IBM G544-5774-01 - Manual (Page 15)

part of the AFP architecture and enable the pages to be formatted independently of
the application program. Infoprint Designer for iSeries is a fully graphical output
composition system that uses these resources to design new applications or
re-engineer existing ones.
Infoprint Server opens up this print architecture. Figure 2 on page 5 shows the
functional elements that Infoprint Server adds to the picture. The Infoprint Server
components are shaded. The general focus is in two major areas: (1) projecting
OS/400 output to the network, and (2) incorporating the network into the OS/400
print functions.
Infoprint Server has five functional components:
v PDF services
v E-mail iSeries output
v PDF, PostScript, and PCL to AFP datastream transforms
v Create AFP Data command for AFP indexing and creation of portable AFP
v Image transforms for GIF, TIFF, and JPEG to iSeries format
Let’s go through the Infoprint Server functional elements one by one. First,
transforms have been built into OS/400 that convert several types of input data to
image-based AFP and place it on an OS/400 output queue. The input data can be
Printer Control Language (PCL), PostScript, or Portable Document Format (PDF)
print data. This enables most ASCII output created in the OS/400 or on the network
to be put in native OS/400 format (AFP), which lets users take advantage of the
OS/400 print management capabilities. These transforms are managed by
Transform Manager.
A central component of Infoprint Server is the PDF subsystem. This subsystem
enables the conversion of any standard OS/400 output (SCS, AFP, mixed data,
IPDS, or OfficeVision/400
™ ) to Adobe PDF. The conversion process is highly
OS/400 Print
Management
Host
Print
Transform
PSF for
OS/400
Output
Queue
SCS
Printer
IPDS
Printer
PCL
Printer
OS/400
Applications
Printer
File
DDS
AFP Resources
Overlays
Fonts
Page Segments
Page Definitions
(PSF only)
Form Definitions
(PSF only)
Figure 1. iSeries Printing without Infoprint Server
Chapter 1. What Infoprint Server Can Do for You 3
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