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document to be associated with a Workflow printer queue (see "Associating PlanetPress Design doc-
uments and PlanetPress printer queues" on page102). This also requires printer licenses, unless you
have the “Optimized Output” add-on in your Connect license, which grants you the equivalent of Plan-
etPress Production in Connect Workflow. (Even then, “printer-centric” output requires a printer license.)
For more information about printing see "About printing" on page92.
Input
Any data file.
Processing and output
If the data file is in a valid emulation (see "About data emulation" on page54) and a PlanetPress
Design document is selected, the data file and document are merged to produce a PostScript output.
The output may be an Optimized PostScript Stream or a Printer Centric stream (data file + trigger).
If no document was selected, the job file is sent as-is to the selected Printer Queue.
Whether the queue will properly output depends on the capabilities of the queue and its target. For
example, sending a JPG job file to an FTP or Send to Folder printer queue will simply place the file in
the destination. Sending this same file to an LPR or Windows queue will produce no output as these
queues expect valid PostScript.
Task properties
General Tab
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Queues: Select the queues to which you want to send the output (see "PlanetPress Workflow
printer queues" on page94).
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Documents: Select None if you want the job file to be printed as is.
Select a specific PlanetPress Design document (see "PlanetPress Design documents" on
page42) if you want all the jobs to be printed with that document. To use a document chosen at
run-time for each job, enter a dynamic document name using a combination of text, variables and
data selections. To enable the dynamic document name box, click inside it. To disable it, press
Enter. Note that in the later case, you must be certain that the documents that will be chosen at
run-time will in fact be available locally or at all the selected printer. Note that PlanetPress Work-
flow will not specify a given document version number, so the latest version will be used by
default. To specify a given document version number, you can use an Add Document action
task instead of a Printer Queue Output task, and then use an Add / Remove Text Action task to
add a version number in the document trigger (for more information, refer to the Control Ver-
sions of a Document section of the PlanetPress Design User Guide).
Note: It is not possible to select a Connect template with this task. It is however possible to
send Print output produced by an OL Connect task to a Workflow Printer Queue (see
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