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Switch capabilities

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2019 7:46 pm
by strido
I have a few quick questions regarding Switch, trying to satisfy curiosity.

Can Switch be used to send a PDF or Postscript file to a printer complete with tray pulls, finishing requirements, exception pages (slipsheets) and such?

We can use Switch to add barcodes, with the barcode content being from either metadata (page count/record count) or from the contents of an XML file?

How does Switch run with large input files? 300-500 meg files, even up to 1 or 2 gigs?

Re: Switch capabilities

Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:29 am
by RytisT
For first one, you can add any metadata to a file, that's about it. I don't think there's integration with printers if you're asking for that.

You need to provide exact code for barcode to generate, not content, so I suppose that's a no.

It depends more on how they're made, encoded or something. I had files that go through perfecty as big as 2 gb's, and I had files that get stuck as small as ~10mb. In other words, switch can handle big files, but sometimes, I don't know on what it depends, but some files do get stuck.

Re: Switch capabilities

Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 8:37 am
by abailescollins
If you add PitStop Server you can add Barcodes as you describe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKpAmva_YPw

There are also Switch Apps available which allow you to 'print' to a printer.
https://www.enfocus.com/en/appstore/product/pdfprinter
https://www.enfocus.com/en/appstore/product/gs-osxprint

So you can pretty much do what you want. Best thing would be to have a trial and test it.