AFP Editor

Barcodes and text are used for a variety of purposes, such as routing and tracking mail and adding page numbers to documents. If you hide areas in documents, no one using an AFP viewer sees the data in the area, and the data does not print. You make these enhancements in sample AFP files that represent your production AFP files.

AFP Editor creates these types of barcodes:

• Code 39

• Data Matrix

• Interleaved 2–of-5

• Intelligent Mail (IMB)

• Portable Data File 417 (PDF417)

• POSTNET

• Quick Response (QR) Code

AFP Editor lets you:

• Hide existing barcodes and replace them with new barcodes.

• Automatically replace POSTNET barcodes with Intelligent Mail barcodes that have the same routing code.

• Create a condition between two barcodes that determines which barcode is created in a document.

  For example, an AFP file has QR Codes on some but not all documents. You want to add a new, larger QR Code to each document that does not have a QR Code. You define a QR Code that matches the existing QR Code, and you define the new QR Code. You create a condition so that whenever a document does not have a QR Code, the new QR Code is added.

To define a barcode or text, you use the values of index tags, job properties, and static text. For example, you use the AFP Indexer mode of RICOH Visual Workbench to define a postal code as an index tag. AFP Editor lets you create a barcode that uses the value of the index tag for the postal code.

AFP Editor lets you put the page in the page group and the page count for the page group in barcodes and text. For example, AFP Editor lets you put Page 1 of 5 in a barcode that prints on page 1 and Page 2 of 5 in a barcode that prints on page 2.

AFP Editor lets you limit the placement of barcodes, text, and hidden areas to specific pages in each document. For example, AFP Editor lets you place a barcode on the first page of each document or text on all the even-numbered pages.