1 Scope
This document 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)1. It includes a means of identifying support for specifically including single and
multi-page Portable Document Format (PDF) document objects as a container function
set. It also includes a mechanism for pairing and managing resources associated with
PDF.
NOTE For an example of how PDF external file references map into AFP secondary resources,
see Annex A.
The use of AFP is applicable to AFP and PDF workflows where the final production is
managed within an Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) environment.