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Is your data file open in Excel when you are trying to re-locate it? I get that error when I open the data to check something and then toggle back to Acrobat. If you close the data, the warning goes away.

Is there an ability to wrap text around an image, not the graphic frame in this version? Like the runaround feature in Quark Xpress.

Thanks Dan, that did it. It seems to work after the Rule in the variable line but not in the return line.

That works a lot better Dan than trying to fit it in the rule. It does make the text larger but instead of calling in the actual letter text from the rule "Letter Rule," it place the name of the letter at 12 points. Any insight to why "Letter Rule" looks up the text file and displays it in the layout and this rule just enlarges the name of the text file instead of actually bringing in the text? I've attached screen shots of the two. I'm using your code but changed the names to match my rules.

I've tried these in the rule and it always goes to point size 12, even if the letter is way below 500 characters.

They are fonts used in the Text Editor. Do I need to move the Assets.dat folder somewhere else on the server?

Figured out the Log issue. It was an accidental space being added in the file name. It says that the missing fonts aren't loaded. Does that need to be done on the server side? I have loaded all fonts on my desk top version and they appear correctly. We have also run the fontloader.exe command and they still aren't loading. Any other way the fonts can be loaded?

When I click that in the Direct Monitor, it opens in the browser and times out so I've never actually seen what the log looks like for a file I compose. Could that be a port issue?

When it composes, I get this error: Collect finished with possible errors. Please check the log file in </private/var/folders/Vs/VsrIblroF6eiTqpndHxhlE+++TI/-Tmp-/TemporaryItems/FusionPro_collect.msg>. And I can't view the Log. I'm posting the .msg file that I changed to a .txt file so I could look at it. The file came from the FPDirect/Submitted/1361478261 folder. FusionPro_collect.txt

When I go to Compose a file in Producer, all the fonts show up as Helvetica on the output PDF. The Embed Fonts box is checked on the output tab and we have loaded the fonts on the server with FontLoader. Any suggestions would help. Can we manually add the fonts we need to a folder on the server? If so, where should it be located?

Or would it go in the OnRecordStart Rule field?

The current rule is a lookup for a .txt file with the rule below. How would the character length check fit into this rule? // Return tagged text file with embeded resource var Var1 = "LetterFileName"; var Var2 = ".txt"; var Var3 = ""; var Var4 = "NoLetterAvailable.txt"; temp = ''; var_extension = ''; has_extension = ''; if (Var3 == "") Var3 = Var3; else { if (FusionPro.isMac) Var3 = Var3 + ":"; else Var3 = Var3 + "\\"; } for (i=0; i<Field(Var1).length; i++) { temp = Mid(Field(Var1), Field(Var1).length-i,1); var_extension = temp + var_extension; if(var_extension == ".txt") { has_extension = "true"; i=Field(Var1).length; } else has_extension = "false"; } if(has_extension == "true") LetterText = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1), "Plain text file", true); else { if(Var2 == ".txt") { Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + ".jpeg", "graphic", true); if (Pic.exists) Pic = Pic; else Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + ".jpg", "graphic", true); } if(Var2 == ".tif") { Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + ".tif", "graphic", true); if (Pic.exists) Pic = Pic; else Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + ".tiff", "graphic", true); } if(Var2 == ".png" || Var2 == ".pdf" || Var2 == ".eps" || Var2 == ".gif") { Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + Var2, "graphic", true); } } if (LetterText.exists) { return LetterText; } else { return CreateResource(Var3 + Var4, "graphic", true); }

One thing I thought of is if a rule could be created based on the character limit in the letter. We currently allow 1800 characters. So, I'd say if there was a way to tell the letter to increase in point size for any letters under 1000 characters, that would be ideal and cover any short letters.

I'm trying to see if there is a way to write a Javascript rule for this issue. We have variable letters for every customer that come in all different lengths. We'd like the people who only have one paragraph to expand in point size from 9.5 to 12 in the letter. In the User Guide it says that you have to check Expand to Fill in the text Overflow control to make this happen. However, that expands every letter to fill the space. Is there a way to expand the letters only with one paragraph?

We remove extra returns put in by customers, take out the spaces before headers that are trying to be centered on the letter. Sometimes we need to combine paragraphs if the letter is too long.

Dan, I am going to attach a couple different sample text files that people submit in the interface and this is how they appear in the plain text file. The current rule I use to call the text file is: // Return tagged text file with embeded resource var Var1 = "LetterFileName"; var Var2 = ".txt"; var Var3 = "/Grapes/DARWINTESTDATA/TEXT"; var Var4 = "NoLetterAvailable.txt"; temp = ''; var_extension = ''; has_extension = ''; if (Var3 == "") Var3 = Var3; else { if (FusionPro.isMac) Var3 = Var3 + ":"; else Var3 = Var3 + "\\"; } for (i=0; i<Field(Var1).length; i++) { temp = Mid(Field(Var1), Field(Var1).length-i,1); var_extension = temp + var_extension; if(var_extension == ".txt") { has_extension = "true"; i=Field(Var1).length; } else has_extension = "false"; } if(has_extension == "true") LetterText = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1), "Plain text file", true); else { if(Var2 == ".txt") { Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + ".jpeg", "graphic", true); if (Pic.exists) Pic = Pic; else Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + ".jpg", "graphic", true); } if(Var2 == ".tif") { Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + ".tif", "graphic", true); if (Pic.exists) Pic = Pic; else Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + ".tiff", "graphic", true); } if(Var2 == ".png" || Var2 == ".pdf" || Var2 == ".eps" || Var2 == ".gif") { Pic = CreateResource(Var3 + Field(Var1) + Var2, "graphic", true); } } if (LetterText.exists) { return LetterText; } else { return CreateResource(Var3 + Var4, "graphic", true); } From everything I'm reading, I can't see how tagging would work because of the customization in every letter. Should I just continue to edit every letter? Is there a better file option that we could use? 55L771892G30303.txt 55L522238G18188.txt 55L1064174G51593.txt

We are researching if using tagged text is going to be the best way to display customer letters on our custom magazine covers. Currently, we get .txt files from our interface where the user types out their letter. We then go into each letter and remove extra spaces or weird formatting that won't print correctly. Essentially we want to remove the step of editing the letters. I saw a previous post where Dan told someone they could use tagged markup text files and then set up rules in FP to read the tags in the text file. I've never used tags in FP so how would I start a rule for letters that are all different and custom? Would it start like this?: <record> <story copyhole = "LetterFileName"> </story> </record> LetterFileName is currently the field in our data that we pull the text file from with a text rule. This would really change things for us if I could understand how the tags work with our layout and CRM system.

If I provide all the images, the file size will be 34 GB. We are trying to avoid adding more templates. We don't want to add anymore templates because then we would triple the amount of template pages to 96 because we would need one for every combination for each style of card.

Well, we have 24 different combinations of tear out cards with the option of having a company logo, personal logo, and a optional QR code. This all needs to be on one side, justified right on the card, but since FusionPro can't suppress graphic or text frames on Template pages, we have to get creative. The text boxes next to these graphics go up and down and wrap based on the Photo on the left and Logos on the right. I already currently have a work around with the frame suppression. I'm trying anything to make it work but I doubt there is a solution.

Is there a way to best fit inline graphics in the text box? We want to have a company logo, personal logo and optional QR Code as inline graphics but the logos are all different sizes (square, horizontal rectangle, tall rectangle). If one isn't in the layout, the logos would move up. However, I can't find a way to best fit the logos in the text frame. using only a height or width constraint isn't working.

Dan, I am trying to add a second text frame above the QR Code and the text frame that wraps around it. However, it won't suppress the wrapping text frame when I write the rule for it. //Returns Text Frame if QR Code is not present if (Field("QRCode") == "") { var textwrap = ("TOC-1-Front-Agent"); textwrap.suppress = true; return ("TextNoQR"); } Despite it validating that only the top text frame will appear (TextNoQR), both text frames are populated and it looks like a really bold line of text. Any ideas?

I am trying to break a line of text at a hyphen in someone's title with a rule and can't figure out how. Currently, the title will break like this based on the copyfit rule. Director - Wealth Management I'd like it to break after the hyphen so it reads like this: Director - Wealth Management Any ideas?

Bill, Did you ever get a definitive answer on this? I have the same problem but it is graphic frames instead and not inline graphics.

Is there any way to scale a graphic in a graphic frame and tell it to not scale larger than 100%? We have several logos that need to be used in several locations in one layout at different sizes but we don't want the largest logo to be larger than 100%. Is there a tag or a rule that can make this happen?

Dan, It is on a Template Page. It is one of 22 pages that are like this that get inserted into a Body Layout. Is there another way to make the graphic frame on a Template page suppress?