Hi Eric,

Thanks for the explanation regarding the licenses. I have installed Planet Press (the 30 day trial, without entering activation code, etc) and during install when prompted for selecting the components to be installed I selected only PP Watch and PP Design (no PP Image).

However after running PP Watch after installation, I was able to use Digital Action and save a PDF, even though PP Imaging was not installed.

I am confused now, is PP Image required to use the Digital Action Plugin, or not as per your above response?.


Thanks in advance.

Hello,

Please update me regarding the above.

Thanks

Hi cube,

In the 30 day trial, some options are available that would not normally be there. In the specific case of Digital Action, it uses the activation from PlanetPress Image but the actual library is "copied" in Workflow because it needs to be syncroneous.

Digital Action will watermark during trial and will stop working after the 30-day trial. And you won't be able to make it work again since you can't give it an activation unless you install Image. The reason it's actually present is because it's a Workflow plugin that needs to be there upon installation, instead of a "part of Image". A little confusing I know, but the method is consistent at least; the Image and Fax output work the same, run modes are always available even if you don't have a licence for them, Laserfiche and Sharepoint plugins are there even if you don't own them, etc...

Hi Eric,

Thank you for the clarification, I understand.

For the informing of other readers, the watermark is present on the outputs during the trial period only when using a PP document (ptk) to generate the output with Digital Action. Since I have a winqueue input (which uses a PS driver) and then whatever is received through this winqueue input is directly passed to the Digital Action in passthrough mode to generate a PDF, there is no watermark.