Elixir Technologies Corporation

DesignPro Tools for AFP

This syllabus covers the following items:

Course Objective
DesignPro Tools for AFP Topics
Key Areas of Study
Who Should Attend

Course Objective

The DesignPro Tools for AFP course training is 4 days of hands-on experience with the
various modules for preparing resources for AFP printing. The objective of this course is
to instruct students on resource conversion, editing and saving into AFP format and
provide them with working skills to develop resources and PPFA applications.

DesignPro Tools for AFP Education Topics

Day 1:
	DesignPro Form Editor Introduction to the Form Editor and to Overlays Creating Overlays Adding Images Importing and Adding Text Working with Fonts Drawing Lines and Boxes Inserting Static Barcodes Editing an Existing Overlay
Day 2:
	DesignPro Form Editor (continued) Using a Windows Application to Create an Overlay Printing a Microsoft Word Document to an Elixir Form Exchanging Fonts Setting File Format Properties Verifying the AFP Resources
	DesignPro Manager Opening DesignPro Applications Adding Shortcuts Understanding the Directory Structure Physical folder and Virtual Folders Understanding Profiles, an Introduction Resource Conversion Defining Setup Files
Day 3:
	DesignPro Graphics Editor Creating an Image Cleaning Up Scanned Images Creating Fonts from Images
	DesignPro Font Editor Font Modification Font Creation
Day 4:
	DesignPro Visual PPFA Understanding PageDefs and FormDefs Creating a Traditional Format Application Creating a Record Format Application Creating an N-up Application

Key Areas of Study

Following are specific areas that are covered in detail throughout the class:

Creating and editing overlays, fonts, images, PageDefs and FormDefs for
printing in the AFP environment
Resource conversion and management
Data and overlay layout definition
Proofing PageDefs and FormDefs

Who Should Attend

Overlay Developers/Designer Specialists/Print Technicians - It is recommended
that key overlay developers take the entire course outlined above.

PPFA Programmers - It is recommended that PPFA programmers take the entire
course outlined above; Visual PPFA is strongly recommended.