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%4 - Source file name: Contains the name of the job file as specified by the software that sent
the job.
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%5 - Sender's IP address: Contains the IP address from which the job was sent.
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%6 - 6 Queue name: The name of the queue from which the job was captured. It will be empty if
the queue name was empty.
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 Pro-
cess area.
Merge PDF Files
The Merge PDF Files Input task (formerly named "Concatenate PDF Files") captures all PDF files in a
given folder and merges them into a single PDF file.
This task is put into effect in the following example process: "Example: Daily sales report from PDF
files" on page228.
Input
This task captures all of the PDF files present in a specific folder, in one operation.
The Merge PDF Files Input task performs just like any other Input task: once the process has com-
pleted, control is transferred back to the Input task one last time to check if new files meeting the mask
have come in. This means that the merging of PDF files that are not all present at the start of the pro-
cess may take several passes, which may have an adverse effect on the overall performance and the
size of the resulting PDF.
Processing
Once all PDF files are captured, their original copies are deleted from the input folder (or tagged as
Archive if this option is selected) and they are merged into a single PDF. This is done in a single oper-
ation, not incrementally, meaning the file is built once and, if the option is chosen, optimized once.
Output
A single PDF containing as many pages as all the combined input PDFs is generated. If the option is
selected, this PDF is optimized. An optional Metadata file is also created, containing information about
the PDFs. This Metadata is divided in such a way that each PDF file is its own document, which can
contain multiple data pages.
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