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
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Enable: activate the Auto Backup function.
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Revisions to keep: Enter the maximum number of backup files. When the maximum is
reached, Auto Backup will overwrite the oldest file.
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Destination: Select the directory in which the backups should be stored.
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Original: the directory in which the original file is stored.
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Other directory: use the Browse button to select another directory.
Backup files have the same name as the original file with two underscores and a progressive
number (without leading zeros) at the end: originalname__1.OL-template, originalname__
2.OL-template, etc.
Scheduling Preferences
For information about the scheduling preferences in PrintShop Mail Connect please see
"Performance Considerations" on page22.
Scripting Preferences
The Scripting preferences define different options related to scripting within PrintShop Mail
Connect. See also: "Testing scripts" on page268.
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General:
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Script timeout at design time (sec): In Preview mode or when running the Script
Profiler (see the Profile Scripts dialog), a long running script is stopped after the
amount of time set here. The default is 2 seconds, the minimum is 1 second.
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Designer scripting profiling group:
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Number of iterations: Enter the number of times to run scripts when running the
Profile Scripts dialog. The default is 1000. Accepted values are 1 to 1000000000.
Yes, that's 1 billion - which would take a long time to run!
Print Job Summary dialog
The Print Job Summary dialog reports statistics of a print job. The entries in this summary are
explained below.
If you are looking to improve the performance, please refer to the following topic: "Performance
Considerations" on page22.
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