ISO 18565
AFP/Archive
This International Standard specifies the AFP document architecture by defining a subset appropriate for long-term preservation and retrieval. This subset will avoid ambiguity by assuring page independence and eliminating the use of resolution dependent fonts and images, device default fonts and external resources.
AFP stands for Advanced Function Presentation and is a coordinated set of document creation, viewing, archiving and printing hardware, software and services that widely used for high-speed variable-data transactional printing.
While AFP has had the ability to include PDF data in object containers for many years, ISO 18565 allows for embedding the PDF pages in AFP to get the performance and management needed in high-speed print environments.
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ISO 18565 defines an interchange of AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) to PDF and a subset for the archival of AFP documents.
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