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are not meant to be printed.
If your print job is bound for an HP compatible printer, it may include these characters even when print-
ing to a PostScript printer that does not recognize them. PReS Workflow provides an easy way to auto-
matically filter these characters through its Standard Filter task.
Input
Text-based data files such as line printer data (see "Line printer emulation" on page60) and ASCII data
files (see "ASCII emulation" on page56) data files, which contain HP PCL control characters.
Processing
All HP PCL characters are removed from the data file. Note that these characters are not interpreted,
only stripped out.
Output
The modified data file, with stripped characters, is output from this task. Metadata, Job Info variables
and other variables are not modified.
Task properties
General Tab
l
Process job using ASCII emulation: Select to use the ASCII emulation to process the job file.
This reverses LF-CR end-of-line sequences that may result in unwanted double-spacing.
l
Remove and convert HP escape characters: Select to filter HP escape character sequences
from the job file.
Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in the Pro-
cess area.
Translator
Translator action tasks can convert your data from its current encoding to a different encoding. The
same data may be converted back and forth as required.
The Translator action task is useful for data files using foreign languages, as well as to convert Unicode
data files so that they can be manipulated within Workflow.
Note that if Workflow's only job is to pass the data file to a task, there's no need to convert the data file.
The OL Connect Server does support Unicode data files.
Codepage 1252 (ANSI - Latin 1) is used for many Latin language documents, since it can be used for
Afrikaans, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German,
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