7.2
Table Of Contents
- Copyright Information
- Table of Content
- Overview
- Getting Started
- Understanding PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- The Nature of PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- The Three Flavors of the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- Terms and Definitions
- About Configurations
- About Processes
- About Subprocesses
- About Tasks
- About Branches and Conditions
- About Data
- About Data Selections
- About Data Emulation
- About Related Programs and Services
- About Documents
- About Printing
- The PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program
- Start the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program
- The PlanetPress Suite Button
- Create a New Configuration
- Open a PlanetPress Suite Configuration File
- Saving and Sending a Configuration
- Save your Configuration
- Send your Configuration
- Import Processes from Another Configuration File
- Import Documents
- Import PrintShop Mail Documents
- Change the Interface Language
- Exit the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration Program
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Suite Ribbon
- The Configuration Components Pane
- Add a PlanetPress Suite Process
- Manipulate Local Variables
- Activate or Deactivate a Process
- Convert a Branch to a Subprocess
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Access Process Properties
- View Document Properties
- Add Resident Documents in the Configuration Components Pane
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Watch Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Rename Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reorder Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expand and Collapse Categories and Groups in the Configuration Components Pane
- Delete Objects and Groups from the Configuration Components Pane
- The Process Area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties Dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Plug-in Bar
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- Customizing the Program Window
- Preferences
- General User Options
- Object Inspector User Options
- Configuration Components Pane User Options
- Default Configuration User Options
- Notification Messages Preferences
- Sample Data User Options
- Network User Options
- PlanetPress Capture User Options
- Logging User Options
- Messenger User Options
- HTTP Server Input User Options
- HTTP Server Input 2 User Options
- LPD Input Preferences
- Serial Input Service User Options
- Telnet Input User Options
- PlanetPress Fax User Options
- FTP Output Service User Options
- PlanetPress Image User Options
- LPR Output User Options
- PrintShop Web Connect Service User Options
- Editor Options
- Advanced SQL Statement dialog
- Access Manager
- SOAP Access
- Working With Variables
- Data in PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
- Task Properties Reference
- Input Tasks
- Initial and Secondary Input Tasks
- Create File Input Task Properties
- Folder Capture Input Task Properties
- Folder Listing Input Task Properties
- Concatenate PDF Files Input Task Properties
- Email Input Task Properties
- Error Bin Input Task Properties
- FTP Input Task Properties
- HTTP Client Input Task Properties
- WinQueue Input Task Properties
- HTTP Server Input Task Properties
- LPD Input Task Properties
- Serial Input Task Properties
- PrintShop Web Connect Input Task Properties
- Telnet Input Task Properties
- SOAP Input Task Properties
- Action Tasks
- Add Document Action Properties
- Add/Remove Text Action Properties
- Search and Replace Action Task Properties
- Advanced Search and Replace Action Task Properties
- Create PDF Action Task Properties
- Decompress Action Task Properties
- Change Emulation Action Task Properties
- External Program Action Task Properties
- Download to Printer Action Task Properties
- Load External File Action Properties
- Rename Action Task Property
- Set Job Infos and Variables Action Task Properties
- Windows Print Converter Action Task Properties
- Standard Filter Action Task Properties
- Translator Action Task Properties
- PlanetPress Database Action Task Properties
- XSLT Editor Action Task Properties
- Send Images to Printer Action Task Properties
- Send to Folder Action Task Properties
- Run Script Action Task Properties
- Microsoft® Word® To PDF Action Task Properties
- Create MRDX Action Task Properties
- PrintShop Mail Action Task Properties
- Process Logic Tasks
- Branch Properties
- Comment Properties
- Conditions
- File Name Condition Properties
- File Size Condition Properties
- SNMP Condition Properties
- Text Condition Properties
- Time of Day Condition
- Splitters
- About Using Emulations with Splitters
- Database Splitter Action Task Properties
- Emulated Data Splitter Action Task Properties
- In-Stream Splitter Action Task Properties
- PDF Splitter Action Task Properties
- XML Splitter Action Task Properties
- Generic Splitter Action Task Properties
- Loop Action Task Properties
- Send to Process Task Properties
- Metadata Tasks
- Barcode Scan Action Task Properties
- Create Metadata Action Task Properties
- Embed/Extract PlanetPress Suite Metadata
- Lookup in Microsoft® Excel® Documents Action Task Properties
- Metadata Fields Management Task Properties
- Metadata Filter Action Task Properties
- Metadata Level Creation Action Task Properties
- Metadata Sequencer Action Task Properties
- Metadata Sorter Task Properties
- Metadata-Based N-Up Task Properties
- Rule Interface
- Output Tasks
- Delete Output Task Properties
- FTP Output Task Properties
- Laserfiche Repository Output Task Properties
- Printer Queue Output Task Properties
- Print Using a Windows Driver Output Task Properties
- SOAP Client Task Properties
- Send Email Output Task Properties
- Send to Folder Output Task Properties
- Output to SharePoint Action Task Properties
- About PlanetPress Fax
- PlanetPress Fax Output Task Properties
- Captaris RightFax Configuration
- About PlanetPress Image
- PlanetPress Image Output Task Properties
- Digital Action Task Properties
- Overview of the PDF/A and PDF/X Standards
- Variable Properties
- Unknown Tasks
- Masks
- Input Tasks
- PlanetPress Capture
- The 3 steps to a PlanetPress Capture workflow
- PlanetPress Capture Glossary
- Anoto Digital Pen
- Anoto Functionality Statement
- Anoto Pattern
- Capture Condition
- Capture-Ready Document
- Capture Document Manager
- Capture Field
- Capture Fields Generator
- Capture Fields Processor
- Client/Server Architecture
- Closed Document
- Contamination
- Get Capture Document
- ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition)
- Ink Data
- Open Document
- Pattern Sequence
- Pen ID
- PGC File
- Pidget
- PlanetPress Capture Database
- Trace Code
- General Considerations
- Security Considerations
- Capture Fields Processor Action Task
- Get Capture Document Action Task
- Printer Queues and Documents
- PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Printer Queues
- Printer Queue Advanced Properties
- Windows Output Printer Queue Properties
- LPR Output Printer Queue Properties
- FTP Output Printer Queue Properties
- Send to Folder Printer Queue Properties
- PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools and PlanetPress Design Documents
- Variable Content Document File Formats: PTZ, PTK and PS
- PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools and Printshop Mail Documents
- Load Balancing
- Location of Documents and Resources
- Debugging PlanetPress Suite Processes
- Error Handling
- Using Scripts
- Index
patterns to be unreadable. Since the ink itself must be pure black it is also important not to use any ink saving technology when
printing.
Printing Speeds
When generating print jobs that include patterns, a gradually slower printing speed is to be expected. Though your results
may vary, tests have shown around 100 pagers per minute for the first thousand pages, around 60 ppm for the following 1000,
etc. This is both because of the complexity of the job as well as the fact that PlanetPress Capture always generates a PDFthat
it places in the Capture database and the gradually larger PDFwill require more time to update as it gets bigger.
Database Considerations (ODBC)
On 64-bit operating systems, the ODBCData Sources created by the Data Source (ODBC)icon in the Administrative
Tools will not appear here, as PlanetPress Suite is 32-bit and cannot access the 64-bit data sources. In order to create
an ODBCconnection visible by PlanetPress, you will need to access the 32-bit version of the ODBCmanager, avail-
able in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe .
The following considerations should be kept in mind while working with ODBCDatabases in PlanetPress Suite.
l Microsoft Access
l Database file (mdb)must be local to the PlanetPress Workflow computer. It cannot be located on a network
drive or another server.
l Total database size is limited to 4GBof data.
l Total size of a single table is 2GB.
l May be unstable in large implementations.
l MySQL
l Database can be in any location, but performance will depend on the speed of the connection between Plan-
etPress and the MySQLserver.
l MySQL's performance has been slower than SQLServer and SQLServer Express during our tests.
l By default, MySQLis configured not to allow any SQLrequest larger than 16 megs.
l In the event where 2 requests are made simultaneously on the same record, MySQLwill queue one of the
requests and execute it once the first one is done. In extremely rare cases this may cause a timeout on very
large requests.
l MSSQL(Microsoft SQLServer)
l Database can be in any location, but performance will depend on the speed of the connection between Plan-
etPress Production and the SQLserver.
l In the event where 2 requests are made simultaneously on the same record, SQLServer will drop the most com-
plex request. Resubmitting the PGCfor processing should resolve this issue. This, however, should happen only
rarely.
l When configuring the ODBCconnection, your must use the Microsoft version of the driver, and not the Native
SQLversion of the driver. This is due to a technical limitation of the native driver that interferes with the Plan-
etPress Suite database requests.
Specifically for PlanetPress Capture, these considerations mean the following:
l In Microsoft Access, the total size of stored document cannot be larger than 2GB and this database will be very
unstable in implementation with more than a few thousand pattern sequences being used simultaneously. It is only sug-
gested for small implementation with less than 10 pens, or for demos.
l In MySQL, the 16 megs packet size limit can be an issue if the PDFs created by Capture are larger than this size; An
error saying "MySQLServer has gone away" would appear in this case. This can be fixed by configuring the max_
allowed_packet setting in the MySQLConfiguration(Reference).
l Also in MySQL, if a timeout occurs on simultaneous record access, resubmitting the PGCfor processing should resolve
the issue.
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