7.4

CSV emulation options
l Text delimiter: Enter the character used to mark the beginning and end of each field within the data. Text delimiters
are required if the character entered in the Delimiter box is present within the data itself. If the fields are separated
using commas, and if the data itself contains commas, for example, then individual fields may be split into multiple
ones. Using text delimiters ensures that actual commas within the data will not be interpreted as delimiters. If back-
slashes (\) are used in the data as text delimiters, enter double backslashes (\\) in this box. You can also specify ASCII
characters using octal values preceded by a single backslash (for example, \041 for an exclamation mark).
l Force one record per page: Select to prevent splitting records across pages. If this option is not selected, when a
document is printed, it may happen that the last record at the bottom of a page may be split between two pages.
l Field delimiter: Enter the character used to separate each field within the data. If backslashes (\) are used in the
data as delimiters, enter double backslashes (\\) in this box. You can also specify ASCII characters using octal values
preceded by a single backslash (for example, \041 for an exclamation mark).
l Set tab as field delimiter: Select if tabs used to separate each field within the data. Selecting this option overrides
any value entered in the Field delimiter box.
Channel Skip Emulation
Channel skip emulation is a variant of line printer emulation. It tells the document to read the data stream one line at a time,
and to treat the first character of each line as a code that indicates how to position the line of data in the data page buffer.
By default, in channel skip emulation, the integer 1 signals the end of a data page. You can change this default when you set up
the emulation.
Note that if a given value is used for multiple channels, the result may be different at design time, or when the document is pre-
viewed or printed.
Also note that Split on FormFeed (FF) is not supported with the Channel Skip emulation in Optimized PostScript Stream mode
or when printing using a Windows driver.
Channel skip emulation options
l Skip page: Enter the code used within the data to mark the beginning of each page (the number 1 in standard channel
skip emulation). Note that if the standard code is used within the data as the skip page code, it is likely that the other
codes are also standard, and that you only need to make minor changes to the other codes, if any.
l No line feed: Enter the code used within the data to indicate that the next line feed character should be ignored. This
causes the next line to print over the current line, and is a technique impact printers use to print a line, or elements of a
line, in bold or with underlining.
l Skip [x] lines: Enter the code used within the data to indicate that the corresponding number of lines must be
skipped.
l Char and Skip to line: Enter the code used within the data to mark a jump to a different line in the Char box, and
enter the corresponding line number in the Skip to line box.
l Char and Go to column: Enter the code used within the data to mark a jump to a different column in the Char box,
and enter the corresponding column number in the Go to column box.
Database Emulation
This emulation differs from other emulations in regards to PlanetPress Suite applications. With other emulations, data is
pushed either to PlanetPress Design documents residing on printers or to PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool processes running
on servers. But in the case of the database emulation, data must be pulled from the data source.
Like with every other emulation, it is possible to send a Design Document set up to use the database emulation to a printer.
But contrary to documents that use the other emulations, you cannot send a raw data file to the document and expect the
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