MakeAFP Utilities

Overview | Benefits | Features

FontRAT utility

Creates and updates RAT (Resource Access Table) for TrueType, TrueType Collection, and OpenType Fonts quickly.

Supports TrueType, TrueType Collection, OpenType fonts to be embedded by an AFP application, like IBM ACIF.

Allows TrueType, OpenType fonts to be captured by the new generation of IPDS printers for achieving the best processing performances, the captured fonts are retained in the IPDS printer’s memory across the job boundaries and power cycles

Print submit utility

Enhancement to the InfoPrint Manager print submit command, submits the flat file, compressed file, encrypted file, or AES encrypted file (compatible with PKZIP 8.0 & WinZip 9.0 AES, or compatible with 7-ZIP AES) directly to the logical or physical destination of the InfoPrint Manager for AIX or Windows.

Supports compressed/encrypted input files in the formats of 7ZIP, ARJ, BZIP2, CPIO, GZIP, TAR, ZIP directly.

Can be integrated as a transform for InfoPrint Manager for Windows to receive compressed and encrypted jobs directly.

Allows a server hostname or IP address of Infoprint Manager Server to be specified, for submitting a job to a target Infoprint Manager server easily.

Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided.

AFP reprint by mail-piece or multiple page ranges

Supports reprinting of the AFP pages or page-groups by referring to multiple page numbers or page ranges which can be in random order.

Supports reprinting of the AFP page-groups by per mail-piece, such as by account numbers or mail-piece numbers.

Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided.

Supports searching of the AFP pages directly from the indexed or non-indexed flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format.

AFP input files can be specified by an AFP filename if only one AFP file is being searched, a job name if all of the AFP files under the same job name are being searched, or an AFP filename prefix if only part of the AFP files with the same filename prefix is being searched. It gives you flexible criteria to select the AFP files to be searched.

AFP sorting by the number of pages per mail-piece

Supports sorting of the AFP pages by the number of pages per mail-piece.

Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided.

Supports sorting of the AFP pages directly from the indexed or non-indexed flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format.

AFP input files can be specified by an AFP filename if only one AFP file is being sorted, a job name if all of the AFP files under the same job name are being sorted, or an AFP filename prefix if only part of the AFP files with the same filename prefix is being sorted. It gives you flexible criteria to select the AFP files to be sorted.

AFP sorting by the postal code and mail-piece

Supports sorting of the AFP pages by the postal code and the number of pages per mail-piece.

Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided.

Generates details of statistic report/log and cost of postage, supports inserting of the summary page between each sorting group on which numbers of pages and accounts for the group will be printed.

Supports sorting of the AFP pages directly from the indexed or non-indexed flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format.

AFP input files can be specified by an AFP filename if only one AFP file is being sorted, a job name if all of the AFP files under the same jobname are being sorted, or an AFP filename prefix if only part of the AFP files with the same filename prefix is being sorted. It gives you flexible criteria to select the AFP files to be sorted.

AFP splitting with the mail-piece boundary control

Supports the splitting of the AFP pages by the number of pages per file, with the mail-piece grouping boundary control the pages belonging to a group are impossible being split into the separated PDF files.

Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided.

Supports the splitting of the AFP pages directly from the indexed or non-indexed flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format.

AFP input files can be specified by an AFP filename if only one AFP file is being split, a jobname if all of the AFP files under the same jobname are being split, or an AFP filename prefix if only part of the AFP files with the same filename prefix is being split. It gives you flexible criteria to select the AFP files to be split.

Extracting AFP resources and data-object resources

Extracts the inline AFP resources from an AFP file that has embedded inline AFP resources.

Extracts the inline non-AFP data-objects resources (TrueType/OpenType fonts, EPS, JPEG, GIF, PDF, TIFF, etc) from an AFP file that has embedded data-objects.

Extracting AFP document or merging AFP documents

Extracts the AFP document portion (all of the pages) from the fully composed AFP files in which inline resources are embedded.

Merges multiple AFP files belonging to the same job into an AFP file.

Both command-line and GUI interfaces are provided.

Able to specify which type of resource still needs to be kept inline within the AFP file.

Supports extracting or merging of the AFP pages directly from the flat AFP files or compressed and encrypted AFP files in ZIP format.

Replacing legacy AFP raster fonts with outline fonts

Substitutes legacy AFP bitmap fonts with TrueType, OpenType fonts.

Substitutes legacy AFP bitmap fonts with AFP FOCA outline SBCS/ DBCS fonts.

Optional conversion can be done between East Asian legacy codepages or to Unicode UTF-16.

The complex composition of Thai characters is supported by a transformation from the legacy AFP Thai data stream.

Secured AutoMakeAFP workflow

Runs as a multithread Windows service, pulling input files by the Windows file system change notification or watch-looping interval.

Automation of job dispatching, AFP formatting, AFP reengineering (sorting, splitting, reprinting, extracting AFP document and replacing AFP legacy raster fonts with outline fonts), printing submission and delete or retain input files.

Supports compressed/encrypted input files in the formats of 7ZIP, ARJ, BZIP2, CPIO, GZIP, TAR, ZIP directly.

Retain and compress flat input files in the ZIP compress/encrypt format.

Supports compress/encrypted output AFP files directly in ZIP format.

Input record exits for ACIF

Supports your mixed ASCII/DBCS-PC (BIG5, GB18030, KSC, SJIS) line-data from open systems with InfoPrint Manager or Content Manager OnDemand directly without any pre-conversion from ASCII/DBCS PC to EBCDIC/DBCS-HOST.

Supports Thai line-data with Thai vowel auto-composition and data fields auto-alignment.

Supports Vietnamese line-data with Vietnamese vowel auto-composition and data fields auto-alignment.

MakeAFP LPD Server

Runs as a Windows Service or GUI program for receiving the print jobs via the LPR/LPD protocol from IBM mainframe, OS/400, UNIX/Linux, and Windows in high-performance.

Applies special data processes as well as operations by calling a MakeAFP program or a third-party application program for a designated queue, for example, calling MakeAFP SCS2AFP Transformer for the transformation from OS/400 SCS spooling data stream to line data or AFP.

Flexible naming control for the received file, by a combination of the job-name, client's host-name, queue-name, source-filename and client's user ID, etc.

MakeAFP LPD Server

Runs as a Windows Service or GUI program for receiving the print jobs via the LPR/LPD protocol from IBM mainframe, OS/400, UNIX/Linux, and Windows in high-performance.

Flexible naming control for the received file, by a combination of the job-name, client's host-name, queue-name, source-filename and client's user ID, etc.

Other utilities

Change the monochrome color of the AFP page segment image.

Converts an AFP page to AFP overlay.

Counts the AFP pages from the AFP files or zipped AFP files.

Converts IBM mainframe data (fixed length, variable length, delimited) to PC native text with universal encoding conversion.

Deletes the expired retain-files from your hard disks automatically.