2018.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2018.1
- Installation and Setup
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PlanetPress Workflow
- About data
- Data Repository
- Debugging and Error Handling
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow Types
- About Tasks
- Working With Variables
- About Workflow Configurations
- Workflow Configuration resource files
- About related programs and services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- Process properties
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Connect resources
- PPS/PSM Documents
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Renaming objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reordering objects in the Configuration Components pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expanding and collapsing categories and groups in the Configuration Component...
- Delete objects and groups from the Configuration Components pane
- Other Dialogs
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components Pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 1 plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 2 plugin preferences
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PlanetPress Fax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PlanetPress Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks Links
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Create PDF
The Create PDF action task allows users running PlanetPress Workflow to create native PDF
outputs without an active PlanetPress Image license. It is very similar to the Digital Action task
(see "Digital Action" on page283) but is more limited. It does not contain the advanced
PDFoptions that are offered by the PlanetPress Image solution, but is useful for creating
simple PDFfiles using the default quality.
Note
This feature is part of the PDFTools, which is only available in PlanetPress Workflow.
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 Workflow.
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 PDFdata file, two things can happen. The PDFcan be used as a data file for a
Design document, or it can be part of a straight PDFworkflow. When this is the case, this task
will rather apply the active metadata to the PDFdata file (see "PDF Workflow" on page188 for
more information on this).
Output
The output of this task is always, exclusively, a PDFfile, optionally optimized and optionally
with fresh metadata.
General tab
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Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you want all the jobs to be
generated with that document. The None option is available to create or update a PDF
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