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You must have at least one printer using a PostScript driver on your system in order to produce
PDF output. It is highly recommended that a PostScript printer be set as the default system
printer in order to act as a fallback if the selected printer is unreachable.
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PlanetPress Workflow Service must be configured with a user name and password that have
access to the required printer(s). The Local System Account setting will not work.
Input
A data file compatible with a PrintShop Mail Document. Metadata is ignored by this task.
Processing
The data file is merged with the selected PrintShop Mail Design document, producing the number of
records selected in the task properties. This merging uses the PrintShop Mail engine (PSMail.exe) to
generate the output.
Output
The output produced by this task is dependent on the options selected: it can be PDF, a Windows EMF
print job, a PostScript print job or a JPG file. PrintShop Mail 7 can also output PDF/VT and PPML/VDX.
Note that the Preflight output type doesn't actually produce printable or viewable output. The Preflight
option does a cursory verification of the job and will generate an XML file that contains a list of all warn-
ings and errors.
Task properties
PSMail Tab
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File name: Select a specific PrintShop Mail document if you want all the jobs to be printed with
that document.
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Output type group
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Output type: Select the type of output you want the task to generate.
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Select PDF to generate a PDF file.
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Select Windows PostScript driver (PrintShop Mail)/Direct to printer (PrintShop
Mail 7) to send the output to a printer that is available via Windows.
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Select Preflight to check if the merging of the data file and document would gen-
erate warnings or errors. This does not actually produce output, only an XML file con-
taining a list of warnings and errors, including on which record and layout the
warning or error occurred, and a description.
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Select Produce PostScript (PrintShop Mail 7 task: PostScript) to generate a stand-
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