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PDF page becomes a full data page. Each PDF page is thus graphically represented in the PlanetPress Design Data Pane as one
data page.
Note that protected PDF and PDF of versions above 1.7 are not supported by PlanetPress Suite 7.
The PDFEmulation does not have any options - that is, there is nothing to set up when opening a PDFdata file. PlanetPress
Design simply reads each PDFfile as a unique data page.
User-Defined Emulation
In user-defined emulation, you use PlanetPress Talk commands to define how you want the document to treat the input data.
You use this emulation when the structure of your input data prevents you from using any of the other emulations. You must
ensure the emulation you create handles any variations in the data properly and under all circumstances.
In user-defined emulation, the document reads the data stream one line at a time. After it reads a line, it places all the char-
acters in that line in a string variable. You use PlanetPress Talk commands to specify how the document handles the contents
of this variable.
Note that when a user-defined emulation is used, whenever you request a data page that is passed the last data page, the last
data page will be displayed.
Create a User-Defined Emulation
Since User-Defined emulations are based on PlanetPressTalk commands, please see the chapter on "PlanetPress Talk" (page
199) for more information no creating user-defined emulations.
Associate a Sample Data File with a Document
This procedure describes how to associate a sample data file with your document using either the Data Selector or the Data
Pane of the Program window. Note that this does not apply to Database Emulations, which are configured using a database
connection (see Database Emulation)
To associate a sample data file with your document, do any of the following:
l In the Data Selector, click the Browse button to the right of the Sample data file box to browse and select a sample
data file.
l In the Data Selector, in the Sample data file box, enter the path of the new sample data file and either press ENTER, or
click outside the Sample data file box.
l In Windows Explorer, select the sample data file, and drag and drop it into any of the following areas of the PlanetPress
Design Program window: the Structure area, the Page area, the Data Pane, or, if the Object Inspector is displaying an
image resource, the Object Inspector.
PlanetPress Design makes a copy of the sample data file and stores it within the document. The Sample data file box displays
the path of the sample data file and the first data page of the sample data file appears in the Data Pane. It also automatically
selects an emulation that corresponds to the file name extension of the sample data file you select, using the following table:
File name extension: Emulation:
csv
CSV
dat, txt Line printer
db, dbf, mdb Database
pdf
PDF
You can set the User Options to have PlanetPress Design monitor the original sample data file and prompt for confirmation to
update its internal copy if it detects changes in the original. See "Notification Messages Preferences" (page 69).
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