InfoPrint Designer for System i

InfoPrint Designer for System i

• Enables integrated download of application data to be designed and enables upload of completed project
• Creates System i-native output resources—images, overlays, page definitions, form definitions—that integrate seamlessly with print and downstream electronic delivery
• Enables use of fonts and images in native format, eliminating the need for conversion and ensuring accurate fidelity
• Supports 240 dpi, 300 dpi and 600 dpi resolutions (via outline fonts)
• Enables precision positioning with mouse or explicit values in LPI, CPI, inches, millimeters or pels
• Is application independent, no changes required to existing programs
• Provides flexibility to print to IPDS™ or PCL printers, plus PDF printers with InfoPrint® Server for System i
• Includes System i AFP™ Font Collection built into InfoPrint Designer
• Ensures precise positioning of elements via design grid controls with snapping options
• Includes synchronized graphical interfaces for programmers
• Support for most standard barcode symbologies as well as new two-dimensional barcodes (UPS Maxicode, Datamatrix and PDF417)
• Support for document finishing operations such as stapling and saddle stitch
• Support for full color images in AFP format
• Support for multiple languages

Layout Editor

• Enables browsing, target System i print file selection, and automatic import of target print file into data window for design
• Provides fully graphical design window supporting all document elements (data, text, overlays, images, bar coding)
• Enables drag-and-drop of target application data directly to the design page
• Provides fully graphical print job preview, page by page
• Displays the System i page definition and form definition in additional windows
• Design wizard that steps you through complex document design
• Enables page layout decisions to be made based on application data utilizing full conditional processing support
• Enables toggling between layout and overlay design modes
• Enables data to be printed in a full range of bar codes

Forms Editor

• Enables displaying and editing of multiple overlays within an application project
• Enables use of AFP fonts and images in native format
• Enables creation of lines, boxes, and circles with extensive customization of each
• Provides professional shading controls
• Enables placement of either stand-alone text or text within a box, with extensive justification features
• Facilitates design of complex forms with Group and Repeat functions
• Allows editing of existing AFP overlays created with InfoPrint AFP Utilities
• Enables the use of "scan and trace" for preprinted forms with background display of scanned hardcopy to facilitate design of electronic form
• Enables automatic and precise alignment of form elements
• Provides dynamic conversion of TIFF images into System i image format

Image Editor

• Provides professional image design platform for producing sharp, high-fidelity System i images
• Enables manipulation of images in native AFP format (IOCA)
• Provides dynamic conversion of TIFF images into IOCA
• Enables professional touch-up with a variety of image editing tools
• Enables editing of images at the pel level for complete control
• Provides full text entry options within image
• Provides zoom and edit functions from 100% to 1000%, and rotation in 1-degree increments
• Provides image manipulation operations including rescale, resize, cut, paste, crop, invert, shade, flip and mirror
• Provides complete control over image type and compression
• Provides image preview for easy navigation
• Provides thumbnail preview of image directories
• Supports text within your image
• Support for watermark images