I'm have trouble with SetBodyPageUsage

[Leosmith]

Hi,

Creating set of club passes for a sports season. There is a cover and 43 club passes two up. I am having trouble with setting the BodyPageUsage. I tried a couple things from the forum but placed the cover in the wrong location. I don't know the command to place before and not after. Uploaded example note: the FP stuff for barcode and event would have been better as array but couldn't figure that out either. Took a longer road.

Any help with how to pull a cover page would be appreciated.

 

Oops skip that...the cover has different perf so I need to do something else.

Edited September 2, 2015 by Leosmith
Change in requirements

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Do you have a sample of how the output should look?

[Leosmith]

Hi Ste,

The Club pass veritical and horizontal perfed and the cover is horizon perf.

The number of sets are 190 so I was thinking that worse case I run covers separately and hand merge because it is a static cover.

The stock is being pre-perfed so it would be in two bins.

It doesn't look like my output impo matches the perf layout.

 

Leo

MNW_ClubPass_Example.pdf

MNW_Perf.pdf

MNW_Perf_Cover.pdf

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I would make them two separate files (cover and tickets) and manually sort them post-production.

 

Your current code in which you're adding 1 to your current record to get the content of the second ticket (on the right) is going to lead to issues. Specifically: you're ticket sheets will look like this:

RECORD 1 (current record) | RECORD 2 (current record + 1)

RECORD 2 (current record) | RECORD 3 (current record +1)

 

Making your template a 1up version of the ticket will save you a lot of headache and processing time and you can just impose it 2 up with FPImposer.

 

As a side note, you can combine rules "FirstBox_L1"-L4 to be:

var firstBox = [
   Field("Opponent"),
   Field("VS"),
   Field("Wild"),
   Field("Date"),
   Field("Time")
].filter(function(s,p,a){return a[0]?s:0;}).join('<br>');

return firstBox.replace(Field("Date") + '<br>' + Field("Time"), Field("Date") + ', ' + Field("Time"));

[Leosmith]

Thanks for alerting me to the record problem I have. It did do as you described. The client provided the 2-up format for the grainy leather look across the two tickets. With a 1up format both sides would be the same.

 

thanks for the code cleansing example.

 

Leo

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The client provided the 2-up format for the grainy leather look across the two tickets. With a 1up format both sides would be the same.

Just split the client-supplied file in Photoshop and create a PDF to use for the left ticket's background and another for the right side.

 

Then, by placing a graphic frame over the entire ticket background, you can alternate the left and right backgrounds by applying this code to it:

var left = '/path/to/leftTicket.pdf';
var right = '/path/to/rightTicket.pdf';

return CreateResource([right,left][FusionPro.Composition.inputRecordNumber%2]);

 

When you impose the files, assuming you cropped them correctly in Photoshop, the background will be seamless.

[Leosmith]

Hi Ste,

Thanks again for your response. I was thinking about the imposition problem and the visual you provided. I sorted the data by odd - even and "fielded" the data 2up. It looks like output is correct. I was concerned I didn't have the skill to be able to place graphics properly. The prep department creates all the PDF work for me. I don't know much of anything about that either. Day 90 - having fun. Leo