RPM Archive Action

What it does

Saves the print stream to the specified folder.

History

Saving a file to disk was added to RPM as a "hack" to the filter transform in RPM version 4.0 (possibly earlier). The trick was, if you left the command line empty, RPM would not produce an error message, but would write the print job to the folder specified in the filter action.

In RPM 5.0 we made this a first class action, added support for writing to shared folders with credentials, and added file naming options.

This is essentially "print to file". All the RPM transforms are supported. The most typical use is probably saving PDF files to disk.

Setup

• Credentials Optionally, enter the username, password, and domain for an account with sufficient access to the destination folder.
• Folder Click Browse to locate the folder in which you would like to save these documents. Note: If you browse to a mapped network drive, RPM will automatically convert the destination folder to a UNC path.
• File format Click Format to customize the name of the file(s) to be created. Note: Many of the file format options are limited to jobs received using the LPR/LPD protocol. If jobs are received using other methods, most of these tags will be blank.
• File Creation If a file by the same name already exists; select whether to create a unique filename, overwrite an existing file, or append the contents of the incoming file to an existing file.