Creating a Template Document A DPM template consists of static elements (text, graphics, and images), and
variable elements represented by tags.
You may create a DPM template using any application which can layout pages,
e.g. Microsoft Word and Quark QuarkXPress.
For more information about templates see Template and Control File.
Inserting Tags To insert a text tag, enter the field name, surrounded by the chosen marker, e.g.
«client_name» or <<client_name>>. The marker must be the same throughout
the document and should be used only to mark tags.
Alternatively, switch to DPM, select the Settings view, right click on the tag in
the tag list, and select Copy tag to clipboard. Then switch back to your editing
application and paste the tag. The tag will already be surrounded by the chosen
markers.
Note: Fast switching between Windows applications can be done by holding the
ALT key and clicking TAB.
Typographic attributes of the tag like font type and size will be taken over for its
replacement during substitution. A change of typographic attributes within a tag
will be ignored.
To insert an image tag, insert the image at the desired position and scale it to
take the space which shall be used later during image substitution.
The image must be marked with a tag later within DPM. See Editing Image
Properties.
Saving the Template file as PDF To create a PDF file for the template, print it using the Adobe Acrobat Distiller®
printer.
Acrobat Distiller should be installed as a Windows printer during Acrobat
installation. To obtain PDF suitable for DPM, you should configure Distiller to
use the DPM job options file which is installed during DDP Server installation.
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