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Line printer emulation options
The line printer emulation does not have any options other than the general text-based
emulation options (see "Text-based emulation" below).
PDF emulation
The PDF emulation allows you to capture data from fully composed documents in a PDF
format.
PDF emulation slightly differs from other emulations: with other emulations, data is read either
one line at a time or one character at a time, while PDF emulation processes the input data
from the PDF file in such a fashion that every PDF page becomes a full data page.
Note
Protected PDF and PDF of versions above 1.7 are not supported by PlanetPress
Workflow.
PDF emulation options
The PDF emulation does not have any options - that is, there is nothing to set up when opening
a PDF data file.
In the Preferences there is a number of options that affect how words, lines and paragraphs are
detected in the PDF when creating data selections. You will find these options when you select
Workflow > Preferences > PDF Text Extractor. For more information see "PDF text extraction
tolerance factors" on page768.
Text-based emulation
Text-based emulations display your data in plain text in the Data Selector and the Data Pane,
one line at a time, up to the limit you specify in the emulation properties (by default, 66 lines).
This is especially useful for legacy systems (such as AS/400 computers) that send data as text
meant for older line printers using pre-printed forms. The emulation options are used to make
sure your data is stable.
Stabilizing data is the process of defining the size of the data page and where the first data
page occurs in the data stream. A stable data page is critical to obtain accurate results. When
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