Creating a Compose Profile

You can create Compose Profiles to manage the appearance of different document types in  your company by using the Configuration node on the Server Administrator tree. You can also edit any saved Compose Profile, if necessary.

To create a Compose Profile

  1. Go to the Server Administrator pane.

  2. Expand the Configuration node and right-click Compose Profiles. The Compose Profile menu appears.

  3. Click New. The Compose Profiles Document Type menu appears.

  4. Select a Compose Profile document type. The Compose Profiles dialog box appears.

  5. In the Name box, type a Compose Profile name. You can only use alphanumeric characters. Special characters and spaces cannot be used in the name.

Note: You must name the Compose Profile before selecting any of the Pre and Postprocessing settings.

Tip: Include the document type in the name so that it is easy for you to identify which Compose Profile to use and apply to your workflow configurations; for example, ComposeProfilePDFImageText.

  1. In the Description box, type a Compose Profile description. (optional)

  2. Click the Plus icon (+) next to Preprocessing, if necessary.

  3. Choose any of the following Preprocessing categories.

    • Image

    • Languages

    • Settings

  1.  In each category, clear or select the appropriate Preprocessing settings you want to use.

See About Preprocessing Settings for more information.

  1. Click the Plus icon (+) next to Postprocessing, if necessary.

  2. Choose any of the following Postprocessing categories.

    • Image

    • Settings

  1. In each category, clear or select the appropriate Postprocessing settings you want to use.

See About Postprocessing Settings for more information.

  1. Click OK.

Tip: Use the Reset Defaults button to reset specific default settings, if necessary. For example, if you select the Reset Defaults button on the Preprocessing > Image pane then only the Image settings are reset to the default settings.

Edit a Compose Profile

You can edit any saved Compose Profile by making changes to the Pre and/or Postprocessing settings.

To edit a Compose Profile

  1. Open (click) Compose Profiles in the Server Administrator tree. The Compose Profile window appears.

  2. Right-click the Compose Profile you want to edit. The Compose Profile Properties shortcut menu appears.

  3. Click Properties. The Compose Profile dialog box appears.

  4. Edit the Pre and/or Postprocessing settings as needed.

  5. Click OK.

Note: When editing the name of a Compose Profile, you will not experience any issues if the Compose Profile has not been applied to a workflow. However, if the Compose Profile is in use you will not be able to edit the name. You must set the rule to “None” or remove the job property, edit the name, and then update the rule or job property used to the new name value.

See Document Delivery Failures for more information.

See also

About Compose Profiles

About Preprocessing Settings

About Postprocessing Settings

Applying a Compose Profile

Compose Profiles in Action