1. Introduction

Since version 4.6 IREn engine has a built-in support for generating AFP documents (available with a special license). AFP is an architecture standard for High Volume Transaction Output supported by such vendors of printing equipment like IBM, Kodak, Xerox and others. AFP has built-in support for text and raster graphic output, vector graphic, vector and raster fonts and many other features. All document structure of AFP document is organized by means of higher level protocol called MO:DCA which links all printable objects together and builds the whole document.