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APWI products deal in a lot of technologies ranging from
mainframe data to network data streams. Following is the
brief description of each of them with the product that
is going to handle each of them.
LCDS/DJDE
Line Conditioned Data Streams (LCDS) and Dynamic Job Descriptor
Entry (DJDE) are production printer languages developed
by Xerox Corporation primarily to map data to forms. It
combines print data stream specification, variable data
printing and forms development...more
Product: HostServe
XES
Xerox developed "Xerox Escape Sequence" (XES)
as a departmental printer language. It allowed extensive
document formatting include full facilities for forms, fonts,
signatures, and logos and was supported on lower cost Xerox
departmental printers....more
Product: HostServe
Xerox VIPP™
Variable Data Intelligent PostScript PrintWare (Xerox VIPP™).
Xerox VIPP™ is a data stream for
larger Xerox production laser printers. Xerox VIPP™
printers use a language created to develop resources such
as forms, fonts, images, barcodes, and signatures, in black
and white and color. Managing Xerox VIPP™
data streams for browsing, emailing, printing, trafficking
along the network is done with...more
Product: HostServe
AFP
AFP is a protocol that delivers document data and manages
resources. AFP is a page-description language. When an IBM
host (or AS/400) generates a document it uses AFP to format
the data. IBM's Advanced Function Printing (AFP) architecture
controls IPDS print jobs from initial print request to final
output...more
Product: HostServe
IPDS
Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) is a bi-directional
SNA protocol that delivers print data and manages resources,
handshaking, security, and error recovery. IPDS is both
a page-description language and a printer-control protocol.
When an IBM host (or AS/400) generates EBCDIC output, it
uses IPDS to transmit the data to a destination device...more
Product: IPDSXpress
PCL
Hewlett-Packard created the PCL Printer language to provide
an economical and efficient way for application programs
to control a range of printer features across a number of
printing devices. The PCL printer language commands are
compact escape sequence codes that are embedded in the print
job data stream. This approach minimizes both data transmission
and command decoding overhead...more
Product: HostServe
PostScript
The Postscript language is a simple interpretive programming
language with powerful graphics capabilities. Its primary
application is to describe the appearance of text, graphical
shapes, and sampled images on printed or displayed pages,
according to the Adobe imaging model...more
Product: HostServe
PDF
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard
for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF
is a universal file format that preserves the fonts, formatting,
graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of
the application and platform used to create it...more
Product: HostServe
TIFF
TIFF describes image data that typically comes from scanners,
frame grabbers, and paint- and photo-retouching programs.
TIFF is not a printer language or a PDL, rather its purpose
is to describe and store raster image data. TIFF provides
a rich environment within which applications can exchange
image data...more
Product: HostServe
XML
(Extensible Markup Language) is an application as defined
in the Standard Generalized Markup Language(SGML). It is
designed to enable the use of generalized markup in the
context of Internet applications and has been adopted as
a standard by the World Wide Web consortium (W3C)...more
Product: HostServe
.DOC
Microsoft Word product produces *.DOC documents. This format
has become a standard for editable electronic document distribution
worldwide. Microsoft Word is a universal file format that
preserves the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of
any source document...more
Product: HostServe
.RTF
The Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification provides a format
for text and graphics interchange that can be used with
different output devices, operating environments, and operating
systems. Version 1.8 of the specification contains the latest
updates introduced by Microsoft Office Word 2003...more
Product: HostServe
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