Setting Log file options

To set options for the Log file

1.	Click the Log file tab of the 'Options\|Configuration' dialogue (f8).

2.	Select the 'Log File Format': Comma separated, XML or plain text.

To log all the data fields defined in the job, click All defined fields.
To log only some of the data fields, click Selected fields only then click Select.... In the 'Field Definitions' window, right click on a field name in the list and choose Select for export. Right click and choose Unselect for export to cancel the selection (see Viewing data fields and tags). Repeat for all the fields you wish to export. Click OK to return to the 'Export' window.

4.	To log only the data filenames, click Filenames. To avoid creating a log file, click None.

5.	Check Page numbers to insert a page number for each page in an XML log file, or to write the total number of pages to the end of a Plain text log file.

6.	To add Bates page numbers to the Log file as well as the pages, select Bates Page Numbers. See Creating page numbers.

You can also opt to:

•	Rename log file when finished. During processing, the log file bears a temporary name (indicating that it is still being created); it is not given its final name until the log file is complete.

•	Create a new log file for each output file. The output file is split whenever a specified field (or tag) is encountered or when a field changes.

•	Make one new log file entry for each output file. Left un-checked, a new log file entry will be made for each page output.

Naming log files

The extension name for the log file is .CSV, .XML or .LOG depending on the log format that you have selected. If 'Rename log file when finished' has been checked, the temporary name will be .CS~, .XM~ or .LO~ for the duration of processing only.

The output file and log file names are constructed by using the output specification; if you export several subsets of the file, numbers are appended so that the default output file names are xxxx1, xxxx2 etc. and the log files will have the corresponding names.

If you select 'Create a new log file for each output file', each log file has a name corresponding to its output file. This applies even if only one file is created. For example if the file is called TEST.PCL, the field contains ABCD and the output specification is *=.PDF then the output file name will be TESTABCD.PDF and the Log file will be TESTABCD followed by the appropriate extension.

This does not apply if the input was from TCP/IP, in which case it has a name based on the first output file name.