[Inserting Multi-page PDF variable graphics]

@Hadrian,

The only way I could get this to work for my situation was to use a graphic box method instead of the text overflow method. Because my situation had to handle files with bleed and files without bleed, this was my only option as I could not get the overflow method to center properly for all scenarios. I put the following rule in a text rule. I create a graphic box on page 1 called "Front" and another on page 2 called "Back" and I do not assign any rule or variable field to the graphic box, the rule will do that.

 

Here is my code:

 

FieldName = '';
PDFfileName = '';
pagesInPDF = 0;
markupToReturn = '';
pathToAllPDFs = 'Macintosh HD:Users:macuser01:Desktop:resources:'; /* change "pathToAllPDFs" value to the path where your local test files are located /*
pathToPDF = '';
PDFresourceRef = '';

var FrontFrame = FindGraphicFrame("Front");
var BackFrame = FindGraphicFrame("Back");

//This is the main loop that parses through all of the fields for a given record.

PDFfileName = Field("File");
pathToPDF = Field("File");  /* this one should be uncommented for marcom central */

/*pathToPDF = pathToAllPDFs;  //uncomment this and comment out the one above to preview on a local machine  */

//Create a new resource that references this
PDFresourceRef = CreateResource(pathToPDF ,'graphic' ,'no');

//Find out how many pages it has
pagesInPDF = PDFresourceRef.countPages;

//This is the secondary loop for this script.
//It will loop through and create markup for each page in the PDF.
if (Field("Sides")=="1"){
for (pageLoop = 1; pageLoop <= pagesInPDF; pageLoop++)
{
FrontFrame.SetGraphic('<graphic file="' + PDFresourceRef.name + '" pagenumber = "1" scale="off" />');
return pathToPDF;
}
}else if (Field("Sides")=="2"){
for (pageLoop = 1; pageLoop <= pagesInPDF; pageLoop++)
{
FrontFrame.SetGraphic('<graphic file="' + PDFresourceRef.name + '" pagenumber = "1" scale="off" />');
BackFrame.SetGraphic('<graphic file="' + PDFresourceRef.name + '" pagenumber = "2" scale="off" />');
return pathToPDF;
}
}
}
return pathToPDF;

return markupToReturn;�

Hope this helps you!

[Inserting Multi-page PDF variable graphics]

Thanks for the info. After much trial and error, I have somewhat combined the two methods and now have a properly working product. Thanks so much for all you do Dan! You rescue us all when we're in a rut.

[Inserting Multi-page PDF variable graphics]

Using this rule to place 8.5 x 11 PDF files that may or may not have .125" bleed. I am getting mixed results as far as the art centering in the text box. I have been using alignh and alignv with mixed results. I also noticed that in the supplied code you use position="afterline". If I remove that the horizontal positioning works perfect, however the art is top aligned in the box. I do not see any documentation on 'position' in the tag reference or user's guide. Any way to just center without scaling regardless of bleed box dimensions? See section of code below.

 

   //This is the secondary loop for this script.
   //It will loop through and create markup for each page in the PDF.
   for (pageLoop = 1; pageLoop <= pagesInPDF; pageLoop++)
   {
       markupToReturn += '<graphic file="' + PDFresourceRef.name + '" pagenumber = "' + pageLoop + '" scale="off" alignh="center" alignv="center" />';

       markupToReturn += '<P>';
   }

[Changing case of special characters?]

Thanks Eric,

That seems to have solved the issue. I am so used to keeping legacy checked for vertical justification that I often don't think of that.

[Changing case of special characters?]

Hi Dan,

I have been having issues with the smallcap tag as well. Really a combination of issues, but it seems the issues I am experiencing are due to the bugs in the smallcap function. I have implemented your technique here and it works great except for one major issue. Using this smallcaps function seems to disable control of line leading. Is there anything I can do to alleviate this issue?

 

I am having trouble getting the combination of smallcap features with correct line leading solved. I was using the <smallcap> tag and it worked ok, however I was also using <br /> characters as well and I was noticing that there were different line leadings between the lines and I could not tell why other than attributing it to the smallcap bugs. Any light you can shed on the subject would be great.

 

Thanks!

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