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
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 run-
time will in fact be available locally or at the selected host.
Note
While the Do not use a document (passthrough)is visible in this list, it is not
compatible with the PlanetPress Image output if the PostScript was not generated
by merging a design document with data in PlanetPress Workflow. In order to
generate an image in passthrough mode with external PostScript, please use the
Digital Action task.
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List only documents using VDXcompilation:Check to ensure that only documents
that are compatible with the VDXcompilation method are shown in the list, if producing
VDXoutput.
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Run mode group
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Printer centric: Select to send the document along with the trigger and data to
PlanetPress Image.
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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 functions, require that this option be selected.
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Add job information to the document: Select to add the available job info variables in
the “header” of the generated output file.
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Output type: Select the output file type that you want.
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PDF:The output will be a PDFfile. If you select PDF, the DPI and Color Depth
options (see below) are disabled and the options available in the PDF tab are
enabled.
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JPEG:The output will be a JPEGfile. JPEGis a lossy compression image format
that creates small files, compressing continuous tone images (such as scanned
photographs) well.
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TIFF:The output will be a TIFFfile. 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
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