Introduction

This topic introduces Version 1 Release 1 (V1.1) of these products:

• IBM® Print Transform from AFP to PCL for Infoprint Server for z/OS® (program number 5655-TF2)
• IBM Print Transform from AFP to PDF for Infoprint Server for z/OS (program number 5655-TF1)
• IBM Print Transform from AFP to PostScript for Infoprint Server for z/OS (program number 5655-TF3)

These products provide data-stream transforms that let you transform documents from Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) format to other formats that you can print on non-AFP printers or view with Adobe Reader. You can transform documents from AFP format to:

• Printer Control Language (PCL)
• Portable Document Format (PDF)
• PostScript

Documents in AFP format can contain:

• Mixed Object Document Content Architecture for Presentation (MO:DCA-P) data.
• Line data, which can be traditional line data or record-format line data. An AFP page definition is required to provide data placement and presentation information.
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) data. An AFP page definition is required to provide data placement and presentation information.