8.5

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 OKbutton,
and are displayed in the Task Comments Pane.
Standard Filter
Standard Filter action tasks can be used to remove HP Escape characters from data files, as well as to
eliminate spacing problems caused by LF-CR end-of-line sequences.
HP escape characters are used in the Hewlett Packard Printer Control Language (HP PCL) to communicate
basic page formatting and font selection information from print jobs to HP or HP-compatible printers.
These characters, like other printer control characters that control how printers interpret and print jobs, are
not meant to be printed.
If your print job is bound for an HP compatible printer, it may include these characters even when printing to
a PostScript printer that does not recognize them. PlanetPress Workflow provides an easy way to
automatically filter these characters through its Standard Filter action.
Input
Text-based data files such as Line Printer Emulation and ASCII Emulation data files, which contain
HPPCLcontrol characters.
Processing
All HPPCLcharacters are removed from the data file. Note that these characters are not interpreted, only
stripped out.
Output
The modified data file, with stripped characters, is output from this task. Metadata, job infos and variables
are not modified.