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Several months ago I started hunting around for information on variable information (VI) languages. I quickly realised that there's very little information on this topic in the public domain — there are snippets of information scattered across various websites, but they are usually brief and don't provide any significant amount of useful information.
Many different VI languages are now supported across VDP emitters (software) and interpreters (RIPs), but how can you make an informed decision on which is the right language for your VDP work if you don't know anything about the languages themselves?
To help VDP users understand the differences in VI languages, I've published an article which explains all VI languages available, including PostScript, PDF, PCL, VIPP, VPS, PPML, PPML/VDX, FreeForm, JLT, VDF, IPDS, IJPDS, LCDS and Metacode.
This article was published in The Seybold Report last month. If you don't subscribe to Seybold, you should, it's a must-read (sign-up for a free trial on their website). In the meantime, you can download a PDF of the article from Fuji Xerox's website (made available with permission of the publisher).
Posted on Monday, 15 October 2007 at 4:48 PM | TrackBack: http://www.veedeepee.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/38