Importing the Data of Publishing Manager to Desktop Editor

Some of the settings of Publishing Manager Version 3.0 can be converted to Desktop settings and carried over.

List of Settings Carried Over

Confirming the Settings That Could Not Be Carried Over from Publishing Manager

NOTE
Importing iW documents created using the following versions of applications into Desktop Editor is not supported: Versions of Publishing Manager earlier than Version 3.0 All versions of Publishing Manager Professional Edition All versions of Prepress Manager iW documents (*.iwd) can be edited in Desktop Editor, however their settings are not maintained when opening them. Segment settings (variable print settings and annotation drawing) performed in Publishing Manager Version 2.0 or earlier You can use Publishing Manager and Desktop in the same computer, but there are no functions to link the two. You cannot import an iW document that is being used into Desktop Editor. Because the group information of iW documents is lost during conversion/import, there are no groups when you start editing objects in Desktop Editor.

NOTE

Importing iW documents created using the following versions of applications into Desktop Editor is not supported:

Versions of Publishing Manager earlier than Version 3.0

All versions of Publishing Manager Professional Edition

All versions of Prepress Manager

iW documents (*.iwd) can be edited in Desktop Editor, however their settings are not maintained when opening them.

Segment settings (variable print settings and annotation drawing) performed in Publishing Manager Version 2.0 or earlier

You can use Publishing Manager and Desktop in the same computer, but there are no functions to link the two.

You cannot import an iW document that is being used into Desktop Editor.

Because the group information of iW documents is lost during conversion/import, there are no groups when you start editing objects in Desktop Editor.

List of Settings Carried Over

The settings that are carried over when opening Publishing Manager data with Desktop Editor differ from the settings that are carried over when importing Publishing Manager data to Desktop Editor.

B: Entire document C: Chapter P: Page

Yes: Can be carried over No: Cannot be carried over

Publishing Manager Setting		Setting Range	Converted when Opening	Converted when Importing	Remarks
Original Page Data		B	Yes	Yes
Documents	Document Name	B	Yes	No
	Chapter Structure	C	Yes	No
	Chapter Name	C	Yes	No
	Selected Printer	-	Yes	No
Page Setup	Output Size	B/C	See the Remarks column.	No	If a custom paper size is set in Desktop Editor but the same output paper size does not exist, a similar paper size is selected.
	Enlarge/Reduce Original to Fit Output Size	B/C	No	No
	Output Paper Orientation	B/C	Yes	No
	Page Layout	B/C	Yes	No
	Page Order	B/C	Yes	No
	Border	B/C	No	No
	Enlarge/Reduce Original to Fit Margins	B/C	No	No
	Alignment of Original	B/C/P	No	No
	Margin for Print Page	B	No	No
	Page Rotation	P	See the Remarks column.	No	If [Same as Original] is set as the output size and the rotation angle of a document page is something other than 0, the setting is reflected in [Rotate Original Pages] in Desktop Editor.
	Print Original with the Same Scaling	P	No	No
	Enlarge/Reduce Original to a Standard Print Area with Set Margins	P	No	No
	Customize	P	No	No
Finishing	Print Style	B	Yes	No
	Binding Location	B	Yes	No
	Gutter	B	Yes	No
	Adjustment of Original	B	Yes	No
	Staple	B	Yes	No
	Staple Position	B	Yes	No
	Hole Punch	B	Yes	No
	Z-fold	B	See the Remarks column.	No	The setting is carried over if the printer specified in Desktop Editor supports Z-folding.
	Print Next Chapter	B	Yes	No
	Saddle Stitch	B	Yes	No
	Paper Trimming	B	No	No
	Specify Booklet Gutter	B	No	No
	Move Original towards Binding Position	B	Yes	No
	Use Creep (Displacement) Correction	B	No	No
	Correction Width Setting	B	No	No
	Reduce Original to Fit Print Area within Set Booklet Gutter	B	No	No
	Shift Original According to Booklet Gutter Settings	B	No	No
	Booklet Printing Method	B	Yes	No
	Print with 1-sided Printing	C	Yes	No
	Enable Staple	C	Yes	No
Edit	Print Watermark on Each Original Page	B/C/P	No	No
	Print Watermark on Each Print Page	B/C	Yes	No
	View and Print Annotations	B	No	No
	Use Secure Watermark Function of Device	B	Yes	No
Paper Source	Paper Source	B/C	See the Remarks column.	No	When [Printer Priority] is set, changed to [Auto (Paper Source)] in Desktop Editor.
Quality	Color Mode	B	See the Remarks column.	No	When [Printer Priority] is set, changed to [Auto (Color/B&W)] in Desktop Editor and carried over.
Quality	Color Mode	C/P	See the Remarks column.	No	Disabled if [Auto (Color/B&W)] is selected for the color mode for the entire document.
Document Structure	Table of Contents	-	See the Remarks column.	See the Remarks column.	Publishing Manager table of contents pages are carried over as document pages. They are not converted to Desktop Editor table of contents pages.
	Separate Page	-	Yes	Yes
	Rotation of Original	-	Yes	Yes
Header/Footer	Insert Common Headers in Entire document	B	Yes	No
	Insert Headers by Chapter	B	Yes	No
	Specify Fixed Phrase	B	See the Remarks column.	No	Dates, file names, and document names are carried over as text. Other items are carried over as macros.
	Detailed Settings for Page Number	B	See the Remarks column.	No	Settings other than format settings are not carried over.
	Font Settings	B	See the Remarks column.	No	Settings are carried over for horizontal fonts. The font name that cannot be used is displayed for vertical fonts.
	Change Header/Footer Settings of Selected Pages (Original Page)	C/P	No	No
	Change Header/Footer Settings of Selected Pages (Printed Page)	C/P	No	No
Cover/Back Cover/Sheet settings		-	Yes	No
Tab Paper	Font Settings	-	See the Remarks column.	No	Settings are carried over for horizontal fonts. The font name that cannot be used is displayed for vertical fonts.
Tools	Page Number	-	No	No
	Insert Annotations	-	See the Remarks column.	See the Remarks column.	For more information on converting annotations, see the following. Converting Annotations Added With Publishing Manager
	Edit Originals Directly	-	Yes	Yes
	Set Variable Printing	-	See the Remarks column.	No	For information on the variable field settings, see the following. Converting Variable Information Set With Publishing Manager

Confirming the Settings That Could Not Be Carried Over from Publishing Manager

When you open Publishing Manager data with Desktop Editor, a list of the settings that could not be carried over is displayed.

Drag and drop an iW document (*.iwd) to the [iW Desktop Editor] shortcut icon created on the desktop.

Desktop Editor starts and the [iW Document File Conversion] dialog box is displayed.

Confirm the message and click [Copy to Clipboard].

The content of the [iW Document File Conversion] dialog box is copied to the clipboard.

NOTE
Copying and pasting the content of the [iW Document File Conversion] dialog box to a text file is convenient for specifying print settings again. When importing the data of Publishing Manager to Desktop Editor, the [iW Document File Conversion] dialog box is not displayed.

Click [Close].