8.7
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 8.7.1
- System Requirements
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PReS Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- Data Repository
- 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
- Customizing the Workspace
- PReS Workflow Button
- The Configuration Components Pane
- Components Area Sections
- Processes and Subprocesses
- Manipulate Global Variables
- Connect Resources
- PPS/PSM Documents
- Associate Documents and PReS Printer Queues
- Using the Clipboard and Drag & Drop
- Rename Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Reorder Objects in the Configuration Components Pane
- Grouping Configuration Components
- Expand and Collapse Categories and Groups in the Configuration Components Pane
- Delete Objects and Groups from the Configuration Components Pane
- Other Dialogs
- The Debug Information Pane
- The Message Area Pane
- The Object Inspector Pane
- The Plug-in Bar
- Preferences
- Other Preferences and Settings
- General appearance preferences
- Object Inspector appearance preferences
- Configuration Components Pane appearance preferences
- Default Configuration behavior preferences
- Notification Messages behavior preferences
- Sample Data behavior preferences
- Network behavior preferences
- PlanetPress Capture preferences
- OL Connect preferences
- PDF Text Extraction Tolerance Factors
- General and logging preferences
- Messenger plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 1 plugin preferences
- HTTP Server Input 2 plugin preferences
- LPD Input plugin preferences
- Serial Input plugin preferences
- Telnet Input plugin preferences
- PReSFax plugin preferences
- FTP Output Service preferences
- PReS Image preferences
- LPR Output preferences
- PrintShop Web Connect Service preferences
- Editor Options
- The Process Area
- Zoom In or Out within Process Area
- Adding Tasks
- Adding Branches
- Edit a Task
- Replacing Tasks, Conditions or Branches
- Remove Tasks or Branches
- Task Properties Dialog
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting Tasks and Branches
- Moving a Task or Branch Using Drag-and-Drop
- Ignoring Tasks and Branches
- Resize Rows and Columns of the Process Area
- Selecting Documents in Tasks Links
- Highlight a Task or Branch
- Undo a Command
- Redo a Command
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The PReS Workflow Ribbon
- The Task Comments Pane
- Additional Information
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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 page263, or a printer
queue using a "Send to Folder Printer Queue" on page75. 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 page302 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.
l
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).
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