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Windows 2000: PReS Fax Output tasks set to use Windows Fax under Windows 2000 may fail
when no one is logged on to the system running PReS Fax.
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Windows XP: Windows Fax may not work properly after the Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
has been installed (refer to Microsoft Customer service for more information on this issue). Also
note that Windows Fax may take as much as three times more time to send faxes under Windows
XP.
PReS Fax can be installed on any computer on your network and process all requests coming from
tasks performed by PReS Workflow on other workstations. You may choose to run it on every computer
where PReS Workflow is running, but you may also choose to run it on computers more or less ded-
icated to PReS Fax.
Since the faxing program must always be running and ready to receive requests from PReS Workflow,
it should be included in the Windows Startup group.
PReS Fax can associate a different fax number with each page it sends via the faxing software. For this
to happen, two things are required: each record must have a fax number specified in the job file and
that fax number must be tagged as such in PlanetPress Design (in the PlanetPress Design User Guide,
refer to the section documenting Data Selections, which includes explanations on the available PReS
Fax options). When the data and the document are merged, the fax number associated with each
record becomes available to PReS Fax that can then pass it on to the faxing software.
Note: Because of technical limitations, the minimum time required to generate a PReS Fax doc-
ument is approximately 10 times longer on Windows 2000 than on Windows XP/2003.
About PReS Image
PReS Image is a multi-threaded service that can generate image files in PDF, JPEG and TIFF format.
As PReS Workflow and PReS Image are compliant with AutoStore, DocAccel and KYOcapture, these
formats can also be used.
The generated files can be archived and, depending on whether you use a PReS Image Output task or
a Digital Action task, sent via email. Note that you can use PReS Search, another program included in
PReS Workflow, to search through archived PDF files.
Note: All raster images, such as GIFs or JPEGs, generated by PReS Image are portrait ori-
ented.
PReS Image can be installed on any computer on your network and can process requests coming from
tasks performed by PReS Workflow on other workstations. You may choose to run it on every computer
where PReS Workflow is running, but you may also choose to run it on computers more or less ded-
icated to PReS Image. Note that in the case of Digital Action tasks, PReS Workflow and the PReS
Image service must be running on the same computer.
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