Papyrus DocEXEC Resource Management
Resources are the fonts, logos and
forms needed at time of formatting, viewing and
printing to be able to generate and present the
document correctly. If the correct resources are
not used at time of formatting, viewing or printing
the document will not just be lower quality, IT
WILL BE WRONG! Resource management is a key to
quality ensured document production.
Q: Do resources
(font, forms, logos) need to be converted to internal
format?
A:
No. The Papyrus System uses the AFP resource formats
directly.
Q: Is the
resource (font, forms, logos) format standard
or proprietary?
A:
Standard. The Papyrus System uses the fully documented
resource formats of the AFP architecture. This
includes resolution independent Adobe outline
fonts. If you already have AFP resources NO CONVERSION
is required. Most other resources like MS True
Type and TIFF can be converted with the Font Converter.
Q: Does
the developer have to maintain resource tables
for different printers?
A:
No. As a single resource library is used for printing
to all types of hardware, no other libraries or
resource formats have to be managed manually.
Q: Does
resource table information have to be maintained
manually?
A:
No. Papyrus reads all the information required,
like forms and logos sizes and character width
information from the resources directly.
Q: Are
resource tables required for document formatting?
A:
No. As the Papyrus DocEXEC also can run on
a users laptop computer, such a requirement would
not be sensibly manageable.
Q: Does
the product support standard forms source code
languages?
A:
Yes. IBM OGL is the standard language, but also
Xerox FDL can be converted and single document
pages from most Windows products like PageMaker
can be imported as forms through the Papyrus Printer
Driver.
Q: Does
the developer have support to deal with different
resolutions?
A:
Yes. Papyrus and AFP offer that support. Regardless
the use of outline fonts, the document has to
be committed to a resolution at formatting. The
unavoidable differences between 240, 300 and 600
dpi can be checked at development time.
Q: Does
the user have to define all relationships between
objects manually?
A:
No. These relationships are extracted automatically
from the AFP resources on import to the database.
In the following a query can be set up, which
shows in which documents a certain font, forms
or text element is used. This database can also
be used to build export packages for software
distribution systems.
Q: Can
resources be converted or generated from other
formats?
A:
Yes. Adobe or TrueType Outline fonts can be converted
to AFP font formats. TIFF images can be converted
to PSEG or compressed IOCA. Forms can be converted
from FDL or from Windows products to AFP.
Q: Does
your product ensure that the proper resources
are used for printing?
A:
Yes. The AFP architecture enables this. IBM
PSF and Papyrus Server dynamically control the
use of resources in the printer from a single
resource library. This is also done by Papyrus
Server for Xerox Metacode and for HP-PCL4/5. In
this manner the operator can choose whether he
wants to print the document on a 240 dpi IPDS
or 300 dpi Xerox Metacode machine without reformatting
the output.
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