For free, you can download the AFP Printer Driver from IBM.com. One of the things you can do with it is to "print" to files to create overlays and page segments.
Tools available for creating AFP documents and AFP resources are also found on the www.infoprint.com pages. See this page. <http://www.infoprint.com/internet/ipww.nsf/vwWebPublished/sw_create_en> On the mainframe, you can use OGL (Overlay Generation Language) to create overlays. You can use PPFA (Page Printer Formatting Aid) to create formdefs and pagedefs. PSF 3.4 is old. Did you mean PSF 4.3? PSF 4.3 and 4.4 are the only currently supported versions of PSF. Here is documentation for PPFA: IBM Infoprint PPFA PDF Extended Shelf<http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/XKS/ib6xks01> and for OGL http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=S544-3702-04 Current levels of OGL and PPFA support bar codes with BCOCA (Bar Code Object Content Architecture) including QR codes. The documentation for QR bar codes is not in the OGL book yet, but it is in DOC APAR PM55807. There is another old, but still available product, PMF (Print Management Facility) that uses APL2 and GDDM to create and edit fonts, pagedefs, and formdefs on z/OS. I think that the AFP Font Collection or Infoprint Fonts also came with some kind of font tools on the CD-ROM or DVD. See the book PRINT MGMT FACIL USER GD & REF (SH35-0059-03)<http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?PAG=C11&SSN=12LTA0003025518044&TRL=TXT&WRD=&PBL=sh35-0059&LST=ALL&RPP=10&submit=Go> Regards, --Roger On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Linda Mooney <[email protected]>wrote: > Greetings! > > > > My shop is interested in finding a no-cost, perhaps low-cost, product to > use for building/modifying AFP resources - pagedef, formdef, overlay, > psegs, and (possibly) fonts. We are using JES2 and PSF 3.4 on a z800 > currently. We do not have InfoPrint. We do use a fair amount of bar code > (as a callable font), and we are currently using static QR codes (loaded as > pseg), but we will want to generate them also. Currently, we run native > OGL for all AFP resource builds and modifications. > > > > I did ask our friend Google and found a couple of possibles, though the > minimum requirements they listed are so very minimal that, coupled with not > finding dates, I was left to wonder if they were viable products. > > > Can you tell me, what product(s) your shop uses and give me some insight > and links the product(s)? Also, if there is another list that I should > cross-post to, I would also appreciate that address. > > > > TIA, > > > > Linda > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
