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Chapter 1 of the VDPMill User Guide

Preface

1. What is in this Document?

The RenderX VDPMill User Guide provides background information about what VDPMill does. It explains how to use the product. The manual consists of the following sections:

  1. Overview

  2. VDPMill Configuration

  3. VDPMill Document Processing

  4. VDPMill Interactive GUI Application

  5. VDPMill Ticket Application

  6. VDPMill Control Panel

  7. VDPMill Job Monitor

  8. VDPMill Command Line Interface

 

2. Prerequisites

VDPMill runs on most systems where Java Virtual Machine 1.6 or newer is available. This includes:

  • Unixes;

  • Microsoft Windows;

  • Linux;

  • Mac OS X;

  • Other platforms and operating systems.

VDPMill requires Sun Java VM 1.6 or higher to run properly.

VDPMill supports XSL-FO formatting via RenderX IREn engine (the required version is 4.18 or higher).

A PDF viewer is required in order to view PDF output. Adobe provides a free one which can be downloaded from Adobe.

To view PostScript files, one option is to use GhostView which may be used for viewing PDF as well. Versions are available for most operating systems.

To view the AFP documents, the IBM AFP Viewer plug-in is needed in Web browser.

To view the RenderX intermediate XEPOUT file, any XML editor is needed.

 

3. Acronyms

The following table lists acronyms which are used in this manual:

Table 1. Acronyms

AcronymFull Term
CLICommand Line Interface
GUIGraphical User Interface
PIXML Processing Instruction
URLUniform Resource Locator (World Wide Web address)
W3CWorld Wide Web Consortium
XMLeXtensible Markup Language
XSLeXtensible Stylesheet Language
XSL-FOeXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects
XSLTXSL Transformation
XEPOUTIREn intermediate OUTput format
XML-RPCeXtensible Markup Language - Remote Procedure Call protocol (XML-RPC)

 

4. Technical Support

You can contact RenderX technical support by: