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Design do not work properly with your printer, you can add PPDs to your PlanetPress Design installation. Note that PlanetPress
Design only accepts PPDs for PostScript Level 2 or higher printers.
To add a PPD from PlanetPress Design:
1. Double-click on the Document node to display the Document properties dialog box.
2. In the Document properties dialog box, click Basic attributes, and click the Add PPD button.
3. Use the Select PPD File dialog box to navigate to the PPD file you want to add, and click Open.
If the file is a valid PPD file for a PostScript Level 2 or higher printer, PlanetPress Design adds it to its PPD folder. If you
selected Invalid PPD notification in the User Options dialog box, PlanetPress Design reports any failure to add the PPD.
The dialog containing the error message includes a checkbox you can use to suppress the message in future. This
checkbox clears the Invalid PPD notification option in the User Options dialog box.
4. Refresh the PPD list that appears in PlanetPress Design.
To add a PPD from outside PlanetPress Design:
1. Drag the PPD you want to add to PlanetPress Design from Windows Explorer or your desktop to either the Document
structure or Document page areas.
2. The current document will be configured to use that PPD automatically. If you dragged several PPDs at once you will
have to select the appropriate PPD from the list available in PlanetPress Design.
To remove a PPD from PlanetPress Design:
1. Remove the PPD file from the PlanetPress DesignPPD subfolder of the Windows Common Files folder.
2. Refresh the PPD list that appears in PlanetPress Design.
Refresh the PPD Lists
To refresh the list of PPDs using the Refresh PPD List button:
1. Double-click on the Document node to display the Document properties dialog box.
2. In the Document properties dialog box, click Basic attributes, and then click the Refresh PPD List button.
Specify Job Infos
To specify job info variables in a PlanetPress Design document:
1. Double-click on the Document node to display the Document properties dialog box.
2. Click Job Infos.
3. Specify any job info values. Job info values are typically passed by PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool. Job info numbers
and the information associated with them may vary depending on input types as well as PlanetPress Suite Workflow
Tool configurations, with the exception of job info 0%, which is reserved for the job file name
Info #: The job info number.
Value: Enter a static text value that you want to associate with the corresponding job info reference number. If a job
info value is passed by PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool the static text value is overridden.
Ignore PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool job info values: Enable this option to prevent values passed by Plan-
etPress Suite Workflow Tools from overriding the values you have entered. This option is typically used for debugging
purposes and is disabled by default.
4. Click OK.
Associate Attachments with a Document
When you associate an attachment with the document, you define whether you want that attachment to execute before or
after the document executes. You can associate a condition with each attachment that determines whether the attachment
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