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Title: Can you recommend a tool for creating AFP Resources, like FormDefs?
Post by: Justin Derrick on January 26, 2012, 02:35:26 PM

Hi everyone.

I have a customer who is looking to create AFP data streams from text output from an AS/400. Creating an overlay (ie, the pre-printed form) from a TIFF is straightforward -- but creating the other components like FormDefs and PageDefs seems to be a little more complicated.

What utilities do you use to create these resources?

-JD.

Title: Re: Can you recommend a tool for creating AFP Resources, like FormDefs?
Post by: pdpoart on February 28, 2012, 02:16:21 AM

I use IBM's PPFA for pagedefs and formdefs and OGL for overlays

Title: Re: Can you recommend a tool for creating AFP Resources, like FormDefs?
Post by: Justin Derrick on February 28, 2012, 02:02:26 PM

Thanks for the reply. I also posted this question on LinkedIn -- here's a link to that thread:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/What-software-utilities-Win-Linux-4148818%2ES%2E91388441

In summary, here are the products I found:

Elixir's DesignPro Tools AFP
ISIS Papyrus Designer
Ricoh (formerly IBM Printing Systems) PPFA
HP Exstream Dialogue

I'll add others to this list as I discover them.

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