7.2

Dynamic Images 207
PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference Image Resources 207
PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference External Images 207
Physical Location of Dynamic Images 208
Host-Based or Printer-Based Document Execution 208
Image Format 209
Summary of Execution Environments 209
Examples of PlanetPress Talk Expressions that Resolve to Pathnames 210
Image Name and Pathname Resolution in Dynamic Images 211
Custom Data Selections 211
PlanetPress Talk Before and After 211
Creating and using Runpages 212
Convert an Object to PlanetPress Talk 213
PlanetPress Talk Basics 215
Assumed Knowledge 215
PlanetPress Talk 215
PlanetPress Talk Terminology 217
The Elements of PlanetPress Talk 217
PlanetPress Talk Syntax 218
Data Types 220
Variables 222
Create a Global Variable 223
View or Edit a Global Variable 224
Delete a Global Variable 224
System Variables with Local Scope 226
System Variables with Global Scope 226
System Objects with Global Scope 227
Current System Object 227
Runpage 230
Using Foreign Language Text with PPtalk 230
Learning PlanetPress Talk 234
Integrate PlanetPress Talk into Documents 235
Define and Assign Values to Variables 235
Select Data 236
Use Functions as Arguments 236
Debug Scripts 236
Tips and Tricks 236
Code Samples 237
Print a variable number of copies of a page based on a value in the datastream 237
Store two lines of input data on one line of the data page 238
Print a line of text on odd-numbered pages 239
Determine the proper page to print based on the width of the data in the data page 239
Language Reference 241
Language Reference (Alphabetical) 241
% (procedure) 241
Current (system object) 241
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