5486LPOpS.fm Draft Document for Review October 18, 2004
588 IBM Eserver i5 and iSeries System Handbook
interface. Phase II of the Unicode comprises most of the world's languages
except those that require complex text support. With Unicode, applications
that require multiple languages are greatly simplified.
Prior to V5R3, iSeries documents used EBCDIC-encoded AFP fonts.
TrueType and OpenType fonts are ASCII-encoded and represent the standard
in many personal, network, and UNIX environments. With V5R3, TrueType
and OpenType fonts can be specified directly in iSeries output. These fonts
can be cataloged in the IFS and referenced with the FONTNAME keyword.
The Infoprint Fonts product (5648-E77) has a font installer program that
enables simple installation of TrueType and OpenType fonts. AFP, TrueType,
and OpenType fonts can be intermixed on the same page. The ability to use
TrueType and OpenType fonts greatly expands the universe of fonts available
for iSeries applications while providing for flexibility and consistency among
various organization documents.
Full color and image capabilities are significantly extended with V5R3. Full
process color debuted in V5R2 with the implementation of high-resolution,
highly-compressed AFP color (called IOCA Function Set 45, or FS45, of the
AFP image object architecture). With V5R3, PSF/400 supports the new
OS/400 capabilities to import network or Web standard graphics objects
directly into iSeries documents. These graphic or image object types reside
on the IFS and are referenced with the AFPRSC keyword. The ASCII formats
supported are:
– JFIF (JPEG File Image Format, commonly referred to as JPEG)
– TIFF (Tag Image File Format)
– EPS (Encapsulated Postscript)
– EPSTR (EPS with transparency)
– PDFSPL (PDF single page)
– PDFSPOTR (PDF single page with transparency)
– PCLPO (PCL page object)
The AFP objects types that can be imported directly from the IFS are:
– BCOCA™ (AFP barcode object)
– GOCA (AFP graphics object)
– IOCA (AFP image object)
These object types are stored in a new structure within the AFP data stream
called an object container. Object containers support a mixture of EBCDIC
and ASCII-encoded data within the same document or report.
Document content within object containers also integrates with the PDF
services support in Infoprint Server for iSeries (5722-IP1). For example, a full
color logo can be pulled directly from an IFS directory into an iSeries
document then passed to Infoprint Server and converted into PDF for
distribution.
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