What is an afp file and how do I open an afp file?

An advanced function presentation file is used by many document presentation applications that were developed by IBM. These advanced function presentation files are usually implemented into text and word processing programs as master template files. This means the content of an advanced function presentation file may consist of blocks of text, text formatting specifications, page layout attributes, embedded digital objects and visual elements along with other template data corresponding to certain sections of a presentation document. These configurations, settings and content can be applied unto many new and old presentation documents by implementing these advanced function presentation master template files into these new and old presentation documents. The content of an advanced function presentation file is integrated with binary, text and XML-based formatting specifications that are used to store its content in the AFP file format. These advanced function presentation master template files are appended with the .afp extension, and the RasterMaster program can also be used to open and view as well as manipulate the content of these advanced function presentation files.