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If storing the message or ID, if they are store in a jobinfo they will be available in any error handling process where errors are
being forwarded. In all cases, if your process continues after the error, the contents of the variables selected in this window
will be available for the rest of your process, or whenever they are overwritten.
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) but is more lim-
ited. 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.
Input
Any data file supported by PlanetPress Suite.
Processing
In the case of regular data files, these files will need to be merged with a PlanetPress Design document.
In the case of a PDFdata file, two things can happen. The PDFcan be used as a data file for a Design document, or it can be
part of a straight PDFworkflow. When this is the case, this task will rather apply the active metadata to the PDFdata file (see
PDF Workflow for more information on this).
Output
The output of this task is always, exclusively, a PDFfile, optionally optimized and optionally with fresh metadata.
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.
l Optimize Resulting PDF:Remove repeated fonts and images, placing them at the beginning of the PDF to reduce
size and complexity. This is similar to an Optimized PostScript Stream. Note that this option will add processing time in
the task, as optimization is a complex task.
l Reset metadata according to new PDF: The output metadata will correspond to the new PDFstructure, for
example after a metadata sequencer to create individual PDFfiles.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on Task Properties Dialog.
If storing the message or ID, if they are store in a jobinfo they will be available in any error handling process where errors are
being forwarded. In all cases, if your process continues after the error, the contents of the variables selected in this window
will be available for the rest of your process, or whenever they are overwritten.