AFP Format (AFP/PTOCA/IM1)

AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) format is part of IBM's document imaging system. It is a raster format, created to add enhanced formatting and indexing capabilities to documents for print applications in finance, retail, insurance and other industries. LEAD provides support for the user to open MODCA/PTOCA or AFP/PTOCA documents.

The default extension used by this format is: AFP.

This file format does not support stamps or Lossless JPEG compression, but it does support multi-page files.

LEADTOOLS supports functions that let you set the DPI for the opened image file. Please refer to the PTK Options functions.

File constants associated with this file format are:

Constant

Read Support

Write Support

Description

FILE_AFP

24 BPP

None

[252] IBM This format is part of IBM's document imaging system.

FILE_AFP_IM1

1 BPP

None

[340] IM1 uncompressed AFP.

Required DLL: LFAFP for AFP/PTOCA, LFAFP and LFRAW for IM1.For a listing of the exact DLLs needed, based on the toolkit version, refer to Files To Be Included With Your Application.

Currently, for AFP/PTOCA LEAD does not save AFP files, but these files can be saved to IOCA.

Related Formats: FAX - Raw Fax Format, ICA - Image Object Content Architecture (IOCA/MODCA), PTK - PTOCA Format, TIFF - Tagged Image File Format / CCITT.

Platforms

Win32, x64.