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
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Concatenate files: If this option is selected, when PlanetPress Workflow tries to save the
print job under an existing name, it appends the content of the new print job file to that of
the existing file, instead of overwriting it.
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Separator string: This option is used to add a separator string between the content of
each file when the Concatenate files option is selected.
Advanced tab
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Print speed: Enter the speed, in pages per minute (PPM), of the printer associated with
the printer queue. This value is used to determine how to divide jobs when you use the
Queue Balancing option for load balancing.
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Commands: The list of available commands appears in this box. Select either Pre-job
commands or Post-job commands in the Selected box, and double-click a command
from this list to add it to the appropriate list.
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Selected: Select either Pre-job commands or Post-job commands to add new
commands to the appropriate list and to see those commands that have already selected.
Double-click a command to remove it from the selected list.
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Add: Click to add a new command to the list displayed in the Commands box. You must
then edit the new command’s description and value. Note that new commands are shared
by all printer queues.
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Delete: Click to remove a command from the Commands box.
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Command description: Use this box to edit the description of the command currently
selected in the Commands box.
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Command value: Use this box to edit the code of the command currently selected in the
Commands box. Use the right-click menu for a list of standard printer control characters.
Triggers
In PlanetPress Workflow, a trigger is typically a two line piece of PostScript code placed just
before the data. Triggers tell the printer to turn on PostScript mode and specify which document
should be used in the merging process (PlanetPress Design document+data).
Triggers are used in two situations:
l When the server running PlanetPress Workflow sends a PlanetPress Design document
along with the data to the printer, it adds a trigger before the document
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