Xerox DigiPath Professional Production Software Support & Software User Guide

OTHER FILE TYPES

Decomposition Services is a function of the 
DocuSP print server (DocuSP version 2.0 and 
later). It allows you to use that print server to 
convert PostScript or Adobe PDF files to high-
quality TIFF files, with one TIFF image created 
for each page in the original PostScript or 
Adobe PDF file. An RDO containing only TIFF 
files is submitted more efficiently to a printer 
than an RDO containing native PostScript or 
Adobe PDF. 

your site system administrator must have 
already set up a Decomposition Services 
queue on your DocuSP print server and 
configured that queue to send the resulting 
TIFF files back to a directory on your DigiPath 
workstation.
Decomposition Services has advantages over 
inserting a PostScript file or Adobe PDF file 
directly into the RDO: 

■

RDOs containing only TIFF files are submit-
ted faster to print servers. 

■

TIFFs created using Decomposition Ser-
vices preserve the image quality of the origi-
nal PostScript or Adobe PDF file very well.

It's pretty easy to send files to Decomposition 
Services – in fact, it requires exactly the same 
steps as submitting a file to print.

Select [Start: 
Programs: Xerox 
DigiPath Production 
Software: Quick 
Print].

Select [PDF (*.pdf)] or 
[PostScript (*.ps; 
*.ps2; *.bin)] from the 
Show File Type drop-
down list box in the 
Input section.

Navigate to and select 
the desired Adobe 
PDF or PostScript file.

Locate the desired file, 
and select it.

Verify that the desired 
file name is displayed 
in the File selected text 
box.

Type 1 in the Copies 
text box.

Mark the All check box 
in the Print Pages 
section.

Select the 
[<Decomposition 
Services queue>] 
from the Printer drop-
down list box.

Select [Print] to 
submit the document 
to the Decomposition 
Services queue.

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Refer to the DigiPath 3.0 
System Administrator 
Guide for more 
information on 
configuring a 
Decomposition Services 
queue.