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VPN tunnel for each location where penDirector is installed instead of going through regular
remote HTTP server.
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The PlanetPress Capture database, since it can be external to PlanetPress Workflow such as on
a MySQL server, will be dependent on your own database security.
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The Anoto Digital Pens, since they may contain critical information, are just like physical sheets
of signed paper and must be kept secured. This is best done through training employees hand-
ling the pens to be aware of its value and contents and act accordingly. This means that the
security of the pen is just as important as the security of any existing physical documents you
may handle at the moment.
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The same rules apply to PDF files as with PGC files, especially when they contain a signature
from the pen. If you are already securing digital scanned copies of signed documents, the PDFs
should be secured in similar ways.
However, remember that as with most security concerns, in order to be a “threat”, someone would have
to have a high level or working knowledge of either the Anoto SDK (which is not easily obtainable) or
PlanetPress Workflow and PlanetPress Capture. In some situations this may be enough (security
through obscurity) but we always recommend having the same level of security for Capture files and
documents as you would the rest of your sensitive information. In most cases, the procedures in place
are enough for this purpose.
20,000 Patterns
When reading or learning about PlanetPress Capture, you may have seen a number pop up here and
there: "20,000 Patterns". In order to better understand what this number means and what it entails for
you, the user, this document will first present an overview of a typical PlanetPress Capture imple-
mentation and then explain how the 20,000 patterns limitation can be circumvented in some cases. We
will also touch upon the potential pitfalls of these workarounds as they are used.
The Numbers
First and foremost, the 20,000 patterns is a fixed number - PlanetPress can only generate 20,000
unique patterns as this is the number of patterns that we license through Anoto.
The 20,000 patterns are, however, not all available when generating documents. There are 8 "demo"
patterns that are used to generate documents when PlanetPress Capture is in demo mode (no license
activated), and react the same way that the bulk of the 20,000 patterns. Another single pattern is used
to register pens in the database, and one last single pattern is used when printing a "Preview" from
PlanetPress Design. So in reality, the number of available patterns for document generation is 19990,
but for simplicity's sake this FAQ uses the round number "20,000".
In a typical PlanetPress Capture implementation, a process in PlanetPress Workflow generates output
(generally, this output is directly printed) and, at the same time, will "lock" one pattern for each page
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