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Thanks for the info, Dan!

Hi guys, Any news/updates on Mavericks support? Also, wasn't able to find the answer to this in the documentation or in the website, so I'll ask here: is VDP Creator 9.1 compatible with Adobe CC? Thanks!

Another update: Deleted the offending font file manually, the program still crashes, the error is now different (no reference to a font, but rather seems to point to Mavericks' memory virtualization technology?): Crash Report

Hi guys, An update on this issue: I wiped and reinstalled the OS on my MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013). With nothing but OS X 10.9 installed, I installed Adobe CS6 Standard, then FusionPro 9.1.0. During the initial font search (the one that happens at the end of the installation), the FusionPro app crashed. Below is the crash report, which seems to point at an issue with the font Avenir Next. Tried to disable it, but no go, it's a system font so I'm not allowed to do so. Any advice welcome and appreciated. Crash report:

It's just the FusionPro app/plugin, and it happens also if I load fonts from the FusionPro app separately from Acrobat. Also, when I open a template, I get that error message that fonts are not loaded, and if I go to FusionPro > Advanced > Font Usage to try and replace fonts, the drop-down that shows available fonts is empty (the drop-down cannot even be clicked on).

Hi Dan, Updated from 10.8.4 to 10.9 on a month-old MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012). Fusion Pro v9.0.3, Adobe CS 6 (Acrobat v10.1.8). As an update, after trying FontNuke, FusionPro is still crashing.

Thank you, Alex!! The issue, however, persists, as the last font in the font.err log is AvenirNext, a system font that I can't disable or uninstall I'm trying FontNuke to flush my font caches and whatnot, will report back shortly.

Since Mavericks was officially released, I went ahead and upgraded one of our workstations to test out how FusionPro behaves with it. And it doesn't do very well: seems like Fonts (new/all) cannot be loaded, causing the plugin to crash.

Old thread, but wanted to post what worked for me: as mentioned by Jeff, my issue was the OnRecordStart rule, which referenced a non-existent resource. Fixed the rule, fixed the error! Thanks, Jeff

Thanks, Dan!

Hi all, Does anyone know if there's a way to connect a template to a live database? Doesn't necessarily need to be through ODBC, so any way to connect to any type of database would be helpful. If it helps, we're running VDP Creator 9 on Macs. Thanks! Julian

Dan, you are the man. Thank you sir, this worked like a charm for me, and it is such an elegant solution compared to my kazillion lines of JSing!!

Thank you, Jeff!

Hello, We're running into a odd issue: After uploading imposition files, and mapping them to their respective products, we try to upload AutoJobTicket information through Bulk Ops. However, we get a validation error, and the message is "Impose not enabled for Product". However, when going to the individual products under the Form/Template Setup -> Configuration tab, we can see that the default imposition is listed there, just as we had set it up. Am I missing something? We normally 1. upload an imposition, 2. map it to a product, and done! Does something need to be "enabled" in addition to that? Please advise. Thanks! Julian

Just for kicks, here's the logic I'm using (hopefully this can help someone down the line) Rule added to OnRecordStart: for (var frameNum = 1; frameNum <= Field("TagCount"); frameNum++) { var curFrameName = "N_" + frameNum; var currentFrame = FindTextFrame(curFrameName); currentFrame.content = foodName2 + softReturn(Field("FoodName_" + frameNum)); } "TagCount" and "FoodName_##" are user-driven variables. "foodName2" is a JavaScript Global variable containing the formatting tags: var foodName2 = '<p style="(no style)" br="false" override="true" quad="C" leading="260" findent="0" lindent="0" rindent="0" leadbefore="0" leadafter="0" widows="1" kerning="true" hyphenate="false" skipifempty="true" skipifemptyvar="false" noparabreakoncopyfit="false"><tracking newsize="0"><f name="Helvetica Neue Light"><z newsize="22.0"><color name="202-15/100/70/25">' This rule effectively pushes the content to the text frames, which are named "N_1" through "N_48".

Thanks for the reply, Eric! I was in the process of looking up the contents of the variable I'm using to add the formatting tags so that I could post them on the thread...and it was then that I realized that I had a typo in the variable name. I feel kinda dumb now, but at least the problem is no more, so thank you for helping me discover it! Julian

Hello, Dan, thanks again for your help. Since FusionPro.Composition.CurrentFlow.name only works during composition, and I'd like to be able to test for my rules when building the template, I decided to give it a try with the OnRecordStart rule that you suggested, and it worked great to push the content as I needed! However, I'm running into a small issue with text formatting (not sure if this is the right forum/thread to be asking this, so please let me know if that's the case): When pushing content to the frame, I'm appending tags also to format the text (which I get by creating a Formatted Text resource, formatting text the way I need it, then viewing its source). The tags are able to specify a font and a color and a size for the text without issues, but my text shows up in the "left" quadrant, even when the tags specify "center" (the tag is quad="C"). Do you know if this is expected behavior when pushing content to a text frame, or if I should submit a support ticket? Thanks! Julian Adobe Acrobat Pro v9.5.2 FusionPro VDP Creator 8.2.5 Mac OS X 10.8.2

True, I've taken the longest road on this, it seems Thanks for the input!!

Aha, it works! Thank you all! It was a combination of all the suggestions, actually: OnRecordStart instead of OnJobStart; set all pages to unused (only had some of them set as such); and add "else if"s to my existing rule (did not try your shortened version, esmith, but thanks anyway for chipping in!)

Hi again... Trying to activate pages on demand, but the callback rule (OnJobStart) gives me an error message when composing: OnJobStart, line 1: Error: In Field(), no data source defined or data could not be loaded The data source is defined, as the composition itself works, it's just that the pages I want to activate/deactivate don't quite work as expected. Here's my callback rule: I essentially have two fields that drive my page count: "Style" (could be one of three options, the code above is for the first option only), and "PageCount" (could be one of 6 options, "8", "16", "24", etc). My goal is to have the double condition activate pages 1-6 on demand, but I get that error message whenever I try to compose, and all pages come out in my composition. Any suggestions..? Thanks!

Thank you, Dan!! You absolutely nailed it, the FusionPro.Composition.CurrentFlow.name is what I was looking for. Thanks again!

Hi all, I'm trying to find out if it's possible to get the name of the current text frame (for example "01") so I can then use it in the rule. In other words, it'd be great if the FindTextFrame() function could be used to find the name of the current text frame, as opposed to the name of the specific text frame that one passes in the function. Here's the scenario: I have 18 pages with 8 text frames on each, and I'd like to be able to use only one rule that uses the frame names as variables to modify the specifics of the rule, as opposed to having to write one distinct rule for each of the 144 text frames. Hope this is clear, let me know if not and I can provide more info. Thanks! Julian