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    New Install Fonts not loading

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    Possibly corrupt fonts on your system which prevents the fonts from loading to the program. Try the following to clean your font cache on your Apple Macintosh system.

    Close all applications.

    Go to Applications:Utilities, open up Terminal program.

    From Terminal window, run the command in the following sequence:

    atsutil databases -removeUser

    or if you have the permission to run sudo command, try:

    sudo atsutil databases -remove

    Then run the following two commands:

    atsutil server -shutdown

    atsutil server -ping

    restart your computer.

    Reload fonts from FusionPro again.

    Legacy Line Leading

    in Issues, Questions, Etc.

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    "Legacy line leading" refers to the default leading used by FusionPro, and its predecessors, prior to version 3.1. In FusionPro 3.1 and later, it's a backwards-compatibility mode for older jobs, but new jobs should use the "new" leading.

     

    There are two main differences between the old "legacy" leading and new-style leading.

     

    The first difference is how point size changes affect leading in absolute-leading mode. In legacy leading, all point size changes would change the leading as well; basically, auto-leading was always in effect. The Variable Text Editor would work around this by outputting extra leading tags after point-size changes to maintain the absolute leading in effect. However, other point-size tags, such as from rules, could break absolute leading. This is why the CopyfitLine function does not work well with legacy leading in absolute-leading mode, because the point-size changes affect the leading.

     

    The second difference is in how leading itself is calculated and applied. In legacy leading, leading was the distance between descender lines. In the new leading, it's the distance between baselines. You won't notice the difference if the leading in a flow is all the same size; however, if you vary the leading (either with an explicit leading tag, or by changing point size in auto-leading), you will see that a line of large text followed by a line of smaller text will have less leading in between the two lines under the new leading than under legacy leading. (In severe cases, this can cause collisions, however, that is a consequence of the "baseline-to-baseline" leading model, which is also used by Adobe InDesign.) . Hope this information helps.

    Colors Not Transferring Properly

    in Issues, Questions, Etc.

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    When exporting the template from Indesign, try this.

    1) to File -> Export (this is the regular InDesign)

    2) Hit Save.

    3) Change the Export Settings to your custom settings with options recommended by your press vendor. If you do not know you can try Press Settings or High Quality, or define your custom PDF Preset profile

    4) **Choose the Output category, select "No Color conversion" for the Color Conversion option.

    5) Delete the file just created

    6) Go to the FusionPro Pallet

    7) Hit the little arrow in the upper right hand corner

    8) Export Document

    Did this help?

    Insert PDF file

    in Issues, Questions, Etc.

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    You will have to create an overflow page that will flow the additional pages.

    See the User Guide topic “ It’s got to go somewhere”.

    First, you need to create the Rule and do the following

    Add the multipage PDF as a graphic resource.

    Start out with a 2 page blank pdf .

    Draw TEXT frame on each page as needed.

    Select FusionPro>>Manage Pages>>Page Usage

    Highlight page 2.

    Click Edit

    Specify "Type" as "Overflow"

    Give it name "Back_Page"

    Click "Ok", "Ok"

    Go to the first page of the template.

    Click on the text frame to bring up the "Text Frame" palette

    Click on "Overflow". Check the option for "Overflow Text To New Pages"

    Under "New Left Page", click the drop arrow for "Back_Page"

    Leave New Right Page as "None".

    Under "Add Pages", select "As Few Added As Possible"

    Click "Ok"

    Go into the Variable Text Editor, and insert the Rule name

    Go to the second page in the template

    Click on the text frame to bring up the "Text Frame" palette

    In the lower left, check the box for "OverFlow To"

    Click “Create Rules>>>New(Text)>>>Empty”.

    Check the box for “Treat Return Strings As Tagged Text”.

    Here is the Rule:

    var pathName = "..\\RESOURCES\\";

    var FullResourcePath = pathName + Field("Store Message"); //change to match your data file field

    var x = new FusionProResource(FullResourcePath, "graphic", 1);

    if (!x.exists)

    ReportError("Graphic not found: " + FullResourcePath);

    var pdfString = '';

    for (var pgnbr = 1; pgnbr <= x.countPages; pgnbr++)

    {

    x.pagenumber = pgnbr;

    pdfString += x.value + '<p>\n';

    }

    Print("Result is: " + pdfString);

    return pdfString;

    Click “OK’, ‘OK’.

    Now if you “Preview”, you will only see the first page on the “Overflow” page.

     

    You will need compose a small record range to verify everything works correctly.

    Composition Errors

    in Issues, Questions, Etc.

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    There were some fixes in the FP 9.3 version as it relates to the Drag-N-Drop Rule Wizard. Also the template may have been updated in this new version as well. Is there an error in the sample file output you are generating? Or is this from your own data?

    Rule for In-line graphic

    in Issues, Questions, Etc.

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    You can return a graphic image to a text frame if you want to control its alignment with the text in the frame.

    You can use an inline graphic tag. This can return an image to a text frame.

    Add all the graphic signature images as resources, i.e. jpg, png, tiff…etc..

    Make a text Rule. Click “Create Rules>>>New(Text)>>>Empty Rule”.

    Check the box for “Treat Return Stings As Tagged Text”.

    Enter this script and modify as needed:

    return ‘<graphic file=\"'+ Field("signature") + ".tif\" height = “14400 width = “10000”>’;

    Usage: <graphic file="name" width="width" height="height"> More Info see: Tag Reference Guide

    The width is in points and is defined as hundredths of a point. If you need to specify the height too, you can also do that. There is information about this in the Tags Reference Guide on page 45 (Graphic Tag Inside Story Tag section) which also works in rules too and does not need to be in a story tag (for tagged data).

    Now insert this Rule from the “Variable” drop box where the signature will appear.

    Mac OS X Mavericks Support

    in Issues, Questions, Etc.

    Posted

    Open your Fusionpro PDF template in Acrobat.

    In Acrobat X It's View > Show/Hide > Toolbar Items > Quick Tools.

    Then select "Plug-In FusionPro" from the left side and click the right arrow to put that in the "Quick Tools To Show" list.

    To get the Fusionpro tools, In Acrobat XI, select View > Show/Hide > Toolbar Items > Edit Current Toolset

    Then select " FusionPro" from the left side and click the right arrow to put that in the "Tools In Custom Tools Pane.

    with accented character

    in Fonts

    Posted

    You need to ensure your data file is saved as Unicode or UTF-8.

     

    Then enable the Unicode support by doing the following.

     

    First open your data file in Notepad ora Text Editor.

     

    Select File>>Save As.

     

    In the area where it indicates “Encoding”, select “Unicode”.

     

    In Fusionpro, Select “FusionPro>>Advanced>>Advanced Settings”

     

    Check the box for “Enable Asian Character Support” and reload All fonts.

     

    When linking the data file, you can use the default encoding settings in the data wizard or specify it in this dialog

     

    Mac Roman or Latin-1.

     

    You will also need to ensure that the font being used for the text, support the characters in the language.

     

    A good font to test is the “Arial Unicode MS” against the data being used to ensure the text displays correctly.

    QR Codes Help

    in Issues, Questions, Etc.

    Posted

    Add the images as resources (Create Resources>>Add Multiple)

    Then create a Graphic Rule( Insert Picture Rule) and configure the options in this dialog.

    Draw a graphic frame and specify this Graphic Rule in the graphic frame properties palette.

    QR Codes Help

    in Issues, Questions, Etc.

    Posted

    You can generate a QR Barcode as either a graphic or in a text frame.

    You can only control the size with the QR Barcode Graphic Rule. This will adjust to the size frame needed

    Select Create Rules>>New(Graphic)>>QR Barcode Rule.

    Once configured, insert the Rule into the graphic frame where you want the barcode to appear.

    That’s it

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