AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
AFP Consortium Update May 2010
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
AFP Consortium Purpose The purpose of the AFP Consortium is to develop, define and promote the AFP architecture. It's goals are to:
Develop AFP as the best-of-breed presentation architecture for monochrome and color production variable-data printing Ensure seamless interoperability of AFP products from the various AFPC members Provide for compatibility between AFP environments and other presentation environments such as web/view.
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Members February 2010 Core (8)
Participating (18)
– IBM
– Assentis
– InfoPrint Solutions
– CDP
– ISIS Papyrus
– Cincom
– Kodak
– Compart
– MPI Tech
– Crawford
– Océ
– CRE-DO
– Streamserve
– DocPath
– Xerox
– Elixir
– Lexmark – Oracle – Pitney Bowes – Printsoft – PunchGraphix
– Sefas – Solimar Associate (3)
– FIS (was Metavante) – GMC
– COPI – LRS – TAGG Informatique
– HP
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Board of Directors
Roberto Anzola (ISIS)
Paul Gerelle (MPI Tech)
Jeffrey Paterra (Infoprint Solutions)
Michele Pracchi (Océ)
Carlo Sans (Xerox)
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Officers The Board of Directors appointed the following AFPC Officers.
President - Harry Lewis (InfoPrint Solutions)
Secretary - Harry Lewis (InfoPrint Solutions)
Treasurer - Paul Gerelle (MPI Tech)
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Architecture Architects Main architects from InfoPrint Solutions Company.
Reinhard Hohensee: Overall AFP; MO:DCA, PTOCA, GOCA
Harry Lewis: phasing into Reinhard's work
Dave Stone: IPDS, BCOCA, FOCA
Dennis Carney: phasing into Dave's IPDS work
Nenad Rijavec: IOCA
Roger Buis: AFP Line Data
Tim Towns (replaced Jean Aschenbrenner): CMOCA
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Focus Areas
Maintaining the Architecture
New Conformance Level (IS/3)
Metadata
Archiving
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Additions and Changes
Multipage containers
Image Resolution Triplet
Clarification to specification of TIFF and JPEG supported
Editorial changes for various bar codes
New proposals for work – Specification of ”mixing rules” – Specification of Printer Setup settings
New Architecture Manuals to be published on AFPC website
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
New Conformance Level (IS/3)
Remember the goal of AFPC – Ensure seamless interoperability of AFP products from the various AFPC members
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
New Conformance Level (IS/3)
Subset of the AFP-MO:DCA and IPDS Architecture
Foreward-looking level, therefore does not include – Obsolete or Retired functions – Non-strategic functions
– not widely implemented
Interoperability is the key issue Product A
Product B
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Metadata
Metadata or Data about Data – Description of the data to which it refers – Characterics of the data – Workflow information
– Data Management information – Keywords for search – Date/timestamp of creation – Copyright information – Objecttype information (JPEG, Bar Code, etc.)
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Metadata (Now)
AFP – NOOP and TLE
Non AFP
– RDF – Dublin Core – XMP – IEEE-ISTO – EXIF – All sorts of non standard information
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Metadata in AFP - Future
Definition of a new Metadata - OCA – Structured Metadata – Support for (some) existing metadata formats
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Archiving
For an archive strategy to be legally sound, it must ensure that the presentation of the archived data, when retrieved, is identical to the presentation before archiving. Such a strategy mandates that the data is archived in its native format. If the data is generated in AFP format to be printed/viewed/distributed, it needs to be archived in the same AFP format.
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Archiving
To ensure an AFP Archive file can be presented in the future – All resources must be inline – No device depended functions like • Default font • Default color
AFP Archive will be based on the new conformance level with additions of Metadata AFP Archive will be an ISO Certified format
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
Future meeting schedule
October 2010 in Boulder
February 2011 virtual meeting
April 2011 to be announced
October 2011 to be announced
MPI Tech to host AFPC meeting in Denmark
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
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AFP Consortium
Update, May 2010
What can AFPC do for You?
Provide information on AFP and IPDS – Check http://www.afpcinc.org
Listen to your input on new functionality
– Contact me
[email protected] or the APFC precident
[email protected]
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