Working With The Transform For Line Data; What Is Line Data - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

1. Any values you specify on the command line, including values in the
2. Values specified in the default transform command configuration file named in
3. Default values that are built into InfoPrint Manager. These are the same as the

Working with the transform for line data

InfoPrint Manager includes a line-data transform program that transforms line data
into the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) data stream. Converting the line
data lets you print it on high-speed AFP printer devices.
The line2afp command and its keywords are a subset of the AFP Conversion and
Indexing Facility (ACIF) acif command. When you use this transform and if errors
occur, you might receive some error messages that make references to ACIF.
This section describes these:
v "What is line data?"
v "What are ANSI and machine carriage controls?" on page 189
v "What are variable-length and fixed-length files?" on page 190
v "How does the imageout keyword affect processing?" on page 191
v "Customizing the line data transform" on page 192

What is line data?

Line data is simply unformatted data; data with few or no embedded control
characters to create font changes, page breaks, and so on. The term line data can
cover a variety of data streams, such as:
v Traditional line printer format, also called 1403 format
v Unformatted ASCII files without escape sequences
v DBCS (double-byte character set) ASCII files generated for an IBM 5577 or 5587.
Notes:
1. The line2afp transform does not handle DBCS ASCII files. For this type of
2. ACIF accepts EBCDIC DBCS line data files that use SOSI (shift-out/shift-in)
Line data is typically created by an application program. For example, an
application might produce a bank statement that has line data indicating an
account's daily balance.
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InfoPrint Manager for Windows: Procedures
configuration files you specify with the -C option.
InfoPrint Manager commands process options from left to right. If you enter
the same option more than once, InfoPrint Manager uses the last occurrence of
the flag to determine the value to use. For example, if you specify this
command:
tiff2afp -Cconfig.file -r240 -r300 myfile.tif
the tiff2afp command transforms the file using 300-pel resolution. InfoPrint
Manager ignores the resolution value specified in the configuration file
config.file and the first -r240 flag and value.
Table 20 on page 187.
transform defaults.
input, use the db2afp transform.
characters. ACIF must be coded with the PRMODE control statement set to
SOSI1, SOSI2 or SOSI3, as documented in the ACIF User's Guide.