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Variable Document Composition
The customization of
documents with variable data is a way to establish direct communication with
the users of services and products, but also from the legal point of view.
In the '60s, the customization was done using resources restricted to the following environments:
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print on paper, such as impact line printers in which it was virtually impossible to change the fonts of characters and use forms printed "on the fly".
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mainframe computers usually where the interface with the developer forced the use of languages such as Cobol and others for the data formatting in the physical pages.
In that environment was only possible to use the physical fonts characters of the printers and the skip to channel option to accelerate the vertical positioning of the lines to be printed. The use of graphic images were restricted to off-set process, that is to say, it was impossible to change graphic images (forms, photos, digitalized signatures, etc.) during printing time.
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Later with the advent of new technologies of printers (laser, LED and inkjet) and new computers technologies and associated software (PC and Windows) it was possible to create software tools that allow to use the advanced features of the new printers and computers using a user-friendly WYSIWYG ( What You See Is What You Get) to define the rules for the documents composition.
In this new environment it was possible to compose documents:
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