Working with the transform for line data

InfoPrint Manager includes a line-data transform program that transforms line data into the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) data stream. Converting the line data lets you print it on high-speed AFP printer devices.

The line2afp command and its keywords are a subset of the AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF) acif command. When you use this transform and if errors occur, you might receive some error messages that make references to ACIF.

This section describes these:

In this section:

  1. What is line data?
  2. What are ANSI and machine carriage controls?
    In many environments (including IBM mainframes and most minicomputers), printable data normally contains a carriage control character. The carriage control character acts as a vertical tab command to position the paper at the start of a new page, at a specified line on the page, or to control skipping to the next line. The characters can be one of two types: ANSI carriage control or machine carriage control.
  3. What are variable-length and fixed-length files?
  4. How does the imageout keyword affect processing?
  5. Customizing the line data transform
Parent topic: Working with transforms