Dan Korn

You should see a crash report from your Mac when this happens. Please copy and paste the crash report into an email and send it to FusionProSupport@marcom.com.

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You're welcome! And thanks for following up and letting me know it worked.

Well, at this point, this is a question for someone in MarcomPortal Support, preferably your CPM/BRM or point person. I suspect that the PDF template is being downsampled for online previews, which is stripping out the links before the FusionPro composition. If it's a proof composition, I expect it to work, but there may be something else that the MarcomPortal app is doing to the job settings. At any rate, you'll need to go through the channels, and the job might come back to me or someone else on the FP team, but I can't access it directly.

Yes, sorry for not responding sooner. The problem is that Advanced Compression seems to be stripping out the links. If you change the setting "Optimize (Compress) PDF" on the Output tab of the Composition Settings dialog, either by changing the drop-down to Basic or un-checking the box, then the links will work correctly in the output (at least in a local FP Creator composition in Acrobat). The Advanced Compression can sometimes be a bit over-aggressive in stripping things out of the PDF for size, so we recommend checking output with this setting enabled. Also, this kind of interactive, or "digital delivery," feature makes sense only in one-record output PDFs, not multi-record PDFs that you would use for printing. So you'll want to also check the "Output to multiple files" box and set the number of records to 1.

You can certainly assign values to global variables for the job in the JavaScript Globals. Those are truly global, to all rules that are called. (As opposed to variables set in rules, even OnRecordStart. OnJobStart will be a bit more global in lifetime, but not necessarily in scope. The JavaScript Globals is your best bet for global variables and functions.) But I'm not sure exactly what problem you're trying to solve here. Can you be more specific, or maybe post the job files?

What exactly are you doing to get those numbers? Are you using a sysvar, like $outputrecordnumberbysheet? Or a property like FusionPro.Composition.currentOutputFileNumber or FusionPro.Composition.impositionSheetNumber in a rule? I would think that FusionPro.Composition.impositionSheetNumber, maybe with a +1, would do what you want. But it's hard to say without more details.

You can specify multiple paths with semicolon delimiters, such as: L:\ABC\IMAGES;L:\ABC\signatures;C:\some other path

Please be more specific about exactly what the actual result is vs. the intended result. Do you get an error?

Sure, just create a graphic frame the size of the entire page and put it on the lowest layer. (Select the frame and, from the menu in Acrobat, select FusionPro -> Layers -> Send Frame To Back.) You can also use the pre-printed form as the PDF background template, so that you can Preview to make sure the variable content lines up, then when you go to compose, check the box "Suppress static PDF background in composition" on the Graphics tab of the Composition Settings.

The easiest way is to simply add that path into the Search Path box on the Advanced tab of the Composition Settings dialog.

Yes, this is definitely possible. I would repeat each record by the card quantity, set the page usage to turn on just the card you want for that repeated record, then use the repeat number to call out the "fact" for each one. How to code this up is very closely tied to exactly how your files are set up.

Well, it's very hard to see that low-resolution picture, but Yes, I mean, in the Variable Text Editor dialog, instead of selecting the name of the field in the Variable drop-down, select the name of the rule and insert that into the text. Right, that rule doesn't do exactly what you want in this circumstance, so you'll need a custom rule, like so: var val = StringToNumber(Field("_2017GIFTS")); if (!val) return ""; return FormatNumber("$#,###.##", val); Make a version of that for each of the years, and insert those rules into the appropriate text boxes.

Sure, you can apply as many rules as you want. You're on the right track. You've created the rule "Number to Currency Rule: _2017GIFTS". You just need to actually call out that rule in the text frame instead of just the field. Then you can create a similar rule for each of the other fields and apply them in their frames.

A new version, FusionPro VDP 13.0.2, which fixes this problem, has been released. Please go to the the FusionPro VDP Software Download page to download and install the new version. Thank you again for your patience.

Thanks, having the files makes it a lot easier to help. Although, you should post some dummied-up data instead of actual people's personal information. (I had to delete your attachment for security reasons.) Sure. You can do what I mentioned in my previous post, and create a set of Drag-and-Drop rules, without any JavaScript. See the attached template where I've done that. Of course, this can be done with just a few lines of code instead, if you prefer. REPLY test 1.pdf

Yes, you can use the FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordNumber property. For example: if (FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordNumber > 2) return Field("FULLNAME2");

Please contact Support. They can free up the license activation from the old machine so that you can install and register on a new machine.

We have identified the cause of this problem and are putting a new build with a fix through expedited testing. We hope to make it available by the end of the week. Apologies for the trouble. This slipped through our extensive regression testing. Unfortunately, that testing is primarily done with single output files composed in FP Server, and does not effectively reproduce the conditions of subsequent compositions or output files which trigger this bug. We do test in FP Creator as well, on both Windows and Mac, but fonts failing to embed is not an obvious thing to notice when viewing the output on the composition machine. We are adjusting our testing framework to catch this kind of problem in the future. Thank you for your patience, understanding, and continued use of FusionPro VDP.

This is with the local composition from Acrobat? I would post the job here, or send it to Support, so that we can take a look at it.

It should carry over links if you check the "Preserve Annotations" box on the Graphics tab of the Composition Settings. If it's working locally in FusionPro but not in the online composition in MarcomPortal, then it's probably an issue with the downsampled PDF background created when uploading the template. I would check with your Marcom support person (CPM).

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At the end of the rule, before the return line: for (var c in Columns) header.Cells[c].SetBorders("Thin", "Black", "Bottom"); Or you can choose a different width such as "Thick" or "Medium".

From the FusionPro menu in Acrobat, go to Advanced, then Preferences, and check the box "Embed fonts for Preview". The problem is that FusionPro uses Mac system calls to render the PDF for Preview, and those sometimes do not show certain fonts properly unless they are embedded. If you compose and view the output, you will see that the correct font is used.

Compose and view the output and log file.