Yes. It was originally Advanced Function Printing. Both are used. It has become wider than just printing, so it was changed to Presentation. See FAQ - AFP CONSORTIUM <https://www.afpconsortium.org/faq.html>
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > Advanced Function *Presentation* or Advanced Function *Printing*? > > I'd always heard "Printing" (though the acronym was often expanded as > "Another ****ing Printer") but Wikipedia and a raft of IBM web pages seem > to think it's "Presentation". To muddy the waters further, documents like > > https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4.0?topic=streams-advanced-function-presentation-data-stream > use the "Presentation" word but then mention "IBM Advanced Function > Printing Utilities". > > Is the "Presentation" word a backroname? Or was it always that? > > Yes, this matters not a whit in the scheme of things! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
