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  1. Bit of a stretch here and I'm also not sure if this was available back in 7.2, but in OnJobStart and OnJobEnd rules could you force a listing into the message/log file using the ReportWarning statement? You could try looking at the copyfit command and see how it is worded and then in OnJobStart force a "Today()" statement into there and then in OnJobEnd force another one. That would give you a start and stop time element for the processing. You would have to do some math to get the actual time, but it would give you something to go by. Hope that helps. .
  2. Update ... I can get the output file name on the imposition sheet now, but for some reason the first page is always 1 less than the actual "batch/chunk" number of the file. I understand why ... but am unable to figure a way around it. We want to number our sheets in such a manner because when we deliver these to an outside vendor (laminating, die-cutting, etc.) and they mess up something, we want the vendor to tell us exactly what file(s) and/or sheet(s) we need to redo over again. As you can see the first page comes over as "file" 000 while the rest of the pages (200 total per file) have the proper batch number of 001. Each successive batch after that is the same way. The first page of batch 2 states file 001, the first page of batch 3 states file 002, etc. while the remaining pages are correct. 230799_EDHC-Card_001.pdf
  3. Dan, I am using the code you had given me a while back to alter the name of the output file using leading zero's for the composition batch numbers in the OnNewOutput rule: FusionPro.Composition.outputFileName = FusionPro.Composition.outputFileName.replace(new RegExp('\\d*\\.' + FusionPro.Composition.outputFormatExtension + '$',''), function(){return FormatNumber("000", FusionPro.Composition.currentOutputFileNumber) + "." + FusionPro.Composition.outputFormatExtension;});I've been trying to put this same name on the imposition sheet using the method above? I have made a custom background imposition page for the output, but I can't seem to put this output name in any rule to display it on the sheet. Thanks. .
  4. We have an online project for a trucking company with multiple locations that sell different brands of trucks depending on the location. They always want their logos to be as large as possible inside a given space on their stationery products. The problem is that some locations sell several brands of trucks while others sell only 1 or 2 brands (max is 9 brands). Their logos are different sizes and orientations as well but I've managed to recreate all of them to be about .25" high for line space purposes so that the max of 9 logos will fit in 1 line along the bottom edge of a notepad item like the client requests. I used an in-line string feature to place the logos across the page. My problem is that when there is only a small number of logos needed (say 1 or 2) that height is too short and the logo looks like a smudge on the paper. Does anyone know if the overflow->"adjust to fit" feature will compress the logos to fit within a text box. Or is there another feature (possible newer version) that will put a string of variable logos in a text box (or graphic box) at the maximum height of the box and shrink to fit as more and more logos are added to the string without having to make the box wider to accommodate the additional logos? I've attached a sample of a single and a multiple logo location page. The red outline shows the amount of space that I am allotted for the logos to reside. They are to be left justified to the page as shown. . TruckLogos.pdf
  5. Has this changed over the several iterations of FusionPro and it's Imposition programming since 2017? Asking because I have to do a job that MUST be run as a saddle stitch job with a 1/4" gutter down the middle. I know that I can design each of the booklet pages with an extra 1/4" alternating along each side to accomplish that but I would like to be able to do that just in the imposition. If that spacing needs to change to 1/8" or to 3/8" or something else besides the 1/4" then the entire job has to be scrapped and started again from the artwork design phase.
  6. When I run a large list using the Server version, the command window comes up - like usual. I was wondering if typing Ctrl-C to get the command window to prompt me and ask whether or not I want to continue "Y" or "N" ... is that technically "pausing that instance of Fusion Pro" from processing? Asking this because we have one project that is so memory intensive with look-ups in external files and placing of graphics that only one instance of Fusion Pro can process at a time. Our server is at 32 GB of RAM but that apparently isn't enough. Eventually Fusion Pro runs out of memory and either simply crashes or it completes the job without embedding any of the graphics or fonts in the resulting pdf files. The problem is that it takes 2 complete days (averaging 41 to 44 hours) of continual processing to finish the entire job. During that time NOTHING else is able to run no matter how small and insignificant the size it is. We do split the job up into several smaller batches so there is a slight pause in between portions of this job but once a batch run begins we are technically down until it completes. I was wondering if I could temporarily pause Fusion Pro using this method? .
  7. For years I had a section of a manual printed out that listed all the entities that FusionPro used ... both listing the FusionPro coding like • or and their equivalents in what I believe was ASCII such as #32;. However we had a new person hired for nightly cleaning and they took it upon themselves to clean my office and straightened up my "mess". They however inadvertently also threw out a stack of papers that I use on a daily basis - of which that entity list was one of. From the format that it was written out it looked like it came from one of the older versions of the manuals that came with FusionPro. I've looked through all the current ones that I have and have not seen anything that looked like that. Is there any other place where I could obtain those few pages from a past manual? Thanks.
  8. I was doing an imposition of a 6x4 label and discovered something very odd about the imposition feature listed as "discard space and bleed" ... in other words removing the center bleed values to create a chop-cut through matching solid colors. When I only did one sheet the imposition worked correctly, however when I did more than one sheet the imposition varied certain values of the outside bleed in addition to the inside bleed. It was different for each sheet of output. I've attached the template that I used. The "variable data" portions were removed and the data file was set to none to protect the client data but the affect was still the same regardless. I've also included a folder of the output files. The file entitled with the suffix of "04" was only four records being processed and the output looks correct. The file entitled with the suffix "12" was the first twelve records being processed which yielded three imposed sheets and the output is incorrect. 022353_MH-Label_v2.zip
  9. Below is one image that is just placed by itself on top of a plain colored field. The folder labeled "bottles" contains a sample of the images provided. The folder labeled as "output" shows the pdf file resulting from this setup. The actual job calls for these bottle images to be placed on top of a postcard background and they are variable depending on the certain buying habits and tastes of their customers. . BottleTest.zip
  10. Our clients believe that sending us a .tif file with a mask applied to it makes it a transparent image. "It works for other vendors ... why not you?" is the usual response I get when I ask for a "corrected image". We've even lost a few clients because of this limitation. FusionPro does not seem to recognize a masked image as transparent. I need to individually read in each and every image file that comes to us into Photoshop, convert the mask layer into a path feature, delete the pixels that were masked out, remove the mask layer altogether and then crop the resulting image down in order for FusionPro to now see the .tif file as a transparent image. I know there are other file formats that I could use such as a .png but that only works in the RGB color space not cmyk. So far this has not been a daunting task. However our newest client has given me 2,000+ images that I will need to do that to. Is there any one that experience in FusionPro being able to read a masked area of a graphic as a transparent image? Am I missing some setting or not having a high enough version of FusionPro to be able to do this? Thank you. .
  11. Does this work in reverse? If you have variable images that are either in cmyk or rgb format can I then force the output to be grayscale? Don't have 11 (yet), but is this a conditionally-driven command that can be assigned individually such as: for condition "A" use a color image from my resource list, but for condition "B" use the exact same image from resources as was used for condition A but make it grayscale? Does this only work for PDF images, or will it work for tif, jpg and other formats as well? At least being able to force color into grayscale? Thank you.
  12. Dan, you are correct I misspoke in my explanation of this job. Originally there were 53 students each getting a kit that contains thank you cards and envelopes for a list of 110 patrons. The client then removed 1 student from the list so I ended up with just 52. I've attached an example of the 2-up pdf file that I eventually ended up with after my 2-step process as describe previously. This one just shows the output from the sample file that I included in the previous attachment. Sorry for the confusion ... DonorList_2up.pdf
  13. Thank you. I've got my template working the way I need it to ... sort of. Each student is supposed to get a kit containing addressed envelopes, blank thank you cards and a listing of 53 patrons. They are to handwrite a personal thank you for donating to their colleges' different fund programs. When I do a 1-up output everything works fine. As soon as I place an imposition on it everything goes wonky. Tried everything I could think of to make it impose ... I even told FusionPro to pre-process the datafile thinking that maybe the multi-line threw it off with the quantity of output. NOPE. I ended up having to do this as a 2-pass process: first imposing the data file 1-up and then imposing that 1-up output file to 2 up. I've included the zipped template files and I've also placed into the zip the 1-up and 2-up output files for you to look at. The only difference in it is that I've replaced the "list names" with sample names and addresses for security. The dates and dollar amounts are accurate and the initial "student name" is also accurate. 018907_DonorList.zip
  14. Hi Dan, it's nice to be heard! I get your answer to my question and it seems rather straight forward. However I have one further angle to account for ... what if the phone number is to show up in the "middle" of the table and not as the last entry. Say its Name, Address, Phone, Month, Day, Year, etc... Can I then just add each item as a .push statement into the array "content" instead of all at once? for (var rec = 1; rec <= data.recordCount; rec++) { function ExField(str) { return TaggedTextFromRaw(data.GetFieldValue(rec, str)); } var content = []; content.push(ExField("first")); content.push(ExField("last")); content.push(ExField("address 1")); content.push(ExField("city")); content.push(ExField("state")); content.push(ExField("zip")); content.push(FormatPhoneNumber(ExField("PHONE"), '-')); content.push(ExField("month")); content.push(ExField("day")); content.push(ExField("year")); var row = table.AddRow(); row.SetContents.apply(row, content); }I'm sure that there may be a better (i.e. more elegant) way of doing it ... but would this work? Stay safe everyone.
  15. Hello, I have a further question in regards to using this functionality. If the phone number in the data file is given in multiple formats or sometimes not in any format and just as a set of numbers (123.456.7890 or 123456789) how would you add that functionality to the code you showed above to choose a specific format style... for (var rec = 1; rec <= data.recordCount; rec++) { function ExField(str) { return TaggedTextFromRaw(data.GetFieldValue(rec, str)); } var content = ["first","last","month","day","year","address 1","city","state","zip","phone"].map(ExField); var row = table.AddRow(); row.SetContents.apply(row, content); } I've tried changing the entry values in the "var content" statement from "phone" to Rule("FormatPhone") but that causes FusionPro to reply back that that field cannot be found. Thank you. .
  16. I'm not even sure as to where to place this so I'm just starting here. One of our "Bank" clients is asking us about making/converting pdf documents so that they meet ADA Compliant regulations. (In layman's terms - pdf files that can be read by other software packages for people who are either blind or have other visual/mental reading disabilities). I understand that this is something that can be done natively within Acrobat (both the test for compliance and the corrections if necessary) on a specific static pdf document. However I would like to know if I create a base pdf document that is ADA Compliant and then make that document a variable template within FusionPro will the resulting output document(s) from FusionPro also retain those ADA Compliance tags and settings throughout the stream of output pages? If not is this anything that is currently in the works (or even just somewhere on someone's mental drawing-board) to be able to maintain such tags or even possibly create variable tags for any output strings? Our client states that they are being "forced" to make everything compliant by the year 2022. If they are being forced I'm wondering if others will be as well in the coming months/years. Does anyone in the forum have any ideas on this or currently use any services that convert pdf documents into ADA Compliant documents? Any resource contact or help would be appreciated. Thank you. .
  17. O.K. I can give you the actual information now. I've been given permission. I am creating an online template to produce business cards for Regional Directors and Managers for a national trucking company. Each card/data file is for 1 person but can have multiple locations for the dealerships that they are in charge of. The person that was in charge of creating the site interface that these regional managers are logging into designed the data file as a multiple line record. So I'm sort of stuck with that format. The data files will list all the locations in "state order" for each rep. I've included a sample that I was given as to how they want the back to look and a sample of a data file that would be provided to make it. I guess the real problem that I will be encountering is what condition can I use to let me know when the "State" value has changed? In my data example changing from "North Carolina" to "Virginia" so I can create the header names that they have. I'm able to get the individual addresses to come out, but the headers (and the gap between the two or possibly more states) is sort of baffling me for the moment. However going back to my original post ... if I invoke the call var myNewFile = new ExternalDataFileEx(FusionPro.Composition.inputFileName, ","); totalRecs = myNewFile.recordCount; the value for totalRecs will be 7. Because as you stated there are 7 lines of data in the data file. Is there any command that will return the value of "2" since in this particular data file, designated as multi-line, there are 2 groups of data sets (North Carolina and Virginia)? . CardExample.pdf RegionalCards.txt
  18. Hello, Starting with multi-line files. I get the concept of the multi-line record and how to go through it with GetMultiLineRecords() to iterate through the collected records for each set, however how am I able to "pre-count" the total "collected sets" of the multi-line data file? As an example I have a data file with 12 lines, and the file is defined in FusionPro as multi-line when an account number changes. There are three account changes in the file so FusionPro SHOULD tell me that there are 3 records in this file. When I open the preview window the number at the bottom states 3 ... as in three records. However if I do either a ".totalRecordCount" or ".recordCount" on the input file name FusionPro will return the value of 12. I know that there are twelve LINES of data in the file, but since it is defined as a multi-line data file and FusionPro is already telling me in the preview window that it recognizes only three records shouldn't either of those functions return a value of 3? How do I get this value in the beginning of a job process? .
  19. Dan, this is not for any project currently going ... just my mind wandering a bit with the proposed solution. Is there a way to have an OVERFLOW into one frame or another based on the condition such as above? i.e. Three frames where "BaseStory" is the original frame and the frame "OneColumn" is where the overflow would occur based on the condition of 5 or less items and "ThreeColumn" if over 5 items? Just wondering? .
  20. I second (and third and fourth) that motion. I have been inquiring about a charting upgrade since Marcom (then Printable, then PTI) took over the software from DataLogics (DL-Queue). That's the only drawback from our company going solely to FusionPro for everything. Harvard Graphics back in the late 80's early 90's seemed to be as robust as what is currently being offered. .
  21. Our sales department with their "Ready, FIRE, Aim" mentality has just dropped this bomb on me ... we have a "signed contract" to produce a monthly mail project that is between 400-700 thousand pieces per month. Each mail piece is to contain a personalized graphic with the recipients name placed somewhere within ... side of a boat, side of a house, in the sand or whatever the client wants. I thought no problem for FP Expressions except WE currently don't have that module of FusionPro. I would like some answers from those of you out there that DO use FP Expressions that could give me some help with this. I realize that the Desktop/Creator version is totally out of the question for this sort of volume but ... What level of volume could the mid-level Producer version handle as compared with what the full Server version could? Anyone willing to share actual quantities of prior projects? What would be the average time for a full composition of those two version levels given the quantity specs from above? How much storage on a server would probably be necessary for this? How much RAM memory? Would more RAM memory or storage space be of any benefit in increasing the speed or composition? Does FP Expression only do the images and then those images have to be read into a second iteration of FusionPro to merge it with the actual mail-piece art to produce the final imposed, batched and printable output PDF file? Or can FP Expression also merge the data file and produce the entire postcard ... imposed, batched and ready for print? .
  22. Hello, would like to try this route before I talk with support just to see if it works ... We have installed (on a Windows 10 computer) a Cloud Version of Acrobat DC (2019.010.20069), InDesign (14.0.01) along with FusionPro (10.0.26). Each software reports that all have installed and are registered correctly however I am not seeing the pull-down menus for FusionPro anywhere on either Acrobat or InDesign like I do on my own computer that has Acrobat X or CS6 for InDesign AND using the same version of FusionPro. I'm not too worried about not being able to use InDesign with FusionPro so that can wait, but if anyone else is using the same level of Acrobat DC and FusionPro 10.0.26 please send a screen shot or a description of where the menu is would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. .
  23. We have a few hundred templates for this customer but this is the first one that I've had to do for a booklet that requires a multi-stage process for our bindery - in this case a collated saddle stitch from three separate "signature" piles of a 12 page booklet. Our customer would supply a pdf file (usually a flyer, a business card, a bag stuffer, or whatever marketing supply their sales forces needs). The templates are all automated through our website and an imposed pdf file ready for print is placed on our staging server ready for our digital press operators. Since there is normally only one item that is to be imposed multi-up on a sheet there is only 1 record in the instance file to process. In my present situation of three signature piles each pile needs to be numbered so the bindery worker know in which order the piles are to be placed in the saddle-stitcher. If this were done by hand each time them I could just give them a collated file and they would count out three pages and stitch each booklet individually. But to do several thousand or even several hundred this way would be quite time consuming. So our digital operators need to run the file uncollated so the automated stitcher can be used. And I can't always rely on the customer providing numbers on the pdf file like they did for the test setup pdf file they provided. Nor can I place them on myself within the visible borders of the pdf file after it is trimmed - customer says that's a big no-no. So I have to put some kind of number on the print sheet itself to show the proper order. Each time I try to accomplish this FusionPro states that there is just 1 imposition sheet even though it produced six of them for the saddle-stich booklet that contains 12 pages. I understand that there was only "1" record, but that record produced "6" total output pages. I have included the template that I created and the sample file that was provided.
  24. 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. .
  25. Hello again. Have a situation where I need to color the crop marks. We have a job that is going to our HP Indigo and is supposed to be a single color of PMS 281 C. The artwork in Acrobat is that color and I can specify the color for any variable type to be that color, however when I impose it the only colors that I can force via the imposition tool is either the default (all four registration colors I believe) or simply solid black? This will cause our click charge to be 2 colors instead of just the single color of PMS 281 C. Normally the charge difference is minimal, but this run is 200,000 pieces and that difference is in no way minimal. Is there anyway of forcing the color of the crop marks in the imposition tool? Thank you. .
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