1.8
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 1.8
- 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
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- Connect: a peek under the hood
- Connect File Types
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing Content
- Writing your own scripts
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Designer Script 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
- Creating a Date object from a string
- Control Script API
- Examples
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Print 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
- Print output variables
- Generating Email output
- Print Manager
- Print Manager Introduction Video
- Print Manager usage
- Print Manager Interface
- Overview
- Connect 1.8 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Performance Related Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Print Manager Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- 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
- 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 1.5 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 General 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 Acknowledgements
Installation Wizard
Starting the PrintShop Mail Connect installer
The PrintShop Mail Connect installer may be supplied as an ISO image or on a DVD.
l If an ISO image, either burn the ISO onto a DVD or unzip the contents to a folder (keeping
the folder structure)
l If on a DVD, either insert the DVD and initiate the installation from there or copy the
contents to a folder (keeping the folder structure)
Navigate to the PrintShop Mail_Connect_Setup_x64.exe or and double-click on it. After a short
while the Setup Wizard will appear as a guide through the installation steps.
Note
PrintShop Mail Connect requires prior installation of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.
Please refer to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21 for more
details on how to install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, if this is not already done.
Note
If the same version of PrintShop Mail Connect is already installed on the target machine,
you will be presented with options to either Uninstall or Modify the existing instance.
If Modify is selected, the standard installation Wizard sequence will be followed, but with
all options from the existing installation selected.
Selecting the required components
After clicking the Next button, the component selection page appears, where the different
components of PrintShop Mail Connect can be selected for installation. Currently, the following
are available:
l
PrintShop Mail Connect Designer: The Designer module (see "The Designer" on
page58). It may be used as a standalone with no other installed modules, but it will not
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