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Variable Data Job Template

There are desktop VDP solutions available today that are inexpensive ways to get started. If you use QuarkXpress, Personalizer-X is a plug-in that lets you mark up elements directly in QuarkXpress. Heidelberg's NexTreme software is an Adobe Acrobat plug-in. Open a PDF file and add variable data copyholes to it. Others such as Print Shop Mail, for example, are stand-alone applications that import a static page and let you mark it up. The higher end products are stand-alone workstations or servers, some including their own scripting language to allow you to produce very sophisticated variable output including data-driven graphics (i.e. bars, charts, tables).