Using transform filters
To transform data automatically, you specify a transform filter in the printer definition. A transform
filter is a program that transforms the input data to another data
format.
You can specify a different filter for each input data format that Infoprint Server
supports: line data, JPEG, MO:DCA-P, PCL, PDF, PostScript, SAP, TIFF, XML, text, and other. After Infoprint Server
detects the input data format of a document, it calls the transform
filter that you associated with that data format.
Table 34 lists the transform products
and the name of the transform filters that you can associate in the
printer definition with different data formats.
Table 34. Infoprint transforms, filter names, and data formats| Transform product | Transform | Transform filter | Data formats |
|---|
| IBM® Print Transform from AFP to PCL for Infoprint Server
for z/OS® | AFP to PCL | afpxpcl.dll |
Line data
MOD:CA-P
XML
| | IBM Print Transform from AFP to PDF for Infoprint Server
for z/OS | AFP to PDF | afpxpdf.dll |
Line data
MOD:CA-P
XML
| | IBM Print Transform from AFP to PostScript for Infoprint Server for z/OS | AFP to PostScript | afpxps.dll |
Line data
MOD:CA-P
XML
| | IBM Infoprint Transforms
to AFP for z/OS | PCL to AFP | pcl2afp.dll | PCL | | PDF to AFP | ps2afp.dll | PDF | | PostScript to AFP | ps2afp.dll | PostScript | | SAP to AFP | sap2afp.dll | SAP | | IBM Infoprint XT for z/OS | Xerox to AFP | x2afp.dll | Other | | Ricoh InfoPrint Transform
Manager for Linux | AFP to PDF | aoprxf.so |
Line data
MO:DCA-P
| | GIF to AFP | aoprxf.so | Other | | PCL to AFP | aoprxf.so | PCL | | JPEG to AFP | aoprxf.so | JPEG | | PDF to AFP | aoprxf.so | PDF | | PostScript
to AFP | aoprxf.so | PostScript | | TIFF to AFP | aoprxf.so | TIFF | |
Ricoh InfoPrint Manager for AIX and Windows
| PCL to AFP | aoprform.dll | PCL | | PDF to AFP | aoprform.dll | PDF | | PostScript to AFP | aoprform.dll | PostScript |
Notes:
- The ps2afp.dll filter transforms both PDF
and PostScript data to AFP format.
- Infoprint Server
provides filters aoprxf.so and aoprform.dll.
The separate transform products provide the other transform filters.
| | A filter can accept options, which control processing of the transform. Table 35 summarizes the options that you can specify for each
transform filter.
Table 35. Transform filter options| Filter | Options |
|---|
| aoprform.dll |
[%filter-options] [-a imagetype] [-l length] [-P portnumber]
[-p pagerange] [-q transformattributes]... [-r resolution ]
[-t outputtype] [-w width] [-x xoffset] [-y yoffset] ipaddress
| | aoprxf.so |
[%filter-options] [%xf-options] [-xf "transformattributes"]...
[option ...]
| | All other filters |
[%filter-options] [option ...]
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