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
PDF emulation options
The PDF emulation does not have any options - that is, there is nothing to set up when opening
a PDF data file.
In the Preferences there is a number of options that affect how words, lines and paragraphs are
detected in the PDF when creating data selections. You will find these options when you select
Workflow > Preferences > PDF Text Extractor. For more information see "PDF text extraction
tolerance factors" on page653.
Text-based emulation
Text-based emulations display your data in plain text in the Data Selector and the Data Pane,
one line at a time, up to the limit you specify in the emulation properties (by default, 66 lines).
This is especially useful for legacy systems (such as AS/400 computers) that send data as text
meant for older line printers using pre-printed forms. The emulation options are used to make
sure your data is stable.
Stabilizing data is the process of defining the size of the data page and where the first data
page occurs in the data stream. A stable data page is critical to obtain accurate results. When
you stabilize your data, you also need to consider the internal structure of each data page. The
internal structure of each data page must also be stable to make the data selections you use
reliable (see "Data selections" on page47). Ideally, a given piece of data occupies the same
position across all data pages, or provides some stable characteristic that makes it possible to
locate it on every data page.
Text-based emulation options
The following properties are available for the text-based emulations (Line Printer, ASCII,
Channel Skip and CSV) to help stabilize the data:
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Add/remove characters: Enter the number of characters to add to, or remove from, the
head of the data stream, or use the spin buttons to increment or decrement the value.
Positive values add characters while negative values remove characters. Further note
that if you remove characters in a CSV emulation, you should ensure that you do not
inadvertently remove field or text delimiters.
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Add/remove lines: Enter the number of lines to add to, or remove from, the head of the
data stream, or use the spin buttons to increment or decrement the value. Positive values
add lines while negative values remove lines.
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