Controlling Scalable RIP progress monitor output

This page applies to Harlequin v13.1r0 and later; and to Harlequin Core but not Harlequin MultiRIP

In the Scalable RIP, farm RIP monitor output cannot be seen by default. This can make the Scalable RIP appear to be doing nothing for large jobs where all RIPs are busy processing a single job for a long period of time. For this reason, the controlling RIP will report progress made by the farm RIPs. This gives the user feedback that something is happening. Progress monitoring is time based and is controlled by the global config key ProgressReportMillisec . For example, progress lines look like the following:

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Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 3 pages of 31...

Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 9 pages of 31...

Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 15 pages of 31...

Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 21 pages of 31...

Scalable RIP Job 2 rendered 27 pages of 31...

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By default, a progress line will be output every 1000 milliseconds (1 second). This default value can be changed within the global config file.