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Table Of Contents
- Other Documentation
- Understanding the PlanetPress Suite
- PlanetPress Design Basics
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Dock and Undock Areas of the Program Window
- Named Colors
- Remove Background Color
- Show or Hide Areas of the Program Window
- Use the Messages Area
- Use the Object Inspector
- Use the Object Preview
- Use the Zoom Tools
- Using the Work, Hand, and Zoom Tool Pointers
- Close a Document
- Start PlanetPress Design
- Exit PlanetPress Design
- Create a New Document
- Open a Document
- Refresh a Document
- Save a Document
- Save and Open a Document Template
- Set a Password on a Document
- Undo and Redo Commands
- Use Online Help
- Expand and Collapse Elements in the Structure Area
- Select and Move Elements in the Structure Area
- Cut, Copy, and Paste Elements in the Structure Area
- Change the Display Name of an Element in the Structure Area
- Drag and Drop Files into the Program Window Areas
- Resize the Program Window Area
- Preferences and Toolbars
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Change Languages
- Set User Options (Behavior): Notification Messages
- Set User Options (Behavior): Pictures
- Set User Options (Behavior): Color
- Set User Options (Behavior): Object Duplication
- Set User Options (Behavior): Miscellaneous
- Set User Options (Editor): Editor
- Set User Options (Editor): Display
- Set User Options (Editor): Color
- Set User Options (Appearance): Object Inspector
- Set User Options (Appearance): Document Structure Area
- Set User Options (Appearance): Rulers
- Set User Options (Appearance): Document Page
- Set User Options (Appearance): Compiler Messages
- Set User Options (Document default values): Document and Pages
- Set User Options (Document default values): Pictures
- Minimize and Customize the Ribbon
- Capturing Data
- Setting Up a Document
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Set Up a Document
- View or Edit the Properties of a Document
- Associate Attachments with a Document
- Set Up Pages: Cachable Execution Options
- Set the Maximum Data Line Length
- Create and Use FreeForm Documents in PlanetPress Design
- Create and Use FreeForm 2 Documents in PlanetPress Design
- Create a Document in VPS or VDX Format
- Create and Use a Document in VDX Format
- Use the VPS RIP
- Use the VIPP RIP
- Add or Remove PPDs
- Refresh the PPD Lists
- Define a Custom Paper Size
- Specify PlanetPress Suite Job Information in a PlanetPress Design Document
- Selecting an Emulation
- Setting Up Pages
- Selecting Data
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Add a Data Selection Object
- Add a Postal Address Object
- Create Data Selections within Objects
- Create Data Selections in Database Emulation
- Create Data Selections in XML Emulation
- Use the Data Selector to Create a Data Selection
- Edit a Data Selection
- Define Email, PDF, and Index Information for PlanetPress Image
- Define Index Terms for PlanetPress Search
- Define Fax Information for PlanetPress Fax
- About PlanetPress Design XPath
- Associate XML Data Selection with Objects
- Setting Repeat Properties
- Navigate Data Pages
- Adding Text
- Key Concepts
- Encoding Tables
- Double-byte Character Sets
- CID-Keyed Fonts
- Arabic Content in PlanetPress Design Documents
- Detailed Directions
- Apply a Style
- Create a MICR Style for Account Information on Cheques
- Create a Style
- Delete a Style
- Edit the Encoding Table for a Style
- Export an Encoding Table
- Insert PlanetPress Talk Code Before or After Individual Paragraphs
- Refresh the Font Lists
- Set a Default Encoding Table
- Set the Default Style for New Objects and Groups
- Spell Check Text in a Text Object
- Use the Thesaurus
- View or Edit the Properties of a Style
- Add a Box Object
- Install a PostScript Font in PlanetPress Design
- Add a Text Object
- Define the Colors or Borders of a Box or Text Object
- Change the View on the Text Properties
- Change the Width of the Text Object in the Text Area
- Change the Background Color of the Text Area
- Adjust Margins and Indents
- Set Tabs
- Select, Cut, Copy, Paste, Move or Delete Text in a Text Object
- Undo or Redo Editing Operations
- Insert Text from an External Application into a Text Object
- Use Variables in a Text Object
- Apply a Style to Text in a Text Object
- Adjust Text Justification and Lines per Unit
- Position Text within the Text Object
- Turn Word Wrap On or Off
- Adding Shapes
- Adding Resources
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Add Resources
- Update All Image Resources in the PP7 File
- Add PostScript Attachment Resources
- View or Edit the Properties of a PostScript Attachment Resource
- Edit a PostScript Attachment Resource
- View or Edit the Properties of an Image Resource
- Edit an Image Resource
- Replace a Resource
- Delete a Resource
- Remove Unused Resources
- View the Individual Pages of a Multi-Page PDF Resource
- Adding Images
- Key Concepts
- Image Formats: Bitmapped, Vector, and Metafile Formats
- Resolution
- Color Depth
- Pixel Dimensions
- Image Quality
- Scanline Orientation
- Image Size on the Document Page
- PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference Image Resources
- PlanetPress Talk Expressions for Dynamic Images that Reference External Images
- Image Name and Pathname Resolution in Dynamic Images
- Caches
- Guidelines for Optimizing Images
- Optimization
- Detailed Directions
- Add a Static Image
- Change the Image Resource Associated with a Static Image
- Add a Dynamic Image that References Image Resources
- Add a Dynamic Image that References External Images
- Change the Size of an Image
- Adjust Image Resolution
- Convert Color Images to Grayscale
- Adjust the Pixel Dimensions of a Bitmapped Image
- Adjust the Image Quality Options
- Adjust the Scanline Orientation of Images
- Copy External Images for a Dynamic Image to the Runtime Environment
- Troubleshoot Image Problems
- Barcodes and Business Graphics
- Working with Objects
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Convert an Object to PlanetPress Talk
- Debug an Object or Group
- Set the Basic Attributes of an Object or Group
- Set the Manipulation Properties of an Object or Group
- Select Objects and/or Groups
- Lock and Unlock Objects and Groups
- Reposition Objects and/or Groups
- Resize Objects and/or Groups
- View or Edit the Properties of an Object or Group
- Delete Objects and/or Groups
- Align Objects and/or Groups
- Rotate Objects and/or Groups
- Duplicate Objects and/or Groups
- Snap or Unsnap Objects and/or Groups
- Group and Ungroup Objects and/or Groups
- Use the Repeat Properties of an Object or Group
- Edit the Layering Order of Objects
- Copy Values of Properties between Objects and/or Groups
- Working with Metadata
- Graybar Reports
- Conditions
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Add a PlanetPress Talk Object
- Enter a PlanetPress Talk Expression in a Text Box
- PlanetPress Supports Global Variables in the Global Function Library Manager
- Use the PlanetPress Talk Properties
- Create a Global Condition
- View or Edit the Properties of a Global Condition
- Apply or Remove a Global Condition
- Use a Global Condition as a Variable
- Create a Global Variable
- View or Edit a Global Variable
- Delete a Global Variable
- Combine Global Conditions
- Override a Global Condition
- Delete a Global Condition
- Create, Edit, or Delete Local Conditions
- Create or Remove a Line Condition
- Verify a Condition
- Add a Global Function
- View or Edit a Global Function
- Delete a Global Function
- Code Samples
- Printing a Document
- Managing Documents and Printers
- Previewing and Installing Documents
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Preview a Document On Screen
- Print a Document Preview
- Print Using a Windows Driver
- Generate a Soft Proof
- Convert a Document and Save It to a File
- Control Access to Your Locally Installed Services
- Install a Document
- Perform a Batch Conversion and/or Installation
- Print a Document without Data
- Exclude the Sample Data File from the PP7 File
- Move a Document between PlanetPress Design Installations
- Color Management
- Optimization
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- PlanetPress Design General
- Exit PlanetPress Design
- Use the Help System
- Show or Hide Areas of the Program Window
- Work with Hierarchies
- Work in the Document Structure Area
- Work with Documents
- Preview and Install Documents
- Work with Pages
- Adjust the Zoom
- Use Basic Editing Commands
- Work in the Data Pane
- Work with the Data File
- Work with Data Selections
- Use the Hex Viewer
- Work with Objects
- Work in the Text Properties of a Text Object
- PlanetPress Talk Editor
- General
- Show or Hide Areas of the Editor
- Expand or Collapse Groups in the Commands Area
- Work in the Code Area
- Use Command Name Completion/Argument Insertion
- Undo Commands
- Work with Selections
- Add/Remove Comments
- Indent Code
- Search
- Jump to a Specific Line
- Use Bookmarks
- Execute a Program
- Debug Code
- Print the Script
- PlanetPress Design General
Text before each line: Enter any text you want to appear in the document before each line of the data
selection. For example, if the data selection is lines 32 through 34, and you enter the string “ITEM:” in
this text box, ITEM: appears three times in the document: before the data on line 32, before the data on
line 33, and before the data on line 34. You can enter either text or a PlanetPress Talk expression that
resolves to a text string in this box.
Text after each line: Enter any text you want to appear in the document after each line of the data
selection. For example, if the data selection is lines 20 through 22, and you enter the string “SHIPPED”
in this text box, SHIPPED appears three times in the document: after the data on line 20, after the data
on line 21, and after the data on line 22. You can enter either text, or a PlanetPress Talk expression that
resolves to a text string, in this box.
empty lines
On empty lines: Use to control how the document treats lines that do not contain data. Select Do not
skip to have the document display a blank line when it encounters an empty line in the data selection.
Select Skip completely empty line to have the document ignore empty lines in the data selection. No
blank line appears in the document in this case. Select Skip empty region to have the document ignore
the line when the portion of the line included in the data selection is empty. No blank line appears in the
document in this case. In Custom data selections, Skip empty region is equivalent to Skip completely
empty line.
Skip empty line: Enabling this means that PlanetPress Design considers a line empty if the portion of it
that appears in the data selection is empty.
7. In the Line condition box, set the line condition, if any, that you want to apply to the data selection.
Select No line condition if you do not want to set a line condition on this data selection.
8. If necessary, click Archive/E-mail/fax and set the necessary options for PlanetPress Fax and
PlanetPress Image.
PlanetPress Image
Index: Select to use this data selection as an index term in PlanetPress Search. The name of the index
term is the one you specify in the Name box, and its value is the value of the data selection you specify
in the Data properties of the data selection object. PlanetPress Image uses this information to generate
the .PDI file it creates for each PDF file it creates. The default length for the value of the index term in
the PlanetPress Search database is the length of the data selection. The length of the data selection is
its length after PlanetPress Design applies the settings of the Trim leading spaces and Trim trailing
spaces boxes in the Data properties of the data selection object. If you have two or more data selection
objects that provide values for the same index term, PlanetPress Design sets the length to that of the
longest of the data selections.
Index Name: Specify the name you want to use for the PlanetPress Search index term. You can enter a
name, select one from the drop-down list, or leave the box empty. If you leave the box empty,
PlanetPress Design uses the name of the data selection object as the name of the index term. The drop-
down list contains the names of all index terms defined to date in the document. If you select one of
these, the data selection you create in this object becomes an additional value for that index term. You
can create as many index terms as you require in a document. In the .PDI file the name you specify
here appears as the value of an ~IndexName field. Note that the name cannot contain a colon (:). Note
that the name of the index should not include a closing bracket (]), since this would prevent the index
from building.
This is a Recollect index: Select to use this data selection as an index term in Recollect from Rebus
software. TIFFs and JPGs containing index values that match those provided by a Recollect query are
displayed with a red box around the corresponding index value. There will be inconsistencies with how
the red binding box containing the index is rendered in Recollect if a Data Selection that is configured as
an index for Recollect is rotated or contained in an N-Up object in PlanetPress Design.
The name of the index term is the one you specify in the Name box, and its value is the value of the
data selection you specify in the Data properties of the data selection object. PlanetPress Image uses
this information to generate the .PDI file for each PDF, TIF and JPG file it creates.
PDF bookmark: Select to have PlanetPress Image use this data selection as a bookmark in the PDF file
it generates for this document.
E-mail address: Select to have PlanetPress Image use this data selection as the E-mail address to
which to send the PDF file.
Subject: Select to have PlanetPress Image use this data selection as the text of the subject line of the
E-mail it sends with the PDF file. Use the Trim box to the right of the Subject box to specify how you
want to treat any leading or trailing spaces that appear in the data selection. Select Trim to trim both
leading and trailing spaces.Select Do not trim to leave any leading or trailing spaces in the data
Selecting Data - Detailed Directions
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