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  • Birthday 01/20/1989

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    Data Processing and VDP

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    Mac OS 13.6.1

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  1. Mail.ceil is exactly what I needed, thank you Dan!!! And thank you for the explanation of what it does, that makes perfect sense to me!
  2. Sorry, the FP.zips are the collects of the templates .xlsx file is the data file I'm working off of art.zip is two of the art files from the customer, just to see how the PDFs are coming in to me initially 240035 Receipt - bridge_builders - 1 page - 246 records file 1.pdf is print output file for the 1page data 240035 Receipt - bridge_builders - 2 page - 25 records file 1.pdf is the output for the 2page data, where you can see how I am trying to repeat the sequence number 240035 Receipt - bridge_builders - 2 page TEST - 25 records file 1.pdf is what happens when I use FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordNumber as you suggested on the 2page template, where I'm getting seq 1 - 50 instead of 1,1,2,2,3,3,...,25,25 which is my goal Sequence number is in the top right corner of the 8.5x11 page, it is imposed 2-out on 12x18 I appreciate you trying to take a look at it, sorry I didn't respond sooner, I thought I'd get an email alert if there were new replies. If it is more complicated code-wise than me just not knowing JS very well, I am okay figuring out a way to manually sequence the 3 and 4+ pagers as I need, there are not a lot of them.
  3. Hi Dan, I have separate templates for 1page, 2page, and 3page, and the rules in those templates refer to the corresponding field (1 Page count, 2 Page count, and 3 Page count) I've attached the output if you'd like to see, as well as my 1page template and 2page template. I thought so too, but when I use FormatNumber("0000",FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordNumber) instead I get sequence numbers 1 - 50 on my PDF instead of 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,...,25,25 which is my goal. See attached TEST pdf. When the recipient is only getting 1 page in their envelope 1 - 50 is what I want, but if they are getting 2 pages or 3 pages I want the pages that go together to have the same sequence number. I hope that makes sense. I know it's kind of crazy, and if I cannot find a solution soon I may make myself a new data file that has repeating record numbers in a column instead. I'm just trying to touch the data as little as possible while also trying to get it out the door ASAP (because of course everything needs to mail by 1/31 and the project fell into my lap yesterday). 240035-1-1 1pg Receipt FP.zip 240035-1-1 2pg Receipt FP.zip 2023_Year-End_Tracker_Final.xlsx.zip bridge_builders YE art.zip 240035 Receipt - bridge_builders - 1 page - 246 records file 1.pdf 240035 Receipt - bridge_builders - 2 page - 25 records file 1.pdf 240035 Receipt - bridge_builders - 2 page TEST - 25 records file 1.pdf
  4. Hello, I have a weird project. We get it once a year and in years past it's basically been garbage-in-garbage-out. Customer sends us 100's of PDFs of donation receipts, each corresponding to a certain customer of theirs and broken out by number of pages each donator receives. So, for example, I might have an ABC Company folder, which contains "ABC YE - 1 page 1-2024-01-18T19_44_57 FINAL.pdf" and "ABC YE - 2 page 2024-01-18T19_44_57 FINAL.pdf". If 1 page PDF has 200 pages, there are 200 records to mail. If 2 page has 200 pages, there are 100 records to mail. If 3 page has 90 pages, there are 30 records to mail. etc. So we used to drop these PDFs into a hot folder to impose them 2out on 12x18, they would print 4/0, and the handwork department would have to manually parse out the pages to stuff into the full-window envelopes. For everyone's sanity this year, we'd like to put some identifying information on each page. Right now I have "Version# - [1,2,3]PG - SEQ#" in the upper right corner of each page. The "data" file I've been given is a spreadsheet that has 1 line per customer, and then columns for 1 Page count, 2 Page count, 3 Page count, and 4+ Page count The trick here is I've been asked to sequence by group, not by page. So if it's a 2pager, they want pages 1-2 to have seq 1, pages 3-4 to have seq 2, pages 5-6 to have seq 3, etc. Same for the 3pagers, pages 1 - 3 = seq 1, 4- 6 = seq 2, 7 - 9 = seq 3, etc. Sequencing the 1 pagers was easy. I did: FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordCount = Field("1 Page count"); ====================================================================== return FormatNumber("0000", FusionPro.Composition.outputRecordNumber); Sequencing the 2 pagers was trickier, because I am super rusty with Javascript. But I ended up doing the following: FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordCount = Field("2 Page count") * 2; ====================================================================== var seqNum; if(FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordNumber%2 != 0) var seqNum = (FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordNumber + 1)/ 2; else var seqNum = FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordNumber / 2; return FormatNumber("0000",seqNum); Not sure if it's the "correct" way to do it, but it's working. Now here's where I'm stuck. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to sequence the 3pagers or the 4+pagers. I assume there's some way I can utilize loops, but as stated, I am super rusty with JS. If you've read this far and this all makes sense to you, I'd really appreciate some guidance. (I know as soon as I see it I'm going to smack my forehead and go "oh duh!" 😏) If you've read this far and you cannot help, well, hello and happy New Year at least 🙂 Thanks in advance!
  5. Hi all, We are printing graduation tickets for a school district with several schools within. Each school has its own art and number of tickets ordered. School A has 600 tickets, School B has 200 tickets, etc. Right now I have all the schools in one data file, with a OnRecordStart rule setting the repeatRecordCount for the number of tickets printed per file and starting a new output file when the repeat count is 1, and an OnNewOutputFile rule creating and renaming each output file by Name of School, Qty Ordered, etc. when the School name changes. Everything is outputting as expected. The problem I am running into, though, is that I usually use a text box on a Template page to print the sheet numbers during imposition. Typically I use the «$impositionsheetnumber» variable. However, this is the first time I am imprinting a sheet number while also creating separate output files based on a field changing. So as of right now, the first output file has the correct sheet numbers, but then the file following that one picks up where the last file left off (for example, if file 1 has 100 sheets, file 2 will start with sheet number 101). I would like the sheet number to reset back to 1 for each new output file, if possible. Is that possible?
  6. Totally understandable! I imagine it's almost like starting from scratch. Thanks for the update Dan!
  7. Hi all, me again. I just wanted to provide a quick update in case anyone else has the M2 chip and is looking at this thread: I was still having issues with Acrobat, even after uninstalling plug-ins. I actually think it was PitStop Pro that was causing my constant crashing in Acrobat, not unchecking Enable native OS. But even after removing Pitstop, I could not get the program to stop hanging. I uninstalled and reinstalled Acrobat a few times, hoping it was just an install issue. I decided to just start from scratch and reformatted the Mac mini -- I just got it at the beginning of this week, so losing files was not a concern for me. When I went to reinstall Acrobat DC though CC, I was prompted to update the Rosetta emulator. I was not prompted to do this on my first install of Acrobat after I initially set up the Mac. Once I did that, I unchecked Enable native OS and turned off Enhanced Security (which was at Enfocus's instruction for PitStop Pro) and everything is working without a hitch now, including FusionPro.
  8. Sorry, you can disregard, I emailed Support and was informed that the M2 chip is not yet supported. Huge bummer, since I literally just bought this computer, but I can continue using my old Mac or switch to my PC until the software is M2 compatible.
  9. Sorry to hijack an old thread, but I am running into this issue. Mac mini with an M2 chip, Mac OS 13.2.1, trying to install FusionPro 13.0.2 I unchecked the "Enable native OS" box as advised, and now Acrobat is crashing on startup, I can only have it open for about 30 seconds before the whole thing locks up and I have to force quit. Is there anything else I should be doing?
  10. Hi all, I have a multi-line record table I created with the new table GUI in Creator 12.1 (which worked great). However, for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to add just a bottom border, or horizontal rule, between the header and the table contents. I've converted the GUI rule to Javascript and tried tinkering around there based on info I've found in other threads here, but I just can't seem to get what I am looking for. Screenshot attached. Thanks in advance! example1.pdf
  11. Hi Dan! I'll try my best to explain, sorry in advance for what is probably going to be not-very-helpful information. So any time I'd move a text box or image box on my template, the box itself would show the image of whatever graphic I had in background inside the box while I was moving it, and the image was... glitchy? Like, it was repeated over and over in the box, kind of like what you'd see when you'd move a window around on a frozen Windows system and it would leave ghost images of the window behind. Like I said, probably not very helpful, lol Pitstop Pro was installed alongside FusionPro during the behavior. I was not experiencing this behavior before the update with Pitstop Pro installed alongside it, and I do not experience it now that I've rolled back to the previous version with it installed alongside it. I figured the Pitstop/bad DC update combo was to blame. I know it's a common tool in the industry, so I figured I couldn't be the only one this was happening to... but maybe I was? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  12. Hi all, We got an email from Enfocus last week about an automatic update that had broken some features in Pitstop Pro on Mac. (Screenshot attached, knowledge base article is here) It broke guides in DC for me as well (I'd drag one out and nothing would display) and FusionPro VDP Creator 12 was also acting super buggy. I downgraded to the previous version of DC (2021.005.20058 for me) through Time Machine and everything seems to be working as expected. I also turned off automatic updates (which, to be honest, I didn't even realize was turned on). I just wanted to mention it in case anyone else was having issues! Edit: I can't get the screenshot to attach, so here's the text of the email: Subject: Warning! PitStop Pro Mac users shouldn't update to latest Adobe version! PitStop Pro Mac users shouldn't update to latest Adobe version Dear Shane, This week, Adobe released a new update for Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat 21.007.20091 for subscribers of the Document Cloud (Continuous Track) Acrobat 20.004.30015 for users with a perpetual license of Acrobat 2020 (Classic Track) Unfortunately, the Mac version of this update introduced a problem for PitStop Pro: when you select an object(s) in PitStop Pro, the selected objects and anchor points are not displayed. There is no workaround for this issue, so we would like to advise PitStop users on a Mac not to update Acrobat at this time. Windows users are not affected. We have reported the issue to Adobe, and are in discussion with their engineers on how to resolve the issue. Please be assured that we will resolve this issue as soon as possible. When there is a fix, we will let you know via email. There is a knowledgebase article available on the topic. In general, we recommend turning off automatic updates for Acrobat, to prevent inconvenient consequences in PitStop in the future. Regards Andrew Bailes-Collins Senior Product Manager
  13. Hello, I recently upgraded to version 12.0.3 and I am finding that connecting text frames for overflow text is not working as expected. Before, I could link two frames, and if the text got too long for the first frame, the overflow would automatically go to the second (or third, fourth, etc.) frame. Now, it is erratic. Sometimes all the text goes into the second frame and is then cut off. Sometimes the text from the first frame is repeated in the second frame. Template is attached. Is anyone else having this issue? Heather Sprinkle-Cook Envision3 hsprinkle@envision-3.com 211021 template.zip
  14. I'm having the same issue. I don't mind the false flag, but composition is crawling. Is there any way to suppress the error?
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