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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
Default Page Size: Select the default paper format the document uses. In most cases, you never need
to set this option, unless the same job, or multi-jobs require using various paper sizes. In a small
number of printers however, when you are executing a document in which several consecutive pages
use the same paper format, you may need to set this option. When the document subsequently
executes each page, it compares the current paper format with the one set for the page, and only issues
a paper format command if the two formats are different.The formats available depend on the PPD
selected in the Designed for box of the Document properties dialog box. If you select Default, no
command is issued to the printer regarding the paper format and the document uses the printer setting
in effect at execution time.
Selection Type: Set the default input paper tray to use for this document. The trays available depend
on the PPD you selected for the document. The selection you make here determines the contents of the
Paper source area. Select Input tray to specify a specific input tray, and select match paper size to have
the printer automatically use the tray that contains the paper format defined for this page. Select
manual feed to use the printer’s manual feed, and select media selection to set specific media
characteristics. You can select an input tray, paper size, and paper orientation for each document page.
If the printer supports it, you can also select duplex mode. Note that the document must be able to
recognize the output printer during the job to perform load balancing. You can set the output printer
name using a variable for either the printer output or the Windows printer output. You can add start/end
document commands to support subset job handling. You can activate Run-locally+GDI with speed
limits (specified as categories or absolute speed) and either block or enable the use of multi-processor
systems.
Input Tray: Select the input tray you want to use in this box. This option is available only when you
select Input tray in the Selection type box.
Media Type: Select the paper type for the page. This option is available only when you select media
selection in the Selection type box.
Media Color: Select the paper color for the page. This option is available only when you select media
selection in the Selection type box.
Media Weight: Select the paper weight for the page. This option is available only when you select
media selection in the Selection type box.
Output Tray: Set the output paper tray you want to use for this document. The options available
depend on the PPD selected for the document in the document properties dialog box.
Duplexing: Select the duplexing options for the document. The duplexing options available depend on
the PPD you selected for the document. Note that duplexing options apply only to normal pages since
these are the only pages that can print. If you want to print simplex and duplex in the same document,
and your printer supports switching between simplex and duplex in the same job, you can set the
duplexing options on a page-by-page basis using the duplexing option in the page properties dialog box.
If your printer does not support switching between simplex and duplex in the same job, you can
simulate the switch by setting the duplexing option here and printing a blank page on the back of each
page that you want to print simplex. If you select default, no command is issued to the printer regarding
duplexing for this document, and the document uses the printer setting in effect at execution time.
4. In the Document properties dialog box, click Advanced Paper Handling and, if necessary, specify any
operations you want the printer to execute before or after the document executes.
Paper handling before the document: Display, define, and/or edit the paper handling operations you
want the printer to execute before it executes the document. The printer executes the operations
sequentially, from top to bottom. Right-click in this area and use the menu to manipulate the data.
Paper handling after the document: Display, define, and/or edit the paper handling operations you
want the printer to execute after it executes the document.You can also delete an item by selecting it
and pressing DELETE. You can manipulate or move data to the Paper handling before the document
area by clicking it and dragging it to the new location. Double-click an item to display and, if necessary,
edit the condition associated with it.
5. In the Document properties dialog box, click Compilation Options and, if necessary, adjust the
compilation options of the document.
Raster Image Processor Options
For help creating documents that use Fiery® FreeForm™ or Freeform 2 features, see Create and Use
FreeForm Documents in PlanetPress Design (Page 61) or Create and Use FreeForm 2 Documents in
PlanetPress Design (Page 62). For help creating a document in VPS or VDX format, refer to Create a
Document in VPS or VDX Format (Page 63).
Caching method: Select the caching method you want to use. • Select None to prevent the RIP from
using any caching. • Select Generic to use the standard caching provided by PostScript Level 2. • Select
FreeForm and use the options that appear to either make the current document a FreeForm master
document, or make the current document a document that calls a FreeForm master document. • Select
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