Installing RICOH Visual Workbench

Install RICOH Visual Workbench to display and define enhancements for sample AFP files that represent your production AFP files.
Examples of enhancements include creating page groups, indexes, barcodes, and text; assigning values to document properties; and adding content to white-space areas.

RICOH ProcessDirector applies those enhancements to print jobs during processing.

You can install RICOH Visual Workbench on systems running Java 1.8 or higher and any of these operating systems:

  • Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise 64-bit
  • Windows 11 Pro
  • Windows Server 2016 64-bit
  • Windows Server 2019 64-bit
  • Windows Server 2022 64-bit
  • CentOS Linux 7.7 through latest 7.X for x86_64
  • Red Hat 7.6 through latest 7.X
  • Red Hat 8.1 through latest 8.X
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12.0 with Service Pack 4 or above for x86_64
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15.0 with Service Pack 1 or above for x86_64

To install RICOH Visual Workbench:

  1. Log in to RICOH ProcessDirector.
  2. Open Administration ⇒ Utilities ⇒ Visual Workbench
  3. Click RICOH Visual Workbench to download the VisualWorkbench.zip file.
  4. Find the ZIP file on your system and unzip it into the location where you want to install RICOH Visual Workbench.
    A collection of folders and files are stored in the location you specify. The installation is complete.
  5. To start RICOH Visual Workbench:
    • On a Windows system, double-click AVE.bat.
    • On a Linux system, double-click AVE.jar.
    Note:
  • If you add features or extensions to your system, delete the VisualWorkbench.zip file and all of the unzipped files, then download the VisualWorkbench.zip file again.

Related information:

Introduction
Parent topic: Working with sample AFP files