PRISMAprepare is a professional and productive make-ready application. The application offers four dedicated workspaces to prepare your document:
The [Pages] workspace
Collect the pages for your document and adjust the content of the pages.
The [VDP] workspace
Use basic functions to generate documents with variable data. The variable data is retrieved from an external data source.
The [Document] workspace
Transform a set of pages into a fully prepared document.
The [Production] workspace
Use the production settings to prepare your document for printing.
This documentation contains a chapter for each workspace. Actions that are unique for the concerning workspace are described in that chapter. Generic options are described in chapter "Options available in all workspaces".
You can access the context menu when you right mouse-click a page. This allows quick access to most used actions. The context menu is available in the [Preview] and [Structure] view.
The user interface contains the following elements:
The menu bar
Use the menu bar to select an action and open the Help file.
The toolbar
Use the toolbar for quick access to most used actions.
The [Structure] view
The [Structure] view offers an overview of the structure of your document. You can navigate within your document and select pages.
The [Layers] view (only visible when the PDF contains layers)
The [Layers] view offers an overview of the structure of the layers of the document. You can select which of the layers to be visible or not.
The [Preview] view
The preview view is a WYSIWYG preview that shows all settings that affect the appearance of your document. For example staples, tab captions, page numbers and so on.
The navigation bar
Use this navigation bar to switch between the available workspaces.
The tools in the preview view
Each workspace offers a number of dedicated tools in the preview view.