.AFP

Advanced Function Presentation File

📌 This accurate data standard serves for handling and processing transactional printing targets. Therefore, this custom .AFP extension specification is precisely formatted using an object-oriented page description language (PDL) also entitled as the Mixed Object Document Content Architecture. Another naming layout of the .AFP file container is widely spread under the AFP Data Stream (AFPDS) definition. Specifically, the noted .AFP resources are comprehended by hardware devices compliant with the “Intelligent Printer Data Stream” printing protocol. It should be explicitly mentioned, that this corresponding .AFP schema is broadly employed and utilized by printers in corporate-based mainframe architectures and infrastructures, taken into arsenal by middle- and large-sized companies, structures, and business organizations.

FileProtector Encrypted File

📌 In other cases, the .AFP layout may appear eligible for storing distinct files encrypted and encoded with Androsa FileProtector, a proficient top-class file encryption utility shared in accordance with freeware license terms. Precisely, the aforementioned .AFP logic protects any types of file content by encrypting the integrated file data with an advanced cryptography algorithm. The .AFP extension specification supports a wide diversity of encryption algorithms, among which are DES (64-bit), TripleDES (192-bit), AES (128-bit/192-bit/256-bit) and more advanced protocols, accessible in the IT-industry area. Androsa FileProtector suite, consistent with the .AFP mechanics and principles, can be operated and opened up within Windows desktop architecture solely, and is non-compliant with macOS and Linux workstations and nodes. At the actual moment of time FileProtector software initiative remains in inactive development status.

How to open an .AFP file?

📌 The .AFP file entries are perfectly reviewed, opened up and compatible with individual transactional printing foundations, such as Xenos d2e Vision, Pagetec AFP-View, and IBM AFP Viewer plugin integrated and preinstalled on the existing web-browser layout, available within your desktop operating shell by default or formerly downloaded from the third-party trusted source. In most of the cases, the .AFP definition is designated for commercial purposes and aims, as long as the aforenoted printing architectures are at most utilized by business organizations and structures. In the exceptional clauses, the .AFP standard can be sustained and opened by Androsa FileProtector solution, mainly oriented on info encryption, encoding and protection. This custom suite permits to encrypt the integrated .AFP file content with multiple reliable algorithms, based on 128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit keys. Such an approach guarantees reliable protection of user content and corporate data from malware attacks, intrusions of harmful trojans and DDoS-attacks on network stations and local computers.