Using AFP Workbench Viewer with ACIF

Although ACIF is a stand-alone utility, it was designed for use with the AFP Workbench Viewer.

AFP Workbench Viewer shows how AFP Workbench Viewer can display documents on a workstation that is running Microsoft Windows operating systems. These documents can contain an index object file and a resource group.

AFP Workbench Viewer

This figure shows an overview of AFP Workbench Viewer. An arrow from a document container with index object file, resource groups, and print data goes to the AFP Workbench Viewer application on the workstation. Fonts are sent to the AFP Workbench Viewer from an Adobe Type Manager box. An arrow from the AFP Workbench Viewer goes to the printer.

AFP Workbench Viewer uses Adobe Type 1 or TrueType and OpenType outline fonts when it displays documents. If the document references an AFP font for which no Type 1 font is available at the workstation, AFP Workbench Viewer can substitute an outline font for the requested font. AFP Workbench Viewer matches the requested point size and attempts to match the typeface as closely as possible. Font definition files are available with AFP Workbench Viewer so you can define which Type 1 fonts are to be substituted for your FOCA fonts.

Because AFP Workbench Viewer uses font substitution for AFP font resources instead of retrieving fonts from a resource file, you do not need to specify the RESTYPE=FONT or RESTYPE=ALL ACIF parameter when you are preparing a document to use with AFP Workbench Viewer. However, if you include AFP fonts in your document, the current version of AFP Workbench Viewer uses the font metrics to control character spacing. If you use AFP outline fonts, AFP Workbench Viewer also uses the font characters and substitutes font characters for raster fonts. If you do not want to use font substitution, use TrueType and OpenType fonts when you are creating the AFP document, keeping in mind that not all Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) printers support TrueType and OpenType fonts.

When you are using ACIF to index a file for viewing, specify INDEXOBJ=ALL. This setting provides AFP Workbench Viewer with the most complete indexing information for accessing groups of pages in a file. Also, concatenate the index object file to the document for optimal performance of AFP Workbench Viewer. (The document file must come last, at the end of the resulting concatenated file; otherwise, an error occurs.)

AFP Workbench Viewer supports a subset of MO:DCA-P data and might not display everything that InfoPrint Manager or RICOH ProcessDirector can print.

Parent topic: Understanding ACIF