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Winport Translator: Select this option if the task is to generate a Line Printer file. This will prompt the task
to perform the second phase of the process, and thus convert the XML file to a Line Printer file. If this option
is not selected, the output file will thus be an XML file. The settings included in this group determine the
format settings of the generated Line Printer file.
Character per inch (CPI): The number of individual characters per inch on a line of text.
Line per inch (LPI): The number of lines of text per inch.
Data Splitters
Splitter action tasks are used to single data files into multiple data files. You can use such tasks, for
example, to split files that contain statements for multiple clients into smaller files that each contain a single
client statement. Each statement can then be printed and sent by snail mail, or even emailed directly from
PlanetPress Workflow, to each individual client.
Splitters initiate a recurring cycle that stops only when the original file has been completely processed.
When a given splitter creates a file, it hands it down to the task that follows, and all the tasks on the same
branch are performed until the output task. Then the splitter task creates yet another file that is again handed
down to the next task, and so forth until the cycle ends (when there is no more data in the original file).
If the process merges the split data with a document, the splitter must not alter the structure of the data file. In
other words, each split file must have the same structure as the original files, otherwise the PlanetPress
Connect documents to which they will be sent will not be able to extract the data correctly and the merging
process will fail.