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Contents Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix About this publication . . . . . . . . xi Who should use this publication . . . . . . . xi How this publication is organized . . . . . . . xi Conventions used in this publication . . . . . . xii Highlighting . ....
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Loading order for Xerox resources by resource type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Information files generated by InfoPrint XT during resource tasks . . . . . . . . . . 40 Error information for resources that fail to load 41 Using the pdxtloadres command to load Xerox resources . . . . . . . . . ...
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InfoPrint Solutions Company printers . . . . . 172 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Contents v
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Figures 1. InfoPrint XT test page . . . . . . . . . 18 2. Completed parameter mapping file . . . . 28 3. Sample correlation entries for single-byte Xerox fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 4. Sample correlation entries for Xerox images 54 5. Sample correlation entries for Xerox logos 54 6. Sample z/...
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Tables 1. Printable Xerox resources and their AFP functional equivalents . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Supported and unsupported PDL and DJDE commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3. DOS-to-UNIX directory conversions . . . . 22 4. Format of the transform parameter mapping file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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About this publication This publication describes how to install, configure, and use InfoPrint ® XT for Windows (InfoPrint XT). With InfoPrint XT, you can process and print Xerox Line Conditioned Data Stream (LCDS) jobs and Xerox metacode jobs on Intelligent Printer Data Stream ™ (IPDS ™ ) printers....
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Chapter 6, “Transferring jobs with Download for z/OS,” on page 67 Describes how to set up Download for z/OS to work with InfoPrint XT. After you set this up, you can submit jobs from systems that have IBM Print Services Facility (PSF) for z/OS installed and convert them with InfoPrint XT. Chapter 7,...
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Understanding the syntax notation and the use of special characters These rules apply to the syntax diagrams and examples that this publication contains: v Text that you type is case-sensitive. For example, p0612c.fnt and F$P0612C ; type the font names in lowercase and uppercase characters exactly a...
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InfoPrint XT manual (man) pages An InfoPrint XT installation includes online help in the form of man pages. To see the InfoPrint XT man pages, enter the pdxtman command, followed by the name of the man page. For example: pdxtman pdxt For a complete list of all the man pages that InfoPrint XT supplie...
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Summary of changes These are brief descriptions of the functional updates to InfoPrint XT for Windows (InfoPrint XT) and the corresponding documentation changes that this publication contains: Support for content-sensitive medium maps The InfoPrint XT data stream converter uses a sequentially number...
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the job to further verify the type of carriage controls. If it detects a different type of carriage control, InfoPrint XT overrides the type that the xcc parameter specifies. With Download for z/OS, InfoPrint XT can use a download directive to convert ANSI carriage controls to machine code before it...
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v The -b option for the pdxtloadres command on page 42 v The xspcrmi conversion parameter on page 101 Enhancements to Xerox shading support The InfoPrint XT default is to convert Xerox shading patterns to raster dot patterns in the AFP output. InfoPrint XT also converts shading characters in Xerox F...
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For information about the xhonorshift conversion parameter, see page 96. Generation of NOP structured fields for C DJDE text Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (MO:DCA) No Operation (NOP) structured fields can store information in the AFP data stream. In addition to NOPs for OTEXT, AFP fonts...
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XT load process. The InfoPrint XT pdxtloadres command does the actual conversion. You also convert the non-printable resources. Printable Xerox resources Xerox jobs use specific printable Xerox resources, such as fonts, forms, images, and logos. Table 1 lists the major types of printable Xerox resou...
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You can select Standard Installation when you install SFU. Also, consider enabling setuid behavior and case-sensitivity during installation. Setuid behavior controls aspects of security and user privileges. Case-sensitivity changes the normal case-insensitivity of the Windows environment. The Micros...
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Creating the InfoPrint XT configurable transform Use the pdxtcrtxform command to create an InfoPrint XT configurable transform object in the InfoPrint Manager server. This command creates the transform object with the name x2afp and sets the transform attributes that InfoPrint XT requires. For examp...
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4. Copy the parameter mapping file for the test job to the %PDXTWORKDIR% directory: copy pdxtx2afp.map C:\Program Files\IBM\Infoprint XT\var\pdxt You can also use Windows Explorer to copy the file. 5. Submit the test job. Replace AFPfile with a file name that you choose: pdxtx2afp -i pdxttest.xrxin ...
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Applying an InfoPrint XT product update When an InfoPrint XT update is available, you can install it on the system to run the latest level of InfoPrint XT. The update can be on a CD that you receive, or you can download updates from this Web site: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/printers/products/pdxt/fi...
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Chapter 3. Customizing InfoPrint XT This chapter describes how to customize InfoPrint XT for Windows (InfoPrint XT). All procedures in this chapter are optional; you do not have to do them to use InfoPrint XT. Terms used in this chapter Some topics in this chapter use the term ServerName_JobIdentifi...
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Controlling the working directory that InfoPrint XT uses for variable data (PDXTWORKDIR) The PDXTWORKDIR environment variable controls the working directory that InfoPrint XT uses for variable data. The default is that InfoPrint XT uses subdirectories in the %PDXTWORKDIR% directory to store the file...
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Using transform directives InfoPrint XT provides a set of internal directives that you can activate to control certain aspects of the overall data stream conversion process. For example, you can instruct InfoPrint XT to capture traces of the job data stream as it flows through the conversion process...
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the Xerox input to, and the AFP output from the conversion process. You can also specify more than one value on a single occurrence of the -t directive. [-x " conversion_parameters "] Specifies conversion parameters. Any parameters that you specify with this directive override the same param...
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#------------------------------------------------# # Capture and keep the Xexox input and the AFP # # output for all jobs with a destination of # # PRT01. # #------------------------------------------------# PRT01: '-t "x2afp.in x2afp.out"' -k1 -t command option of the pdxtx2afp command If y...
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Bit 0: Reserved for future use. Bit 1: Reserved for future use. Bit 2: Reserved for future use. Bit 3: Reserved for future use. Bit 4: Reserved for future use. Bit 5: Reserved for future use. Bit 6: Reserved for future use. Bit 7: Reserved for future use. The data for the XRXCDJDE record is the comm...
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² Bins are numbered 1 through 255. For information about the xcsmmname conversion parameter, see page 96. Chapter 3. Customizing InfoPrint XT 35 | |
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v %PDXTWORKDIR%\resources\common\metrics v %PDXTWORKDIR%\resources\ resgrp \metrics v C:\OtherDirectory \metrics Xerox resource directory For all resources that successfully load, InfoPrint XT copies the original Xerox resource to the system. The directory in which InfoPrint XT writes the Xerox reso...
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2. If you are loading resources, you can specify Xerox resources with names that follow IBM Infoprint XT Extender for z/OS naming conventions. See Table 9 on page 48. 3. If you are loading resources, you can specify the -l option without a value. InfoPrint XT tries to load resources using the retry ...
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v CMC7 For example, InfoPrint XT generates AFP MICR fonts for these Xerox fonts: E13BPX.FNT , E14BL.FNT , CMC7J.FNT . xerox+ font1 : font2 : fontn InfoPrint XT generates AFP MICR fonts for all Xerox fonts whose names begin with E13B , E14B , or CMC7 . In addition, it generates AFP MICR fonts for up ...
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Notes: 1. If you use both the -n option and the -i option, do not include path information in the value for the -n option. 2. When you delete resources, you must specify resource names in lowercase. 3. When you load resources, the pdxtloadres command also recognizes IBM Infoprint XT Extender for z/O...
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You can use the pdxtx2afp command to create a preliminary list of the resources that a job requires. Before you scan the job, you must load the starting JDL for the job. When you scan the job, use the xafprc=12 and xconvert=no conversion parameters. For the syntax of the pdxtx2afp command and exampl...
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table that is in the C:\Program Files\IBM\Infoprint Manager\reslib directory. If you loaded the Xerox resources in the common resource group, the copy command is similar to this: copy C:\Program Files\IBM\Infoprint Manager\reslib\X0423002 %PDXTWORKDIR%\resources\common Note: You can also use Windows...
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Chapter 5. Submitting Xerox jobs for data stream conversion This chapter describes how to convert Xerox Line Conditioned Data Stream (LCDS) and metacode jobs to the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) format. For a brief overview about working with Xerox jobs, see the pdxt_jobs man page that InfoPr...
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Table 10. InfoPrint Manager attribute assignments when using the pdxtdownload program (continued) Node ID -ono node-id-text OFFSETXB -ooffxb x-image-shift-back OFFSETXF -ooffxf x-image-shift OFFSETYB -ooffyb y-image-shift-back OFFSETYF -ooffyf y-image-shift OUTBIN -ooutbin Not applicable OVERLAYB -o...
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[ jobid .] system . jobname [. step_name ]. form_name . date . time .PRD. seq# Note: For single-data set jobs, the data set sequence number is always 0 . Receiver log The file name of the receiver log is pdxtdownload. portnumber .log . portnumber is the port number that you specified when you create...
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Note: InfoPrint XT only includes a 5016-707 message, which lists the contents of the pdxtdownload. port .att file, if pdpr errors occur. 5016-701 2007-11-11 13:48:31 MDT (ppid 1/pid 1355) port=6001 - receipt started 5016-711 Download arguments: 5016-712 i_inpfile = DEVL.WALLINGK.STEPAAAA.XPORT.20042...
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Temporary files pdxtdownload uses several temporary files. The temporary files are in the directory for the MVS Download receiver. The names of these files all use the format pdxtdownload.*. extension : v The value of * depends on whether pdxtdownload merges data sets for jobs that contain several d...
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to convert the job. When it cannot complete the conversion, InfoPrint Manager changes the status of the job to held and does not print any of the job. You can issue these commands to do diagnostic tests if nothing prints for the job: v Determine whether InfoPrint Manager still has control of the job...
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it passes the type of carriage control it determined to its online (jes3211) carriage-control processing component. This can cause the AFP output that InfoPrint XT generates to be wrong. For more information, see page 99. [xckdupnlimg= yes | no] Specifies whether InfoPrint XT checks inline images to...
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DJDEs. Use this parameter only if the inline forms do not specify a paper size internally, or if the JDL and JDEs for the job do not specify a paper size. Notes: 1. A4LT is a custom paper size that is 8.5 inches by 11.69 inches, or 216 mm by 297 mm. 2. The value of this attribute affects how InfoPri...
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Appendix D. Resource utility messages and data stream converter messages: AIO xxxnnnx This section lists the messages that the InfoPrint XT for Windows (InfoPrint XT) resource utility and Xerox data stream converter programs can issue. Make sure that you see the appropriate set of messages, dependin...
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as binary zeros, in a text line in a form. It might also occur if you have manually correlated a Xerox font to an AFP font and the AFP font does not have characters that correspond to some of the characters in the Xerox font. Or, a character translation table was altered so that a character in the j...
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Appendix E. DJDE report messages: ALTER through XMP This section lists the possible messages that you might see in the Dynamic Job Descriptor Entry (DJDE) report generated by InfoPrint XT for Windows (InfoPrint XT), and includes a short explanation of each message. These messages can occur in any or...
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Notices This information was developed for products and services offered in the U.S.A. InfoPrint Solutions Company may not offer the products, services, or features discussed in this document in other countries. Consult your local InfoPrint Solutions Company representative for information about the ...
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This publication also documents intended Programming Interfaces that allow the customer to write programs to obtain the services of InfoPrint XT. This information is identified where it occurs, either by an introductory statement to a chapter or section, or by this marking: + — — — — — — — – — - Pro...
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Bibliography You can find additional information about products that you can use with InfoPrint XT for Windows (InfoPrint XT) in the publications listed in this bibliography. The titles and order numbers may change from time to time. To verify a current order number or a current title, consult your ...