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A PlanetPress Document Package, or PTZ, is a file format consisting of a ZIP file, which contains all the document's data
and resources. With a PTZ, resources are extracted and uncompressed only once when your PlanetPress Suite Workflow
Tools receives the file. All the resource files are stored in a sub-folder from where they are used as needed by the Press-
Talk Interpreter, and a smaller PTK file, containing only the actual document definition, links to the resources and PPD, is
placed in the Documents folder.
Updating Documents With the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
To make changes toa PlanetPress Designdocumentalready sent to a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool, you must use
PlanetPress Design and the source .ppX file. Re-installing the document in your PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
replaces the PTK file. If you selected the option Automatically update, your PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools auto-
matically updates the printer-resident copy of the document the next time it executes a Printer Queue Output task using
this document (see View Document Properties).
Since printer-resident documents are only used for one type of output, they are stored by PlanetPress Design on the prin-
ter’s hard disk or in its flash memory in PostScript (PS) format.
Documents Folder in PlanetPress Suite Workflow ToolConfiguration Program
Documents available in your configuration appear in the Documents category of your PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool's
Configuration Components Pane, and are recognizable by their icons and file name extensions. When the documents
are sent as PTZ files, the Documents folder displays the PTK file extracted from the PTZ package.
Documents that appear in red in the Configuration Components's Documentsarea are no longer available. They may no
longer exist in the Documents folder, or they may exist under new names.
Bear in mind that the PlanetPress Suite configuration files (*.pwX, where X is the version number of the software used to
create it) do not include documents, when you transfer PlanetPress Suite configurations between computers. You must
therefore move the documents manually. You may consider using the Import Documents option, if both computers
are accessible through your network.
PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools and Printshop Mail Documents
What are PrintShop Mail documents and can I use them with PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools?
PrintShop Mail is a software solution that lets you create dynamic, database-driven documents quickly and easily. These doc-
uments may be used to fully automate your document production process with the help of PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools.
Simply use the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration program to import PrintShop Mail documents to your Plan-
etPress Suite Workflow Tools workstation. You can then associate these documents with PrintShop Mail action tasks.
Triggers
In PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools, a trigger is typically a two line piece of PostScript code placed just before the data.
Triggers tell the printer to turn on PostScript mode and specify which document should be used in the merging process (Plan-
etPress Design document+data).
Triggers are used in two situations:
Printer Queues and Documents