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To associate the pages of a FreeForm 2 document with a FreeForm 2 master document:
1. In PlanetPress Design, open the FreeForm 2 document that contains the pages that you want to
associate with the FreeForm 2 master document.
2. In the Structure area, select the page you want to associate with a FreeForm 2 master document and
double-click on it to display the Page properties dialog box.
3. In the Page properties dialog box, click Basic attributes and set the FreeForm 2 options.
Master ID: Enter the name of the FreeForm 2 master document you want this page to reference. This
option appears only if you selected FreeForm 2 in the Caching method box of the Conversion options in
the Document dialog box.
Page number: If the FreeForm 2 master document you entered in the Master ID box is a multi-page
document, enter the page number of that document that you want this page to reference. This option
appears only if you selected FreeForm 2 in the Caching method box of the Conversion options in the
Document dialog box.
4. Click OK.
5. Repeat step 2 through step 4 for each page that you want to associate with a master document.
6. Save the document.
Related topics:
• Set Up a Document (Page 55)
• Create and Use FreeForm Documents in PlanetPress Design (Page 61)
• Create a Document in VPS or VDX Format (Page 63)
6.2.8 Create a Document in VPS or VDX Format
In order to let you create documents for printers that are VPS compliant as well as for VDX printers,
PlanetPress Design gives you the option to create both VPS and VDX documents. To use either formats, you
must choose the appropriate caching method when creating the document.
In the case of VPS documents, overlay (fixed size) and virtual (variable size) pages defined as cachable will
actually be cached, but in the case of VDX documents, only virtual pages defined as cachable will actually be
cached.
Also note that VDX documents must be processed by VDX action tasks in PlanetPress Watch/Server before
they can be sent to the printer. In fact, VDX documents do not execute on the printer, they are rather merged
with the data by PlanetPress Watch/Server, that converts the result to VDX and that then sends the VDX
stream to the printer. Note that you must purchase a special license to use the PlanetPress Watch/Server VDX
plugin.
You create a document in VPS format as follows:
• In PlanetPress Design, define the document as a VPS document.
• Place any content you want the VPS format document to cache, on one or more virtual pages, and
define each of those virtual pages as cachable. In most cases you cache content that is extremely large
and that is used more than once during document execution.
If you plan to include an N-Up object on a VPS document page, make sure that it appears as the first object
on the page in the Document Structure area.
You create a document in VDX format as follows:
• In PlanetPress Design, define the document as a VDX document.
• Place any content you want the VDX format document to cache, on one or more virtual pages, and
define each of those virtual pages as cachable. In most cases you cache content that is extremely large
and that is used more than once during document execution.
• Once you complete your document, install it in PlanetPress Watch/Server.
• To execute the document and convert the result to VDX format, set up a process in PlanetPress Watch/
Server and add a Create VDX action to that process.
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