V3R2M1), 5798-Af3 (V3R7M1 And Later Releases) - IBM AS/400e User Handbook Manual

Management Utility for managing document resources, and Print Format Utility, a
"Query/AFP" tool to help you build advanced electronic output directly from AS/400 database
files. Elements within a record layout can be coded to print based on certain conditions.
Selection is determined by values of one to five variable fields in the database file.
Additional features include:
• Color can be specified in the overlay and print application design for lines and boxes.
• IOCA and IM1 image formats can be specified in the same manner with similar results.
• Australian, Japanese, and Royal Mail barcodes are supported.
• Overlay Utility: Enables design of AFP electronic forms through an AS/400 interface.
The design interface includes all elements of typical electronic forms such as lines,
boxes, text, images, graphics, and barcodes. Overlay Utility provides both an
interactive, near-graphical design interface, and a command interface. Both
AS/400-resident and printer-resident fonts are supported. Complete facilities are
included to compile, print, and manage an organization's electronic forms.
• Print Format Utility: Enables the interactive creation of special electronic printing
applications, directly from the AS/400 database. PFU is well suited for producing
packing lists, shipping labels, or similar applications that require graphical output. Both
tumble and standard duplex is supported. Print Format Utility produces complex output
that features overlays, image, and barcodes.
• Resource Management Utility: A "workbench" for AFP resources that enables you to
create, print, copy, and maintain overlays and images.
IBM Advanced Function Printing (AFP) PrintSuite for OS/400, 5798-AF2

(V3R2M1), 5798-AF3 (V3R7M1 and Later Releases)

AFP PrintSuite for AS/400 is a family of products to create electronic printing applications
(output with enhanced application data, electronic forms, barcoding, image and graphics, and
so on). The AFP PrintSuite for AS/400 solutions—Advanced Print Utility, Page Printer
Formatting Aid, AFP Toolbox, and SAP R/3 AFP Print—are generally designed to enable
AS/400 customers to transform application output without changes to the line-of-business
application.
The AFP PrintSuite for OS/400 family of advanced printing solutions are separately
orderable. The AS/400 customer (or developer) selects the product to meet their
requirements. Versions of all four AFP PrintSuite solutions were released March 1998 for
V3R2, V3R7, and later OS/400 versions.
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