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AFP stands for "Advanced Function Printing" and "Apple Filing Protocol"

Advanced Function Printing is a format developed by IBM which is used for describing data which should be printed. Today it is mostly used in output-management for printing large scale documents.

Apple Filing Protocol is a network protocol developed by Apple which is used in Mac OS X and classic Mac OS.

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Add PDF to AFP Output

We're trying to take a PDF file created in a web application and dynamically insert it into an AFP datastream on an IBM iSeries. Does anyone know if this is possible?
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What library exists for the construction of AFP documents in different languages?

I am currently looking for a library in any language that allows me to create structured AFP documents but so far I have not found any Previously I tried to use a library called afp.lib belonging to java but this structure the document but lost…
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Is their any way to Extract Images From AFP File ? using java /python

working on project which needs to extract images from afp file As AFP file includes images in line how can we use image content image architecture to convert hex into image any snippet will help allot !
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Need a head start in reading AFP files and extracting the content and metadata

I was assigned to work on this specific project, where we will be getting AFP(advanced function presentation) files and we need to get the documents, i.e.the content and the corresponding meta data. I have been looking into AFP(advanced function…
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File sharing discovery in Cocoa

I'm trying to programmatically discover and then mount network volumes shared using OS X's file sharing from a Cocoa app. I'm using NSNetServiceBrowser to discover which servers are advertising file sharing - easy enough. My question is about the…
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Determine AFP share from a file URL

I writing an application to copy some files to a certain location. It allows the user to choose the destination, which is always on an AFP share. This is done with a NSOpenPanel. The URL that gets returned is:…
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Sorting Binary File Index Based

I have a binary file which can be seen as a concatenation of different sub-file: INPUT FILE: Hex Offset ID SortIndex 0000000 SubFile#1 3 0000AAA SubFile#2 1 0000BBB SubFile#3 2 ... FFFFFFF SubFile#N…
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Apache FOP creates AFP format for documents that include images. The resulting file size is 10 times larger than the included image

I need to produce an AFP document that contains a lot of images. I'm creating an AFP file using FOP. XSL has references to images that are included in the document. The produced AFP file size is approximately 10 times larger than the included…
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How to get page count of AFP File in C# or Java

I have an AFP file for which i need to get the count of the page present in the file using c#.Based on the file count i have to create a print queue for AFP file so is it possible using c# or java ?. I didn't find any support code for getting the…
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afp cannot see zfs mounted folder

on my linux server, I have mounted my zfs pool here: ~/data/homepool and ~/data is shared via afp. My macOS (high sierra) client can correctly see and read/write ~/data and in fact even write in data/homepool. The problem is that macOS Finder gets…
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Tool to get fonts used in afp file

Does anyone know how can we get the fonts used in an Afp file . I have tried Afp explorer , but it's not helping. Please provide some suggestions on this.
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How to read and convert AFP file to PDF with C#?

I'm trying to read a very large .AFP file and then convert it to .PDF but I can not do it, I've reached the point of getting all bytes of the file but how do I convert it to PDF. // Open the file. FileStream fs = new FileStream…
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OS X API to mount a network volume

I'm trying to programmatically mount an AFP Volume in a most efficient way. Since AFPMountURL and the rest of AppleShareClient framework is deprecated, what is the current best way to mount network volumes on OS X? I would like to avoid juggling…
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how to extract metadata from AFP file?

i have a sample AFP file.. want to read TLE(Tag Logical Element) from it to get certain predefined tags such as account no or bill number so that i can convert that to PDF for particular bill no. Also is there any public Java api for performing the…
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Searching text inside AFP files

I've been asked to convert files from PDF to AFP and I've managed it using the IBM afp printer's driver. I was wondering if there's a way to search inside the afp file . I know I can do it on the pdf file but I've been asked to crosscheck the…
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