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  1. Bit of a stretch here and I'm also not sure if this was available back in 7.2, but in OnJobStart and OnJobEnd rules could you force a listing into the message/log file using the ReportWarning statement? You could try looking at the copyfit command and see how it is worded and then in OnJobStart force a "Today()" statement into there and then in OnJobEnd force another one. That would give you a start and stop time element for the processing. You would have to do some math to get the actual time, but it would give you something to go by. Hope that helps. .
  2. Update ... I can get the output file name on the imposition sheet now, but for some reason the first page is always 1 less than the actual "batch/chunk" number of the file. I understand why ... but am unable to figure a way around it. We want to number our sheets in such a manner because when we deliver these to an outside vendor (laminating, die-cutting, etc.) and they mess up something, we want the vendor to tell us exactly what file(s) and/or sheet(s) we need to redo over again. As you can see the first page comes over as "file" 000 while the rest of the pages (200 total per file) have the proper batch number of 001. Each successive batch after that is the same way. The first page of batch 2 states file 001, the first page of batch 3 states file 002, etc. while the remaining pages are correct. 230799_EDHC-Card_001.pdf
  3. Dan, I am using the code you had given me a while back to alter the name of the output file using leading zero's for the composition batch numbers in the OnNewOutput rule: FusionPro.Composition.outputFileName = FusionPro.Composition.outputFileName.replace(new RegExp('\\d*\\.' + FusionPro.Composition.outputFormatExtension + '$',''), function(){return FormatNumber("000", FusionPro.Composition.currentOutputFileNumber) + "." + FusionPro.Composition.outputFormatExtension;});I've been trying to put this same name on the imposition sheet using the method above? I have made a custom background imposition page for the output, but I can't seem to put this output name in any rule to display it on the sheet. Thanks. .
  4. We have an online project for a trucking company with multiple locations that sell different brands of trucks depending on the location. They always want their logos to be as large as possible inside a given space on their stationery products. The problem is that some locations sell several brands of trucks while others sell only 1 or 2 brands (max is 9 brands). Their logos are different sizes and orientations as well but I've managed to recreate all of them to be about .25" high for line space purposes so that the max of 9 logos will fit in 1 line along the bottom edge of a notepad item like the client requests. I used an in-line string feature to place the logos across the page. My problem is that when there is only a small number of logos needed (say 1 or 2) that height is too short and the logo looks like a smudge on the paper. Does anyone know if the overflow->"adjust to fit" feature will compress the logos to fit within a text box. Or is there another feature (possible newer version) that will put a string of variable logos in a text box (or graphic box) at the maximum height of the box and shrink to fit as more and more logos are added to the string without having to make the box wider to accommodate the additional logos? I've attached a sample of a single and a multiple logo location page. The red outline shows the amount of space that I am allotted for the logos to reside. They are to be left justified to the page as shown. . TruckLogos.pdf
  5. Has this changed over the several iterations of FusionPro and it's Imposition programming since 2017? Asking because I have to do a job that MUST be run as a saddle stitch job with a 1/4" gutter down the middle. I know that I can design each of the booklet pages with an extra 1/4" alternating along each side to accomplish that but I would like to be able to do that just in the imposition. If that spacing needs to change to 1/8" or to 3/8" or something else besides the 1/4" then the entire job has to be scrapped and started again from the artwork design phase.
  6. When I run a large list using the Server version, the command window comes up - like usual. I was wondering if typing Ctrl-C to get the command window to prompt me and ask whether or not I want to continue "Y" or "N" ... is that technically "pausing that instance of Fusion Pro" from processing? Asking this because we have one project that is so memory intensive with look-ups in external files and placing of graphics that only one instance of Fusion Pro can process at a time. Our server is at 32 GB of RAM but that apparently isn't enough. Eventually Fusion Pro runs out of memory and either simply crashes or it completes the job without embedding any of the graphics or fonts in the resulting pdf files. The problem is that it takes 2 complete days (averaging 41 to 44 hours) of continual processing to finish the entire job. During that time NOTHING else is able to run no matter how small and insignificant the size it is. We do split the job up into several smaller batches so there is a slight pause in between portions of this job but once a batch run begins we are technically down until it completes. I was wondering if I could temporarily pause Fusion Pro using this method? .
  7. For years I had a section of a manual printed out that listed all the entities that FusionPro used ... both listing the FusionPro coding like • or and their equivalents in what I believe was ASCII such as #32;. However we had a new person hired for nightly cleaning and they took it upon themselves to clean my office and straightened up my "mess". They however inadvertently also threw out a stack of papers that I use on a daily basis - of which that entity list was one of. From the format that it was written out it looked like it came from one of the older versions of the manuals that came with FusionPro. I've looked through all the current ones that I have and have not seen anything that looked like that. Is there any other place where I could obtain those few pages from a past manual? Thanks.
  8. I was doing an imposition of a 6x4 label and discovered something very odd about the imposition feature listed as "discard space and bleed" ... in other words removing the center bleed values to create a chop-cut through matching solid colors. When I only did one sheet the imposition worked correctly, however when I did more than one sheet the imposition varied certain values of the outside bleed in addition to the inside bleed. It was different for each sheet of output. I've attached the template that I used. The "variable data" portions were removed and the data file was set to none to protect the client data but the affect was still the same regardless. I've also included a folder of the output files. The file entitled with the suffix of "04" was only four records being processed and the output looks correct. The file entitled with the suffix "12" was the first twelve records being processed which yielded three imposed sheets and the output is incorrect. 022353_MH-Label_v2.zip
  9. Below is one image that is just placed by itself on top of a plain colored field. The folder labeled "bottles" contains a sample of the images provided. The folder labeled as "output" shows the pdf file resulting from this setup. The actual job calls for these bottle images to be placed on top of a postcard background and they are variable depending on the certain buying habits and tastes of their customers. . BottleTest.zip
  10. Our clients believe that sending us a .tif file with a mask applied to it makes it a transparent image. "It works for other vendors ... why not you?" is the usual response I get when I ask for a "corrected image". We've even lost a few clients because of this limitation. FusionPro does not seem to recognize a masked image as transparent. I need to individually read in each and every image file that comes to us into Photoshop, convert the mask layer into a path feature, delete the pixels that were masked out, remove the mask layer altogether and then crop the resulting image down in order for FusionPro to now see the .tif file as a transparent image. I know there are other file formats that I could use such as a .png but that only works in the RGB color space not cmyk. So far this has not been a daunting task. However our newest client has given me 2,000+ images that I will need to do that to. Is there any one that experience in FusionPro being able to read a masked area of a graphic as a transparent image? Am I missing some setting or not having a high enough version of FusionPro to be able to do this? Thank you. .
  11. Does this work in reverse? If you have variable images that are either in cmyk or rgb format can I then force the output to be grayscale? Don't have 11 (yet), but is this a conditionally-driven command that can be assigned individually such as: for condition "A" use a color image from my resource list, but for condition "B" use the exact same image from resources as was used for condition A but make it grayscale? Does this only work for PDF images, or will it work for tif, jpg and other formats as well? At least being able to force color into grayscale? Thank you.
  12. Dan, you are correct I misspoke in my explanation of this job. Originally there were 53 students each getting a kit that contains thank you cards and envelopes for a list of 110 patrons. The client then removed 1 student from the list so I ended up with just 52. I've attached an example of the 2-up pdf file that I eventually ended up with after my 2-step process as describe previously. This one just shows the output from the sample file that I included in the previous attachment. Sorry for the confusion ... DonorList_2up.pdf
  13. Thank you. I've got my template working the way I need it to ... sort of. Each student is supposed to get a kit containing addressed envelopes, blank thank you cards and a listing of 53 patrons. They are to handwrite a personal thank you for donating to their colleges' different fund programs. When I do a 1-up output everything works fine. As soon as I place an imposition on it everything goes wonky. Tried everything I could think of to make it impose ... I even told FusionPro to pre-process the datafile thinking that maybe the multi-line threw it off with the quantity of output. NOPE. I ended up having to do this as a 2-pass process: first imposing the data file 1-up and then imposing that 1-up output file to 2 up. I've included the zipped template files and I've also placed into the zip the 1-up and 2-up output files for you to look at. The only difference in it is that I've replaced the "list names" with sample names and addresses for security. The dates and dollar amounts are accurate and the initial "student name" is also accurate. 018907_DonorList.zip
  14. Hi Dan, it's nice to be heard! I get your answer to my question and it seems rather straight forward. However I have one further angle to account for ... what if the phone number is to show up in the "middle" of the table and not as the last entry. Say its Name, Address, Phone, Month, Day, Year, etc... Can I then just add each item as a .push statement into the array "content" instead of all at once? for (var rec = 1; rec <= data.recordCount; rec++) { function ExField(str) { return TaggedTextFromRaw(data.GetFieldValue(rec, str)); } var content = []; content.push(ExField("first")); content.push(ExField("last")); content.push(ExField("address 1")); content.push(ExField("city")); content.push(ExField("state")); content.push(ExField("zip")); content.push(FormatPhoneNumber(ExField("PHONE"), '-')); content.push(ExField("month")); content.push(ExField("day")); content.push(ExField("year")); var row = table.AddRow(); row.SetContents.apply(row, content); }I'm sure that there may be a better (i.e. more elegant) way of doing it ... but would this work? Stay safe everyone.
  15. Hello, I have a further question in regards to using this functionality. If the phone number in the data file is given in multiple formats or sometimes not in any format and just as a set of numbers (123.456.7890 or 123456789) how would you add that functionality to the code you showed above to choose a specific format style... for (var rec = 1; rec <= data.recordCount; rec++) { function ExField(str) { return TaggedTextFromRaw(data.GetFieldValue(rec, str)); } var content = ["first","last","month","day","year","address 1","city","state","zip","phone"].map(ExField); var row = table.AddRow(); row.SetContents.apply(row, content); } I've tried changing the entry values in the "var content" statement from "phone" to Rule("FormatPhone") but that causes FusionPro to reply back that that field cannot be found. Thank you. .
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