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
Input
Any data file with a valid Emulation, or an Optimized PostScript Stream file (.ps)generated by PlanetPress
Workflow itself.
The .ps file must be the result of the merge between a PlanetPress Design document and a data file, and
can be generated either with the use of "Add Document" on page242, or a printer queue using a "Send to
Folder Printer Queue" on page66. Postscript generated using any other way will fail, as PlanetPress Image
requires knowledge of the number of pages in the document, which is not available in output generated
using any other means. Note however that "Digital Action" on page274 does have the ability, in most cases,
to generate output using third-party postscript files.
Processing &Output
Multiple things can happen, depending on the options chosen and the type of data this task receives:
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If the data file and a document are selected, and Printer Centricmode is used, the data file is sent to
the PlanetPress Image host which merges the data and document to produce output.
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If the data file and a document are selected, and Optimized PostScript Streammode is used, the
data file is merged with the document and the resulting OPSjob is sent to the PlanetPress Image host
to produce output.
l If the data file is a postscript file and either mode is used, the postscript file is sent to the PlanetPress
Image host which generates output (since this is already Optimized PostScript, it is not regenerated).
Properties
General tab
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Host: Select the IP address of the PlanetPress Image host to which you want the request to be sent.
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Refresh: Click to update the list of IP addresses displayed in the Host drop-down list box.
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Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you want all the jobs to be generated
with that document. To use a document chosen at run-time for each job, enter a dynamic document
name using a combination of text, variables and data selections. To enable the dynamic document
name box, click inside it. To disable it, press Enter. Note that in the later case, you must be certain that
the documents that will be chosen at run-time will in fact be available locally or at the selected host.