Goals
- Complete understanding of the Papyrus formatting capabilities
- Using examples of real documents, quickly learn to use the layout and logic functions of Papyrus Designer to build complete statement applications
Prerequisites
- PC experience
- Script programming
Participants
- Application developers
- Application analysts
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Duration/Time
5 days
Mo 11-17
Tu-Th
9-17
Fr 9-15
Location/Dates 2024
Austria (German)
EUR 2100
February 5-9
May 13-17
November
4-8
Austria (English)
EUR 2100
January 22-26
April 22-26
September
9-13
USA (English)
USD 2400
Jan/Feb 29-2
April 22-26
September
16-20
Singapore (English)
USD 2400
February 12-16
October 14-18
Content
AFP Basics:
- AFPDS architecture & resource types
- Use of TrueType and Adobe fonts
- Print resources and printer management with AFP
Papyrus Document Designer Suite:
- The Designer Suite: AFP Designer, Image Editor, Font Editor and FontConverter in the context of Papyrus Designer
- Design duplex printing FORMDEF and overlays with AFP Designer
- Image Editor: Import and edit graphics. Export as AFP page segments.
- Font Editor: font types (raster and outline), font resources (coded font, codepage, character set), font editing
- FontConverter: conversion of TrueType fonts into AFP fonts
- Importing and exporting a project
Papyrus Designer first steps:
- Setup of the font library
- Setup of a forms and graphics library
- Using the data window for variable definitions
- Editing with the logic window
- Assigning logical pages to sheets
- Defining subroutine Document Formats (DFAs) and includes
- Test printing and generation of AFPDS and PDF files
- Viewing of AFPDS with Papyrus Client AFP Viewer
Migration of PPFA applications:
- Migrating PPFA source code to DOCDEF source code
Text document with variables:
- Various data formats in ASCII, EBCDIC, XML etc.
- Conditional control based on data
- Widow and orphan definitions
- Multi-language applications
- Embedding graphics and signatures
- Reading and processing XML input
- Modularization of DOCDEF source code using external Document Formats (DFAs)
Developing business documents and reports:
- Processing different input records
- Variable arrays and repetitions
- Tables with controlled pagination
- Table of contents creation
- Defining a cross reference index
- Page rearrangements
- Defining bar, pie, and line charts
- N_UP and duplex capabilities
- Defining a document AFP index
- Analyzing an AFPDS with Papyrus AFP Analyze
Outlook on Papyrus WebRepository and Papyrus Postprocessing/DocumentPool:
- Developing documents in a Correspondence Solution
- Advantages of managing resources in Papyrus WebRepository
- Additional functionality of Papyrus Designer/DocEXEC for output management
Registration
To register please complete and submit the
online registration.
You will receive a written confirmation with the
accurate course information, a map to find the course location
and a choice of hotels nearby. We are happy to book the hotel
reservation for you if required. More information on available
hotels can be found
here.
Cancellation of the course is free of charge up to two weeks before the course date. After that, the full fee for the course applies.
We would like to point out that workshops might be postponed due to low registration and recommend taking this into account when arranging your flight schedule. Please note that all our prices are quoted net and do not include local taxes.
Course materials including course guide are included in the price (download). All prices are excluding tax.