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Term/Abbreviation Explanation

Variable data printing (VDP)

Printing a template document in combination with a database. A template is

a document with placeholders (tags). During VDP, the tags are replaced with

values from the database.

A database consists of records (e.g. for John Smith, Alan Miller etc.) and

columns (e.g. FirstName, LastName). During VDP, the template is

combined with each database record to produce an instance document. In the

instance document, each placeholder is replaced with the value of the

corresponding column. E.g. FirstName is replaced successively with John,

Alan etc.

VDP

Variable data printing

20 • Glossary Database Print Manager Reference