Activate Render Client and InDesign LayoutService

The censhare Render-Client is used to remote control layout applications like Adobe InDesign Server.

Introduction

The censhare Render Client usually runs on a dedicated computer (the "Render-Server" in censhare’s terminology) together with the layout application(s) and supports multiple instances. The Render-Client has to login to the application server (typically with a dedicated user account: render-client), then scans for running layout applications on its host and registers the discovered layout applications to the censhare application server. The registered service is called LayoutService. The censhare Render-Client can run with a GUI or as a service and supports an auto-login feature for self-recovering Render-Servers. Regarding the technical specifications and network communication, the censhare Render-Client is identical to the censhare Client and will run in every environment that is supported by the censhare Client. The censhare Render-Client requires appropriate plugins and/or extensions to communicate with the layout applications.

Purpose

The LayoutService is used to

export PDFs from InDesign layouts
run geometry updates on InDesign layouts
create previews of InDesign layouts

Status

Open censhare Admin-Client and go to Status|Services.
In Status|Services search for LayoutService.
Note State AVAILABLE and Access limit 1 which means a Render-Client with 1 layout application is connected.

In case you want to verify the status of the Render-Client note that you have to log into the server where the renderer client is installed.

Service Status: Online
- Connection status to the server
Layout applications: Adobe InDesign Server CC 2015 (1x) pln 2.8.27
- Version of layout application and PlugIn
Instances: 1 available
- Instance count of the layout application

Stop/Start

Open Render-Client's File|Preferences|General...

Restart the Render-Client and layout application by closing and reopening the Render-Client.