8.6
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.6.1
- System Requirements
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PlanetPress Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- Data Repository
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow processes
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PlanetPress Workflow Button
- The Configuration Components Pane
- Components Area Sections
- Processes and Subprocesses
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Connect Resources
- PPS/PSM Documents
- Associate Documents and PlanetPress Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Rename Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reorder Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expand and Collapse Categories and Groups in the Configuration Components Pane
- Delete Objects and Groups from the Configuration Components Pane
- Other Dialogs
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components Pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 1 plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 2 plugin preferences
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PlanetPressFax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PlanetPress Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process Area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties Dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks Links
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PlanetPress Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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Keywords: You may enter keywords for the document. Since this is a variable
property box, you may use variables and data selections and let PlanetPress
Workflow interpret this information at run-time.
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Monochrome images group
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Compression: Select the compression to use for the monochrome images. Flate
compression is lossless, so no data is lost during compression. Flate Mono works
well on images with large areas of solid shades or repeating patterns, such as
screen shots and simple images created with paint or drawing programs. CCITT
typically yields the best compression of monochrome images. It is the compression
method developed for fax transmissions. Note that configurations that were created
with an earlier version of PlanetPress Workflow and that included tasks set not to
use any compression will by default be set to use the Flate compression method.
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Resolution: Select the resolution to use for monochrome images.
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Grayscale images group
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Compression: Select the compression to use for the grayscale images. Flate is a
lossless compression method, so no data is lost in the process. It works well on
images with large areas of single shades or repeating patterns, such as screen
shots and simple images created with paint or drawing programs. JPEG removes
image data and may reduce image quality, but may be suitable for continuous-tone
photographs containing more detail than can be reproduced onscreen or in print.
Since JPEG eliminates data, it can achieve much smaller file sizes than Flate
compression. Select Auto to let the application choose the best compression
method automatically. Note that configurations that were created with an earlier
version of PlanetPress Workflow and that included tasks set not to use any
compression will by default be set to use the Flate compression method.
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Downsampling: Select the down sampling option. Down sampling reduces image
size by breaking images down into small areas in which multiple pixels are
replaced by single pixels. The Grayscale resolution you enter in the following box is
used to control the down sampling process. Select None to prevent grayscale down
sampling. Select Average to average pixel shades in each sample area and to
replace the entire area with a pixel of the average shade. Select Subsample to use
a pixel in the center of the sample area and replace the entire area with that pixel
value. This method is significantly faster, but results in images that are less smooth.
Select Bicubic to use a weighted average to determine pixel shades. This method is
the slowest but most precise and results in the smoothest tonal gradations.
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