7.3

General tab
l Scan orientation: Select Side to side for images that will be printed in their original orientation on a portrait oriented
page, or in a rotated orientation on a landscape page. Select Top to bottom for images that will be printed in a rotated
orientation on a portrait oriented page, or in a rotated orientation on a portrait oriented page. Note that images that are
meant to be printed in various ways can be stored twice on the printer as two identical copies of the same file that bear
different names (Image_Original.tif and Image_Rotated.tif, for example). The first copy can be processed using a Send
Images to Printer action task with the scan orientation set to Side to side, the second one with a different Send Images
to Printer action task with the scan orientation set to Top to bottom, each one typically being included on two different
branches of the same process.
l Color conversion: Select As is to keep the color information included in the images. Select Grayscale to convert color
images to grayscale.
l Naming convention: Select ’File name, original’ to store the file under its original file name. Select ’File name, no
extension’ to store the file without its original file name extension. Note that all characters are converted to uppercase
and that extended characters (diacreased characters, such as é, for example) are not recommended in image file
names.
l Image quality: Select the same image quality chosen in the PlanetPress Design documents that reference the image
files you are sending. In PlanetPress Design, this setting is included in the document’s resource options.
l Image compression level: Select the level at which you want images to be compressed. Values can range from 1
(compress up to 1% of the image’s original size) to 100 (do not compress). For example if you set this box to 75, the
Image Downloader compresses all images by 75% when it converts those image to PostScript. The default com-
pression level is 70%.
l Send to Virtual Drive of: Select the computers and/or printers to which the images are to be sent.
l Refresh: Click to prompt PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools to look again for available printers and computers.
l Hard disk name and path: You may enter the name and path of the hard disk to which you want to send the
images. Needless to say that this option is used if the device to which you are sending the images has multiple hard
drives.
l Print confirmation page: Select to print a confirmation page on each one of the selected printers after an image
has been successfully received.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on "Task Properties Dialog" (page 54).
Send to Folder
Send to Folder action tasks send the files they receive to a local folder. They perform the same function as Send to Folder out-
put tasks, with the only difference being that in this case PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools will wait for the task to be com-
pleted before going on to the next task in the configuration.
As with any task that can refer to network resources, it is important to understand the considerations involved with
paths and permissions of these resources. Please refer to the "Network Considerations" (page 16) page in the
Advanced Configuration and Options chapter (Reference Guide, in English only).
Send to Folder action task properties are as follows:
General tab
l Folder: Enter the path of the folder to which the files are to be saved.
l File name: Enter the name of the output files generated by this task. To prevent each new file from overwriting the
previous one, you should use variable names. As with any variable property box, you can use any combination of text,
variables and data selections.
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