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to structure the data before it processes it. Any task that must use a different emulation must be preceded by a Change Emu-
lation action task. All the tasks that follow on the same branch will use the emulation chosen in the Change Emulation task.
General Tab
l The options of this task are basically the same as the Data Selector in PlanetPress Design. Please refer to the Plan-
etPress Design User Guide for information on how to use the Data Selector.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 54).
Create PDF
The Create PDF Action task allows users running either PlanetPress Office or PlanetPress Production to create native PDF out-
puts without an active PlanetPress Imaging license. It very similar to the Digital Action task (see "Digital Action" (page 128))
but is more limited. It does not contain the advanced PDFoptions that are offered by the PlanetPress Imaging solution, but is
useful for creating simple PDFfiles using the default quality.
PDFs created with the new Create PDF Action task will effectively replace the current data file in any given process using such
a task.
General tab
l Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you want all the jobs to be generated with that doc-
ument. The None option is available to create or update a PDF without using a PlanetPress Design document, in a Meta-
data-based workflow.
l Run mode group
l Printer centric: Select to send the document along with the trigger and data to PlanetPress Image.
l Optimized PostScript Stream: Select to merge the selected document with the data received by this task
before sending it to PlanetPress Image. Note that some features, such as the Time and Date PlanetPress Talk
functions, require that this option be selected.
l Add job information to the document: Select to add the available job info variables in the “header” of the gen-
erated output file.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 54).
Other Notes
Here's a list of the hard-coded PDF values for files generated with this new plugin. Basically, these settings correspond to Dig-
ital Action and PlanetPress Image settings for Standard Quality:
l PDF version :1.4
l Job option :Standard quality
l General:
l Compress text and line art
l Auto-rotate pages
l Optimize for fast web view
l Author: PlanetPress
l Keywords: PlanetPress; Create PDF Plug-in
l Monochrome images :
l Compression: CCITT
l Pixels per inch: 1200
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