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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 Docu-
ments 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 buf-
fer.
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 Lan-
guage (HP PCL) escape sequences to be removed.
Note: ASCII emulation is only used when merging ASCII data with a PlanetPress Design doc-
ument.
When choosing an ASCII sample data file to be merged with a Connect template, select Text
emulation (see "Text-based emulation" on page60).
Using an ASCII file on a printer
If an ASCII file gets sent to a printer (which is possible in a PlanetPress Suite solution), you need to
know if your printer supports binary mode as this is the recommended mode for ASCII emulation. On
printers that support binary mode, you can switch the printer to binary mode using the printer keypad or
by sending the appropriate PostScript code to the printer.
In binary mode, the printer reads the end of line characters (carriage return [CR], line feed [LF], and car-
riage return followed by a line feed [CRLF]) as they appear in the data stream and does not perform any
substitution. A printer that does not support binary mode or is not running in binary mode replaces any
CR, LF, or CRLF that appears at the end of a line of data with a LF.
A form feed signals the end of a data page in ASCII emulation. If no form feed occurs in the data
stream, the emulation adds data to the data page buffer until the buffer is full.
ASCII emulation options
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Tab on carriage return: Select this option to fix formatting problems caused by isolated CR char-
acters found within the data. When this option is selected, isolated CR characters are spaces, as
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