Xerox DigiPath Professional Production Software Support & Software User Guide

AN RDO?

What’s an RDO?

Do not try to move, copy, 
rename, or delete an RDO 
using Windows Explorer. 
If you do, the content 
(.CON) directory will not be 
included in the operation, 
and the RDO will be 
corrupted. Use the DigiPath 
File Manager application to 
move RDO files.

It's a document file that's made up of 
images, so it's not like other documents that 
require you to type a lot.

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You can scan hardcopy documents to 
create electronic images to add pages to 
your RDO.

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You can also insert existing TIFF files, 
JPEG files, PostScript files, or Adobe 
PDF files into your RDO.

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Once you have all the images you want in 
the RDO, you can create headers or foot-
ers, add page numbers and logos, group 
pages into sections, or choose a paper 
size. There are also plenty of other print-
ing options, of course.

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You can even choose the printer you 
want to send your RDO to!

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How many pages can you put in an 
RDO? As many as you want. However, 
the bigger your RDO, the longer it will 
take you to open it!

An RDO is a Raster Document Object. It's 
called an RDO because that is the 3-letter 
extension added to the file name so DigiPath 
can recognize it. The RDO file type is 
proprietary to Document Scan & Makeready, 
but you can use this file type with other 
DigiPath applications, or convert the RDO to 
a PostScript or Adobe PDF file.

An RDO file has two parts:

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A PostScript wrapper which contains all the 
information about the structure and format 
of the pages in your document.

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A .CON directory that actually holds the 
TIFF, JPEG, PostScript, and Adobe PDF 
files that make up the pages of your docu-
ment.

When you create an RDO in Document Scan 
& Makeready, both of these parts are created 
automatically!