Global Images can be used in multiple PPD files such as Header or Footer images which are the same for all your documents. These can be added to one single Global PPD, by ticking the Global Image entry, and exported to the Server and then referenced in all of your other PPDs . In this way if your Header or Footer images need to change you only need to change them once in your Global PPD and upload that one PPD to the Server for the changes to take effect.

Limitations

There is one limitation to using Global Images in this way and that is if you wish to use the same image but with a different size or format. Currently the size and format in the Global Image PPD is used, i.e. overriding anything you may have specified in the other PPDs.

Global versus Dynamic Images

Before using Global Images you may wish to consider using Dynamic Images which are created at the time of running your Cobwebb Design. Dynamic Images can be useful if you have images that change on a regular basis and you don't want to have to keep updating your Cobwebb Design to import the latest changes.

Creating your Global Images

Use the following steps to help create any Global Images that you wish to use in several PPDs.

Step 1 - Create all your Global Images

Create all of the images that you wish to use globally throughout your PPD and store them all in one location accessible to all PPDs.

Step 2 - Add the images to your Global Image PPD

Include all of the Global Images into a Global Image PPD using the normal Image element and ticking the Global Image entry. This means that when it is exported to the Server the PPD Name is not included when it creates the entry in the Cobwebb Image Library. By adding all of the Global Images to one PPD this will be the only PPD that you will have to Export to the Server when an image changes.

Step 3 - Upload the Global PPD to the Server

Export your Global Image PPD to the Server. If you look in the Work with Graphic file you will see the new entries for your images with a blank PPD Member.

Step 4 - Add the Global Image to a PPD

When you add the Global Image to your other PPDs make sure you pick the image from the place where you created the images in Step 1. Again tick the Global Image entry so that it doesn't create an entry in the Cobwebb Image Library for these PPDs. When the PPD is run it will first look for an image specific to the actual PPD and then, if it cannot find one, check for a Global Image.