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hkenney I assume this is what you want to see: Expand to fill screenshot. A few things to address: 1) Ignore my suggestion about placing them into individual frames and just keep it in one. 2) Make sure your font scaling allows the text to expand like "Step" suggested above in the OnCopyFit rule. 3) Make sure the optional field(s) are set to "Suppress if empty" in the paragraph settings - you only mentioned email, but if there are others do the same. 4) Each field in the box should be set to "Do Not Break on Copyfit" in the paragraph settings. That should result in what you see in the screen shot. Hope this helps

hkenney, Did you select the back frame and check it as a variable text frame prior to export?

daniel, I checked with both MacromCentral Support and FusionPro Support and neither have an inquiry from you. When you get Error's such as these: 8766389, 8726850, support will be able to assist. Who did you contact?

daniel, This is really a question for support. I suggest submitting your inquiry and be specific about what portal, the product ID, more information about the download functionality that was working vs. now and include the actual error message.error code.

seymoujd, by you mention of ordering 2 Products, I will assume this is uploaded to MarcomCentral. There are a few possible roadblocks to the imposition inquiry, mainly the fact that the Dashboard or Distribution will not generate 2 separate outputs. You may be able to take the output composition and compose it through FusionPro a second time to accomplish the imposition, but I will leave that to the User Community. The easiest solution, assuming this pertains to MarcomCentral, is to create both the card and envelope Products and combine them into a Kit. Each Product would be versioned individually, yet they would be ordered together, then output individually. Hope this helps

Leosmith, Unfortunately, you cannot outline text or add a stroke to text on a curve. You would need to use a font that has that capability to achieve that. As far as the "FAN LAST NAME" you would need to get the art work without that text or you would need to remove it using an image editing tool like Photoshop.

If your frame consists of a combo of static and variable text, you might consider placing the variable text into it's own frame. Often times the static content might have paragraph settings or even carriage returns may cause the text to be adjusted to fit the frame. With the variable text in it's own frame, you can control it better without any affect on the static text.

kfisne, I'm not clear on exactly what the issue is or if you are still in need. There should be no reason that MarcomCentral would not show the values, if FusionPro did. Can you clarify this bit further?

seymoujd, Looks like you need to publish the template in order to have the update appear in the Auto Job Ticket (AJT) setup. Which makes sense, considering the AJT setup will not work until after the template is published.

I sent the post too quickly and have since revised it. Please review it again.

seymoujd There are 2 possibilities and they are interrelated: 1) It could mean you have no imposition files (FPI) uploaded into MarcomCentral, so none to choose from. 2) It could mean that you have not associated an imposition to the Product on the Configuration tab in Template setup. Therefore, "No (1-UP Only)" is your only option. If the Product is set with "Yes (FPI)" then the Auto Job Ticket will allow you to assign an imposition. If number 1) is the case; you will need to create an imposition file using FusionPro Imposer. Then you can upload this into the Template Assets > Impositions section and that imposition would be available for the Impose field on the Configuration tab in Template Setup. Once "Yes (FPI)" is selected, that one along with any other impositions would then be available. Hope this helps

kdunn, Unfortunately, the only way "Miscellaneous Fees" get applied are on a line item basis. The only fee that can be applied on an order basis is a "Release Charge". However, release charges are only applicable to items with inventory active. Hope this helps

I don't think you can. Why do you ask?

Daniel, You are not doing it twice, the plugin to InDesign only identifies if the frame contains text or graphic content. When you define your data source; if it is one you created in some other application, FusionPro assumes all the fields are text. This is why you must specify which is "graphic". Most data file formats do not have a way to designate the type; "Tagged Markup" is the only data file format that have a designation for the type of field.

Gregg, You can also define Finishing setting on a per page basis using either a PPD or JDF. The settings in either of these files should allow you to specify the tray for the device the job is sent to. To access the section (although you would need to setup the PPD or JDF - these can be defined in advance or setup on the fly I believe) go to: FusionPro > Manage Pages > Page Usage - select the page & click Edit > Finish Settings... > select > load and edit. Hope this helps!

dhealy, No you cannot reference a library to tell the Rule where to pull images from. It is important to know if you are using MarcomCentral (MCC) Manager or MCC Admin, as Image Profile Attributes have been phased out of MCC Admin. You mentioned using Text Profile Attribute (TPA): So this leads me to think you are using MCC Admin. Here is an example of how you can do it; however, it is not pointing to different Libraries as you inquired about... you will need to rename your images. First, establish our image names: “FrankRizzo.jpg” is the color version and “BW-FrankRizzo.jpg” is the black and white version. You will need 2 fields to manage this, 1) “Image Format” which is a choice for the User: Color or BW; 2) “Headshot” is the TPA field containing ONLY the color file name. The text rule referencing the TPA field should contain the following: if (Field("Image Format") == "Color") return CreateResource(Field("Headshot"), "graphic", true); else if (Field("Image Format") == "BW") return CreateResource("BW-"+Field("Headshot"), "graphic", true); else return NullResource(); Of course you will need to make sure each color and BW image are associated to the template on the Images tab, but that should do the trick.

CreativeCharacter, What you are trying to do sounds pretty straight forward. Let's assume you have only 2 fields for the badge: "Name" and "Portrait" Create your CSV (or tabbed delimited) file with those two fields in row 1 columns 1 being "Name" and column 2 being "Portrait". Your second row contains the values corresponding to each: "Joe Blow" on C1 and "jblow.jpg" in C2. Each subsequent row would contain each respective value for each ID. Once the list is done, designate the Name frame as "Variable Text" and your Portrait frame as "Variable Graphic", both using the FusionPro palette in InDesign. Then export the document from InDesign using the FusionPro export (this creates the PDF). In Acrobat/FusionPro specify your data source (the one defined above). Once this is completed, from the FusionPro menu along the top, goto: FusionPro > Data Definition > Input Options > Click "Edit Fields". Select the Portrait field and click "Edit". Switch the Type from "Text" to "Graphic". Click OK, OK, Close. Next define your Resources (step 2). These are all the files referenced in your data file (CSV) under the "Portrait" column. Finally insert your "Name" field into the text frame and the "Portrait" field into the Graphic frame. Preview and test. Hope this helps

rjhansen, Drag and drop is probably not the best way to accomplish this. Try an empty rule with the content below. 2 important things to remember: Make sure you check the box at the top of the rule menu for "Treat return strings as tagged text". When you insert the rule the font size should be the desired size for everything > 10.

Chuck, Try 2 quick things that may help identify if it is the EPS files themselves. 1) Make sure that your data file and your PDF template are together in the same folder. I have noticed this can affect any graphic file type via rule or even the file name being in the data. 2)make sure your EPS files are not on a network (they should actually reside on the harddrive of your machine) and not buried in sub-sub-sub... folders. If you still get the same result, contact support with an explaination, include the EPS file and an example of your rule.

dhealy, First thing to check is the setting you have on the Graphics tab in the composition menu. There is an option to "Down sample all graphics to 72 dpi...", if that is checked that would explain it. You would want to use "Preserve Annotations". If the, "Preserve Annotations" is checked the composition should not alter the image in any way. I would inquire about how you are gauging the resolution. If this is a large record composition, often times the PDF will display the images as low res until each page of the PDF is rendered. For example, if you have 1000 records with 2 pages in the template. When you open the PDF, it shows you the first page of a 2000 page document. That first page may display the composed images pixelated until Acrobat opens/renders all of the records/pages. Once complete, the images should display properly. If you have numerous variable images and a large record count, this time frame could be significant. Not sure if this is the culprit, just a guess. One thing you may try is to use a different output format that is optimized for the equipment that will print the output. These different format manage the components for the output in ways that are most efficient for the device. Hope this helps

mchambers, Here are a couple threads related to your inquiry and Warrens suggestions: Table: http://forums.pti.com/showthread.php?t=3585 Inline graphic: http://forums.pti.com/showthread.php?t=3854 Hope this helps

Jon, Without iForms it is not possible.

seymoujd, Below is the "OnCopyFit" rule activated when you check the box in the Overflow Options menu to Adjust text to fit and expand to fill The highlighted part of the rule displayed in red allows you to control the minimum and maximum for each adjustment. 25, 400 reflect the minimum and maximum percentage of adjustment; which by default shrinks text to 25% and expand to 400% 6, 72 reflect the font point size minimum and maximum adjustment; which by default shrinks to 6 pt and expand to 72 pt The size is a backup to the percentage, so if 400% is above 72pt, it will not expand the size any further than 72 pt. You can adjust these values as needed to meet your specific requirements; however, remember this is a global rule for any frame with Adjust text to fit and expand to fill checked. Hope this helps!

EZ, No you cannot add it to FusionPro permanently. However, if you are exporting from InDesign or Quark all active colors in the swatch palette are exported with the PDF, so simply add that color to your standard swatch palette and BOOM, now it's part of every job. If you don't export from one of those, then you are stuck adding it every time.

Traba, You would use a Text Profile Attribute (TPA) to trigger your graphic. It works the exact same way as your drop-down for the "AE name" field, except that it is not a drop down, it is assigned based on the User assignment. So using your code example; the User Assignment for the TPA associated to "AE name" would be "Andy Shulman", which will return the "AndySig2.pdf". I do not believe you can use an image profile attribute this way, but you are welcome to test it out and give it a try.