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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.
Properties
General tab
l
Process job using ASCII emulation: Select to use the ASCII emulation to process the
job file. This reverses LF-CR end-of-line sequences that may result in unwanted double-
spacing.
l
Remove and convert HP escape characters: Select to filter HP escape character
sequences from the job file.
On Error Tab
The On Error tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found in the" Task Properties Dialog"
on page723.
By default, any action task, branch, splitter or condition that generates an error will simply be
ignored, and the task just under it (not within a branch)will be given control of the job file
without any modification. Any initial input task that generates an error will stop the process from
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