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Task properties
General Tab
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LPD queue names: Enter the queue name (or names, one per line) specified in the printer
queue on the remote computer or computers.
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Allow empty queue names: Check this option to accept LPR jobs that don't specify a queue
name.
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Create PDF (With Metadata): Select to output a PDF. This will only work with PostScript input.
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Optimize Resulting PDF: The resulting PDF is optimized for size and caching options are
enabled. This reduces the size of the PDFs (depending on some factors), but may take
more time to output the PDF.
"Other" Tab
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Job Information group
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Information elements: Indicates what Job Info variables are automatically created by the
input task.
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Add lines before first data page: Using the arrows keys you can add any job information
directly at the beginning of your data file.
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Backup input files: Check this to save a copy of each data file that is captured by your input.
These files are saved in the PlanetPress Workflow Tools working folders under the "Backup"
folder.
To navigate quickly to the Workflow working folders, press the keyboard shortcut
CTRL+ALT+Shift+F4 from within the Workflow configuration tool.
The number of days to keep backups of jobs processed by input tasks is set per process; see
"Process properties" on page724.
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Backup filename: Enter the file name that you wish the input data file backup to be saved under.
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Delete Existing Metadata: Check to remove any Metadata from memory. This option is disabled
on initial input tasks, and is checked by default on secondary input tasks.
Job Information definitions
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%1 - User name: Contains the user name of the user who sent the job to the printer, or the user
for which a software sending the job was logged in under.
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%2 - Host computer: Contains the name of the computer from which the job was sent.
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%3 - Job name: Contains the name of the job as specified by the software that sent the job.
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