Alex Marshall

If the template is not being imposed, then in the Output tab of the Composition Settings Menu, the "Output to Multiple files" box should have a value of 10k. The box beneath for different number in the first file" should be disabled. I would recommend 5k records in each chunk.

Tony, If you have "Infinite Stack" checked,then you will see this error. Uncheck this option in the FP Imposer file and enter a true value for your stack. If the stack batch output fits evenly into or is the same size as the chunk, then the chunk size is honored. When there is a conflict between the stack size and the chunk size, multiple output files are produced using the stack batch (SxVxH) output size. This is also the case when the stack output size is greater than the chunk size. When Infinite Stack is used, a conflict is reported and one output file is generated.

You need to ensure your mailing software CASS certified data generates the 65 character alpha string. Zip plus 4 will not work.

Does your mailing software or data file have the required 64 character alpha "FATD" set? Support for USPS IMB(Intelligent Mail Barcode) has been available in FusionPro since build 4.0 Go to https://ribbs.usps.gov/onecodesolution/download.cfm Proceed to download file name : uspsFontsNonAFP-1.4..zip Unzip then in the “Font” folder of this file you will see “USPSIMBStandard”, copy it to your “c:\windows\fonts” or "Mac HD: Library : Fonts" Open Acrobat. Under Fusion Pro tab selected Advance>Load Fonts>>Load All. Quit Fusion Pro and Acrobat. Open the PDF with the variable data in and inserted the field then changed the font to “USPSIMBStandard”. Select font size to 14pt. Preview it to ensure it will print correctly. Hope that helps!

The size I believe should be 14pts

FusionPro needs access to the "C:\Windows\Fonts" folder when loading font information to the program. I would recommend that you leave it set to "never notify".

Adjusting UAC settings in Windows 7 To adjust the UAC settings in Windows 7: 1. Open User Account Control Settings, type UAC in the Start Search box, and then click Change User Account Control settings in the Control Panel window. Collapse this imageExpand this image http://support.microsoft.com/library/images/support/kbgraphics/Public/EN-US/Win7SBS/975787/975787a.png 2. Move the slider to a desired notification setting, and then click OK. Collapse this imageExpand this image http://support.microsoft.com/library/images/support/kbgraphics/Public/EN-US/Win7SBS/975787/975787b.png There are four UAC settings that you can choose from: Select "Never notify" (Disable UAC) Select this setting if you: Never want to be notified when programs try to install software or make changes to your computer. Never want to be notified when you make changes to Windows settings. You will be prompted to restart the computer. Once restarted run FusionPro "Load Fonts>>Load ALL". Quit and reopen template. Did this help?

What operating system? Windows XP? Vista? Windows 7?

In Acrobat, select "Edit>>Preferences>>Page Display. Is "Use Local Fonts" enabled? If so, navigate the hard drive to "C:\Program Files\Printable\FusionPro". Open the file "Fonts.err" in NotePad. Is there any information in this file pertaining to this specific font?

When you compose the piece, does the font appear correctly? Also was this a font converted from a PC platform to a Mac? Or vice-versa?

Ok. The font will encode the data provided it contains the 64 character "FATD" string. This is why your data does not appear using the 31 character numeric string. If your mailing software generates the FATD character string, then use that information. If not try the following. Intelligent Mail Barcode script for users parsing data with mailing software. First create an "Empty" Text Rule,i.e."Create Rules>>New Empty". Click the box for "Treat Return Strings As Tagged Text". Give the Rule an identifiable name, which will be selectable in the "Variable" drop window of the text frame where this information will appear. Then paste this script(Make sure the field name matches your data file): var onecode = Field("Intelligent Mail Barcode"); //Replace "FATD" with Field("Intelligent Mail Barcode") onecode = onecode.replace(/F/g,"0"); // replaces all F with 0 onecode = onecode.replace(/A/g,"1"); // replaces all A with 1 onecode = onecode.replace(/T/g,"3"); // replaces all T with 3 onecode = onecode.replace(/D/g,"2"); // replaces all D with 2 return onecode; Then insert the Rule name into the text variable where the barcode will appear. Apply the "IDAutomation4State" font.

Also, In Acrobat, select "Acrobat>>Preferences>>Page Display". Make sure "Use Local Fonts" is checked. Quit Acrobat, reopen and test

Are you applying the "USPSIMBStandard" font to the variable with the "FATD..." data for the Intelligent Mail Barcode. If so, you wont see the information in the Variable Text Editor. But the data will render on Preview as well as when the template gets composed. Is this the case?

Unfortunately, tracking is one of those features of typography that is not standardized between various computerized text layout engines. (And tracking and kerning are often confused.) See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_%28typography% 29#Varying_systems_of_letter-spacing Therefore, I can't give you an exact formula for translating tracking values between QuarkXPress and FusionPro because they both calculate tracking differently, and I don't have access to Quark's internal tracking algorithm. Nor do I have access to Adobe's tracking algorithm for InDesign. The only thing I could do to come up with an approximate translation is to fiddle with the settings in both applications, but you should be be able to do that yourself. If you want all of the text in your FusionPro output to look exactly the same in terms of typographical details such as tracking, word spacing, and leading, then my recommendation is to export all the text frames from your QuarkXPress or InDesign template as variable and let FusionPro compose everything. P.S. Also, it probably depends on the font. Most fonts are designed to work optimally at normal tracking. You might want to try turning off kerning for the paragraph in question in the Paragraph option of the Variable Text Frame properties.

One is easy, the other, not so much. For the trademark symbol, one option is to use the entities defined in the FusionPro Tags Reference Guide, specifically the ™ entity. If you're doing this in your flat (delimited) input file, you may need to check the "Treat field values as tagged text" box on the Flat File step of the Data Source Wizard. You can also return the entity directly from a rule, like so: return "™"; Make sure to check "Treat returned strings as tagged text." You could name the rule "Trademark" and insert it in the Text Editor wherever needed. Another option is to use either the Character Map utility on Windows or the Character Palette on Mac to locate the trademark symbol and insert it directly into the Text Editor. (Unlike in external files, any text entered into the Variable Text Editor dialog in FusionPro will automatically be converted to the proper encoding when moving your job across platforms.) The Service Mark (SM) symbol is a little trickier; that's a non-ASCII Unicode character. As such, it's not supported by FusionPro, and is not found in all fonts either. However, you may be able to find a Symbol font which contains it in the ASCII range (under 255), and use a numeric entity such as ÿ (or whatever the ASCII value is). The ASCII value may be specific to the font and the platform encoding. Your best bet for the Service Mark symbol is probably to fake it using the letters "SM" in superscript. This should work in any font and platform.

You want the character stroke a different color than the fill?. I can not think of an easy way to do this with FusionPro as we do not have a feature to do this. A hard way, would be to take each character of the alphabet, change and change the stroke color, export as separate pieces of vector art. This can be done in Adobe Illustrator or by programming. Then the problem here will be calculating the distance between each graphic (character) with the correct kerning pair. It's not easy, but worth a try.

In FusionPro versions 5 and 6, there is a text effects tool selectable from the text frame properties palette that can help you achieve this. Also, if you are using an older version. you can simply draw two text frames,altering their positions and adjust to achieve the desired effect.

There are two methods for creating the new "Intelligent Mail Barcode" required for 2009 by the USPS. USPS Method: Register with USPS to obtain a user name and pass code so you can download the font. It takes about 2 days to get from them. Go to http://ribbs.usps.gov/onecodesolution/ and logged in. Proceeded to download file name : uspsFontsNonAFP-1.3.0-compact.zip Unzipped then copied it to your Library>Fonts folder(MAC) or WIndows Font folder on your PC. Opened Acrobat. Under Fusion Pro tab selected Advance>Load Fonts. Quit Fusion Pro and Acrobat. Opened my PDF with the variable data in and inserted the field then changed the font to USPSIMBCOMPACT or the PC equivalent. Select font size to 16pt. Previewed it to ensure it will print correctly. Hope that helps! When creating the IMB, and your mailing software generates " F, A, D, and T" characters . Use the USPS4CB font (from the USPS), set the size to 16 pt and you're done. No rules required or create in FusionPro.. FusionPro Method: Intelligent Mail Barcode script for users parsing data with mailing software. First create an "Empty" Text Rule,i.e."Create Rules>>New Empty". Click the box for "Treat Return Strings As Tagged Text". Give the Rule an identifiable name, which will be selectable in the "Variable" drop window of the text frame where this information will appear. Then paste this script(Make sure the field name matches your data file): var onecode = Field("Intelligent Mail Barcode"); //Replace "FATD" with Field("Intelligent Mail Barcode") onecode = onecode.replace(/F/g,"0"); // replaces all F with 0 onecode = onecode.replace(/A/g,"1"); // replaces all A with 1 onecode = onecode.replace(/T/g,"3"); // replaces all T with 3 onecode = onecode.replace(/D/g,"2"); // replaces all D with 2 return onecode; Then insert the Rule name into the text variable where the barcode will appear. Apply the "IDAutomation4State" font.

Try the following: create an empty rule and paste this logic. Check the box for "Treat return strings.." Paste this logic: return NormalizeEntities('"AAA", 8-ct package'); Does it return the data correctly on preview?

For the field name that is affected by this, write a simple rule to substitute for the field name like so: return NormalizeEntities("FieldName"); In the variable frame where this information will appear, insert the rule name instead.

Hello, Are you asking how to import specific pages from a PDF document based on a specified page count in your data file? If so, read on. You don't have to use the multi-page PDF as your input (template) PDF document. Instead, you can use it as an external graphic resource, and specify the desired pages with the FusionProResource.pagenumber property. If you use inline graphics in a text frame with overflow pages, you can insert a variable number of pages for each output record. Here are the steps to take to accomplish this: * Start with a new input PDF document. (You can start from a blank one-page document by saving or printing a blank document to PDF from another application.) The page size should be the same as in the PDF from which you are including the pages. * Define the data source for the document. (You can import from your original input PDF.) * Set a text frame that completely covers the page, starting at X and Y of zero. You may need to extend the width and depth of the page by a bit. * Insert an Overflow page, duplicating the existing Body page. Set the text frame as the overflow destination. (Check the "Overflow To" box on the Text Frame palette.) * Create a Text rule like the one below. Make sure to check the "Treat returned strings as tagged text" box. * Edit the text of the frame on the Body page to include the rule variable. Set the point size of the variable to 1. * Set the Overflow options for the Body page to overflow to your Overflow page (in the "New Left Page" drop list). Leave "New Right Page" as "(None)" and set the add page mode to "As Few Added Pages As Possible." Here is an example of the kind of rule you need: // MODIFY THESE TO MATCH YOUR DATA var PDFResourceFile = "myfile.pdf"; var FirstPageNumber = Int(Field("firstpagenumber")); var FirstPageCount = Int(Field("firstrepeatcount")); var SecondPageNumber = Int(Field("secondpagenumber")); var SecondPageCount = Int(Field("secondpagecount")); var result = ""; var pdf = new FusionProResource(PDFResourceFile, "graphic"); pdf.pagenumber = FirstPageNumber; for (var i = 1; i <= FirstPageCount; i++) result += pdf.content + "\n"; pdf.pagenumber = SecondPageNumber; for (var i = 1; i <= SecondPageCount; i++) result += pdf.content + "\n"; return result; This assumes that you have data fields specifying the page numbers and repeat counts for each. You may have to play around a bit with the size of the frames, but this should work.

I'm not sure I agree with the statement that "the copyfitting features of FusionPro do not work with the <br> tags included." It seems that you're trying to do per-line copyfitting, which is a different kind of copyfitting than the full-flow Copyfit that's activated in the Overflow Options dialog and implemented in the OnCopyfit rule. For per-line copyfitting, you need to use the CopyfitLine function. You can find documentation about it in the Copyfitting Guide, which can be found in the Knowledge Base at this link: http://portal.knowledgebase.net/article.asp?article=178555&p=8481 Depending on what results you're trying to achieve, you may also want to use the "Do not break on copyfit" option in the Paragraph Formatting dialog, which will make sure that a paragraph does not break even when the flow is being copyfitted. Of course, this is a paragraph setting, so it only affects the paragraph as a whole, which means that it only looks at <p> tags, not <br> tags.

It depends on what you're trying to do. If you simply want to break the line, a <br> tag will do the trick. On the other hand, the <p> tag can have attributes specifying any of the properties shown in the Paragraph Formatting dialog. You might also consider using a Formatted Text Resource; if you leave the first line blank, it will force a paragraph break.