ISO 22550:2021 ドキュメント管理—PDFのAFP交換 | ページ 2

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 171, Document management applications, Subcommittee SC 2, Document file formats, EDMS systems and authenticity of information.

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 22550:2019) as a minor revision.

The main changes are as follows:

• 1) The French title for this document was changed to more accurately reflect the purpose of the AFP interchange for PDF.
• 2) Figure A.1 in Annex A was updated to improve readability.

Introduction

Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) is a coordinated set of document creation, viewing, archiving and printing hardware, software, and services that is used heavily in the high-speed transactional printing market, which includes the printing of financial statements, utility bills, books, and marketing materials (e.g. brochures).

AFP has proven itself in these environments due to its performance, reliability, and flexibility.

• AFP performance comes from its hierarchical object-oriented structure, resulting in a condensed data stream size and efficient reuse of print resources (document objects). The document objects managed automatically by AFP include text, fonts, overlays, images, graphics, and other resource objects such as bar codes and ICC profiles for colour management.
• AFP reliability in print environments comes from an architected bi-directional printer data stream interface that manages every page through a print system, making sure that each page gets printed correctly for security, audit, and accounting purposes.
• AFP flexibility comes from its ability to include other standard document formats such as TIFF, JPEG, and PDF as included objects within an AFP object container. These included objects can then be used like any other document object in the AFP system and can be placed anywhere on a page where they can then be printed or viewed.

While AFP has had the ability to include PDF in object containers for many years, more customers in the transactional print environment are creating workflows that combine PDF content within AFP documents. This allows them to use PDF to create the document content and then embed these PDF pages in AFP to get the performance and management they need in high-speed print environments. These ‘hybrid’ workflows allow them to get the best of what both PDF and AFP have to offer.

AFP itself originated within IBM as a mainstream presentation architecture. In 2009, the AFP Consortium (AFPC) was formed as a peer-based open standards organization composed of companies from around the world with an interest in AFP. The entire AFP architecture is now developed and maintained by the AFP Consortium.

1 Scope

This document specifies Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) interchange as a container for document objects by defining the AFP file format Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (MO:DCA) ¹ . It includes a means of identifying support for specifically including single and multi-page Portable Document Format (PDF) document objects as a container function set. It also includes a mechanism for pairing and managing resources associated with PDF.

The use of AFP is applicable to AFP and PDF workflows where the final production is managed within an Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) environment.

2 Normative references

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3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 12651-1, ISO 19005-1, ISO 32000-1 apply.

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