Proform Designer Proform Designer

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Lytrod Software Proform Designer is a user-friendly variable data layout and form design tool. Sophisticated one-to-one marketing pieces and transactional/promotional statements can be easily created from either mainframe, XML, or database delimited data. The Microsoft Windows GUI interface includes wizards and drop-down menus for easy drag-and-drop data placement. A simple personalized letter or the most complex rule-based job is created without user scripting. Specialized OMR drawing tools with data-driven pre-slugging create a more efficient scannable document.

Benefits

  • Create stunning one-to-one marketing pieces using graphic arts resources generated from any graphic application (ex: Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, etc.).
  • Work with a variety of data formats from XML, delimited (database), to line (host-based, mainframe) data. Develop attractive transactional promotional statements using business rules to generate business graphics, data-driven text or images, and calculations from any data type (XML, delimited, line (host) data).
  • Easily create simple personalized letters or sophisticated variable documents (conditional rule-based text, images, page designs, media, slipsheet, etc.). Eliminate hours of processing time at the PC.
  • Take full advantage of the operational flexibility and speed of Dynamic Document Construction – building data-driven, personalized documents at the moment of output, and at the rated speed of the device.
  • Work with large data runs, without bogging down network performance.
  • Utilize current industry standard page description languages and their resources. Proform Designer can be used to convert and/or create fonts, images and forms for PostScript, PCL and Xerox Metacode printers.

Specialty Imaging

Specialty Imaging prevents document fraud by making documents harder to duplicate or digitally edit. Specialty imaging effects include: Glossmark® Text, Correlation Text, FluorescentMark Text, MicroText, and Infrared Text (additional font purchase is required for Specialty Imaging Text features).

Variable OMR

QR Codes

Lytrod Software enables the ability to create variable QR Codes from transactional data streams including LCDS, delimited and XML and integrate them into personalized applications including statement printing. Variable QR Codes are created in Lytrod’s Variable Design Suite by creating customized web site addresses from information in the data and applying the QR Code transform.

Variable OMR

User defined variables

Creation of counters, field “change” comparisons, concatenated fields, variable formatting, extractions, transforms, and calculations.

Variable font formatting

Data-driven text can be formatted with kerning and Pantone, CMYK, or RGB color palettes.

Data-driven Business Graphics

Pie, Line, and Bar (stacked) charts are easily created using a user friendly wizard.

Dynamic Elements

Form elements created using Proform Designer’s drawing tools (lines, boxes, circles, paths) can be relatively positioned based upon the data. Images can also have relative placement.

CMYK and RGB image files

Proform Designer allows the import of industry standard image formats such as PDF, EPS, TIFF, and JPEG; along with legacy image formats. Proform Designer converts images from one type of supported print environment to another, such as LCDS to PostScript.

Background image files

Multiple background files can be defined. Background images can be defined statically or variably through conditional logic.

Conditional Text & Images

Conditional logic support for images and text defines print images and text through data-driven rules.

Variable OMR

Pre-slugging enables two-pass scanned cycle to evolve into a single pass.

Variable OMR

Multi-up Imposition and z-sort

Supports multi-up duplex functionality frequently required for applications such as personalized postcards. Z-sort function allows stack sizing to maintain postal sorting order in cut sheet operations. Custom multi-up positioning supports Dutch Cut imposition.

Page level logic

Sophisticated page processing. Sets of pages or designs can be grouped in Job Sets for data-driven conditional/rule-based printing. Media tray calls and subset finishing features can also be conditionally based.

VIPP project folders and containers

Lytrod Designers automatically transfer required VIPP job resources to the proper directories on a networked printer’s hard drive. This is a real time saver. VIPP has added support for Projects and Containers, making resource and job management even easier and more automated. Lytrod’s Designers also support these new features.

PDF archiving, web viewing, and automated email submission

Support of Adobe bookmarks allows the tagging of variable information to enable the Xerox FreeFlow VI PDF Originator to spilt jobs and build customized index files for use on the Web and in viewing applications. PDF Interactive features support embedded URLs, file links and pop-up notes. Proform Designer’s integrated email client assists a fully automated email submission of variable PDF document attachments.

PDF archiving, web viewing and automated email submission

Workflow

Proform Designer fully supports the unique VIPP “Just Send the Data” workflow. Document design is done at the PC or Mac. Resources (font, forms, data templates, images) can be automatically transferred to networked print devices. When it’s time to print, just the raw data is sent from the data source to a Xerox VIPP enabled engine. Since the data templates can be used on any VIPP/PostScript engine, with the Xerox FreeFlow VI PDF Originator the SAME efficient workflow can be used to mass-produce PFD documents. Print and viewable documents can be simultaneously created.

Legacy Migration

Existing LCDS resources can be easily created or converted to a Xerox FreeFlow VI (VIPP) workflow.

Legacy migration

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