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21.1 Key Concepts
To preview and install documents, you should understand the following key concepts:
• Converted Document (Page 319)
• PP7 File (Page 320)
• PTK File (Page 320)
• Printing Using a Windows Driver (Page 320)
• Soft Proofs (Page 320)
• Previews of Documents that Use ASCII Emulation (Page 321)
21.1.1 Converted Document
What is a converted document?
A converted document is the final format of a document in PlanetPress Design: a PostScript program. A single
document can contain pages destined to execute on a printer, pages destined to execute in PlanetPress
Image, and pages destined to execute in PlanetPress Fax. For discussion purposes, we refer to each of these
as an output type. When PlanetPress Design or a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool converts a document, it
converts it for only one type of output at a time: printer, PlanetPress Image, or PlanetPress Fax.
PlanetPress Design converts a document automatically when you preview it on-screen, or install it on a printer
or in PlanetPress Design iWatch. It uses the information in the document’s PP7 file to generate the PostScript
code of the converted document.
If you install a document in a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool, PlanetPress Design uses the information in the
document’s PP7 file to generate a PlanetPress Talk version of the document, a PTK file, that it then installs in a
PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool. The PTK file contains all of the information PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools
require to generate the PostScript code for any output type. When you execute a PlanetPress Suite process
that references the document PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools use the PTK file to generate the PostScript
code for the specific output type.
You can also manually convert a document that executes on a printer.
The file name extension on a converted document indicates the type of output it produces.
Extension: Indicates:
PS The converted document produces printer output.
PSI The converted document produces PlanetPress Image output. The converted document
in this case includes PostScript code to generate the PDI file PlanetPress Search uses to
search archives created by PlanetPress Image.
PSF The converted document produces PlanetPress Fax output.
The font information included in a converted document depends on the type of output the document produces.
If it produces PlanetPress Image or PlanetPress Fax output, the converted document contains font information
for all fonts that the document uses. If it produces printer output, it consults the PPD you selected in the
Document properties dialog box, and includes font information only for fonts that the document uses that are
not printer-resident.
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