Channel skip emulation

Channel skip emulation is a variant of line printer emulation. It tells the process 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 a PlanetPress Design document is previewed 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.

Note: Channel skip emulation is only used when merging line printer data with a PlanetPress Design document.

CSV emulation options

• Text delimiter: Enter the character that starts and ends the data in each field of the record. If you do not set a text delimiter and the data in a field contains the character you set as the delimiter, the data is split into two fields. If you want to use a backslash character (\) as a delimiter, you must precede it with another backslash character (thus you would enter \\). You can also specify an ASCII character using its octal value preceded by a backslash (for example, \041 is the exclamation mark character [!]).
• Force one record per page: Select to force a single record per data page. If you clear the selection, a record may be split across data pages if necessary. If you want to avoid splitting a record across data pages, yet have several records in the buffer, select Force one record per page, and set the Pages in buffer option to the number of records you want the buffer to hold.
• Delimiter: Enter the character that separates the fields of each record in the input data. If you want to use a tab as a delimiter, select Set tab as field delimiter. If you want to use a backslash character (\) as a delimiter, you must precede it with another backslash character (thus you would enter \\). You can also specify an ASCII character using its octal value preceded by a backslash (for example, \041 is the exclamation mark character [!]).
• Set tab as field delimiter: Select to define a tab as the character that separates the fields of each record in the input data. Clear to use the Delimiter box to define that character.