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Print
Connectsupportsanumberofdifferenttypesofprintoutputs.Theseinclude:
l
PCL
l
PDF
l
PostScript(includingthePPML,VIPPandVPSvariants)
WiththeDesigneryoucancreateoneormorePrinttemplatesandmergethetemplatewithadataset
togeneratepersonalletters,invoices,policies,oranyothertypeofletteryoucanthinkof.
ThePrintcontextisthefolderintheDesignerthatcancontainoneormorePrintsections.
Printtemplates(alsocalledPrintsections),arepartofthePrintcontext.Theyaremeanttobeprinted
directlytoaprinteroraprinterstream/spoolfile,ortoaPDFfile(see"GeneratingPrintoutput"on
page1316).
ThePrintcontextcanalsobeaddedtoEmailoutputasaPDFattachment;see"GeneratingEmailout-
put"onpage1340.
WhengeneratingoutputfromthePrintcontext,eachofthePrintsectionsisaddedtotheoutputdoc-
ument,oneaftertheotherinsequence,foreachrecord.
WhenaPrinttemplateiscreatedorwhenaPrintcontextisaddedtoanexistingtemplatethePrintcon-
textfolderiscreatedalongwithotherfoldersandfilesthatarespecifictoaPrintcontext(see"Creating
aPrinttemplatewithaWizard"onthenextpage,"Addingacontext"onpage432and"Printcontext"on
page443).
OnlyonePrintsectioniscreatedatthestart,butyoucanaddasmanyPrintsectionsasyouneed;see
"Printsections"onpage447.
Pages
Unlikeemailsandwebpages,Printsectionscancontainmultiplepages.Pagesarenaturallylimitedby
theirsizeandmargins.Ifthecontentofasectiondoesn'tfitononepage,theoverflowgoestothenext
page.Thishappensautomatically,basedonthesection'spagesizeandmargins;see"Pagesettings:
size,marginsandbleed"onpage456.
TheminimumnumberofpagescanbesetviathePrintsectionproperties;see"Printsectionprop-
erties"onpage932.
Althoughgenerallythesamecontentelementscanbeusedinallthreecontexts(see"Contentele-
ments"onpage566),thespecificcharacteristicsofpagesmakeitpossibletousespecialelements,
suchaspagenumbers;see"Pagenumbers"onpage457.
See"Pages"onpage455foranoverviewofsettingsandelementsthatarespecificforpages.
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