1.7
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 1.7.1
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Where to Obtain the Installers
- Installation - important information
- Installation - How to guides
- Activation
- Installation Prerequisites
- User accounts and security
- The Importance of User Credentials on Installing and Running PrintShop Mail C...
- Installing PrintShop Mail Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running connect installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new workstation
- Uninstalling
- The Designer
- Basic Steps
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing Content
- Writing your own scripts
- Designer User Interface
- Script API
- Designer Scripts API
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Examples
- Creating a table of contents
- Example
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Replace elements with a snippet
- Replace elements with a set of snippets
- Example
- Example
- Control Script API
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Printing Presets.
- Connect Printing options that cannot be changed from within the Printer Wizard.
- Print Using Standard Print Output Settings
- Print Using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Variables available in the Output
- Generating Tags for Image Output
- Generating Email output
- Print Manager
- General Information
- Release Notes
- Overview
- Connect 1.7.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- Overview
- Connect 1.6.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.4.2 Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 New Features and Enhancements
- Connect 1.4.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
l Issues can sometimes be encountered in menus and templates when running
PrintShop Mail Connect on a non-English operating system. These are due to
encoding issues and will be addressed in a later release.
Performance Considerations
This page is a comprehensive guide to getting the most performance out of PrintShop Mail
Connect as well as a rough guideline to indicate when it's best to upgrade.
Performance Analysis Details
In order to get the most out of PrintShop Mail Connect, it is important to determine how best to
maximize performance. The following guidelines will be helpful in extracting the best
performance from PrintShop Mail Connect before looking into hardware upgrades or extra
PrintShop Mail Connect performance packs.
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RAM Configuration: By default, each instance of the Merge Engine and Weaver Engine
is set to use 640MB of RAM. This means that regardless of speed units, if not enough
memory is available, output speed might not be as expected. Assuming that the machine
itself is not running any other software, the rule of thumb is the following: The total number
of used memory in the machine should be pretty much the maximum available (around
95%).
For each engine, it's necessary to modify the .ini file that controls its JAVA arguments.
Edit as follows:
l For the Merge Engine: see C:\Program Files\Objectif Lune\OL
Connect\MergeEngine\Mergeengine.ini
l For the Weaver Engine: see C:\Program Files\Objectif Lune\OL
Connect\weaverengine\Weaverengine.ini
l The parameters are -Xms640m for the minimum RAM size, -Xmx640m for the
maximum RAM size. Explaining Java arguments is beyond the scope of this
document. Please read references here, here and here for more details (fair
warning: these can get pretty technical!).
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Template and data mapping optimization: Some functionality offered by the Designer
module are very useful, and sometimes downright awesome, but can cause the
generation of records and of contents items to slow down due to their nature. Here are
some of them:
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Loading external and network resources: In Designer, using images, javascript
or css resources located on a slow network or on a slow internet connection will
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