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underscore, it overwrites that character with the one from the new line. If the
character in the cell is not a space or an underscore, it leaves it intact.
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Skip x lines: Use these boxes to enter any channel skip codes in your data that tell
the document to skip a specific number of lines. If you want to enter a backslash
character (\) as a code, you must precede it with another backslash character (thus
you would enter \\). You can also specify an ASCII character as a code using its
octal value preceded by a backslash (for example, \041 is the exclamation mark
character [!]).
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Char, Skip to line: Use these boxes to enter any channel skip codes in your data
that tell the document to skip to a specific line. Enter the code in the Char box; enter
the line number in the Skip to line box or use the spin buttons to adjust its value. If
you want to use a backslash character (\) as a code, you must precede it with
another backslash character (thus you would enter \\). You can also specify an
ASCII character as a code using its octal value preceded by a backslash (for
example, \041 is the exclamation mark character [!]).
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Go to column: Use this to enter the channel skip code in your data that tells the
document to advance to a specific column. Enter the code in the Char box to the left
of the Go to column label, and use the box on the right of the Go to column label to
set the column number. This is useful when your data contains redundant lines that
were originally created to bold a line on a line printer. By entering a Go to column
value that is greater than the width of the data page, you can remove the second
line by shifting the contents of the second line outside the data page.
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Database. (Nothing to configure.)
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XML.
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Cache XML data: When this option is selected, PlanetPress Watch/Server only
reloads the data if the size or modified date of the XML file changes. When this
option is not selected, the XML data will be reloaded into memory every time that a
plugin works on the data file. Caching the XML data will make subsequent tasks run
faster (as loading an XML file can take a long time) but will also use up more
memory since that memory isn't released in between tasks. For single runs the
performance gain is less noticeable than in loops (either through a splitter, a Loop
task or a metadata filter) where the XML file would be loaded repeatedly.
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PDF. (Nothing to configure.)
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