Need FP Imposer help

[cook1012]

I have a VDP item that is a name badge. The product was originally a single sided product that the client has now changed to a double sided, same image and text on both sides. I have added the "OnRecordStart" rule "FusionPro.Composition.repeatRecordCount = 2;" and when testing a single output get each record duplicated in my PDF. However this item needs to be imposed 8up on a sheet and currently no matter whether I tell the imposition there are 1 or 2 pages per record I get the same results. The log returns incorrect page count and it creates a blank page for every page and my impositions are printing only one side. I have included PDF's and screenshots of FP Imposer to illustrate the issue. The data file used had 8 records so the PDF with NO Impo was correct it had 16 pages with each record duplicated as expected. The PDF with the IMPO applied was using the settings in the screenshots of FP Imposer.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

John Cook

IT Support Specialist

Lellyett & Rogers Co.

615.250.9105

Log_file_with_impo_applied.txt

Log_file_with_no_impo_applied.txt

PDF_file_with_impo_applied.pdf

PDF_file_with_no_impo_applied.pdf

[dreimer]

I had this same problem with using the repeat record and imposition together. I never got an answer to fix it. Since they are the same couldn't you just duplicate the page in your Fusion Pro template and not use the repeat record rule?

[esmith]

repeatRecordCount creates another record; not another page. So you wind up with two 1-sided records in your output rather than one 2-sided record. This may look right when your output file is in single pages, but FPImposer sees it as separate records and imposes it accordingly.

 

I don't know that there is a succinct way to correct this within FusionPro or FPImposer. If it were me, I would probably duplicate my page in the FP template to create two identical pages for each record (like dreimer suggests) and then impose using the .fpi file you have. Or I would use the repeatRecordCount method and use a 3rd party plug-in to impose the single page PDF output from FP.

[Dan Korn]

It's hard to diagnose without the job files. At a minimum, I would need to see the FPI file.

 

Anyway, when the log file says, "The number of pages in this record does not match the imposition signature," it means exactly that. You have to specify the number of pages per record in FP Imposer, and that has to match the number of pages you're actually outputting for each record, whether input records are repeated or not. You might want to remove the repeat logic from OnRecordStart and simply specify the repeat in FP Imposer instead.

 

As for the errors in your "no impo" log file, it seems like you're trying to call the Copyfit function outside of the OnCopyfit callback rule. Again, though, without the job files, I can only guess.

[cook1012]

Dan,

 

I have removed the repeat rule but am unclear on how to accomplish repeating the image in FP Imposer? Your comment, "You might want to remove the repeat logic from OnRecordStart and simply specify the repeat in FP Imposer instead.", could you please explain.

 

Thanks,

John Cook

[Dan Korn]

I have removed the repeat rule but am unclear on how to accomplish repeating the image in FP Imposer? Your comment, "You might want to remove the repeat logic from OnRecordStart and simply specify the repeat in FP Imposer instead.", could you please explain.

On the Layout tab in FP Imposer, check one of the "Duplicate" boxes.

[step]

If you're intending for the two pages to back up to each other, you're going to have to do what Eric suggested and duplicate the template page or create a 1-up pdf file and impose outside of FusionPro.

 

I think "duplicating" is just going to duplicate a record down or across the imposition position.

[cook1012]

Duplicating the page in the PDF document worked like a champ!

 

Thanks all for the assistance.