ISO 22550 is an international standard on document management that discusses AFP interchange for PDF.
ISO 22550 specifies Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) interchange as a container for document objects by defining the AFP file format [Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (MO: DCA)].
ISO 22550 includes a means of identifying support for specifically including single and multi-page Portable Document Format (PDF) document objects as a container function set.
ISO 22550 also specifies a mechanism for pairing and managing resources associated with PDF.
The use of AFP applies to AFP and PDF workflows where the final production is managed within an Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) environment.
ISO 22550 on AFP interchange for PDF is relevant to:
Why should you use ISO 22550- AFP interchange for PDF?
Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) is a coordinated set of document creation, viewing, archiving, and printing hardware, software, and services that are used heavily in the high-speed transactional printing market, which includes the printing of financial statements, utility bills, books, and marketing materials.
ISO 22550 provides you with creating hybrid workflows that allow you to get the best of what both PDF and AFP have to offer. This allows you to use PDF to create the document content and then embed these PDF pages in AFP to get the performance and management needed in high-speed print environments.
With compliance and obedience to ISO 22550, you can enhance the performance and management in prints environments.
ISO 22550