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
tools as in PlanetPress Design are available throughout your process, using the Data Selector.
One notable exception however is that User-Defined Emulation is not available because it uses
PlanetPress Talk code, which is not available within the PReS Workflow Configuration
program.
The emulation that is used in your process can change during the process, and can be different
than the one used in any PlanetPress Design document used in your process. PlanetPress
Design Documents use their own emulations, as defined in the document itself from
PlanetPress Design.
For more information about emulations in PlanetPress Design see PlanetPress Design User
Guide.
ASCII emulation
ASCII emulation tells the process to treat the input data as a stream of ASCII characters. The
data stream is read one character at a time, a line is constructed, and that line is added to the
data page buffer.
In this emulation, you can define how to handle carriage returns that are not followed by line
feeds and how to handle tabs. You can also define whether you want any Hewlett Packard
Printer Control Language (HP PCL) escape sequences to be removed.
Note
ASCII emulation is only used when merging ASCII data with a PlanetPress Design document.
When choosing an ASCII sample data file to be merged with a Connect template, select Text
emulation (see "Text-based emulation" on page60).
Using an ASCII file on a printer
If an ASCII file gets sent to a printer (which is possible in a PlanetPress Suite solution), you
need to know if your printer supports binary mode as this is the recommended mode for ASCII
emulation. On printers that support binary mode, you can switch the printer to binary mode
using the printer keypad or by sending the appropriate PostScript code to the printer.
In binary mode, the printer reads the end of line characters (carriage return [CR], line feed [LF],
and carriage return followed by a line feed [CRLF]) as they appear in the data stream and does
not perform any substitution. A printer that does not support binary mode or is not running in
binary mode replaces any CR, LF, or CRLF that appears at the end of a line of data with a LF.
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