Hello,


I am writing this post in the hopes that someone might lend a kind hand and point me in the right direction to learning VIPP. I was just introduced to it today at work, and im expected to know it within a week or two....FUN! ''


Anyway, i get the gist of it, that being that its similar to postscipt, but i don't really know where to start, and those 15-300 page XEROX manuals don't really help.

So, um, HELP!!!


thanks alot in advance for....hell, anything. Like I said, i really don't know where to start here.

Render,

All you really need to know is it is a type of Postscript used for variable printing it is just basically Xerox's language (but not restricted to Xerox). It is the same as say PPML, VDX, VPS. I don't think you need to know it per say. The example of how I use it would be to compose a VIPP (postscript) file using say Fusion Pro, send that VIPP file to my IGEN and release to print. What is really cool in if you disect the VIPP Postscript you will see that what it is doing is cacheing the images that are used multiple time so they are only ripping them once no matter how many times they are used. I have had to use different Variable postscript before like VDX for the Nexpress and VPS for our small Konica printer. They all are using the same general principle just in a different language depending on the equipment they are going to.. My experiences show that VIPP is the fastest ripping.

In a nut shell just as you would print to .ps or .pdf, you would just print to .VIPP. Not a whole lot to know.

I hope this helps.. I know it is a little general but I don't think you'll have a problem.

Let me know if I could help any further...

Dale

Render,

Dale is correctly describing how alot of people "program vipp." However, for the full power, control and capabilities of vipp you really need to learn to hand code your applications. That being said, it really depends on what is being expected of you? Simple mail-merge postcards? Or complex multiple segment, multiple resource, multiple outputs, multiple finished type documents.

When hand coding vipp, you have the capability of running the cleanest, fastest executing (ripping) applications with the most power per line of code; however, to do this you have to learn the fundementals.

If you will need to be hand coding vipp (which I prefer) then the first thing you need to do is build a development enviroment. What editor will you use? Xerox's VIPP IDE? Notepad? What viewer will you use? Ghostscript? Acrobat Distiller? Are you licensed appropriately? Your Xerox analyst can probably help you get setup using VIPP IDE (which I think comes with each license of the VIPP Core) and can probably help you also using distiller.

I personally like using VIPP IDE or EditPlus (because I have a syntax file for color coding in EditPlus). For viewing output I use the design window of IDE or more typically Acrobat Distiller. The best resource I have ever had for vipp programming has been the actual manual with each of the commands. I would get my hands on the electronic documentation if I were you. Searching through it is alot easier.

Bottom line is you must determine what you are striving for. Hand programming or gui based psuedo programming. I would caution you that alot of the code generated by Fusion Pro, Darwin, etc. as vipp output doesn't make a lot of sense. I would not recommend learning to hand code from those code samples. They are poorly optimized and do not take advantage of resource files.

Good luck, let us know how it goes.

-John