Windows Queue Input

The Windows Queue Input (also called WinQueue input for short) is used to capture print jobs sent to a Windows printer queue on your system.

In order to capture a job with a WinQueue input however, the printer must be in a paused state, configured in either EMF or RAW format, and spooling must be disabled. While it is possible for PlanetPress to enable those options automatically, it is much easier to create a printer that uses the Objectif Lune Printer Driver (see Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS)), since these options are by default.

Available capture options:

• Printer queue: Select the Windows printer queue where PlanetPress Design obtains the input data file.
  The drop-down list includes printers installed on the local host computer.
• New...: Click this button to create a new Windows Printer Queue using the new Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS). For more on this driver, see Objectif Lune Printer Driver (PS).
• Advanced: Click this button to toggle showing/hiding the Windows Queue advanced options:
  • Spool Print Jobs in EMF Format (Advanced Printing Features): Select to create EMF files for Windows Print Converter action tasks (see Windows Print Converter Action Task Properties in the PlanetPress Workflow Tools User Guide (English Only)). Note that this option must not be selected when capturing generic text type data.
  • Spool Print Jobs in RAW Format: Select to generate PostScript data files when the Create PDF (with Metadata) checkbox is unchecked.
  • Create PDF(with Metadatea): Check box to insure metadata file creation when capturing data from the selected queue. This option will generate a PDF data file when checked. Note that this option is only available with PlanetPress Office or PlanetPress Production.
  • Optimize resulting PDF: Check box to optimize the PDF created by the capture. Optimizing the PDF will remove duplicate resources such as images and fonts, reducing the size of the PDF greatly if a large number of duplicate resources are in the document.