8.4
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.4.1
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PlanetPress Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow Types
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
In the case of a PDFdata file, two things can happen. The PDFcan be used as a data file for a Design
document, or it can be part of a straight PDFworkflow. When this is the case, this task will rather apply the
active metadata to the PDFdata file (see "PDF Workflow" on page 147 for more information on this).
Output
The output of this task is always, exclusively, a PDFfile, optionally optimized and optionally with fresh
metadata.
General tab
l Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Connect document if you want all the jobs to be generated
with that document. The None option is available to create or update a PDF without using a
PlanetPress Connect document, in a Metadata-based workflow.
l Run mode group
l Printer centric: Select to send the document along with the trigger and data to the PDFRIP.
l Optimized PostScript Stream: Select to merge the selected document with the data received by
this task before sending it to the PDFRIP. Note that some features, such as the Time and Date
require that this option be selected.
l Add job information to the document: Select to add the available job info variables in the “header” of
the generated output file.
l Optimize resulting PDF: Select to specify whether the resulting PDF should be optimized.
Optimization can lead to a significant reduction in the size of the PDF, but it may also add a certain
amount of time to the process. This option should only be unchecked if the timing of the process is
critical and needs to be done quickly, but keep in mind that the resulting PDFmay be much larger than
it should be and may even be too large for PlanetPress Workflow to handle.
l Reset Metadata according to new PDF: The metadata is updated to included only the selected
nodes from the current metadata, and sequential indexes are re-created.
On Error Tab
The On Error Tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found on " Task Properties Dialog" on page 587.
By default, any action task, branch, splitter or condition that generates an error will simply be ignored, and
the task just under it (not within a branch)will be given control of the job file without any modification. Any
initial input task that generates an error will stop the process from running as a whole, and output tasks will
not generate output. The On Error tab can be used to overwrite the default behaviors.