2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida

AFP Workshop AFP Viewers Donald Scrima, Master-EDP Principle AFP Education & Consulting [email protected]

Thursday Mar 18, 2010 2:30 PM - 3:20 PM

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Agenda • Introduction • Viewing AFP Data – AFP Workbench Viewer (InfoPrint) – DocBridge Viewer (Compart) – AFPviewer (Jesse Yeager)

• Where to Find AFP Viewers

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Introduction

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Viewing vs. Printing • Viewing AFP files – “soft-proofing” – Cost of test print eliminated • To setup and run a test run in operator time and taking away from production printing

– Do not need a printer (remote programmer can see the job) – Archive • after the production print need to see what sent to customer (for customer service) • Legal requirements • Reprint for damaged or lost documents

• Printing the document is costly & if not need save $$ • Viewing is fast and can be done inexpensively • Client approval by sending e-copy reduce time & shipping of paper 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida

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Introduction: AFP Concepts Resources

Data Streams

Manually move

Applications that produce MO:DCA-P data

Utilities that produce

Utilities that produce

CMT

CMR

Applications that produce

Utilities that produce

Utilities that produce

Utilities that produce

line data

Fonts

OVERLAYS

Page Segments

SPOOL

Form Definitions Page Definitions

RESOURCES ACIF

Download or FTP

Utilities that produce

PRINT DRIVER PSF

AFP Viewer Driver

PC

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Steps to Viewing AFP • • •

1 AFP file is generated for application 2 Converted to MO:DCA (if in line data format) 3 Transferred to PC where you have viewer – From Mainframe • FTP to PC • download

– From Server (AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows) • FTP • Shared file • Copy

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4 Viewing – Preparation • put data and resources in mapped paths for data & resources • In viewer setup paths to the data and resources • Font mapping may be needed

– Open in viewer

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Viewing AFP data

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Infoprint AFP Workbench Viewer • •

InfoPrint – Windows AFP Workbench Viewer v2.04.01.07 current version --free Where to get it: –

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http://www01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=95&context=SRNPPZ&dc=D400&q1=psd1*&u id=psd1P4000360&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

It is on the IBM web page BUT you get to it from the InfoPrint download web site: –

http://www.infoprintsolutionscompany.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublished/soft _downloadhome_us

– Not easy to get to!

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InfoPrint IE Windows AFP Plug-in Viewer •

Infoprint –IE Windows AFP Plug-in Viewer v 3.4.1.7 free – http://www01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=95&context=SRNPPZ&dc= D400&q1=psd1*&uid=psd1P4000233&loc=en_US&cs=utf8&lang=en – Mozilla Plug-ins • http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows-all.html

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AFP Workbench Viewer • •

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Opening files Uses standard Windows Open process OR you can Drag and Drop on desktop icon

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AFP Workbench Viewer MO:DCA •

File types that can be viewed: – – – – – – – –

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AFP (MO:DCA) BCOCA Tiff ASCII JPEG Bitmap Fax PCX

Restrictions: – Max 1000 pg – Linedata Viewing MO:DCA page

Note only the BTB viewer will show BCOCA all others do not (function in IPDS Controller)

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AFP Workbench Viewer Search “Find” •

Search the document for text string – Ex. Name, account number

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AFP Workbench Viewer Zoom • •

Zoom Full page at 50%

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AFP Workbench Viewer Paper Size • •

Paper size Found Menu
View
Papersize

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AFP Workbench Viewer Create Overlays & Page-Segments •

Create Overlays, pseg, copy pages to file, print the file

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AFP Workbench Viewer Extract pages from AFP file • You can extract page or pages from the AFP viewed file – To AFP file – Separate from printing file

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AFP Workbench Viewer Resource and Data path Resource path definition

Defining data and resources Note for use of the AFP fonts and avoide font substitution on Windows you should look at a presentation on Using Fonts with AFP Workbench viewer at: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/software/mktsupport/techdocs/afpviewer.pdf

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Compart DocBridge Viewer • Compart DocBridge

(Free viewer-demo banner & licensed $$$)

– http://www.afp-software.com/en/home/default.php – AFP Data formats: AFPDS, MO:DCA, (GOCA, IOCA (FS45), PTOCA), Linemode ASCII/EBCDIC – Graphic formatsTIFF, JPG, BMP, PCX, PNG, TGA, PDF, PCL, SVG, SAP GOF OTF+ABAP, – Extremely fast viewer – Can also be used as a browser plug-in – Standardized view using one window with tabs to display multiple files • Can open AFP file, a TIFF, PDF for comparison

– Excellent messages about opening file for viewing • Provides relatively easy to understand diagnosis of file • AFP or PCL or PDF a help in analyzing why file don’t open for viewing

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Compart DocBridge Viewer • Viewer window

Tabs for multiple documents Document navigator View area

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Compart DocBridge Viewer • Multiple views of data – For lay out, or comparison

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Compart DocBridge Viewer • Messages – Open AFP file errors and warnings displayed in popup message window – Save to a log (text) file

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AFPview • AFPview (free fully functional) – Version 1.0.8a – [email protected] – http://www.compulsivecode.com/projects.html – Not supported; • • • •

Outline fonts, BCOCA, GOCA, Some IOCA

– Program is a work in progress – Newly added convert AFP view of data to PDF – For the price a very good viewer – Plus the other utilities he provides extract resources, pages… 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida

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AFPview (2) Resources Path

Resources

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AFPview (3) Extract Pages

Extract Pages

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AFPview (4) Extract Resources

Extract Resources

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BTB Viewer • BTB Viewer (free-demo version, buy full license $) – – – –

www.btbnet.de or http://www.afpworld.com/software/btb.shtml Excellent AFP viewer Supports just about all AFP structures – supports color • support FS45

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BTB Viewer (2) • Multiple views of data – For lay out, or comparison

Main view

2 Up pages

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Where to find AFP Viewers

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AFP Viewers • AFP Workbench for Windows Viewer • IE Windows AFP (Plug-in Viewer) – (InfoPrint)

• AFPviewer – (By Jesse)

• DocBridge View – Compart

• BTB Viewer (Bata Systems reselling) • ISIS Papyrus (Plug-in Viewer) – ISISPapyrus http://www.isis-papyrus.com/e10/pages/forms/2/afpviewerdlrequest.html

• BARR/AFP viewer – Barr System

• MailProofAFP – SoftView System

• Others see “Where to find more” slide 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida

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AFP Viewers • Viewers that are part of a Software Product – Viewers that are components of AFP composition products and can NOT be used by themselves • HP Exstream : AFP Studio • Pitney Bows Emtex: Viewer • Pitney Bows: DOC1 Designer Work Center • PrintSoft : PReS MPReS Viewer (AFP) • Metavante : CSF Designer • LRS (Levi, Ray and Shoup, Inc.) : Page Center Enterprise Report Manager and Archive • Others

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Where to fine more • Search for: – AFP viewers – Advanced Function Printing Viewers – AFP Tools

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Where to fine more • Search for: – Infoprint viewers

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AFP Education & Consulting Donald Scrima,M- EDP AFP Education & Consulting 495 Grange Hall Rd Dayton, Ohio 45430 Phone: (561) 703-3058

e-mail: [email protected] AFP Education and Training Courses at YOUR site for the same cost to send one person to a vendor scheduled class. Courses offered— Introduction to AFP AFP A functional Perspective (CEU Certification Continuing Education Units) IPDS AFP Color for TransPromo Printing About the instructor Donald Scrima, M-EDP has some 30 years experience in the IT industry and Transaction Printing. He has been a System Programmer, Computer Operations Manager, Computer Trainer and System Engineer during this time. Mr. Scrima has been involved with Advanced Function Printing [Presentation] (AFP) since 1988, working with PSF, application and resource generation and IPDS hardware. Mr. Scrima received his EDP certification in 1995 and since re-certified 2 times. Don in 2009 Certified as a Master–EDP (Expertise in Print Datastreams specializing in AFP Architecture and Data Stream) newly offered by XPLOR, being one of the first to receive this EDP expert level. He has been a speaker at Xplor Global Conferences each year since 1994, primarily speaking on AFP. Don has also, presented at numerous Xplor Chapter meetings, SHARE Technical Conferences, and NaSPA, NaSTC conferences. He is currently President of the XPLOR Ohio Chapter, and has been Vise President. He is also currently XOLPR Midwest Region is President. Previously Don has served as the Southern Region President and VP, and as XPLOR Citrus Chapter President. A strong supporter of EDP certification he is currently Chair of the EDP commission and has served 2 terms on the commission. Mr. Scrima is Principle at AFP Education & Consulting, A consulting firm providing AFP training, applications development and support. Previously, he was a Sr. System Analyst Workflow Solutions III with Eastman Kodak Company, in the Inkjet Printing Solutions, Graphic Communications Group. Providing AFP and multiple data stream support for the Versamark ink jet color systems. In the past, Don was with Océ North America (Siemens Printing Systems) as a Sr. National System Engineer and Sr. Software Trainer. He has worked at Computer Learning Center, Los Angeles teaching computer operations and programming. Don began his AFP career with IBM's class on DOS/VSE PSF this to implement AFP printing in the Operations Classes he was teaching in 1988. Since then he has developed applications for print, created resources, and provided system support for PSF on VSE, VM and MVS. He has been the instructor for

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THANK YOU! For More Information

Donald Scrima, M-EDP AFP Education & Consulting [email protected]

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