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Printer action task with the scan orientation set to Side to side, the second one with a
different Send Images to Printer action task with the scan orientation set to Top to
bottom, each one typically being included on two different branches of the same process.
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Color conversion: Select As is to keep the color information included in the images.
Select Grayscale to convert color images to gray scale.
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Naming convention: Select ’File name, original’ to store the file under its original file
name. Select ’File name, no extension’ to store the file without its original file name
extension. Note that all characters are converted to uppercase and that extended
characters (characters, such as é, for example) are not recommended in image file
names.
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Image quality: Select the same image quality chosen in the PlanetPress Design
documents that reference the image files you are sending. In PlanetPress Design, this
setting is included in the document’s resource options.
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Image compression level: Select the level at which you want images to be compressed.
Values can range from 1 (compress up to 1% of the image’s original size) to 100 (do not
compress). For example if you set this box to 75, the Image Downloader compresses all
images by 75% when it converts those image to PostScript. The default compression
level is 70%.
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Send to Virtual Drive of: Select the computers and / or printers to which the images are
to be sent.
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Refresh: Click to prompt PlanetPress Workflow to look again for available printers and
computers.
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Hard disk name and path: You may enter the name and path of the hard disk to which
you want to send the images. Needless to say that this option is used if the device to
which you are sending the images has multiple hard drives.
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Print confirmation page: Select to print a confirmation page on each one of the selected
printers after an image has been successfully received.
On Error Tab
The On Error tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found in the" Task Properties Dialog"
on page731.
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
running as a whole, and output tasks will not generate output. The On Error tab can be used to
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