Running ACIF

The acif command and the line2afp and pdpr commands of InfoPrint Manager are used to run ACIF. RICOH ProcessDirector runs ACIF by calling the line2afp command from within a step in a job type (see the RICOH Software Information Center at https://help.ricohsoftware.com/swinfocenter for more information).

To use ACIF to prepare line data, XML data, mixed-mode data, or unformatted ASCII files for printing with InfoPrint Manager, you can automatically run the acif command at print submission time by doing one of these:

• Use the -odatatype=line flag and keyword-value pair with one of the AIX print commands (enq, lp, or qprt).
• Use the psfin command to specify a job script with a setting of -JsFiletype=line.

The line2afp command is the same as the acif command and uses the acif command conversion parameters to produce output for printing. The line2afp command uses a page definition to define how the data is to be formatted on the printed page. If you use the line2afp command, you can transform, print, view, archive, and retrieve files as in ACIF.

The pdpr command calls line2afp to run ACIF. Parameters that are not allowed on the pdpr command can be passed to ACIF with the -x "other-transform-options" attribute.

The line2afp command and the pdpr command are described in InfoPrint Manager: Reference, S550-1052.