It's a SMOP: http://afpcinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/PTOCA-Reference-Presentation-Text-Object-Content-Architecture-Reference.pdf
It's probably more trouble than it's worth unless there is an existing program to do it. The same is true of PDF. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Edward Finnell [0000000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 4:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES2 message $HASP375 Estimate exceeded AFP is a control stream to the printer starting with x'5a' in column 1. All the rest is text andsearchable. Is AFP searchable? -----Original Message----- From: Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wed, Nov 11, 2020 7:54 am Subject: Re: JES2 message $HASP375 Estimate exceeded On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:01:44 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Graphic SPOOL files should be in the format expected by the output device or >driver. Try sending PDF to a PCL only printer nand see what happens. > I haven't a PCL printer to try. I expect it to work fine if the PCL printer driver is PDF-savvy. Even as AFP works if the writer for the PCL printer writer is AFP-savvy. And PDF is more commonly supported than AFP. IBM distributes the z/OS doc as PDF, not AFP. Is AFP searchable? >________________________________________ >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 1:23 PM > ... >Ideally for portability, graphic spool files should be in a common format >such as PDF (MacOS appear to do that), ... -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
