Ricoh N905306 - Manual (Page 7)

Tags and Field Names
A tag in the DPM template represents a placeholder for variable data. A tag is
identified by an enclosing marker which may be french brackets like «tag»,
double brackets like <<tag>>, a single bracket and brace like <{tag}> or a single
brace and bracket like {<tag>}. DPM will recognize any of these markers.
The marker must be the same throughout the document, and it must be used in
the document only to mark tags.
The tag is a name or word that corresponds to a field name of a database. A field
name is the column heading of a database field, for example «address» or
«client_name». You can insert tags into a document of any software application.
For more information about inserting tags see Inserting Tags.
Tags may be qualified as text, number, or date/time. Default is text. Number and
date/time allow you to configure DPM’s representation of the tag value if the
database delivers it in the respective internal format.
During personalization of the DPM document, text tags are replaced with the
text from the corresponding field of the current record of the database.
Images
Vector graphics and bitmap images are handled almost interchangeably by DPM.
The only difference is in how they can be selected. See Editing Image
Properties. In the following text, the term image (without qualification) will
refer to both graphics and images.
To obtain variable images, an image has to be inserted as placeholder into the
template document. The position and space occupied by the placeholder image
will be used by the variable images substituted for it.
A placeholder image must be marked within DPM with a field name from the
database. The database field must contain filenames of images to be used for
substitution.
Images should be stored all in the same folder, preferably a folder near the
control file.
During personalization, the placeholder image is substituted by the images
named in the database field. For example, if the database record contains the
filename “house1.eps”, then the placeholder image is substituted by the contents
of the file “house1.eps”.
Paragraph reflow
During personalization, paragraphs are automatically reflowed. This provides
proper alignment and document flow desired by the user. Paragraph reflow is
based on:
• the size of the variable data (substituted strings may be shorter or
longer)
• the vertical extent of preceding paragraphs (reflow may cause a
paragraph to shrink or grow by a line)
It is possible to exclude text from reflow, e.g. footer lines of a document. See
Editing Paragraph Properties.
In the current DPM version, text will not be reflowed across page boundaries.
Also the lines used to draw tables will in general not be resized to match
personalized data.
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