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
Processing
In the case of regular data files, these files will need to be merged with a PlanetPress Design document.
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 page169 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
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Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design 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 Design document, in a Metadata-based workflow.
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Run mode group
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Printer centric: Select to send the document along with the trigger and data to the PDFRIP.
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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.
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Options group
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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.
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Security group