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
Properties
General tab
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Host: Select the IP address of the PReS Image host to which you want the request to be sent.
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Refresh: Click to update the list of IP addresses displayed in the Host drop-down list box.
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Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you want all the jobs to be generated
with that document. To use a document chosen at run-time for each job, enter a dynamic document
name using a combination of text, variables and data selections. To enable the dynamic document
name box, click inside it. To disable it, press Enter. Note that in the later case, you must be certain that
the documents that will be chosen at run-time will in fact be available locally or at the selected host.
Note
While the Do not use a document (passthrough)is visible in this list, it is not compatible with the
PReS Image output if the PostScript was not generated by merging a design document with data
in PReS Workflow. In order to generate an image in passthrough mode with external PostScript,
please use the Digital Action task.
l List only documents using VDXcompilation:Check to ensure that only documents that are
compatible with the VDXcompilation method are shown in the list, if producing VDXoutput.
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Run mode group
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Printer centric: Select to send the document along with the trigger and data to PReS Image.
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Optimized PostScript Stream: Select to merge the selected document with the data received by
this task before sending it to PReS Image. Note that some features, such as the Time and Date
functions, require that this option be selected.
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Add job information to the document: Select to add the available job info variables in the “header”
of the generated output file.
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Output type: Select the output file type that you want.
l PDF:The output will be a PDFfile. If you select PDF, the DPI and Color Depth options (see
below) are disabled and the options available in the PDF tab are enabled.
l JPEG:The output will be a JPEGfile. JPEGis a lossy compression image format that creates
small files, compressing continuous tone images (such as scanned photographs) well.