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Emulations in PlanetPress Design
The Data Selector in Workflow is essentially the same as the one used in PlanetPress Design.
When you create a document in PlanetPress Design, you choose a sample data file and
specify the emulation to use for the chosen data. Within PReS Workflow, the same emulation
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 page68).
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