This syllabus covers the following items:

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.