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
Common Errors
Though some error messages are specific to a task in particular, others may apply to any and all tasks
because they are related more to the system than to PlanetPress itself. Some examples would be W3813,
W3830, W3991, W4005. These correspond to issues such as not having any space to write files, permission
errors on folders or files, etc.
Comments Tab
The Comments tab is common to all tasks. It contains a single text area (Task comments)that lets you
write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with the OKbutton,
and are displayed in the Task Comments Pane.
Merge PDF Files
The Merge PDF Files input task (previously named "Concatenate PDFFiles")captures all PDF files in a
given folder and merges them into a single PDFfile.
Note
This feature is part of the PDFTools, which is only available in PlanetPress Workflow.
Input
This task captures all of the PDF files present in a specific folder, in one operation.
The Merge PDF Files input task performs just like any other input: once the process has completed, control
is transferred back to the input one last time to check if new files meeting the mask have come in. This
means that the merging of PDF files that are not all present at the start of the process may take several
passes, which may have an adverse effect on the overall performance and the size of the resulting PDF.
Processing
Once all PDF files are captured, their original copies are deleted from the input folder (or tagged as Archive
if this option is selected) and they are merged into a single PDF. This is done in a single operation, not
incrementally, meaning the file is built once and, if the option is chosen, optimized once.