Formatting data with PSF

PSF lets you format data in many ways. For example, by using page definitions to format the print lines into pages and form definitions to place the formatted pages on the media and to select media options, you can:

• Specify outline fonts to be scaled by the printer in any size or aspect ratio (see Outline fonts and TrueType and OpenType fonts).
• Include page overlays and page segments anywhere on a page (see Page overlays and Page segments).
• Include graphics and images on a page (see Graphics and Image resources).
• Include electronic forms (see Merging data with an overlay).
• Specify data fields to be printed as bar codes (see Bar codes).
• Specify where the printer positions the page origin (see Page position).
• Specify duplex printing (see Duplex printing and Specifying duplex printing).
• Select finishing options such as stapling or binding (see Finishing output and Finishing your output).
• Select paper from multiple input bins, or route pages of the output to different output bins (see Paper source and Specifying bins (paper source)).
• Change formatting on a page-by-page basis within a job (see Page definitions and Changing formatting within a document).
• Print in any position on a page (see Defining page formats).
• Print in different orientations (see Printing AFP data in different directions and character rotations and Print direction).
• Specify lines or fields to be printed in color (see Page format options for formatting fields).
• Select different fonts for lines or fields of data (see Fonts).
• Position print lines relative to other objects on a page (see AFP structured fields included in line data).
• Position multiple logical pages on a single sheet (see N_UP printing: printing multiple pages on a sheet).
• Specify data fields to be suppressed on some page copies of a document (see Suppressing print data).
• Include color resource objects for color fidelity management (see Specifying object container libraries in UNIX files).