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PDFs created with the new Create PDF action task will effectively replace the current data file
in any given process using such a task.
Input
Any data file supported by PlanetPress Workflow.
Processing
In the case of regular data files, these files will need to be merged with a PlanetPress Design
document.
In the case of a PDFdata file, two things can happen. The PDFcan be used as a data file for a
Design document, or it can be part of a straight PDFworkflow. When this is the case, this task
will rather apply the active metadata to the PDFdata file (see "PDF Workflow" on page186 for
more information on this).
Output
The output of this task is always, exclusively, a PDFfile, optionally optimized and optionally
with fresh metadata.
General tab
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Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you want all the jobs to be
generated with that document. The None option is available to create or update a PDF
without using a PlanetPress Design document, in a Metadata-based workflow.
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Run mode group
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Printer centric: Select to send the document along with the trigger and data to the
PDFRIP.
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Optimized PostScript Stream: Select to merge the selected document with the
data received by this task before sending it to the PDFRIP. Note that some features,
such as the Time and Date require that this option be selected.
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Options group
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Add job information to the document: Select to add the available job info
variables in the “header” of the generated output file.
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