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Table Of Contents
- Capturing Data
- Overview
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Capture Sample Data for a Document You Install on a Printer
- Capture Sample Data for a Document You Install in PlanetPress Watch
- Capture Sample Data in Windows NT
- Capture Sample Data in Windows 2000/Server 2003/XP
- Capture Sample Data in Windows Host Using a Novell Print Server
- Capture Sample Data in UNIX (Solaris)
- Capture Sample Data using an AS/400 Systems
- Capture Sample Data From a Serial Port
- Creating Triggers
- Overview
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Implement a Trigger under Novell 3.x
- Implement a Trigger under Novell 4.x and 5.x with NDS or Bindery Printers
- Implement a Trigger under Windows NT 4.0 with TCP/IP
- Implement a Trigger under BSD Printing Systems (BSDi, FreeBSD, Linux)
- Implement a Trigger under UNIX System V (Solaris)
- Implement a Trigger and Configure an AIX 4.3 Printer
- Implement a Trigger under VMS
- Implement a Trigger with AS/400 Systems
- Prepare SAP Device Type for PlanetPress Design
- Implement a Trigger under HP 3000
- Special Printer Requirements
- ASCII Conversion Table
- CL Program for AS/400 Systems
- Index
Detailed Directions
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4. Capture the sample of input data.
What follows is a general outline of the procedure. Consult the specific data capture procedure for your
platform, and the PlanetPress Watch User’s Guide for help setting up PlanetPress Watch processes.
• Create a PlanetPress Watch process to accept the data through the input mode you specify and save
the result as a file in a folder.
• Send the representative sample of input data to PlanetPress Watch using the input mode you
specified in the PlanetPress Watch process you set up for the data capture.
• Retrieve the file from the output folder.
Capture Sample Data in Windows NT
You perform this procedure on the machine that controls the printer, not on the workstation.
To perform data capture under Windows NT:
1. In the Windows Start menu, choose Settings, then choose Printer.
The Printers window appears.
2. Right-click on the printer on which you intend to execute your document and choose Pause printing.
3. In the application you use to manipulate the input data, send the data you want to capture to the
printer you selected in step 2.
The printer driver creates a printer spool file containing the representative data sample.
4. In the Windows Start menu, choose Run.
The Run dialog box appears.
5. In the Run dialog box, in the Open box, enter CMD.
A DOS Command Prompt window appears.
6. In the DOS Command Prompt window, change directory to the spool folder:
cd C: \winnt\system32\spool\printer
7. Copy the spool file (.spl) you just created to a floppy or to another folder.
The *.spl file contains your data.
8. Close the DOS session.