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9.1 Detailed Directions
This section contains detailed information on the PlanetPress Image output task properties and user options. It
contains the following topics:
• PlanetPress Image Output Task Properties (Page 150)
• PlanetPress Image User Options (Page 155)
9.1.1 PlanetPress Image Output Task Properties
PlanetPress Image output tasks are used to make request to PlanetPress Image, which creates image files
which it then archives or emails.
In addition to the job-specific PlanetPress Image properties you configure in the task’s properties dialog box,
there are configurable options common to all PlanetPress Image outputs processed by a given computer (see
PlanetPress Image User Options). Note that those options are specific to each PlanetPress Image installation
and that they are immediately applied.
The following describes the properties specific to PlanetPress Image output tasks. For information on those
properties shared by various types of tasks, such as Other and On error properties, refer to Configurations,
Processes and Tasks.
PlanetPress Image output task properties are as follows:
General tab
Host: Select the IP address of the PlanetPress Image host to which you want the request to be sent.
Refresh: Click to update the list of IP addresses displayed in the Host drop-down list box.
Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you want all the jobs to be generated with that
document. To use a document chosen at runtime for each job, enter a dynamic document name using a
combination of text, variables and data selections. To enable the dynamic document name box, click inside it.
To disable it, press Enter. Note that in the later case, you must be certain that the documents that will be
chosen at runtime will in fact be available locally or at the selected host. Note that None cannot be selected
since a document is required to generate a document.
Run mode group
Printer centric: Select to send the document along with the trigger and data to PlanetPress Image.
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.
Add job information to the document: Select to add the available job info variables in the “header” of the
generated output file.
Output type: Select the image file type. If you select PDF, the DPI and Color Depth options (see below) are
disabled and the options available in the PDF tab are enabled. JPEG is a lossy compression image format that
creates small files, compressing continuous tone images (such as scanned photographs) well. TIFF is a higher
quality format that is one of the standards for document exchange, useful for eventual printing or archiving.
You have a choice of the following compressed TIFF formats: TIFF Group 3, TIFF Group 4, and TIFF Packed
bits. You can also use the uncompressed TIFF format, which produces the largest files with the highest quality.
TIFF is a versatile and platform-independent format. It is used in many digitizing projects as the format of
choice for the digital masters. The TIFF Group 3 and Group 4 formats are efficient for document storage. The
AutoStore, DocAccel and KYOcapture formats also generate TIFF files.
DPI: Enter the dots per inch (dpi) resolution of the output image. This property is enabled for all output types
except PDF.
Color depth: Enter the color depth of the output image in bits per pixel (bpp). The color depth is measured in
bits, because each pixel of the output image can be described with a varied number of bits. A higher bit
number allows for more colors. It also increases the image file size. A 1-bit color depth produces monochrome
images. 8-bits produce grayscale images (in PlanetPress Design you can have 8-bit color images, but these
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