2018.1
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 2018.1
- Installation and setup
- Basics
- Features
- About Workflow Configurations
- Workflow Configuration resource files
- About data
- Data Repository
- Debugging and error handling
- About printing
- OL Connect print jobs
- PlanetPress Suite print jobs
- PReS Workflow printer queues
- Shared printer queue properties
- Windows Output printer queue
- LPR Output Printer Queue
- FTP Output Printer Queue
- Send to Folder printer queue
- Triggers
- Load balancing
- Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS)
- Associating PlanetPress Design documents and PReS printer queues
- About processes and subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special workflow types
- About Tasks
- About variables
- Workflow add-ons
- About related programs and services
- The Interface
- Customizing the Workspace
- PReS Workflow Button
- Configuration Components pane
- Components Area Sections
- Process properties
- PlanetPress Design document properties
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Renaming objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reordering objects in the Configuration Components pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expanding and collapsing categories and groups in the Configuration Component...
- 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
- PReS Fax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PReS Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process area
- Zoom in or out within Process Area
- Adding Branches
- Replacing tasks, conditions or branches
- Removing tasks or branches
- Task Properties dialog
- Cutting, copying and pasting tasks and branches
- Moving a task or branch using drag-and-drop
- Disabling tasks and branches
- Resize rows and columns of the Process Area
- Selecting a resource file in task properties
- Highlight a task or branch
- Undo a command
- Redo a command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PReS Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
Output
The output is a PostScript job that can be sent to any output task in "passthrough" mode, for
example Create PDF, PReS Image, etc. Metadata is not generated by this task.
Task properties
General tab
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Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you want all the jobs to be
merged with that document (see "PlanetPress Design documents" on page38).
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Add job information to the document: Select to prompt your PReS Workflow to add the
available job information elements in the header of the generated file. Note that this
option is only enabled if a document was selected.
On Error Tab
For a description of the options on the On Error tab see "Using the On Error tab" on page82.
Comments Tab
The Comments tab is common to all tasks. It contains a text area (Task comments)that lets
you write comments about the task. These comments are saved when the dialog is closed with
the OKbutton, and are displayed in the Task Comments Pane.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
Add/Remove Text
Add/Remove Text action tasks can be used to perform the following actions on the data file
they receive:
l Add or remove characters.
l Add or remove lines of data.
l Add the content of a text file.
Note that the content must be located at the beginning or the end of the data file.
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