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l In PlanetPress Design, define the document as a VDX document.
l 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 cacheable. 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 cacheable 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.
l Once you complete your document, install it in PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool.
l To execute the document and convert the result to VDX format, set up a process in PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool
and add a PlanetPress Image action to that process.
l When the process executes, the PlanetPress Image action executes the document and converts the result to VDX for-
mat.
This procedure describes how to set up a document in PlanetPress Design, so that the Create VDX action recognizes it and con-
verts it to VDX format correctly. For help understanding and using the PlanetPress Image action, see the PlanetPress Watch
or Server 6 User Guide Addendum.
To create a document in VDX format:
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 VDX. If
you do not select VDX, the Create VDX action in PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool does not recognize the document as
one it can convert to VDX format.
4. Click OK.
5. Add a page to the document.
6. Double-click on the Page node to display the Page properties dialog box.
7. In the Page properties dialog box, click Basic attributes.
8. Set Page type to Virtual and select Cachable.
9. Click OK.
10. Add the content to the virtual page. You can use any of the objects available in PlanetPress Design to add content to the
virtual page. However, all of the content you add must be static.
11. Repeat step 5 through step 10 for each of the virtual pages you want to add to the document.
12. Create the normal pages of the document, using n-up objects as necessary to reference the content of the virtual
pages.
13. Save the document.
To display a virtual page on a normal page:
1. On the normal page, choose Home | N-UpPrinting.
2. Move the pointer inside the Page area, click at the point at which you want to add the n-up object, and release to dis-
play the N-Up properties dialog box.
3. In the N-Up properties dialog box, click Basic attributes and enter the name, position, size, style, and condition
properties for the n-up object.
4. In the N-Up properties dialog box, click N-Up options and in the Page to execute n-up box, select the virtual
page you want this n-up object to display.
5. Set both the horizontal and vertical Number of repeats to 1.
6. If necessary, use the Scale box to adjust the scale at which the n-up object displays the virtual page.
7. If necessary, click Basic attributes and adjust the Angle property to rotate the content of the n-up object.
8. Click OK to exit the N-Up properties dialog box.
Setting Up a Document
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