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This glossary defines technical terms and
abbreviations used in Infoprint Server
documentation. If you do not find the term you are
looking for, refer to the index of this publication or
view IBM Dictionary of Computing,, located at:
http://www.ibm.com/networking/nsg/nsgmain.htm
Definitions reprinted from the American National
Dictionary for Information Processing Systems are
identified by the symbol (A) following the
definition.
Definitions reprinted from a published section of
the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO) Vocabulary—Information Processing or from
a published section of Vocabulary—Office
Machines developed by Subcommittee 1, Joint
Technical Committee 1, of the International
Organization for Standardization and the
International Electrotechnical Committee (ISO/IEC
JTC1/SC1) are identified by the symbol (I)
following the definition. Because many ISO
definitions are also reproduced in the American
National Dictionary for Information Processing
Systems, ISO definitions may also be identified by
the symbol (A).
Definitions reprinted from working documents,
draft proposals, or draft international standards of
ISO Technical Committee 97, Subcommittee 1
(Vocabulary), Joint Technical Committee 1 are
identified by the symbol (T) following the definition,
indicating that final agreement has not yet been
reached among its participating members.
Definitions that are specific to IBM products are so
labeled—for example, “In SNA,” or “In the 3820
printer.”
These cross-references are used in this glossary:
v Contrast with. Refers to a term that has an
opposite or substantively different meaning.
v See. Refers to multiple-word terms in which this
term appears.
v See also. Refers to related terms that have
similar, but not synonymous, meanings.
v Synonym for. Appears in the commentary of a
less desirable or less specific term and
identifies the preferred term that has the same
meaning.
v Synonymous with. Appears in the commentary
of a preferred term and identifies less desirable
or less specific terms that have the same
meaning.
A
Advanced Function Presentation
™
(AFP). A set of
licensed programs, together with user applications, that
use the all-points-addressable concept to print on
presentation devices. AFP includes creating, formatting,
archiving, retrieving, viewing, distributing, and printing
information. See presentation device.
AFP. See Advanced Function Presentation.
AFP data stream. A presentation data stream that is
processed in the AFP environment. MO:DCA-P is the
strategic AFP interchange data stream. IPDS is the
strategic AFP printer data stream.
AFP Workbench Viewer. (1) An OS/2
®
or Windows
IBM-licensed PC product that lets you see AFP output
in a WYSIWYP (what-you-see-is-what-you-print) format.
(2) An OS/2 or Windows platform for the integration of
AFP-enabling applications and services.
AFPDS. A term formerly used to identify the composed
page, MO:DCA-P-based data stream interchanged in
AFP environments.
anchor. The point in a document that signals to
CRTAFPDTA the beginning of a group of pages, after
which it adds indexing structured fields to delineate this
group.
architecture. The set of rules and conventions that
govern the creation and control of data types such as
text, image, graphics, font, fax, color, audio, bar code,
and multimedia.
ASCII. American National Standard Code for
Information Interchange data encoding, which is the
normal (default) type of data encoding in an AIX
environment. Contrast with EBCDIC.
B
Bar Code Object Content Architecture (BCOCA). An
architected collection of control structures used to
interchange and present bar code data.
BCOCA. See Bar Code Object Content Architecture.
bin. A paper supply on a cut-sheet printer. See also
cassette.
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