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Composite documents and IDF
Composite documents and IDF
This section covers the
EscapeE "composite document" feature for stitching a
document together from separate elements, and also RedTitan
®
"Intelligent Document
Format".
About composite documents and IDF
describes the purpose of the files used in
composite documents, and introduces IDF and EscapeE's IDF wizards
How to open and view a composite document on screen; how to open and view an
IDF document and IDF code: see Viewing a composite or IDF document
About Control files
describes how LOF and CSV files may be used to set up
composite documents
How to create LOF and CSV control files: see Creating a control file
How to show a control file in EscapeE and how to set up associated files such as
RedTitan DataBase
: see Viewing a control file
How to edit a control file: see Editing a control file
About .EE files for composite documents
describes the fields, records and
FILENAME pertaining to field definitions files
How to create an EE file: see Creating a field definition file
About Composite documents and IDF
EscapeE Professional only
A "composite document" may be a single document which EscapeE has composed from a
collection of other "component" documents. The component documents are just regular
PCL
®
, PDF and TIFF files. You may also use plugins
to add text and barcodes to the
composite document. EscapeE can export
the composite document in the format
you choose in the normal way.
The simplest composite documents may be created from a control file
that is merely a
list of the component file names. EscapeE automatically joins these component files, one
after the other, into a single (composite) document. To build more complex composite
documents, however, EscapeE needs a control file
and a field definition file.
The
control file supplies the data for the fields in the field definition file. The field definition file
sets up the way the control file's data is to be used so that EscapeE can build the
composite document. This enables you to create complex composite documents using
composite fields.
Creating a control file
Creating a field definition file
In addition, a "composite document" may be composed of files and file fragments
integrated into a single document using RedTitan's Intelligent Document Format control
files. Programmers will recognize that IDF files use eXtensible Mark-up Language, so may
like to use the RedTitan
®
RTXML program to compose them. General users may prefer to
use EscapeE's built-in IDF mechanism; "wizards" aid the construction of the most
commonly used types of composite documents.
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