2018.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2018.2
- Installation and setup
- Basics
- Features
- About Workflow Configurations
- Workflow Configuration resource files
- About data
- Data Repository
- Debugging and error handling
- About printing
- OL Connect print jobs
- PlanetPress Suite print jobs
- PlanetPress Workflow printer queues
- Shared printer queue properties
- Windows Output printer queue
- LPR Output Printer Queue
- FTP Output Printer Queue
- Send to Folder printer queue
- Load balancing
- Associating PlanetPress Design documents and PlanetPress printer queues
- Triggers
- Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS)
- About processes and subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special workflow types
- About Tasks
- About variables
- Special workflow types
- About related programs and services
- The user interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- Process properties
- PlanetPress Design document properties
- Moving and copying configuration components
- 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...
- Deleting something from the Configuration Components pane
- 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 plugin preferences 1
- HTTP Server Input plugin preferences 2
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 1
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 2
- NodeJS Server Input plugin preferences 3
- 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
- Cutting, copying and pasting tasks and branches
- Highlight a task or branch
- Disabling tasks and branches
- Moving a task or branch using drag-and-drop
- Redo a command
- Removing tasks or branches
- Replacing tasks, conditions or branches
- Resizing the rows and columns of the Process area
- Undo a command
- Zoom in or out within Process Area
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Printing can be done locally or remotely. The spool file is sent to the printer by the Output task
itself, or by Workflow if the file is placed in a Workflow Printer Queue.
Printer-centric printing - which means that a document and data are merged on a printer - is
only supported with PlanetPress Design documents, and requires that this feature is available
on the printer.
OL Connect print jobs
There are two OL Connect tasks designed to create print output using a Connect Designer
template: the "Create Output" on page506 task, and the "All In One" on page494 task which
combines 4 different OL Connect tasks, including the Create Output task, within a single one.
Both tasks can produce many different types of files and distribute them to many different
printers, or to a folder.
Print options
The file type, printer model, output type (a folder, LPR queue or Windows printer), and print
options and settings are normally contained in an Output Creation Preset. Output Creation
Presets are created in the Connect Designer and can be used with any Connect template (see
Output Creation Preset and Print Options in Connect's Online Help). For some options, such as
grouping documents and splitting jobs, a Job Creation Preset is required as well (see Job
Creation Preset in the Connect Online Help).
Presets have to be sent to or imported into Workflow before they can be used in a Workflow
process.
Alternatively, the All in One and Create Output task can send the spool file back to the
Workflow process, instead of to the destination defined in the Output Creation Preset. (To
achieve this, select the Handle through Workflow option in the task properties.)
Back in the process the output file may be sent to a folder using the Send to Folder task, or to a
Workflow Printer Queue via the Output to Printer Queue task.
Here are a few reasons why you might want to use the Handle through Workflow option:
l Additional flexibility. Printer Queues have load balancing options that allow to distribute
the printing load and make the process faster and more efficient. Print jobs may, for
example, be split equally among several printers, or they may be split according to each
printer’s capacity and speed. (See "PlanetPress Workflow printer queues" on the facing
page.)
l Archiving. If the output file is a PDF, the file can be sent to an Archiving solution before it
is sent to the printer.
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