14 DesignPro Visual PPFA User Guide
Chapter 3: Customizing Visual PPFA, provides information on selecting profiles,
specifying application and document default settings, and customizing workspace menu
bar and toolbars for Visual PPFA.
Chapter 4: Preparing to Work, provides information about assembling, managing, and
converting resources required by Visual PPFA, and specifying file format settings.
Chapter 5: Designing Physical Pages, explains the basics, creation and setting of
FormDefs. FormDef is short for Form Definition. Both of these terms will be used
interchangeably throughout this guide.
Chapter 6: Working with FormDef Lists and Objects, describes the FormDef objects,
lists and associated overlays, including their creation, modification, and property
definition. It also provides detail on the basic and enhanced NUP.
Chapter 7: Designing Logical Pages, explains the basics, creation and settings of
PageDefs. A PageDef is a short for page definition, and both of these terms can be used
interchangeably.
Chapter 8: Working with PageDef Lists, describes the resource lists used in designing a
PageDef, and provides information on adding, maintaining and deleting these lists.
Chapter 9: Working with PageDef Objects, describes the procedures to work with
PageDef objects such as page formats, records, fields and barcode fields, conditions,
floating overlay, floating segments, external objects, and end subPages.
Chapter 10: Working with DrawGraphic, describes procedures to add drawGraphic
and endGraphic objects to your design, and set their properties. DesignPro Visual PPFA
enables you to use graphic objects relative to the variable data while designing your
PageDef. These objects, which can be added to a logical page, are referred to as
drawGraphic objects in PPFA.
Chapter 11: Performing Standard Operations on Visual PPFA Objects, describes
procedures to perform standard operations on various Visual PPFA objects, such as
copying, deleting and moving objects as well as opening and saving them in various
formats.
Chapter 12: Working with Overlays, describes how to work with an overlay in
PageDef and FormDef, and the procedure to use it as a template. It also provides
information on using the Visual PPFA form design tools for editing the overlays.
Chapter 13: Working in Project Mode, describes how to work with documents in
Visual PPFA Project Mode.