AFP 101: Introduction to Architecture (2 of 8)

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1 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida AFP 101: Introduction to Architecture (2 of 8) Donald Scrima, Master-EDP Principle AFP Education & Consulting Wednesday Mar 17, :30 AM - 11:20 AM Xplor is celebrating our 30th year with the best value and program in the electronic document industry! 1 Agenda AFP Overview Data Formats Resources Object Content Architecture Print Driver IPDS Summary XDU Tampa FL March 6,

2 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida AFP Overview Xplor is celebrating our 30th year with the best value and program in the electronic document industry! 3 What is AFP? Advanced Function Presentation Sometimes referred to Advanced Function Printing More than a PDL Architectures for creating, formatting, printing, viewing, archiving and retrieving data Open architecture: a family of software & hardware products offered by many vendors AFP over 25 years old (mature) XDU Tampa FL March 6,

3 AFP Architecture AFP Advanced Function Presentation: is (IBM) now AFP Consortium s architecture (open architecture), a family of software and hardware products (now offered by many vendors), that provide document and information presentation control, independent of specific applications and devices. XDU Tampa FL March 6, AFP Architecture Components In the AFP architecture, the presentation architecture components are divided into two major categories: (MO:DCA reference Chap 1) data streams objects The presentation architecture components are divided into these major areas: Data Streams Resources Objects Object Content Architecture Programs Devices IBM definition My subdivisions of AFP--an easer to understand set of components XDU Tampa FL March 6,

4 Programs & Products of AFP AFP is a concept implemented through a variety of products, applications and programs. Data Streams Programs Resources Applications Mixed data Utilities CMT Utilities CMR Applications MO:DCA-P data Applications line data Utilities Fonts Utilities OVERLAYS Utilities Page Segments Utilities Form Definitions Page Definitions SPOOL RESOURCES Viewer Driver PRINT DRIVER Printed page Devices XDU Tampa FL March 6, Presentation Spaces Physical Page Logical Page Data Block Container CMT Image Block Logical Page Data Block Text Block This is data to be printed Print line Print line Text Block This is data to be printed Print line Print line Text Block Text is rotated Data Block Container EPS XDU Tampa FL March 6,

5 AFP Page Anatomy Example of an all-points-addressable page Resources: CMT Overlay Letterhead can be an overlay resource containing text, image and graphics objects MO:DCA-P Composed of multiple presentation objects. Mixed Format MO:DCA-P with Line Data Data line Font Page Segment Page Definition Position line data on page Conditional processing Form Definition Physical medium sheet of paper or page Object areas Can overlap Page Objects: Presentation Text Object (s) Graphics Object Image Object Bar Code OCA: PTOCA [FOCA] GOCA IOCA BCOCA CMOCA XDU Tampa FL March CMR6, Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida Data Formats Xplor is celebrating our 30th year with the best value and program in the electronic document industry! 10 5

6 AFP Data Types AFPDS Line-Data MO:DCA Mixed Line-Data MO:DCA XDU Tampa FL March 6, AFP Data Streams AFP Data Stream (AFPDS) the AFP Data Stream is a superset of the MO:DCA-P data stream and supports these objects: Graphics (GOCA) Presentation text (PTOCA) Image (IOCA) Bar Code (BCOCA) Data formats supported in AFP Input Line Data MO:DCA Mixed Mode Output IPDS XDU Tampa FL March 6,

7 Line Data Line Data 1403 type print records fixed length, text Line data lines of text little or no structure carriage control and/or TRC usually though of as 1403 or 3211 data format line data (model 3 compatibility mode) offered the additional TRC byte for change of fonts 1403 Line Data Record 3800 CC Text 1403 impact printers CC TRC Text 3800 laser printers Used in line printing applications 1403 & 3211 type impact printers and similar plug compatible Used laser line mode printers & -3 (compatibility) CC - Carriage Control controls line spacing TRC - Table Reference Character controls font selection XDU Tampa FL March 6, MO:DCA Viewing MO:DCA (-P) Mixed Object Document Content Architecture An architected, device-independent data stream for interchanging documents. Contains structured fields / data This architecture deals with the overall structure of a composite document, sometimes called a compound document. MO:DCA defines the syntax and semantics of a document data stream composed of multiple objects of different types MO Mixed Object DCA Document Content Architecture (from SAA) A composite document is one that consists of a combination of different data types, such as formatted text with embedded images and graphics P Presentation or Print Printed page XDU Tampa FL March 6,

8 MO:DCA record; structured field Structured Field Introducer Length (2 bytes) Identifier (3 bytes) (Triplet) Flags Reserved Extension Data Padding NOTE: x 5A carriage control Not part of structured field in AFP, it is part of Operating System. See note on slide for Mixed Mode data cc byte 5A MO:DCA Structured Field Introducer Length Identifier Flags Reserved X00000 Extension Data Padding Each component of a mixed object document is defined by a structured field Structured fields are used to envelop the document components and provide commands for processing the data Identified by Structured Field Introducer composed of a length (2 bytes) and an Identifier (3 bytes) Created by an application NOTE: 1st byte of record is carriage control (cc) and is a x 5A to identify the record as AFP technically only for for S/390, z Series not used for AIX or PCs, but usually AFP records have x 5A XDU Tampa FL March 6, Mixed-Mode Data Mixed-Mode Data is a mixture of line data with the inclusion of some AFP structured fields, composed-text pages, and resource objects. And inter-mixed MO:DCA records. This permits the addition of objects to existing line data output: images graphs barcodes Begin DocumenT Invoke Medium Map Invoke Data Map MO:DCA Data Line Data End DocumenT XDU Tampa FL March 6,

9 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida Resources Xplor is celebrating our 30th year with the best value and program in the electronic document industry! 17 Resources in AFP Printer Resources Fonts Overlays Page Segments Color Mapping Table Color Mgt Resource Containers ( OCA ) Print Driver Resources Form Def Page Def Font X0xxxxxx Coded font (X0xxxxxx) T1xxxxxx Code page (T1DBASE) C0xxxxxx Raster Font character set (C0GT10) CZxxxxxx Outline Font character set (CZNA20) O1 Overlay AFP Resource S1 Page segment Container CMT [Color Mapping Tabl], CMR [Color Mgt Resource] (O1INVOIC) (S1LOGO) F1 Form definition (F100101) P1 Page definition (P1REPORT) XDU Tampa FL March 6,

10 External Resources External Resources Resources are stored separate from data in libraries on the server Form definitions F1xxxxxx Form definition (F100101) Containers CMT CMR EPS Container CMT [Color Mapping Table] CMR [Color Mgt Resource] EPS [Encapsulated PostScript] Page definitions Overlays P1xxxxxx Page definition (P1REPORT) O1xxxxxx Overlay (O1INVOIC) Page segments S1 Page segment (S1LOGO) X0xxxxxx Coded font (X0NA20) T1xxxxxx Code page Fonts (T1DBASE) C0xxxxxx Raster Font character set (C0GT10) CZxxxxxx Outline Font character set (CZNA20) XDU Tampa FL March 6, Internal Resources Internal Resources Resources are inline with the data stream no libraries needed resources are put at beginning of data ACIF utility is used to build a data stream with the resources, index of the data, and data in to a self contained AFP data stream. Some AFP emitters (e.g., IBM Windows AFP drivers, PB-Doc1, HP-Exstream Dialog, etc.) create output that includes an inline resource group. Resources Variable Encoded Data Resource Data Record XDU Tampa FL March 6,

11 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida Objects: Object Content Architecture Xplor is celebrating our 30th year with the best value and program in the electronic document industry! 21 OCA Objects Anatomy Image Object IOCA Objects: Presentation Text Object (s) OCA: PTOCA [FOCA] Graphics Object GOCA CMR Image Object Bar Code IOCA BCOCA CMOCA ACMA XDU Tampa FL March 6,

12 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida Programs: Print Driver Xplor is celebrating our 30th year with the best value and program in the electronic document industry! 23 Print Drivers Programs to process AFP data streams to Print (IPDS) data streams Print Driver IBM- PSF Infoprint Manager, PSF/400 Océ- SPS PRISMA GNC- PrintNet PrintSoft- PReS PB Emtex VIP Compart DocBridge Pilot XDU Tampa FL March 6,

13 Print Driver work flow: PSF Application Data Line Data CC / No CC MO:DCA + Inline Resources Mixed Line Data & MO:DCA MO:DCA Line Data MO:DCA RESOURCES spool formdefs IPDS Containers CMT pagedefs overlays fonts P S F IPDS IPDS Printer psegs IPDS XDU Tampa FL March 6, Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida Programs: Applications Xplor is celebrating our 30th year with the best value and program in the electronic document industry! 26 13

14 Applications: Programs: create or generate AFP data Applications that provide data streams, IBM: DCF, AFP Print Drivers for Windows, AFP Toolbox for z/os, ACIF Others: GMC, PrintSoft, HP Exstream - Dialogue, Sefas, Elixir OPS, PB Doc1, Océ PRISMA-APA, POD/PDC, others.. Application Data Line Data CC / No CC MO:DCA + Inline Resources Mixed Line Data & MO:DCA MO:DCA External Resources Line Data MO:DCA spool XDU Tampa FL March 6, Utilities: Programs: create or generate AFP resources IBM: PPFA, AFP Print Drivers for Windows, OGL, ACIF, Reblock, Type Transformer Others: GNC, PrintSoft, Exstream - Dialogue, Elixir, Sefas, Océ- PRISMA-Tools, others.. Products CRM Products OVERLAYS Products Page Segments Products Form Definitions Page Definitions Products Fonts Products CMT RESOURCES overlays psegs formdefs fonts CMR pagedefs CMT Container XDU Tampa FL March 6,

15 2010 Global Document Conference and Vendor Forum Tampa Bay, Florida Devices: IPDS Xplor is celebrating our 30th year with the best value and program in the electronic document industry! 29 Intelligent Printer Data Stream Printer language Bi-directional communication between Print Driver Software and Printer Hardware two way communication Print Driver produces IPDS data stream is specific to a printer type based on what the printer identifies as its characteristics to the print driver Provides What is IPDS? interactive exception handling positive control of error recovery Print Driver P S F IPDS IPDS IPDS Printers XDU Tampa FL March 6,

16 IPDS IPDS incorporates the following features: Applications may create source data independently of one another Such as: graphics, image, bar code, & text IPDS makes it possible for the output of these independent applications to be merged at print time resulting in an integrated mixed data page. IPDS is independent of the carrying communications protocol. IPDS transfers all data and commands through self-identifying structured fields which describe the presentation of the page IPDS provides an extensive acknowledgement protocol at the data stream level. synchronize host and printer processes exchange query/reply information return detailed exception information (error handling) XDU Tampa FL March 6, IBM IPDS Printers Kodak Versamark Océ Xerox XDU Tampa FL March 6,

17 IPDS Towers AFP Data Towers Tower function Text PTOCA PT3 PTOCA PT2 PTOCA PT1 IM Image IMD 1 IOCA FS11 IOCA FS10 IO Image IOCA FS45 IOCA FS42 IOCA FS40 Graphics GOCA DR/2V0 Bar Code BCOCA BCD1 Color Management Resource Container EPS CMT OCA CMOCA CMR Base architecture Data Towers TOWER Concept base-and-towers concept: A conceptual illustration of an architecture that shows the architecture as a base with optional towers. The base and the towers represent different degrees of function achieved by the architecture. XDU Tampa FL March 6, IPDS Data Towers For an IPDS command set Example of data tower map to command set A data tower defines the data carried XDU Tampa FL March 6,

18 APF Summary Spool CMT CRM EPS AFP data streams Print Server IPDS printers. AFPDS line data MO:DCA Mixed-mode PSF SPS VIP PrintNet PReS Infoprint 4100, 4000 XDU Tampa FL March 6, AFP Education & Consulting Donald Scrima,M- EDP AFP Education & Consulting 495 Grange Hall Rd Dayton, Ohio Phone: (561) AFP Education and Training Courses at YOUR site for the same cost to send one person to a vendor scheduled class. About the instructor Courses offered Introduction to AFP AFP A functional Perspective (CEU Certification Continuing Education Units) IPDS AFP Color for TransPromo Printing Donald Scrima, M-EDP has some 30 years experience in the IT industry and Transaction Printing. He has been a System Programmer, Computer Operations Manager, Computer Trainer and System Engineer during this time. Mr. Scrima has been involved with Advanced Function Printing [Presentation] (AFP) since 1988, working with PSF, application and resource generation and IPDS hardware. Mr. Scrima received his EDP certification in 1995 and since re-certified 2 times. Don in 2009 Certified as a Master EDP (Expertise in Print Datastreams specializing in AFP Architecture and Data Stream) newly offered by XPLOR, being one of the first to receive this EDP expert level. He has been a speaker at Xplor Global Conferences each year since 1994, primarily speaking on AFP. Don has also, presented at numerous Xplor Chapter meetings, SHARE Technical Conferences, and NaSPA, NaSTC conferences. He is currently President of the XPLOR Ohio Chapter, and has been Vise President. He is also currently XOLPR Midwest Region is President. Previously Don has served as the Southern Region President and VP, and as XPLOR Citrus Chapter President. A strong supporter of EDP certification he is currently Chair of the EDP commission and has served 2 terms on the commission. Mr. Scrima is Principle at AFP Education & Consulting, A consulting firm providing AFP training, applications development and support. Previously, he was a Sr. System Analyst Workflow Solutions III with Eastman Kodak Company, in the Inkjet Printing Solutions, Graphic Communications Group. Providing AFP and multiple data stream support for the Versamark ink jet color systems. In the past, Don was with Océ North America (Siemens Printing Systems) as a Sr. National System Engineer and Sr. Software Trainer. He has worked at Computer Learning Center, Los Angeles teaching computer operations and programming. Don began his AFP career with IBM's class on DOS/VSE PSF this to implement AFP printing in the Operations Classes he was teaching in Since then he has developed applications for print, created resources, and provided system support for PSF on VSE, VM and MVS. He has been the instructor for XDU Tampa FL March 6,

19 THANK YOU! For More Information Donald Scrima, M-EDP AFP Education & Consulting XDU Tampa FL March 6,