ACIF stands for AFP

IBM Advanced Function Printing (AFP)

Advanced Function Printing is a document format originally defined by IBM to drive its printers and support the typical form printing on laser printers....

Conversion and Indexing Facility.

Definition

AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility (ACIF) is a batch application development utility that lets you create documents by formatting line data (record format and traditional), XML data, MO:DCA-P print files, and unformatted ASCII files and then print them with IBM Infoprint Manager or IBM Print Services Facility (PSF). ACIF also provides indexing and resource retrieval capabilities that let you view, distribute, archive, and retrieve document files across systems and operating systems.

Input Formats

ACIF accepts data from your application in these formats:

• AFP data
• MO:DCA-P data
• Record format or traditional line data
• Mixed-mode data
• XML data
• Unformatted ASCII data (AIX and Windows only)