AFP to PDF transform

The AFP to PDF transform creates PDF 1.4 output. The transform always creates color output if the AFP document contains color images. You can use Adobe Reader 5.0 (or higher), or a comparable PDF viewer, to view and print the PDF documents.

The AFP to PDF transform converts AFP resources (resources can be inline in the AFP documents or in AFP resource libraries) into PDF format and includes them in the PDF data stream.

The transform does not include some AFP formatting options (such as copies, duplex, input and output bins, finishing, and jogging) in the PDF document. When you print PDF documents, you can use the printer driver options to select options such as copies, duplex, and so on.

For fonts which are mapped to the Adobe Reader base-14 font set, the transform includes only the names of outline fonts in the PDF document. Including only the names of outline fonts reduces the size of PDF documents. For other outline fonts, the outline font is converted to an Adobe Type 1 font and included in the PDF file. For more information, see the AOP_OUTLINE environment variable ***.

If the source font is a raster font and the target font is an outline font, you can customize font-mapping to add custom fonts. For more information, see Mapping raster fonts to outline fonts.

When printing images, the transform does not scale images. The printer scales the images to the resolution of the printer.

The administrator can specify transform options in the transform configuration file, such as the output page size, whether to create enhanced PDF documents (enhanced PDF documents are easier to view and navigate), and whether to encrypt PDF documents. For more information, see the AOP_ROTATE_PDF environment variable ***.