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• When the process executes, the Create VDX action executes the document and converts the result to
VDX format. In most cases the process also contains an output task that receives the result of the
Create VDX action. For example, it may contain a send to folder output task that takes the result of the
Create VDX action and saves it to the shared folder from which the printer picks up print jobs.
To create a VPS or VDX document:
1. In PlanetPress Design, create a new document.
2. Double-click on the Document node to display the Document properties dialog box.
3. In the Document properties dialog box, click Compilation options and in the Caching method box,
select either VPS or VDX.
4. Click OK to exit the Document properties dialog box.
5. Add a page to the document. See the section “Add a Document Page” in the chapter “Setting Up Pages.”
6. In the Structure area or in the Page area, select the page and double-click on it.
7. In the Page properties dialog box, click Basic attributes.
8. Select Cachable and set Page type to Overlay (VPS only) or Virtual.
9. Click OK to exit the Page properties dialog box.
10. Add the content to the cachable page.
11. Repeat step 5 through step 10 for each of the cachable pages you want to add to the document.
12. Create the normal pages of the document, either calling a cachable overlay page (VPS only) or using n-
up objects as necessary to reference the content of the virtual pages.
If you include an N-Up object on a page, make sure that it appears as the first object on the page in the
Structure area.
13. Save the document.
In the case of a VPS document, the document is now ready for the printer. In the case of a VDX
document, the document is now ready for use with the Create VDX action task in PlanetPress Design.
Install the document in PlanetPress Watch/Server.
Related topics:
• Set Up a Document (Page 55)
• Execute Pages N-Up (Page 98)
• Set Up a Page (Page 92)
6.2.9 Create and Use a Document in VDX Format
You can create and print a document in VDX format using PlanetPress Design in conjunction with the Create
VDX action in PlanetPress Watch/Server. It is important to understand that in this case the document itself
does not execute on the printer. Rather, the Create VDX action in PlanetPress Watch/Server merges the data
with the document, and converts the result to VDX format. Note that although the Create VDX action ships
with PlanetPress Watch/Server, you must purchase a license to use it.
To create a document in VDX format:
• 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.
Any content you intend to cache must be static. On the normal pages of the document, you use n-up
objects to reference the cachable content.You can scale the content of an n-up object, as well as rotate
an n-up object; thus you can present the same virtual page at different sizes and angles.
• 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.
• When the process executes, the Create VDX action executes the document and converts the result to
VDX format. In most cases the process also contains an output task that receives the result of the
Create VDX action. For example, it may contain a send to folder output task that takes the result of the
Create VDX action and saves it to the shared folder from which the printer picks up print jobs.
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