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Chapter 6: Managing Jobs78

Job Processing Explained

Processing Steps

A processing step indicates the current stage of the

PDF creation process.

When a job is being processed, you can see its

progress in the Job Information area. If the PDF

Queue for that particular job is known, you can also

see the job’s current processing step and the total

number of steps.

For example, the Job Information area might dis-

play: “Step 2 of 4: Preflighting”.

Steps Requiring an Action

Most jobs do not require any further actions on

your part — jobs you submit are automatically pro-

cessed by Instant PDF.

However, certain PDF Queues may require you to

perform one or more actions before the job can fin-

ish. For example, you may have to specify a file

name for the resulting PDF document, indicate

which PDF Queue needs to be used, or review the

PDF document.

In this case the Job Information area displays the

instructions you need for completing the action.

Creating a New Job

Different Job Creation Methods

You can create new jobs:

• Directly from within the Instant PDF window,

using the New command in the Job List view.

See Creating Jobs from the Job List view.

• Directly by dragging a PostScript or PDF file

onto the Instant PDF application icon or its

shortcut.

• Indirectly by printing to a virtual printer, or

using the QuarkXPress XTension or the plug-in

for Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator or Adobe

Acrobat.