Konica Minolta Darwin VDP Software - Manual (Page 15)

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Darwin 3.0 overview
What is Darwin?
Darwin is authoring software that facilitates the process of merging
variable data with a design to produce high-quality variable printing
jobs. Darwin enables you to create full-color postcards, coupons,
newsletters, proposals, and more, completely customized for each
recipient. Any amount of text and graphics can differ on each page for
each recipient. The variable content is based directly on your data or on
rules you define. You can also specify rules to select which layout(s) is
used for each reader.
Darwin can output standard PDF or PostScript ® files for proofing.
However, for rapid and efficient printing, Darwin can generate output
variable data printing (VDP) files for use on digital printers. Darwin
supports all leading VDP file formats: Creo
® VPS, Xerox ® VIPP ® , PPML,
and PPML/VDX.
The Darwin software consists of two major components:
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Darwin Pilot, stand-alone software that enables you to manage your
job data, job logic, and production sequence
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Darwin CoPilot, Darwin plug-in module for the InDesign CS3
software that enables you to use the Adobe InDesign CS3 page
layout software to design, preview, proof, and print VDP files
Darwin software packages
The Darwin VDP software is available in two software packages, Darwin
Desktop VDP software and Darwin Pro VDP software. Each package is
activated with a dongle.
Darwin Desktop enables you to create VDP jobs using rules that contain
variable text, colors, images, and pages. In addition, the Darwin Deskop
package also supports a limited number of barcodes. No scripting or
programming is required.
Darwin Pro provides enhancements to the Darwin Desktop package: In
addition to Darwin Desktop's variable text, colors, images, and pages,
the Darwin Pro package enables you to create personalized images,
many types of barcodes, data-rich charts and graphs. You can also
create personalized e-mail campaigns by combining a job definition in
Darwin Pilot with the HTML authoring abilities of DreamWeaver. The