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
l Send to Folder output queues let you save jobs to a local or network folder from
which they can be picked up and printed. See "Send to Folder Printer Queue" on
page74.
l Remote printing:
l FTP output queues let you upload jobs to an FTP site from which they can be
picked up and printed. See "FTP Output Printer Queue" on page73.
l LPR output queues let you send print jobs to remote printers via TCP/IP using the
LPR/LPD protocol. See "LPR Output Printer Queue" on page71.
l Windows Driver Printing:
l The Print using a Windows Driver output task lets you send a job to any printer
installed on the computer, using its own drivers. In this particular case, the printer
does not need to be a PostScript printer. See "Print Using a Windows Driver" on
page502.
PlanetPress Workflow provides you with three main printing scenarios:
l Send output data to be printed as is: PlanetPress Workflow sends a file containing only
the data to the selected queue.
l Send output data to be merged with a document on the printer: PlanetPress
Workflow sends one of two things:
l A file that contains only the data to the selected printer queue. The document with
which the data must be merged must be present on the printer’s hard disk,
otherwise printing will fail.
l A file that contains the data and the document to the selected printer queue. Since
the data and the document with which it must be merged are both sent to the printer,
printing should never fail.
l In both cases, the document+data merging process takes place inside the printer.
l Send output data already merged with a document:PlanetPress Workflow sends a file
that contains the document already merged with the data to the selected printer queue.
The document+data merging process therefore never takes place inside the printer.
Technical
In PlanetPress Workflow Configuration, you may associate a single Printer Queue
output task with multiple Printer Queues. If you do so, you have the option of using load
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