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Emulations in PlanetPress Design
The Data Selector in Workflow is essentially the same as the one used in PlanetPress Design. When
you create a document in PlanetPress Design, you choose a sample data file and specify the emulation
to use for the chosen data. Within PlanetPress Workflow, the same emulation tools as in PlanetPress
Design are available throughout your process, using the Data Selector. One notable exception how-
ever is that User-Defined Emulation is not available because it uses PlanetPress Talk code, which is
not available within the PlanetPress Workflow Configuration program.
The emulation that is used in your process can change during the process, and can be different than
the one used in any PlanetPress Design document used in your process. PlanetPress Design Docu-
ments use their own emulations, as defined in the document itself from PlanetPress Design.
For more information about emulations in PlanetPress Design see PlanetPress Design User Guide.
ASCII emulation
ASCII emulation tells the process to treat the input data as a stream of ASCII characters. The data
stream is read one character at a time, a line is constructed, and that line is added to the data page buf-
fer.
In this emulation, you can define how to handle carriage returns that are not followed by line feeds and
how to handle tabs. You can also define whether you want any Hewlett Packard Printer Control Lan-
guage (HP PCL) escape sequences to be removed.
Note: ASCII emulation is only used when merging ASCII data with a PlanetPress Design doc-
ument.
When choosing an ASCII sample data file to be merged with a Connect template, select Text
emulation (see "Text-based emulation" on page61).
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