2018.2

New AFP Options
We have introduced a new AFP Options page, to provide greater control over AFP output.
(SHARED-63234)
Connect already had the ability to add metadata properties from Job Creation as TLEs to the
AFP output. However, the earlier implementation did not support creating TLEs for specific
pages, or for adding TLEs at the page level (which allows different values for each page).
TLEs are often used to mark the start of documents or mail pieces, to indicate media types,
locations for inserts (including the name of the insert), and other properties required for print
production. To accommodate this, it is now possible to conditionally create both TLEs and
NOPs in AFP output by using inserts in custom printer definitions.
In addition to this, we have also added settings to control which job elements page groups will
be created in the output. Earlier Connect versions would always create page groups for all job
segments, document sets and documents, which would lead to pages being nested in three
levels of page groups. Now you can choose to have just one level of page groups, or even no
page groups at all.
To make sure that metadata properties from Job Creation do not interfere with dynamic TLEs
from the printer definition inserts, this page also has a setting to turn off TLE creation for
metadata properties.
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