Wrestling Legacy Data to the Web and Beyond: Practical Solutions for Managers & Technicians

by McGrew, P. C.

• ISBN13: 9781893347021
• ISBN10: 1893347028
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
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Table of Contents

Forward	p. vii
Thanks and Acknowledgements	p. viii
Meet McGrew + McDaniel	p. x
Contents	p. xiii
Preparing to Wrestle	p. 1
The Battle Cry!	p. 5
The Problem with Legacy Data	p. 8
A Glance toward Your Applications	p. 10
Why Care About Fonts?	p. 11
The Look of the Document	p. 12
What Can You Re-Purpose	p. 14
What About Composition Tools?	p. 15
Getting Started	p. 18
A Pass at Printer Languages	p. 20
Formatting Fundamentals	p. 24
The Font Story Continues	p. 26
Graphic Tidbits	p. 29
Forms and Overlays to Format your Data	p. 30
Summary	p. 31
Legacy Data: What's Under the Covers?	p. 32
Where does Legacy Data come from?	p. 36
The First Migration	p. 39
Looking for Clues	p. 40
Don't Forget the Emerging Technologies	p. 42
One Last Point	p. 44
Digging Deeper	p. 46
Font and Graphics: What Questions Do I Ask?	p. 48
Continuing the Evaluation	p. 52
Migration Point	p. 53
Line Data and Line Printers 101	p. 56
All Points Addressability: IBM and Xerox	p. 62
AFP Ramp-Up	p. 65
What are AFP Resources?	p. 68
Fonts, Graphics and Overlays	p. 71
AFP Printing	p. 76
Xerox Ramp-up	p. 77
Xerox Resources	p. 81
Xerox Print Environment	p. 83
Xerox XES	p. 85
APA: Beyond Xerox and IBM	p. 89
PostScript and PDF 101	p. 91
Portable Document Format-PDF	p. 94
PCL 101	p. 95
Fonts	p. 92
The Backgrounder	p. 99
A Font by Any Other Name...	p. 101
Font Hurdles	p. 104
Vendor Specific Font Issues	p. 106
Target Font Technologies	p. 115
What You Have	p. 116
Suggestions	p. 119
Graphics	p. 121
Challenges and Solutions	p. 125
Forms/Overlays	p. 128
A Question of Migration and Fidelity	p. 132
To Migrate or Not To Migrate	p. 135
Reformatting When Necessary	p. 138
Now that you know what you have... what do you want?	p. 139
Considering XML	p. 145
Considering PDF	p. 149
Stepping up to Complex Data	p. 151
A Sample AFP Migration Plan	p. 151
A Sample Xerox Migration Plan	p. 153
Suggestions	p. 155
Side Thoughts: Getting to Digital from Paper	p. 156
What's Coming in the Next Generation?	p. 158
The Dreaded Inventory	p. 163
Why We Make Lists	p. 164
Business Environment	p. 165
System Environment	p. 166
Print Environment	p. 167
Trailblazers	p. 173
In Conclusion	p. 175
Where to Find Help	p. 176
List Serves	p. 176
Ezines and Newsletters	p. 177
User Groups and Associations	p. 179
Vendor Manuals	p. 183
Vendors and Their Offerings	p. 186
Glossary	p. 209
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