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Note for PlanetPress Suite users: For information about setting up a database emulation in a Design
document, please see the relevant page in the PlanetPress Design User Guide.
Line printer emulation
Line printer emulation tells the process to treat the input data as data destined for a line printer.
In this emulation, a form feed signals the end of a data page. If no form feed occurs in the data stream,
the emulation adds lines to the data page buffer until the buffer is full.
Line printer emulation offers the best overall performance of all the emulations.
Note: Line printer emulation is only used when merging line printer data with a PlanetPress
Design document.
When choosing a line printer sample data file to be merged with a Connect template, select Text
emulation (see "Text-based emulation" below).
Line printer emulation options
The line printer emulation does not have any options other than the general text-based emulation
options (see "Text-based emulation" below).
PDF emulation
The PDF emulation allows you to capture data from fully composed documents in a PDF format.
PDF emulation slightly differs from other emulations: with other emulations, data is read either one line
at a time or one character at a time, while PDF emulation processes the input data from the PDF file in
such a fashion that every PDF page becomes a full data page.
Note: Protected PDF and PDF of versions above 1.7 are not supported by PReS Workflow.
PDF emulation options
The PDF emulation does not have any options - that is, there is nothing to set up when opening a PDF
data file.
In the Preferences there is a number of options that affect how words, lines and paragraphs are detec-
ted in the PDF when creating data selections. You will find these options when you select Workflow >
Preferences > PDF Text Extractor. For more information see "PDF text extraction tolerance factors"
on page653.
Text-based emulation
Text-based emulations display your data in plain text in the Data Selector and the Data Pane, one line
at a time, up to the limit you specify in the emulation properties (by default, 66 lines). This is especially
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