What can i do with acif – IBM S544-5285-01 User Manual

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Chapter 1. Planning Your AFP Conversion and Indexing
Facility (ACIF) Application

This chapter provides:

A description of ACIF and the tasks you can perform with it

A brief description of related products you can use with ACIF

A list of system prerequisites for using ACIF

What Can I Do with ACIF?

AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF) is a batch application development
utility you can use to:

Convert line data or mixed data into MO:DCA-P data, which is an architected,
device-independent data stream used for interchanging documents between
different platforms

Index a document to enhance your ability to view, archive, or retrieve individual
pages or groups of pages from large documents; create a separate

index

object file from the indexing tags

Retrieve and package AFP resources needed for printing or viewing a
document and place them in a separate file, so that you can print and view the
exact document, possibly years after its creation

Figure 1 on page 4 shows a high-level overview of how the ACIF application
development utility fits into an installation's AFP process for creating, indexing,
viewing, and printing documents.

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