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value that is greater than the width of the data page, you can remove the second
line by shifting the contents of the second line outside the data page.
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Database. (Nothing to configure.)
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XML.
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Cache XML data: When this option is selected, PlanetPress Watch/Server only
reloads the data if the size or modified date of the XML file changes. When this
option is not selected, the XML data will be reloaded into memory every time that a
plugin works on the data file. Caching the XML data will make subsequent tasks run
faster (as loading an XML file can take a long time) but will also use up more
memory since that memory isn't released in between tasks. For single runs the
performance gain is less noticeable than in loops (either through a splitter, a Loop
task or a metadata filter) where the XML file would be loaded repeatedly.
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PDF. (Nothing to configure.)
Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
Create PDF
The Create PDF Action task creates simple PDF files using the default quality. It is very similar
to the Digital Action task (see "Digital Action" on page401) but is more limited. It does not
contain the advanced PDF options that are offered by the PlanetPress Image solution (see
"About PlanetPress Image" on page746).
In PlanetPress Suite, this task can be used to merge a data file with a specific Design
document and output the result as PDF.
In Connect, merging a data file with a Connect template and outputting PDF is done using OL
Connect Print tasks (see "OL Connect tasks" on page582).
Alternatively this task may be part of a "PDF workflow": a workflow in which both input and
output are PDF and in which Metadata tasks are used to group, sort and sequence (split) the
PDF data. (See "PDF Workflow" on page283 for more information on this.) The Create PDF
task will apply the active Metadata to the PDF data file.
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