Examples of creating transform objects
These show three specific examples (from simple to more advanced) for creating
transform objects. The second and third examples require additional programming
to create the programs that are called from the Transform options field. This
section should suggest how you can use transform objects to customize your
InfoPrint Manager installation.
Creating a transform object to copy to a file without printing
To define a data stream transform object from the InfoPrint Manager
Administration GUI that takes an AFP input file and copies it to a file location on
the hard drive without printing the output, use this procedure:
1. Start the InfoPrint Manager Administration GUI.
2. Click Server, and select Transform → Create.
3. In the Create Transform dialog, fill in the fields as shown in either Figure 15 on
4. Since you do not want the job to be printed, click Transform only to indicate
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page 215 or Figure 16 on page 216, depending upon your operating system.
These values create a transform that copies AFP input data to an \afp folder on
a specific drive on Windows or a /usr/samp file system on AIX. Also, it names
the transformed file with the name of the original file name because of the %n
substitution variable.
that this transform is a terminating transform.