IBM eServer iSeries printing VI : delivering the output of e-business / Jacques Hofstetter, Simon Hodkin, Mira Shnier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hofstetter, Jacques.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Hodkin, Simon.

Shnier, Mira.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Client/server computing.

IBM AS/400 (Computer).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

San Jose, CA : IBM Redbooks, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Notices

IBM trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Notice

Comments welcome

Chapter 1. iSeries printing software to create, manage output

1.1 Formatting your application data

1.1.1 Printer files and DDS

1.1.2 Infoprint Designer for iSeries

1.1.3 AFP Printsuite - Page Printer Formatting Aid/400

1.1.4 AFP Printsuite - Advanced Print Utility (APU)

1.1.5 AFP PrintSuite - AFP Toolbox

1.1.6 AFP Utilities for iSeries - Print Format Utility

1.2 Building or obtaining external resources

1.2.1 Infoprint Designer for iSeries

1.2.2 AFP Utilities for iSeries

1.2.3 AFP Font Collection for Workstations and OS/400

1.2.4 AFP Fonts/400

1.2.5 AFP Driver for Windows

1.3 Driving the printer

1.3.1 OS/400 for SCS and IPDS twinaxial printers

1.3.2 Print Services Facility/400

1.3.3 Host Print Transform

1.3.4 Infoprint Server for iSeries

1.3.5 Convert Line Data (CVTLINDTA)

1.3.6 SAP R/3 AFP PrintSuite feature

1.4 Managing the printed output

1.4.1 OS/400 spool support

1.4.2 PSF/400 spool support

1.4.3 Client Access/400

1.4.4 AFP Viewer

1.4.5 Infoprint Manager for AIX and for Windows NT/2000

1.5 Complementary IBM offerings

1.5.1 Facsimile Support/400

1.5.2 Content Manager OnDemand for iSeries

1.5.3 Content Manager for iSeries

1.5.4 Backup Recovery and Media Services

1.6 Complementary non-IBM offerings

1.6.1 Office Vision/400 replacements

Chapter 2. Advanced use of IBM Infoprint Designer for iSeries

2.1 Getting started with Infoprint Designer

2.2 Setting up the PC libraries

2.3 Starting a project

2.3.1 Overlay projects

2.3.2 Layout project

2.4 Designing and creating an overlay

2.4.1 Saving your work

2.4.2 File names

2.4.3 Importing existing electronic overlays

2.4.4 Converting pre-printed forms.

2.5 Miscellaneous hints and tips

2.5.1 Using the grid

2.5.2 Using the right mouse button

2.5.3 Using the Shift key

2.5.4 Using the Ctrl key

2.6 Using the Image Editor

2.6.1 Creating separate AFP page segments

2.6.2 Using Image Editor

2.7 Layout Editor

2.7.1 Selecting sample data from the iSeries server

2.7.2 Selecting sample data from the PC

2.7.3 Mapping data to the layout

2.8 Introduction to form and page definitions

2.8.1 Form definition components

2.8.2 Page definition components

2.8.3 Infoprint Designer and suppression

2.9 Introduction to advanced examples

2.9.1 Using subgroups

2.9.2 Adding a constant back to a subgroup

2.9.3 Using conditional processing

2.9.4 Constant text in the layout

2.9.5 Creating a landscape project

2.9.6 Multi-up barcode labels

2.10 Putting the application into production

2.10.1 Changing printer file to *LINE data

2.10.2 Overriding the printer file to use *LINE data

2.10.3 Adding page and form definitions to the printer file

2.10.4 Duplex and drawer selection

2.10.5 Library lists

2.10.6 Creating, copying a printer file with *LINE data and placing it higher in a library list

2.11 Problem quick-fixing

2.11.1 Library profile must exist

2.11.2 Missing resources

2.11.3 Data shown on constant back overlay

2.11.4 License issues and information

Chapter 3. OS/400 V5R1 printing enhancements

3.1 Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) Server

3.1.1 IPP as a standard

3.1.2 IPP clients, servers, printers

3.1.3 IPP on the iSeries

3.1.4 Setting up the IPP Server for iSeries

3.2 DDS and printer file enhancements

3.2.1 CVTLINDTA

3.2.2 Data Description Specifications (DDS) enhancements

3.2.3 DDS support for Record Format Line Data

3.3 Unicode

3.3.1 OS/400 implementation of Unicode

3.3.2 Examples of use.

3.4 Java print support

3.4.1 Java classes for creating documents with XSL FOs

3.4.2 Java classes for creating documents with AFP

3.5 Miscellaneous print enhancements

Chapter 4. Using the Infoprint Server for iSeries PDF transform

4.1 Why use the Infoprint Server PDF transform

4.2 How Infoprint Server PDF transform works

4.3 Setting up your PDF virtual printer

4.3.1 Creating the virtual printer device description

4.4 Installing and planning the PDF transform

4.5 Creating a PDF file for storing in the IFS

4.5.1 Creating directories to store the PDF file

4.5.2 Creating a PSF configuration object

4.6 Creating a PDF file for placing on an output queue

4.7 Preparing a single PDF file for e-mail

4.7.1 Using USRDFNDTA to specify an e-mail address

4.7.2 Addressing your e-mail with USRDTA and an e-mail exit program

4.8 Creating multiple PDF files

4.8.1 PSF configuration object for multiple PDF files

4.8.2 Printer file for multiple PDF file

4.8.3 Segmenting the spooled file

4.8.4 Naming convention for multiple files

4.8.5 Results of sending multiple e-mails with user exit

4.9 Additional considerations

4.9.1 Other documentation

4.9.2 PDF file size

4.9.3 E-mail exit extras

4.9.4 Using the e-mail exit to customize storage on the IFS

4.9.5 Other information available in the exit

4.9.6 Sending a file to multiple destinations

4.9.7 Using open and close to segment a spooled file

4.9.8 Proliferation of the PSF configuration object and device description

4.9.9 Using the PDF data queue

4.9.10 Other e-mail solutions

4.10 Comparing AFP and PDF indexed files

4.10.1 Considerations choosing the file format

4.11 Viewing AFP indexed files with AFP Workbench Viewer

4.11.1 Indexing an AFP file

4.11.2 Using AFP Workbench with indexed AFP files.

4.12 Viewing and indexing PDF files with Adobe Acrobat

4.12.1 Introduction to bookmarks in a PDF file

4.12.2 Creating a new bookmark

4.12.3 Adobe bookmark hierarchy

Chapter 5. Infoprint Server for iSeries: CRTAFPDTA

5.1 Scenarios that use CRTAFPDTA

5.2 CRTAFPDTA overview and concepts

5.2.1 Example of using CRTAFPDTA

5.2.2 Understanding the data streams used by CRTAFPDTA

5.2.3 Advanced uses of CRTAFPDTA

5.3 CRTAFPDTA command details

5.3.1 Common parameters

5.3.2 Converting line and mixed-mode data to AFPDS

5.3.3 Indexing the document

5.3.4 Retrieving and packaging AFP resources

5.3.5 Creating a merged file

5.4 Locating and naming the output of CRTAFPDTA

5.5 Using the AFP Viewer with the output of CRTAFPDTA

5.5.1 Using the AFP Viewer via Operations Navigator

5.5.2 Viewing an AFP stream file

5.5.3 Using the IBM AFP Workbench for Windows V2

5.5.4 Using the AFP Viewer plug-in with a Web browser

5.6 Command comparison with OS/390 ACIF

Chapter 6. Image file transform

6.1 Converting PC images to AFP objects

6.1.1 Other image transforms available on OS/400

6.2 Image transform setup

6.2.1 Setting the configuration

6.3 Converting TIFF, GIF, and JPEG images to AFP objects

6.3.1 Uploading your AFP resources with AFP Manager

6.4 Image transform options

Chapter 7. Converting PCL, PostScript, or PDF to AFP

7.1 PCL and PDF/PostScript to AFP

7.2 Defining the PCL, PostScript, and PDF transform environment

7.2.1 Creating the work directory

7.2.2 Setting up the configuration files

7.2.3 Creating a device description

7.2.4 Creating a printer file

7.2.5 Starting and stopping the transform

7.2.6 Exit point

7.2.7 Font substitution for PostScript and PDF transform to AFP

7.3 Sending PCL or PostScript/PDF data to the iSeries.

7.3.1 Sharing the printer with NetServer

7.3.2 Creating your NetServer printer

7.3.3 Printing your file with LPD

7.3.4 Setting the LPD as a printer port under windows

Chapter 8. PostScript to AFP using a different input paper tray

8.1 How PostScript drivers work

8.2 Modifying the PS2AFPD configuration file

8.3 Creating a PostScript document using different paper input trays

8.3.1 PostScript driver setup

8.3.2 Paper input tray statement in PostScript

8.4 Understanding the transform paper input tray allocation

8.4.1 Debugging the AFP data stream

Chapter 9. AFP Manager

9.1 Importing AFP resources from a PC to the iSeries server

9.2 Installing AFP Manager

9.3 Starting AFP Manager

9.4 Displaying objects from other libraries

Chapter 10. PSF configuration object and the iSeries server

10.1 Overview of the PSF configuration object

10.2 Creating a PSF configuration object

10.2.1 Resource configuration

10.2.2 Sharing options

10.2.3 Recovery option

10.2.4 PDF transform options

10.2.5 PSF configuration object advanced options

Chapter 11. Font mapping table

11.1 Introduction to font mapping table types

11.1.1 Printer-resident to host-resident font character set (PHFCS)

11.1.2 Host-resident to printer-resident font character set (HPFCS)

11.1.3 Printer-resident to host-resident code page font (PHCP)

11.1.4 Host-resident to printer-resident code page (HPCP)

11.1.5 Printer-resident to printer-resident font character set (PPFCS)

11.1.6 Font mapping table flow

11.2 Using AFP Manager to manage your font mapping table

11.2.1 Displaying font substitution tables

11.2.2 Creating user font substitution tables

11.2.3 Related OS/400 commands

11.3 Example of creating user font substitution tables.

11.3.1 How the printer-resident to printer-resident mapping table works.

Notes:

"May 2002."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

647465707