Xerox FreeFlow Digital Publisher User Guide
Version 1.01
May 2014
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Xerox® FreeFlow® Digital Publishing
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction................................................................................................1-1
2 The Xerox® FreeFlow® Digital Publisher Order Utility..............2-1
Submitting a Job..................................................................................................................2-1
3 Xerox® FreeFlow® Core.........................................................................3-1
Editing the FreeFlow Core Workflow............................................................................3-1
Required Nodes.......................................................................................................3-2
Recommended Nodes...........................................................................................3-3
Other Nodes..............................................................................................................3-6
Managing Job Status.........................................................................................................3-7
4 ePublishing System...................................................................................4-1
Previewing the Job...............................................................................................................4-1
Publishing the Job................................................................................................................4-3
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Introduction
Xerox® FreeFlow® Digital Publisher is a solution for use by Print Service Providers to
provide additional communications channels to their end customers – the content
creators – beyond print. The solution enables the content creators to deliver their
documents to a broader audience using today’s mainstream means of communication
such as web browsers, apps downloaded from app stores such as iTunes and Google
play, and links to content sent via today’s choice of social media vehicles like Facebook
or Yammer.
FreeFlow® Digital Publisher is an integrated solution of multiple software components
that enable automated delivery of published content in both print and electronic formats.
The Solution is delivered via Professional Services, thus the software functionality, extent
of training, workflow functionality is tailored to the needs of the customer. Phase 1 of
the integrated solution consists of the following software components:
• FreeFlow® Digital Publisher Order Utility – Facilitates submission of documents into
FreeFlow Core print and ePublishing workflows.
• FreeFlow® Core – For print and electronic prepress operations, including preflight,
conversion, imposition, and uploading of an optimized PDF file for ePublishing.
• ePublishing Software Platform – Hosting infrastructure for e-content delivery.
The purpose of this document is to provide general procedures for the most common
operations that a print provider performs when using this solution. Additional information
on how to use and configure the applications listed above can be found in:
• The FreeFlow® Core online help
• The FreeFlow® Core Integration Guide
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The Xerox® FreeFlow® Digital Publisher Order Utility
The FreeFlow® Digital Publisher Order Utility is a Web application used to submit jobs
for printing and/or ePublishing. The submission uses the FreeFlow® Core Manifest
Automation from Xerox interface.
The FreeFlow® Digital Publisher Order Utility can submit one or more files at the same
time. The submitted files are combined into a single file in the order that they appear
in the Input Files list.
The input files must be compatible with the FreeFlow® Core software. For a list of the
valid file formats, see your FreeFlow® Core documentation.
Submitting a Job
To submit a job:
1. Open your browser and enter the URL to the application.
2. Select the Add File button.
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3. In the Open file dialog, navigate to the location of the files for processing. Highlight
one or more files and select Open.
4. If necessary use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to arrange the files in order.
The files will be processed in the order they appear in the Input Files list into a single
file. Arranging the input file order determines the order of the pages in the single
output file.
5. Select the Publishing Destination, whether it is Print, ePub, or both.
Files that are processed for ePub will ultimately be managed using the ePublishing
Dashboard. Print files are managed using the FreeFlow® Core Job Management and
Status page.
The Job Type, Default, is selected automatically.
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