8.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.5
- System Requirements
- 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
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
workflow. For more information, see the PlanetPress Design User Guide.
Generating the Capture Patterns
Once your document is created, the Capture Fields Generator action task is used to apply the capture
patterns to each of your documents and send them to the printer. This printing process will consist of:
l Retrieving your data file.
l Creating metadata (See "Create Metadata" on page447).
l Separating each individual document in the metadata (this can be done in your Design document or
through the "Metadata Level Creation" on page461 action task).
l Using the "Capture Fields Generator" on page422 action task to generate the capture patterns
l Printing your documents.
Capturing and Archiving
After the printed documents have been inked with the Anoto Digital Pen, the PGCfiles from the pen must be
processed and merged with the appropriate documents in the PlanetPress Capture Database. Aworkflow
process that receives PGCfiles and reads them in turn consists of the following actions:
l An "HTTP Server Input" on page202 task or "Folder Capture" on page189 task that receives the
PGC.
l The "Capture Fields Processor" on page426, which converts each PGCin an EPSlayer, adds this
layer to the PDFin the database, releases patterns and closes documents.
l Optionally, a "Capture Condition" on page416 task to do post-processing using the Capture Fields
data.
l A"Get Capture Document" on page441 action task to retrieve each document in the database and
output a PDFfile
l Any existing output such as Output to Folder, email, ftp, etc.
Technical
Because of timeout limitations, it is generally a good idea to use the Send immediate response to
clientoption of the HTTPServer Input task, especially when processing a large amount of
documents from the pen. Additionally, HTTPServer Processes should always be self-replicating and