IBM G544-5774-01 - Manual (Page 5)

Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
About Infoprint Server for iSeries: Introduction and Planning Guide
(G544–5774) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Who Should Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Prerequisite and Related information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
iSeries Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Summary of Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Chapter 1. What Infoprint Server Can Do for You. . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How Output Requirements Are Changing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How to Handle the Changing Output Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
How Infoprint Server Fits in with OS/400 Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
What’s New in Infoprint Server Version 5.2?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Benefits of Using Infoprint Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Create Electronic Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Better Access to IPDS Printers
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Handle Print Jobs Effectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Detect and Transform Job Data Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Support Common Printer Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Create AFP Output from Images on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
External Formatting Flexibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Easier Navigation of Large Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Print to PDF Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Hardware Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Using Infoprint Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Publishing iSeries Output Electronically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Electronic Report Distribution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Printing Enterprise Print Output on IPDS Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Integrating Web and Network Images into iSeries Applications
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Indexing Data for Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Distributing AFP Output Electronically
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Chapter 3. Understanding the Infoprint Server Components . . . . . . . 17
PDF Subsystem
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E-Mail Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
PCL, PDF, and PostScript Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Create AFP Data Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Image Transforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4. Related Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Advanced Print Utility
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AFP Font Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
AFP Toolbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
AFP Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
AFP Viewer Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Infoprint Designer for iSeries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
iSeries Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
iSeries Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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