1.6
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.6.1
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Installation Pre-Requisites
- User accounts and security
- The Importance of User Credentials on Installing and Running PlanetPress Connect
- Installing PlanetPress Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running Connect Installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new computer
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow 8
- Upgrading from PlanetPress Suite 7.6
- What do I gain by upgrading to PlanetPress Connect?
- Server Settings
- Uninstalling
- The DataMapper Module
- Basics
- Features
- Data Mapping Configuration
- Data Mapping Workflow
- The Data Model
- Data Source (Settings)
- DataMapper User Interface
- Defining Boolean Values
- Defining String Values
- Building String Values
- Defining Integer Values
- Building Integer Values
- Defining Float Values
- Building Float Values
- Defining Currency Values
- Building Currency Values
- Extracting dates
- Entering a date using JavaScript
- Defining Object Values
- DataMapper Scripts API
- The Designer
- Generating output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Printing Presets.
- Connect Printing options that cannot be changed from within the Printer Wizard.
- Print Using Standard Print Output Settings
- Print Using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Variables available in the Output
- Generating Fax output
- Generating Tags for Image Output
- Generating Email output
- Generating Web output
- Release Notes
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
l Select Virtual Stationery: a PDF file with the letterhead stationery. Also see Media.
When you click Finish, the Wizard creates:
l A Print context with one section in it; see "Print context" on the next page and "Print
sections" on page292.
l One empty Master Page. Master Pages are used for headers and footers, for images and
other elements that have to appear on more than one page, and for special elements like
tear-offs. See "Master Pages" on page307.
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One Media. You can see this on the Resources pane: expand the Media folder. Media 1
is the Virtual Stationery that you have selected in the Wizard. It is applied to all pages in
the Print section, as can be seen in the Sheet Configuration dialog. (To open this dialog,
expand the Contexts folder on the Resources pane; expand the Print folder and right-
click "Section 1"; then select Sheet Configuration.) See "Media" on page310.
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Selectors for variable data, for example: @Recipient@. You will want to replace these by
the names of fields in your data. See "Variable Data" on page510.
The Wizard opens the Print section. You can add text and other elements; see "Content
elements" on page385.
The formal letter template already has an address on it. The address lines are paragraphs,
located in one cell in a table with the ID address-block-table. As the table has no borders, it is
initially invisible. The address lines will stick to the bottom of that cell, even when the address
has fewer lines. See "Styling and formatting" on page465 to learn how to style elements.
Tip
Click the Edges button on the toolbar to highlight borders of elements on the Design tab.
The borders will not be visible on the Preview tab.
PDF-based Print template
The PDF-based Print template wizard creates a document from an existing PDF file: a
brochure, voucher, letter, etc. The PDF is used as the background image of the Print section
(see "Using a PDF file as background image" on page296). Variable and personalized
elements, like a reseller address, voucher codes and so on, can be added in front of it (see
"Personalizing Content" on page499 and "Variable Data" on page510).
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