Variable Slug Placement

[dreimer]

I apologize for being real dumb here but I can't get the $impositionsheetnumber and $impositiontotalsheets variables to work in a text box. I tried adding the << and >> but it looks at it as literal text.

I also tried using the a javascript rule using FusionPro.Composition.impositionSheetNumber and FusionPro.Composition.impositionTotalSheets but not sure how to get the syntax to work.

[Dan Korn]

Originally Posted by dreimer

I apologize for being real dumb here but I can't get the $impositionsheetnumber and $impositiontotalsheets variables to work in a text box. I tried adding the << and >> but it looks at it as literal text.

Paste "$impositionsheetnumber" (without the quotes) into the Variable drop-down combo/edit box and then click the Insert button.

Originally Posted by dreimer

I also tried using the a javascript rule using FusionPro.Composition.impositionSheetNumber and FusionPro.Composition.impositionTotalSheets but not sure how to get the syntax to work.

Something like this:

return "Sheet " + FusionPro.Composition.impositionSheetNumber + " of " + FusionPro.Composition.impositionTotalSheets;

You probably need to check the "Re-evaluate this rule for every text flow" box as well.

The sample job posted earlier in this thread has examples of most of what you need to do.

[dreimer]

OK, those both work perfectly.

Onto the next problem I need to figure out! This one may not work. Is there a way to also pull from the data the description (it is in a data field in my source data) for the first and last page that goes onto each imposed sheet? So for example, can I pull from a data field the description for record 1 and 70 and populate that on my template page to the imposed sheet 1, then pull data from the same field for records 71 and 140 to go on imposed sheet 2? I don't think this would be possible but you never know?

Thank you for your patience!

[Dan Korn]

Originally Posted by dreimer

Onto the next problem I need to figure out! This one may not work. Is there a way to also pull from the data the description (it is in a data field in my source data) for the first and last page that goes onto each imposed sheet? So for example, can I pull from a data field the description for record 1 and 70 and populate that on my template page to the imposed sheet 1, then pull data from the same field for records 71 and 140 to go on imposed sheet 2? I don't think this would be possible but you never know?

I don't think there's an easy way to do this. If you call out a regular data field variable in a text frame on the Template imposition sheet background page, I believe the value will be from the "first" (although not necessarily the "top left") record on the sheet. But I don't know if there's a way to access the data from the "last" record on the sheet.

There probably is some tricky way to accomplish it, but I think that's beyond what can be done in the context of this forum.

You might want to consider redesigning the job to do a manual type of imposition, by outputting Repeatable Components into frames on a Body page, or maybe with a table, and reading in the data with ExternalDataFileEx, which would give you arbitrary (random) access into the data.

[dreimer]

Kind of figured that. I think I have a decent enough workaround by configuring the data a little differently upfront. I will just use the imposed file as my new FP template and impose that one with additional text boxes. Won't need the code you gave me previously, but I will for sure use that code for other things.

Thanks again!

[dreimer]

I can't get the "impositionTotalSheets" to work. When I compose I get the impositionsheetnumber to count correctly but the total always returns 0. So I end up with 1 of 0, 2 of 0, 3 of 0, and so on.

Any ideas doesn't matter how many records I try.

[Dan Korn]

Originally Posted by dreimer

I can't get the "impositionTotalSheets" to work. When I compose I get the impositionsheetnumber to count correctly but the total always returns 0. So I end up with 1 of 0, 2 of 0, 3 of 0, and so on.

Any ideas doesn't matter how many records I try.

You said that both properties were working perfectly back in June. What changed? I'll bet that you're no longer using a stacked imposition template, so the preprocessing required to set impositionTotalSheets isn't being invoked. To invoke preprocessing and set that value, you can either go back to using a stacked imposition, or add this line to OnJobStart:

FusionPro.Composition.forcePreprocessing = true;

[dreimer]

I know I was thinking this was going to work for a new job today and no luck. Thanks for the response and I will give that a try.

[dreimer]

Looks like that did it, thanks!!

[DSweet]

Have an additional request to this ... not quite sure if it's totally related though ...

I'm using the saddle stitch imposition scheme and I would like FusionPro to output the sheet number for each signature of the booklet that is being produced. There are 12 pages in the booklet in all and I would like something like "Impo sheet 1 of 3", "Impo sheet 2 of 3", "Impo sheet 3 of 3" to appear on the bottom of one side of the 6 sheets that the saddle stitch output pdf will contain. That way even if there are no page numbers in the actual document that is being printed, trimmed and stitched our bindery will still know the correct order. Getting the tag line to print only on one side was simple enough but they all say "Impo sheet 1 of 1" for all three sections. Am I missing something?

I've placed this in the text box on the imposition sheet

Impo sheet: «$impositionsheetnumber» of «$impositiontotalsheets»

I've also included the rule to preprocess the count. However since there is only one record I don't know if that is even necessary except for the rule to count the imposition sheets.
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