8.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 8.5
- System Requirements
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PReS Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow Types
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
The following describes the properties specific to PReS Image output tasks. For information on those
properties shared by various types of tasks, such as Other and On error properties, refer to Configurations,
Processes and Tasks.
Technical
In some combinations of Microsoft Outlook and Windows versions, it is not possible for Outlook to be
opened while PReS Workflow is running, so emails are not sent out automatically. To correct this,
make sure to logon to Windows on the PReS Workflow server using the same login that PReS
Workflow is using, and open Outlook before starting the PReS Workflow services. You could also use
a startup process to start Outlook before the rest of the services.
Input
Any data file with a valid Emulation, or an Optimized PostScript Stream file (.ps)generated by PReS
Workflow itself.
The .ps file must be the result of the merge between a PlanetPress Design document and a data file, and
can be generated either with the use of "Add Document" on page240, or a printer queue using a "Send to
Folder Printer Queue" on page65. Postscript generated using any other way will fail, as PReS Image
requires knowledge of the number of pages in the document, which is not available in output generated
using any other means. Note however that "Digital Action" on page272 does have the ability, in most cases,
to generate output using third-party postscript files.
Processing &Output
Multiple things can happen, depending on the options chosen and the type of data this task receives:
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If the data file and a document are selected, and Printer Centricmode is used, the data file is sent to
the PReS Image host which merges the data and document to produce output.
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If the data file and a document are selected, and Optimized PostScript Streammode is used, the
data file is merged with the document and the resulting OPSjob is sent to the PReS Image host to
produce output.
l If the data file is a postscript file and either mode is used, the postscript file is sent to the PReS Image
host which generates output (since this is already Optimized PostScript, it is not regenerated).