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  1. Just in case anyone stumbles across this post looking for something similar, use VBA in Microsoft Excel to create charts and export them as PNG files. Works great for our needs!!!
  2. Hey everyone - thanks in advance for any suggestions or recommendations. We are looking for a tool outside of FusionPro to create 3D pie charts. We're looking for the whole nine yards here - exploded wedges, connected labels, etc. We would like to save as PNG for transparency. Does anyone know of such a product or solution? Thanks, Guy
  3. Thank you for the suggestions. I believe that our issue was related to the use of a Producer Queue that was connected to a UNC share. The letterTypes in this particular instance were only picking up a few pieces of header/footer art but it feels like it was enough network round-robin to slow it down. I've since tested each template type (Page Selection vs. Text Resources) and having your resources local to the server is the way to go for us (at least on the monthly large runs!). Thanks again! Guy
  4. Thank you for the reply Dan. Soooo sorry - wrong forum. We are using Producer and, yes, i've been pushing hard to make the investment in server (to fully automate our "automation"). I would love to send the templates for your review, but the process PHI. I will locate some test data and upload the templates later today.
  5. Hi everyone, Looking for some help from the group here. We have been using a template that decides which pages to enable based on a single data field (letterType). This particular customer added a large number of options to the available letterTypes. We've gone from 8 choices to 60. In order to keep the template manageable, we created a more generic template that swaps out header/footer art and utilizes Text Resources to flow the letter into the template page and then uses overflow to create the appropriate pages. While this is extremely effective for managing the layout, it is crushing performance. We regularly receive small numbers daily (around 2,000-5,000 records across the 60 options). FusionPro Creator has been knocking these out of the park. However, a few times a year we receive anywhere from 300,000 to 800,000 records as we did this past Monday. The new template (text resources) was averaging around 1,000 records per hour while the old template (page selection) was consistently reaching almost 26,000 per hour. Any ideas?
  6. Thanks Dan! That option scares me when the document has a large number of tables, but wasn't too bad on the adjustment scale...
  7. Anyone figure out how to maintain proper leading when text wraps?
  8. works great Dan. thanks again. Is there a list of the JobOptions available in this object?
  9. hello all, Here's what i'd like to do - for this particular job, our customer requires individual pdf files returned to them for lookup in their management system, but for production we run in stacks. An extra page needs to be returned in the individual file, but not production. i'd like to base my OnRecordStart rule on the following: if (NumberOfRecordsPerFile==1) ComposePages(etc.) else ComposePages(a different set) anyone know if this is possible? This will be a daily job, so just modifying the active pages in the template will be cumbersome and opens up the possibility of human error... Thanks in advance!
  10. Can the XML log file method create text files? In some instances I read from a mailfile combined with data from an ExternalDataFile to create a new inputFile at the RunTime ... once again, daily automated work that I would rather not have to potentially any manual steps such as renaming an input file.
  11. Dan, This is a portion of the OnJobStart rule for this particular daily job. I create a ResponseFile for the customer that regurgitates info into a text file that we supply to the customer for reporting purposes. These jobs (we do many) are automated and having the ability to create the file directly in FusionPro is extremely important to our success as a vendor. Is it possible to create a file using ExternalDataFileEx? I can't seem to attach a zip file of this project (it's 18mb - i receive the following error: Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing.) If it would be easier to talk in person, please call my cell at 317.900.0774 (I might be a geek, but sometimes it's just easier to talk!)
  12. same issue here. Mac OS 10.5.8 & 10.6.2 PowerPC macs Acrobat 9 FP 8.0.13
  13. hello all, Recently upgraded to FP8 and am now experiencing some issues with an older template. Can someone help me fix this code: lf = ReplaceSubstring(FusionPro.Composition.inputFileName, "Requests", "Response"); ResponseFile = new File(lf); ResponseFile.open(); pl = ReplaceSubstring(FusionPro.Composition.inputFileName, "MaterialRequests", "PickList"); pltxt = ReplaceSubstring(pl, ".2100", ".txt"); PickList = new File(pltxt); PickList.open(); FP is telling me that "File" is not defined. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Guy
  14. I just figured this one out... the margin settings are reversed. You want margin at the Top? Set it in bottom. You want margins at the Left? Set it in right. Go figure.
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