Goals
Master visual design of forms (Overlay generation language OGL) and data placement (PPFA-mode)
Develop complex form applications using conditional processing
Prerequisites
- PC experience
Participants
- Application developers
- Application analysts
Content
AFP Introduction
- Basics of the AFP architecture
- Overlays and page segments
- PAGEDEF and FORMDEF
- Resources for printing
Designing a form application
- Defining the font library
- Loading existing overlays and data applications (OGLs, PPFA)
- Placing of logos and images
- Creating overlay building blocks
- Graphical functionalities - DRAWBOX, DRAWRULE, DRAWCIRCLE, DRAWPATH
- Clipboard functionality for text import
- Text functions, undo/redo, hotkeys
- Working with templates
- Reading and placing linemode input data
- Visual design of input data reading with PRINTLINE and FIELD
- Placement of data on overlays
- Conditional processing
- Definition of print jobs with PAGEFORMATs and COPYGROUPs
- Compiling OGL and PPFA sources into AFPDS resources
- PRINTLINE overlays and page segments
- N_Up print definitions
- 2D barcodes (DataMatrix, PDF417, MaxiCode)
- True Color support
Printing functions
- Test printing on local printers
- Transfer of OGL and PPFA sources and print resources between PC and IBM mainframe (Send/Receive)
- Central and decentralized printing
- Papyrus Server/PageEXEC for AFP generation from PPFA-application (FORMDEF, PAGEDEF)
Font technologies
- Font types: raster, outline, and TrueType
- Font resources (coded font, codepage, character set)
- Font conversion with Papyrus FontConverter
- Font editing with Overview Font Editor
- Tools: resize, rescale, convert
- Shading, inverting, font kerning
- Font resolutions
- Font conversions
- Clipboard functions
Images
- Creation and editing of page segments with Overview Image Editor
- Importing TIFF images
- Tools: rescale, resize, positioning text, flip, mirror, filter options
- True color TIFF support
- Image export options
Viewing of AFPDS with Papyrus Client AFP Viewer
- Using Papyrus Client for test
- Print on local PC printers
- Verify application print resources
Registration
To register please complete and submit the
online registration.
You will receive a written confirmation with the accurate
course information, a map to find the course location and a
choice of hotels nearby. We are happy to book the hotel
reservation for you if required. More information on
available hotels can be found
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Cancellation of the course is free of charge up to two weeks before the course date. After that, the full fee for the course applies.
We would like to point out that workshops might be postponed due to low registration and recommend taking this into account when arranging your flight schedule. Please note that all our prices are quoted net and do not include local taxes.
Course materials including course guide are included in the price (download). All prices are excluding tax.