Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP InfoPrint Manager - Page 206
Working with the transform for line data, What is line data?, line2afp, Notes, db2afp, PRMODE
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1. Any values you specify on the command line, including values in the configuration files you specify with the -C option. InfoPrint Manager commands process options from left to right. If you enter the same option more than once, InfoPrint Manager uses the last occurrence of the flag to determine the value to use. For example, if you specify this command: tiff2afp -Cconfig.file -r240 -r300 myfile.tif the tiff2afp command transforms the file using 300-pel resolution. InfoPrint Manager ignores the resolution value specified in the configuration file config.file and the first -r240 flag and value. 2. Values specified in the default transform command configuration file named in Table 20 on page 187. 3. Default values that are built into InfoPrint Manager. These are the same as the transform defaults. Working with the transform for line data InfoPrint Manager includes a line-data transform program that transforms line data into the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) data stream. Converting the line data lets you print it on high-speed AFP printer devices. The line2afp command and its keywords are a subset of the AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF) acif command. When you use this transform and if errors occur, you might receive some error messages that make references to ACIF. This section describes these: v "What is line data?" v "What are ANSI and machine carriage controls?" on page 189 v "What are variable-length and fixed-length files?" on page 190 v "How does the imageout keyword affect processing?" on page 191 v "Customizing the line data transform" on page 192 What is line data? Line data is simply unformatted data; data with few or no embedded control characters to create font changes, page breaks, and so on. The term line data can cover a variety of data streams, such as: v Traditional line printer format, also called 1403 format v Unformatted ASCII files without escape sequences v DBCS (double-byte character set) ASCII files generated for an IBM 5577 or 5587. Notes: 1. The line2afp transform does not handle DBCS ASCII files. For this type of input, use the db2afp transform. 2. ACIF accepts EBCDIC DBCS line data files that use SOSI (shift-out/shift-in) characters. ACIF must be coded with the PRMODE control statement set to SOSI1, SOSI2 or SOSI3, as documented in the ACIF User's Guide. Line data is typically created by an application program. For example, an application might produce a bank statement that has line data indicating an account's daily balance. 188 InfoPrint Manager for Windows: Procedures