Capabilities and limitations for transforming data to AFP
- Bar code support
- The transform does not support bar codes.
- Font support
- The first font in the font index with
properties that most closely match the desired characteristics is
used. Condensed and expanded fonts are usually only used when the
font-stretch property is selected. Italic and oblique fonts are considered
the same and are used interchangeably.
The XML transforms support converting double-byte character set (DBCS) fonts from one code page to another.
The XML transforms work with the OpenType fonts from the command line. For more information about OpenType Fonts, see Using OpenType Fonts in an AFP System, G544-5876.
- Graphic support
- You can specify graphic data in one
of these AFP resources:
- Overlay
- An overlay contains a collection of constant image data (such as lines, shading, boxes, or logos) that can be merged with variable data during printing. The AFP output file references the name of an overlay, which is located in a resource directory. Because the ov