sections the document setup performs initialisations which are valid for all subsequent pages of the document the page section contains for each subsequent page the commands which are necessary to paint the bitmap representing the page completely and to issue the bitmap contents to the marking engine each page within the page section starts according to the dsc conventions with a 34 page l n 34 comment wherein l represents a label and n represents the page number in arabic numerals the trailer section starts with the comment line 34 trailer 34 according to the dsc conventions the variable data merger application program creates its output data stream in the following way a specific header section is created then the master ps file is read and the vdf file references and templates are replaced by the output generated by the database application program the general structure of the data stream created by the variable data merger can be summarized as follows ______________________________________ definition of variable data merger specific procedures prolog section of master ps file pagemaker output page section of master ps file page 1 only pagemaker output omission of 34 beginobject endobject 34 if vdf image save all bitmap portions according to page specific regions for each page in vdfx ps translate and rotate co ordinate system to lower left corner of page specific region prolog section of vdfx ps file filemaker pro output page section of current page in vdfx ps.