building blocks making the composed modca:p (afp) documents

Building blocks making the composed

MODCA:P (AFP) documents

leif schmidtNordea

[email protected]

20 October 2010 AFP byggeklodser2

AFP building blocks Font

– Raster, Outline (vector)

– Character set

– Code page

Electronic overlays

Formdef

– Copy groups

– Subgroups

Pagedef

– Pageformats

– conditions

Segment

– (IOCA, GOCA, FS12…)


AFP printing environments

Developmentenvironment

Test environment

High volume centralized print

Production environment

Local print


AFP resource liraries Font libraries

Overlay libraries

Formdef libraries

Pagedef libraries

Segment libraries

Developmentenvironment

Test environment

High volume centralized print

Production environment

Local print


MVS

Fontlib PdeflibFdeflibPseglib Overlib

Resource libraries – development tools

Overlay Generation Language

(OGL)

Page PresentationFormatting Aid

(PPFA)

Font (FSLF)


WYSIWYGplatform

FONTlib

MVS

FONTlib PDEFlibFDEFlibPSEGlib OVERlib

Resource libraries – development tools

Overlay Generation Language

(OGL)

Page PresentationFormatting Aid

(PPFA)Font

(FSLF)

AFP Designer

ScannerClipboard /

coding

AFP printer-driver

Image Editor

Word doc

Font EditorFont Converter

PSEGlib OVERlib FDEFlib PDEFlibOGL PPFA


FONTs (raster)(X0….)

Character ( set C0..)

“Code page” (T1..)

Character editor


Character box - uniform fonts - typographical fonts

- placement in box - edit - convert - modify - a.o.


Character setcollection of single characters with common features

FGID and GCSGID can be useful values in data exchange and conversion. So do not change values without knowing the consequences


FONTS

Basic information per font and character set

Create raster font family with character sets

Create one rasterfont and character set

Create an outline (vector)font and character set


Segments (images) Scan

Convert/edit

Draw / paint


OverlayStandard Resources:- fonts- segments (images)

Typical elements:- text (alignment) - rules- boxes- circles- path- segments

Typical commands- position- settext- drawbox- place- drawrule


Formdef

- Copy group

- subgroups

- overlays

O1NGRP0F

O1NGRP0G


Pagedef- fonts- overlays- segments- Pageformats - printline /layout - conditions - channel - field - text - font - alignment - position - direction


Print resources & data


zOS - DK

Print vendor

Application system

Output management

Print recordsRDMS

ACIF parmscentral print

Indexed composed documents

Application system

Print recordsDSN

Output management

Print and Post Processing

zOS – Doc repositoryIBM CM OD

ZIP & FTP

Receiver job

(triggered)

Index

Composeddocuments

Resources

Update

Archives

Servlet

Local printer

1

transmit

2

3

Receipt

4

5

6

7Print

RessourceLibraries

ACIFACIF

Resources

Index

Composeddocuments

Resources

ACIF parmsArchives


Blue string = (existing) industrial print document

1) the application delivers output records to the central document management system, RDMS

2) according to scheduled plan (Tivoli/OPC) the print data are extracted and supplied with the correct parametres for execution

3) the documents are formatted with a standard ACIF* procedure. The dataset containing the print resources is placed in front of the documents in the document dataset. The index file is not created – instead internal indexes called TLEs are created along with security marks and envelope codes.

4) the dataset is zipped and transmitted for industrial production.

If the documents are planned to be archives as well the original RDMs extracted dataset is also used in the yellow string (point 2½ - 6)

* ACIF = AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility.

Yellow string = (existing) local print document

1) the application write output records to allocated datasets

2) according to scheduled plan (Tivoli/OPC) the output dataset is supplied with the correct parametres for execution

3) the documents are formatted with a standard ACIF procedure. The output per document logically consists of three elements: index, print resources, composed pages. They can be placed in one, two or three physical datasets.

4) the composed documents including resources and indexes are transmitted to the Swedish LPAR (Life & Pension use Connect Direct). Many of the documents are also printed on a local printer.

5) as soon as the dataset is recognized (from name, class, etc.) on the Swedish platform a receipt is send back and

6) an archive job is started using the parameters belonging to the job. A final update receipt is send back to the origin platform.

7) Servlets are used for finding and presenting the archived documents and will not be described here

building blocks making the composed modca:p (afp) documents

Documents

character setscreate

character set c0

text font

print data

alignment position

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document dataset

text alignment rules