PSL Primers
The Help › Primers menu opens a set of introductory documents on useful subjects. Double-click any entry in the file dialog to open it.
The first three primers contain general information every user should read. The rest are technical overviews of PSL programming topics with simple examples.
| Primer | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Value Statements and Expressions | How page wizards produce data variations without PSL coding: merge fields, arithmetic, color mapping and multi-level logic |
| Text Files | The formats text files can take |
| Character Delimited Data Files | The most common data files PSL users see, from applications like Excel |
| Fonts | Font management specifics |
| Color Control | Color management in PSL and what it means for printing |
| Text Formatting | Formatting basics, format boxes and typesetting functions |
| Programming in PSL | Basic PSL programming for non-programmers |
| Graphics | PSL's graphic model and basic functions |
| Data Tables | Table structures and PSL functions for reading, searching and sorting data |
New to PSL? Start with the getting started examples.
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