manual Goca, ioca Orrestype=all, Pds

location	is	the record	containing	the new-page carriage control	characte
example,	a	skip-to-channel 1). The application would need to add the ind
trigger	and	attribute	value to	this record at a specified	location o

the print file. This allows ACIF to retrieve this information at process

information	about different	types	of	carriage		control characters,	see
of thecctype	parameter on	27 for	AIX,	or	89	for OS/390 or MVS,	VM, an

Retrieving Resources

ACIF can determine the list of required AFP resources needed to view document and can retrieve these resources from the specified librari can view or print the document with fidelity. This ACIF function is es valuable if the resources are not present on the designated platform print environment.

When you archive a document, ACIF also allows

you to archive the retr

resources

(fonts,

page

segments, and

so

on) in

the form in which they

when

the file

was

printed.

By

archiving

the

original resources,

you c

the

document with

fidelity

at

a later

date,

even

if the

resources

that

time.

For

example,

suppose

that

a

page

segment

contains

a

company

signature		and is included in the print data. When someone else replace
officer,		current print files must reference the new officer's signatur
files must		reference	the former	officer's	signature.
The	type	of resources ACIF retrieves from specified libraries is ba
of	therestype	parameter.	When ACIF	processes	a print file, it:

ŸIdentifies the resources requested by the print file

While ACIF converts the input file into an AFP document, it builds a the resources necessary to successfully print the document, including

resources	referenced inside other resources.	For example,	a page
an overlay,	and an overlay can reference other	resources	such as
page segments.

ŸCreates a resource file

ACIF

creates

a

logical resource

library

in

the

form

of

an

AFP

reso

and stores this resource group in a resource file. If you spec

restype=fdef,font,pseg,ovly,objcon,bcoca,

goca, ioca,

orrestype=all ,

this

resource file

contains

all

the

resources

necessary

to

view

or

prin

with

fidelity.

Each

time

ACIF processes a print file, it can crea

in

one of

two

different

formats:

–

A

partitioned

data

set

(PDS).

The

PDS

format is supported only on

or MVS and allows the

resource

file to

be

referenced as

a us

(USERLIB)

when printing

with

PSF.

– An AFP data-stream resource group. The

AFP resource-group format is

useful

when

you

are

routing

print

output

to

remote

AFP

platforms

example,

PSF/2

on

OS/2)

or

when

you

are

viewing the

output

with

Viewer

application

of

AFP

Workbench.

ŸCalls the specified resource exit for each resource it retrieves

Before ACIF retrieves a resource from a library, it first calls t program as specifiedresexitin theparameter. You can write an exit program to filter out any resources you do not want included in the resou example, the exit program can specify that all referenced fonts e

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