AFP

File Format
Name	AFP
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Document AFP
Extension(s)	.afp
Released	1984

AFP (Advanced Function Presentation; sometimes also given as Advanced Function Printing) is a document storage and distribution format created by IBM in the 1980s, designed to store document structure and presentation and drive printers for output. It is a complex format that is difficult to deal with other than with IBM's proprietary software, and often uses the uncommon EBCDIC character encodings instead of ones based on ASCII or Unicode (since it originated on IBM systems that used this), but it is still a common document exchange format in some business environments.

Official documents

• AFP publications

Metaformat files

• Synalysis grammar file (for Hexinator / Synalize It!; more details)

Sample files

• Sample AFP file (zipped)

Other links

• AFP Consortium
• Wikipedia article
• AFP Printer User Guide
• Top 4 reasons a print driver won't satisfy business needs