7.4

Name: Value:
<Pdi>
</Pdi>
Each generated XML file has Pdi tags wrapped around its content. This indicates the source of the enclosed
XML content is the PlanetPress Suite.
<Header>
</Header>
These tags wrap around the header information of the XML file. The header information contains the name of
the variable content document used, the name of the archived XML file, the date and time the file was proc-
essed, as well as the output type called the archive method.
<FormName>
</FormName>
The name of the converted document (in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Documents folder) the Digital
Action action executed to generate this XML file and its associated PDF, or other type of image output.
<ArchiveFile>
</ArchiveFile>
The name, minus the file name extension, of this XML file (and its corresponding Digital Action output file).
You set this name in PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools when you configure the Digital Action action task.
<Time>
</Time>
The time the Digital Action action task created this XML file, expressed as hours:minutes:seconds.
<Date>
</Date>
The day the Digital Action action task created this XML file, expressed as year/month/day.
<ArchiveMethod>
</ArchiveMethod>
The format you selected for Output type in the Digital Action action properties dialog box (PDF, JPEG, dif-
ferent flavours of TIFF).
<Fields>
</Fields>
These tags wrap around all fields used in the document. Each field is a single index item as defined for a data
selection object in PlanetPress Design.
<Field>
</Field>
These tags wrap around each field used in the document. Each field contains tags for its name, and size—cor-
responding to the number of cells comprising the data selection as made in PlanetPress Design.
<Name>
</Name>
The name of an index term as defined for a variable content document created in PlanetPress Design.
<Size>
</Size>
The length of the data selection you created for this index in PlanetPress Design. If you used a multiple-line
selection, the number of all selected cells appears here.
<Number>
</Number>
The page number of the PDF, TIFF, or JPEG file created from a single job. JPEG and TIFF files are separated
into individual files if they are multiple-page jobs; each job is still contained in a single XML index file, sep-
arated into pages.
<Page>
</Page>
These tags wrap around all the information for a single page resulting from a job. Contained in the page tags
will be fields, page number, and other tagged information such as text.
<Pages>
</Pages>
These tags wrap around all the pages part of the job. They appear after the information in the header of the
XML file.
Overview of the PDF/A and PDF/X Standards
Introduction to PDF/A and PDF/X Standards
PDF/A and PDF/X are standards that are specialized versions of the PDF document format for specific usage, specifically long-
term archival and graphic art printing.
The PDF/X standard ensures that graphic art files will be reproduced on press exactly as the files’ creator intended them to be,
regardless of the platforms, operating systems, color spaces, font systems, file formats and medias.
The PDF/A standard provides “a mechanism for representing electronic documents in a manner that preserves their visual
appearance over time, regardless of the tools and systems used for creating, storing or rending the files” (From ISO 19005-1).
Both these standards will become available in PlanetPress Suite Version 7.