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ACIF. AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility. An AFP
program you can use to convert a print file into a
MO:DCA-P document, to retrieve resources used by the
document, and to index the file for later retrieval and
viewing.
addressable point. Any point in a presentation surface
that can be identified by a coordinate from the
coordinate system of the presentation medium. See also
pel.
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP). A set of
licensed programs that use the all-points-addressable
concept to print data on a wide variety of printers or
display data on a variety of display devices. AFP also
includes creating, formatting, archiving, viewing,
retrieving, and distributing information.
Advanced Function Presentation data stream. A
presentation data stream that is processed in the AFP
environment. MO:DCA-P is the strategic AFP
interchange data stream. IPDS is the strategic AFP
printer data stream.
Advanced Function Printing Utilities for iSeries (AFP
Utilities). An IBM licensed program that includes a
group of utilities that work together to provide
Advanced Function Printing on iSeries.
Advanced Print Utility (APU). Part of the AFP
PrintSuite family of application enablers that allow
end-users to migrate existing application to advanced
electronic documents.
AFP. Advanced Function Presentation.
AFP API. Advanced Function Presentation
Application Programming Interface
AFPDS. A synonym for the composed page,
MO:DCA-P-based data stream interchanged in AFP
environments.
AFP Utilities for iSeries (AFP Utilities). Advanced
Function Printing Utilities for iSeries (AFP Utilities)
AFP Workbench for Windows. A platform for the
integration of AFP enabling applications and services.
The Viewer application is a Workbench application that
runs under WIN-OS/2 or Microsoft Windows.
all-points addressable (APA). The capability to
address, reference, and position text, overlays, and
images at any defined point (pel) on the printable area
of the paper. See page mode.
American National Standard Code for Information
Interchange. A standard code, using a coded character
set consisting of 7-bit coded characters (8-bits,
including the parity check), that is used for information
interchange among data processing systems, data
communication systems, and their associated
equipment. The ASCII set consists of control characters
and graphic characters.
APA. All points addressable.
APA printers. Devices that are all points addressable;
in other words, devices that print with picture elements
on the printing medium at any valid location on a
sheet of paper.
application program. A program written for or by a
user that applies to the user’s work, such as a program
that does inventory control or payroll.
application programmer. A programmer who is
responsible for writing programs for specific
applications. The application programmer takes
application data and writes programs to print it on line
and AFP printers.
Application System/400. The hardware on which the
OS/400 operating system runs.
APU. Advanced Print Utility
APU Monitor. A program that, when processed,
applies print definitions to selected spooled files so that
the spooled files are automatically converted to AFP
printer files.
architecture. The set of rules and conventions that
govern the creation and control of data types such as
text, image, graphics, font, fax, color, audio, bar code,
and multimedia.
ASCII. American National Standard Code for
Information Interchange
B
bar code. A code representing characters by sets of
parallel bars of varying thickness and separation that
are read optically by transverse scanning.
baseline. In a font, the imaginary line on which
successive characters are aligned in the inline direction.
batch. (1) A group of records or data processing jobs
that are brought together for processing or
transmission. (2) Pertaining to activity involving little
or no user action. Contrast with interactive.
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