AFP Indexer

AFP Indexer lets you create page groups, define supplemental pages, and create indexes in AFP files. When you view an AFP file that contains page groups and indexes in RICOH ProcessDirector, you can navigate in the file to find pages containing specific index values.

You can also reprint all the pages in one or more page groups. In addition, AFP Editor, Document Property Designer, and Whitespace Manager can use the page groups and index values to define barcodes, text strings, and white space.

In this section:

  1. Page groups
    AFP Indexer lets you organize a large AFP file into smaller, uniquely identifiable units, called page groups.
  2. Supplemental pages
    AFP Indexer lets you define pages in an AFP file as supplemental pages. Supplemental pages are those pages that you do not want included in page groups, such as header and trailer pages, separator pages, or any page that should be excluded from a customer statement.
  3. Index tags
    The AFP Indexer mode of RICOH Visual Workbench lets you index data values that are consistently present in the same location in each page group or on a supplemental page. Index tags define the data values on a page. (Index tags are called Tag Logical Elements (TLEs) in the AFP architecture.)

Related information:

Indexing AFP files
IndexAFP
Parent topic: Introduction