1.7
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.7.1
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Where to Obtain the Installers
- Installation - important information
- Installation - How to guides
- Activation
- Installation Prerequisites
- User accounts and security
- The Importance of User Credentials on Installing and Running PlanetPress Connect
- Installing PlanetPress Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running connect installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new workstation
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow 8
- Upgrading from PlanetPress Suite 7.6
- What do I gain by upgrading to PlanetPress Connect?
- Server Configuration Settings
- Uninstalling
- The DataMapper Module
- The Designer
- Basic Steps
- Web
- Capture OnTheGo
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing Content
- Writing your own scripts
- Designer User Interface
- Script API
- Designer Scripts API
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Examples
- Creating a table of contents
- Example
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Replace elements with a snippet
- Replace elements with a set of snippets
- Example
- Example
- Control Script API
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Web output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Printing Presets.
- Connect Printing options that cannot be changed from within the Printer Wizard.
- Print Using Standard Print Output Settings
- Print Using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Variables available in the Output
- Generating Fax output
- Generating Tags for Image Output
- Generating Email output
- Generating Web output
- General Information
- Release Notes
- Overview
- Connect 1.7.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Workflow 8.7 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- Overview
- OL Connect Send
- Connect 1.6.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect Workflow 8.6 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.4.2 Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 New Features and Enhancements
- Connect 1.4.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 8.4.1 Workflow Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
When you click Finish, the Wizard creates:
l A Print context with one section in it; see "Print context" below and "Print sections" on
page307. The selected PDF is used as the background of the Print section; see "Using a
PDF file as background image" on page311. For each page in the PDF one page is
created in the Print section.
l One empty Master Page. Master Pages are used for headers, footers, images and other
elements that have to appear on more than one page, and for special elements like tear-
offs. See "Master Pages" on page322.
l One empty Media. Media, also called Virtual Stationery, can be applied to all pages in the
Print section. See "Media" on page325.
Print context
The Print context is the folder in the Designer that can contain one or more Print templates.
Print templates, also called Print sections, are part of the Print context. They are meant to be
printed to a printer or printer stream, or to a PDF file (see "Generating Print output" on
page861).
The Print context can also be added to Email output as a PDF attachment; see "Generating
Email output" on page875. When generating output from the Print context, each of the Print
sections is added to the output document, one after the other in sequence, for each record.
Creating the Print context
You can start creating a Print template with a Wizard (see "Creating a Print template with a
Wizard" on page300), or add the Print context to an existing template (see "Adding a context"
on page294).
Tip
Editing PDF files in the Designer is not possible, but when they're used as a section's
background, you can add text and other elements, such as a barcode, to them. To create
a new Print template from a PDF file, use the PDF-based Print template (see "Creating a
Print template with a Wizard" on page300). To use a PDF file as background image for
an existing section, see "Using a PDF file as background image" on page311.
When a Print template is created, the following happens:
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