2019.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 2019.1
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Using a Printer Queue requires creating the appropriate Printer Queue in the Workflow
Configuration tool first.
In the Output to Printer Queue task, select No document to let the spool file pass through it.
PlanetPress Suite print jobs
In PlanetPress Suite, the printer model and settings are defined in the Design document itself
(see "PlanetPress Design documents" on page39).
Print output is normally generated by an Output task that merges a PlanetPress Design
document with a data file (i.e. the job file). This can be either the "Print using a Windows driver"
on page581 Output task, or the "Printer Queue Output" on page583 Output task.
The latter has to be combined with at least one Printer Queue, and to ensure that the print
output is actually sent to the intended printer, you also have to:
l Create a matching Printer Queue in Workflow (see "PlanetPress Workflow printer
queues" below).
l Associate the document with that Printer Queue (see "Associating PlanetPress Design
documents and PlanetPress printer queues" on page109).
Printer-centric printing
Alternatively the merging of the document and data can take place inside a printer (if the printer
is suitable for it). In that case, PlanetPress Workflow sends one of two things to a printer: a file
that contains only the data to the selected Printer Queue, along with a trigger that specifies
which document the printer should use to merge the data. The document must already be
present on the printer’s hard disk or memory, otherwise printing will fail; ora 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.
PlanetPress Workflow printer queues
The printer queues displayed in the Configuration Components pane of the PlanetPress
Workflow Configuration program are not to be confused with Windows printer queues. When
you start building a PlanetPress Workflow configuration it contains no printer queues. If you
want Workflow to dispatch spool files to printer queues, you have to create queues in Workflow
and set each one’s properties.
Printer Queue types
The PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program lets you create four types of printer queues:
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