SetBodyPageUsage

[esmith]

Is there any way to refer to the page NUMBER rather than the page NAME in JS to avoid adding custom naming to large PDFs?

 

I have a 200+ page file that I want to print specific pages of for each record. I tried using the code:

for (i=1;i<Field("START");i++) {
   FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(i,false);
   }
for (i=Field("END")+1;i<=243;i++) {
   FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage(i,false);
   }

but got the error 'Page "1" does not exist'. Records may print pages 1-18, 212-240, or 113-186 in no particular order. I would prefer not to have to manually name each page. Do I have any other options??

[Dan Korn]

Instead of trying to reference pages from a 200+ page PDF template document, I would rework the job so that you're grabbing the page(s) you need from an external PDF resource as inline graphics, using Overflow pages as necessary. Check out this post, or this post, or this post.

[esmith]

Thanks sir. I actually tried something along these lines after my post last night, but I was trying to set up template pages and overflow pages with <story> and <copyhole> tags, and I can't figure out how to use the markup with a separate data source and merge both with a template. Look for that as a separate post in the near future.