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The "AFPResources" page has been changed by Alexios Giotis. http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/AFPResources?action=diff&rev1=7&rev2=8 -------------------------------------------------- * The AFP Datastream Analyzer is a command line program that decodes AFP datastreams. It can be found by going to http://www.ibm.com and then enter "afpan" into the Search box at the top. The first returned result should point to a page from where the analyzer can be downloaded. This is really a IBM Mainframe type program and runs best when called from REXX. So you may want to download Open Object REXX from http://www.oorexx.org/. + * [[http://www.compulsivecode.com/afpexplorer.html|AFPexplorer]] - A user interface for analyzing AFP structured fields and listing / editing their values. Contains a build-in hex-editor. + + * [[http://www.compulsivecode.com/afpviewer.html|AFPViewer]] allows navigation between pages, searching and copying text, printing and extracting pages to PDF, TIF, XML, JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF. It can list the included resources and extract them to a file. Opens documents with thousand of pages using less memory compared to other viewers. + + + == Other AFP Tools == * [[http://www.winafp.com|WinAFP]] (commercial) is a great tool to inspect AFP files and to manually modify them. Content folding allows to quickly scan through large files. It runs on Microsoft Windows. @@ -39, +45 @@ * [[http://www.isis-papyrus.com/e/pages/forms/2/afpviewerdlrequest.html|ISIS Papyrus Viewer]] has recently been made available for free. It is implemented as a browser plug-in. + * IBM AFP printer Driver for Windows 2000 and XP. Creates AFP documents, overlays, and page segments from Windows applications. Substitutes any AFP character set for any of the fonts in Windows, supports dither color images, custom paper sizes, color text and graphics, 4 and 32 bit CMYK color images and referencing of TrueType fonts. Can be downloaded from http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psd1P4000187 + + * [[http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psd1P4000840|IBM Type Transformer for Windows]] generates 240 and 300 pel raster fonts and AFP Outline fonts from TrueType fonts. + + == Tips for developing with AFP == MO``:DCA & Co. have grown over time but the specifications usually don't tell if a particular feature is an old or new feature. There are still a lot of AFP/IPDS environments around which only support a very old version and only bi-level printing. Relying on just the AFP Workbench has proven to be insufficient as this viewer supports a lot of features and is quite lenient about what you do in AFP. Furthermore, fonts are painted using operating system outline fonts even if you specify bitmap fonts in your print files. Obviously, the best way to test is having an older IPDS laser printer around but there you have the problem that you get non-helpful error messages if something's wrong. Additional, unfortunately commercial, viewer applications can help further during debugging. AFP dumpers like AFPAN (see above) are also a very important source for information. It is quite sensitive to mistakes. Rule number one: Test in as many environments as possible. No single tool will be able to tell you that the file you produced is correct and works in most environments. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
