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Vertical distance: Indicates the biggest acceptable vertical distance between two text passages so that they're still rec-
ognized as belonging together. This is the factor the font's height and size is multiplied with. The value for the font's height
therefore is taken from the corresponding font's attributes. For example, if the height of that font example in 10 point size is
0.32 cm. There is a passage found that is positioned 0.15 cm above - which means 0.15/0.31 = 0.48 < 0.50 - the previous text
passage. So the two passages are not recognized as belonging together.
Winport Translator
Select this option if the task is to generate a Line Printer file. This will prompt the task to perform the second phase of the proc-
ess, and thus convert the XML file to a Line Printer file. If this option is not selected, the output file will thus be an XML file. The
settings included in this group determine the format settings of the generated Line Printer file.
Character per inch (CPI): The number of individual characters per inch on a line of text.
Line per inch (LPI): The number of lines of text per inch.
Data Splitters
Splitter action tasks are used to single data files into multiple data files. You can use such tasks, for example, to split files that
contain statements for multiple clients into smaller files that each contain a single client statement. Each statement can then be
printed and sent by snail mail, or even emailed directly from PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools, to each individual client.
Splitters initiate a recurring cycle that stops only when the original file has been completely processed. When a given splitter
creates a file, it hands it down to the task that follows, and all the tasks on the same branch are performed until the output
task. Then the splitter task creates yet another file that is again handed down to the next task, and so forth until the cycle ends
(when there is no more data in the original file).
If the process merges the split data with a document, the splitter must not alter the structure of the data file. In other words,
each split file must have the same structure as the original files, otherwise the PlanetPress Design documents to which they
will be sent will not be able to extract the data correctly and the merging process will fail.