Xenos AFP to PDF

The Xenos AFP to PDF feature of the Xenos d2e™ product enables high-fidelity transformation and re-purposing of legacy IBM Advanced Function Presentation Data Streams (AFPDS) documents to high-fidelity Adobe PDF 1.4 output for web presentment, support of document archival systems and distributed printing, with no changes to existing legacy applications. The AFP to PDF (the change is to make the text AFP to PDF bold)feature supports advanced PDF capabilities include vector graphics support, shading, 128-bit encryption and linearization, as well as bookmarks, URLs, background color, images and watermarks to emulate pre-printed paper.

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AFP to PDF Supported Formats

Line data and mixed mode files that print on AFP Printers through IBM Print Services Facility (PSF).
Fully composed MO:DCA-P files or ACIF output, Psegs, IOCA FS10 and FS45 images, GOCA vector graphics, BCOCA barcode formats including 2D-Matrix.
AFP Outline Fonts. Supported for mapping only; rasterization is done by mapping to a True Type font, such as for TIFF output.
ACIF resource files, comments, TLEs and NOPs.
Resource preview and/or extraction.
ICU (International Components for Unicode) for better font control.
Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) support for AFP and index extraction from DBCS data
Outline Double Byte Fonts including IBM AFP Unicode Migration Fonts for Asian languages.
MO:DCA-P Open Type fonts.

AFP to PDF Selected Features

Assisted font mapping and visual glyph mapping
Font mapping or rasterization at a font or individual character level.
Standard ICU table to simplify mapping AFP encodings into Unicode.
Extraction of information from comment, NOP, and TLE records for indexing purposes.
Double-byte SOSI code scheme (PRMODE).
Dynamic RGB/CMYK colors.
Colored text.

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