8.7
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Workflow 8.7.1
- 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 Types
- 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
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
Properties
General tab
l EMF to XY group: Select this option if the file received by this task is a Windows print
file. This will prompt the task to perform the first phase of the process, and thus convert the
file to an XML file. If this option is not selected, the input file will not be converted to an
XML file (note that the task will fail if the file it receives is not an XML file). The settings
included in this group fine tune the process. They let you control precisely which text
blocks are recognized as belonging together in one line. This has particular affect when
dealing with font size differences between consecutive passages of text, the distance
from one text passage to another (word distance) as well as the base line offset (vertical
distance). To find out if one text passage belongs to the one found before it, first the
vertical distance, second the horizontal distance and finally, the font size difference are
checked. Only if all three values lie within the tolerance are the two blocks recognized as
belonging together. Additionally, you can control text passages whose horizontal distance
has been recognized as out of the tolerance, but whose type size difference and vertical
distance lie within the tolerance, outputting it in one line. At the output, these text
passages are separated by a tabulator (ASCII code 9).
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Font size difference: Indicates the smallest acceptable factor between maximum
and minimum font size within one line. A value of 0.60 means that with a ratio from
maximum to minimum font size (in points), that is less than 0.60, two text passages
are not recognized as belonging together. For example, if two text passages are
formatted with different font sizes. Passage 1 with 10, passage 2 with 18 point. The
ratio 0.56 is smaller than the adjusted value 0.60. Therefore those two text
passages are recognized as not belonging together.
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Word distance: Indicates the largest acceptable distance between two text
passages, so that they are still recognized as belonging together. This the factor the
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