Documaker Studio stores sections in a FAP file, along with the section and field rule assignments you assign to it. This differs from the way rule information was stored using the older document creation tool, Image Editor.
Image Editor stored sections in a FAP file which only contain the section’s objects and object attributes. The Image Editor stored section and field rule assignments in a separate file, called a data definition table (DDT) file. While DDT files originally offered high performance, advanced formatting needs made it necessary for the FAP files to be available at runtime to handle dynamic composition.
With the release of version 11.0 and the introduction of Documaker Studio’s FOR file, section and field-level rules previously stored in the DDT file are, in Studio implementations, either unnecessary or are stored in the FAP file. Having section level rules (such as SetOrigin) in the FOR file makes it easier to do visual form design. Having field level rules in the FAP file eliminates synchronization issues.
| Note | With the release of version 12.0, support for Image Editor and other legacy development tools ended. |
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