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
General Information
Connect File Types
This article describes the different File Types that are related to PrintShop Mail Connect and its
different modules. These are files that are generally transferable between machines, can be
sent via email or other means.
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.OL-template : A Designer Template file, including up to 3 contexts. Is linked to a data
mapping configuration by default, but not necessarily.
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.OL-datamodel: A data model file which can be imported or exported into either a data
mapping configuration or a template. Contains a list of fields and their data type (date,
currency, string, etc).
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.OL-jobpreset: A job preset file, used when generating a job (ready for output) from
Designer or through automation (Create Job task). Does sorting, splitting, adding
metadata fields.
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.OL-outputpreset: An output preset file, used to generate the actual print output in the
appropriate format (pcl, afp, pcl, ipds, pdf, etc). Includes print settings such as imposition
(n-up, cut & stack), inserter marks, tray settings, etc.
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.OL-script: One or more designer "Scripts". Can be imported or exported from the Scripts
pane in Designer when a template is open.
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.OL-printerdef: A Printer Definition File. Used by the Output Preset to determine what
type of output to produce. These are generated by an internal application that is not
currently distributed outside of OL, but the definition files themselves can be provided.
Additional Information
You can find additional information that complement the user manuals about PrintShop Mail
Connect Workflow in the knowledge base.
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