Converted Document

A converted document is the final format of a document in PlanetPress Design: a PostScript program. A single document can contain pages destined to execute on a printer, pages destined to execute in PlanetPress Image, and pages destined to execute in PlanetPress Fax. For discussion purposes, we refer to each of these as an output type. When PlanetPress Design or a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool converts a document, it converts it for only one type of output at a time: printer, PlanetPress Image, or PlanetPress Fax.

PlanetPress Design converts a document automatically when you preview it on-screen, or install it on a printer or in PlanetPress Design iWatch. It uses the information in the document’s PP7 file to generate the PostScript code of the converted document.

If you install a document in a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool, PlanetPress Design uses the information in the document’s PP7 file to generate a PlanetPress Talk version of the document, a PTK file, that it then installs in a PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tool. The PTK file contains all of the information PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools require to generate the PostScript code for any output type. When you execute a PlanetPress Suite process that references the document PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools use the PTK file to generate the PostScript code for the specific output type.

You can also manually convert a document that executes on a printer.

The file name extension on a converted document indicates the type of output it produces.

Extension:	Indicates:
PS	The converted document produces printer output.
PSI	The converted document produces PlanetPress Image output. The converted document in this case includes PostScript code to generate the PDI file PlanetPress Search uses to search archives created by PlanetPress Image.
PSF	The converted document produces PlanetPress Fax output.

The font information included in a converted document depends on the type of output the document produces. If it produces PlanetPress Image or PlanetPress Fax output, the converted document contains font information for all fonts that the document uses. If it produces printer output, it consults the PPD you selected in the Document properties dialog box, and includes font information only for fonts that the document uses that are not printer-resident.