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Remove HP PCL escapes: Select to have the document remove any Hewlett Packard
Printer Control Language (HP PCL) escape sequences it encounters.
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CSV (comma separated values).
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Text delimiter: Enter the character that starts and ends the data in each field of the record.
If you do not set a text delimiter and the data in a field contains the character you set as the
delimiter, the document splits that data into two fields. If you want to use a backslash char-
acter (\) as a delimiter, you must precede it with another backslash character (thus you
would enter \\). You can also specify an ASCII character using its octal value preceded by a
backslash (for example, \041 is the exclamation mark character [!]).
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Force one record per page: Select to force a single record per data page. If you clear the
selection, the document fills the data page completely, splitting a record across data pages
if necessary. If you want to avoid splitting a record across data pages, yet have several
records in the buffer, select Force one record per page, and, when you stabilize your data,
set Pages in buffer to the number of records you want the buffer to hold.
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Delimiter: Enter the character that separates the fields of each record in the input data. If
you want to use a tab as a delimiter, select Set tab as field delimiter. If you want to use a
backslash character (\) as a delimiter, you must precede it with another backslash char-
acter (thus you would enter \\). You can also specify an ASCII character using its octal
value preceded by a backslash (for example, \041 is the exclamation mark character [!]).
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Set tab as field delimiter: Select to define a tab as the character that separates the fields
of each record in the input data. Clear to use the Delimiter box to define that character.
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Channel skip.
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Skip page: Enter the channel skip code that, in your data, signals the start of a new data
page. In standard channel skip emulation, a 1 (one) signals the start of a new data page. If
a 1 appears in the first column of your data, it is likely the channel skip codes are standard,
and that only minor adjustments to the other codes, if any, will be necessary.
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No line feed: Enter the channel skip code that tells the document to ignore any line feed
character (LF) that appears at the end of the line. This causes the next line to print over the
current line, and is a technique impact printers use to print a line, or elements of a line, in
bold or with underlining. For example, the input data for an impact printer might underline
text by placing the text to underline on one line, and the underscore characters of the under-
line on the following line. The first character of the line with the text is a code that tells the
printer to ignore the LF at the end of that line. The result is underlined text.
It is important to understand what happens when you tell the channel skip emulation in
PlanetPress Design to ignore the LF at the end of a line. Recall that the emulation stores
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