7.1

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 VPS.
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 or Virtual.
9. Click OK to exit the Page properties dialog box.
10. Add the content to the cacheable page.
11. Repeat step 5 through step 10 for each of the cacheable pages you want to add to the document.
12. Create the normal pages of the document, either calling a cacheable overlay page 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.
The document is now ready for the printer.
VDXCaching
You can create and print a document in VDX format using PlanetPress Design in conjunction with the PlanetPress Image action
in PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool. It is important to understand that in this case the document itself does not execute on the
printer. Rather, the PlanetPress Image action merges the data with the document, and converts the result to VDX format.
To create a document in VDX format:
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.
Setting Up a Document
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