Are *AFPDS printer files going away? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Are *AFPDS printer files going away?
From: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 14:27:54 +0000
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I'm seeing a lot of talk about IBM dropping AFP, but not a whole lot of specifics.

We use some *AFPDS printer files (CRTPRTF FILE() DEVTYPE(*AFPDS)), mostly for barcodes, with a few overlays. We also use an old open source utility to convert *AFPDS spooled files to PDF (TIFF in PDF wrapper).

I'm trying to figure out if we're going to need to replace all of our *AFPDS printer files.

Anyone know anything about this?

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Follow-Ups:

Re: Are *AFPDS printer files going away? , Buck Calabro
Re: Are *AFPDS printer files going away? , Rob Berendt

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