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
at run-time.
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Properties: Click to change the current printer queue properties. Note that PReS Workflow generate
the job file and hands it over with the available print options to the Windows print driver, which takes
the relay for the actual printing part, so there is no way for your PReS Workflow Tool to ensure that all
the settings you make will be applied to the printed document.
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Job name: Enter the job’s file name. By default, the variable %f (Job File Name) is used. You may use
a different variable, but you may not use a data selection. This information may be used for the
printer’s banner page.
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Job owner name: Enter the job owner name. You may use a PReS Workflow variable.
Note
This option is not functional when natively printing PDFs (without a document).
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Documents: Select a specific PlanetPress Design document if you want all the jobs to be printed with
that document.
l Natively print PDFfile: This special option can be used if your job file is a PDF. The job will .
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Add job information to the document: Select to prompt your PReS Workflow to add the available
job information elements in the header of the file that will be sent to the selected printer queues.
Metadata
If no metadata file is found, the from / to page settings from the job and the printer's properties from the task
configuration are used, with the job's settings overriding those of the printer where applicable. If a metadata
file is found, it is used to indicate which pages are printed and in which order. Any other metadata is ignored.
Note
Known issue: If a data file with metadata is resubmitted to such a process, the from / to page values set by the user
in the Resubmit interface are ignored.
On Error Tab
The On Error tab is common to all tasks. Details can be found in the" Task Properties Dialog" on page663.