ZipPrint processing

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Identifying the document

The parameters in the Identification group of the Customize Application Profile window enable ZipPrint to determine whether an application profile should be used to print a particular document. The parameters in Identification group are:

• Key Word
• Top String
• Bottom String

Each of these parameters includes:

• A string (sequence of characters).
• A row and column location at which the string should occur.

Before using an application profile to print a document, ZipPrint compares the values specified in the Key Word, Top String, and Bottom String parameters to the values in the document.

• If the values match, ZipPrint uses the application profile to print the document.
• If the values do not match, ZipPrint concludes that the document does not match the application profile. Consequently, ZipPrint either:
  • Displays an error message and terminates (if you clicked File > ZipPrint > Print From Application - Select Profile); or
  • Tries another application profile (if you clicked File > ZipPrint > Print From Application - Auto).

ZipPrint checks for these parameters as described below. Suppose that you have opened a 10-page document and are viewing page 6, and that you initiate a ZipPrint:

1. ZipPrint checks page 6 for the Key Word.
   • If the Key Word is not found on page 6 then ZipPrint concludes that the document does not match the application profile.

2. ZipPrint then pages backwards through the document until it finds a page that contains the Top String in the proper row and column location.
   • As ZipPrint pages backwards, as soon as it finds the Top String in the proper location on a page of the document, ZipPrint concludes that the page is the first page of the document and stops looking (even if the page is not actually the first page of the document).
   • For example, if ZipPrint:
     • Pages back to page 5 but does not find the Top String.
     • Pages back to page 4 but does not find the Top String.
     • Pages back to page 3 and finds the Top String.
     then ZipPrint concludes that page 3 is the first page of the document, even if page 1 also contains the Top String.

3. Beginning with the page of the document on which ZipPrint found the Top String, and continuing with each page, ZipPrint:
   • Processes the page by reading the data from the screen and sending it to the print destination.
   • Pages forward to the next page.

4. As ZipPrint pages forward through the document, it checks each page for the Bottom String.
   • If ZipPrint finds the Bottom String in the proper row and column location, then ZipPrint concludes that the page is the last page of the document. For this page:
   • ZipPrint processes the text on this page only down to the row that contains the Bottom String.
   • ZipPrint concludes that it has finished processing the document and stops.

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