David, What two issues are conflated? I'm getting confused now. I was only trying to answer Tim's question about how to get the USPS AFP fonts for IMB into a format that PSF/VM could use.
Can you give a link to what you see that indicates "AFP now natively supports PCL4 printers"? Many kinds of printers can have IPDS cards in them so that they support IPDS as well as PCL or PS. Or are you talking about using the AFP Viewer to see the image and then print it to a PCL printer? I guess I'm not understanding completely what you're asking. PSF is only going to handle MO:DCA-P (a.k.a. AFPDS) data and use IPDS to communicate with a printer that supports IPDS. PSF only does IPDS output. If you are on z/OS, then Infoprint Server with the Infoprint Transforms can take AFP and convert it to PDF, PostScript, or PCL and send it to a non-IPDS printer. Infoprint Server can also send AFP to a remote PSF (like Infoprint Manager) for printing. If you want to see the publications that describe AFP Architecture, see http://www.outputlinks.com/SpecialInterest/AFPColorConsortium/publications.html The Infoprint Server documentation can be found within the z/OS Information Centers. See the z/OS Internet Library as a starting point to get to the documentation for your level of z/OS. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ Regards, --Roger On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:38 PM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > I think we're conflating two issues — I wanted to know about the issue of > PCL. > > I'm playing with an idea to be able to eliminate some of the outboard > processing. From what I can see in the docs (at least for z/OS AFP), AFP now > natively supports PCL4 printers. I'm curious if anyone has tried this in > general as an alternative to IPDS printers. I have some ideas about handling > the output for archiving if this actually works without screwing up the > output too badly. Not being a AFP wizard, I was looking for some sample > output from the AFP PCL driver. > > -- db > >
