Fusion Pro VDP job

[DCurry]

I don't want to bother Dan Korn with a simple request, but I've searched the forums at PTI and re-read the manual and I can't find a walkthrough on how to place an inline graphic into a VDP box. Do any FP users out there know how to do this?

It's been a while and I no longer have FP to try it out on, but I seem to remember that first you need to define the graphic as a resource, then write a rule that returns the resource (it was a very simple rule - something like "return signature.tif"), then place the rule within your text box wherever you want it to appear.

I remember doing this with a signature, so it would flow with the text. Sorry I can't be more specific!

[DigiCorn]

If I wasn't stressed out by 1,000 other problems at work and at home, I'd have time to really feel stupid. It's a text rule, that says this:

return Resource("Image.pdf")

Then insert the rule into your variable text string.

[gnubler]

I don't want to bother Dan Korn with a simple request

And you would be bothering him...no request is simple. You'd be attacked with a string of forum rules, Nazi-esque ettiquette protocols, and snooty retorts.

[DigiCorn]

I'm pretty sure Dan Korn has irreparable hemorrhoids and his wife is always on the rag

[gnubler]

I think he lives in Chicagoland. Maybe Skryber can go "visit" him for us.

[DigiCorn]

I have a customer we regular do postal mailings for. They provide two columns in their excel spreadsheet for zip code: one for the standard zip, and one for the plus four zip. Not every field has the plus four data, so I wrote a rule to add a hyphen and plus four data only when it exists:

if ((Field("Location ZIP Code") != "") && (Field("Location ZIP+4") != ""))
return Field("Location ZIP Code")+"-"+Field("Location ZIP+4");
else if ((Field("Location ZIP Code") != "") && Field("Location ZIP+4") == "")
return Field("Location ZIP Code");

I have to find the last job and create and cut and paste this rule each time. Is there a way to save it to my rules list and make it *permanent* so it's always there?

[t-pat]

I miss the simple days of vdp apps that only did simple stuff.

Here's about 30% of the job I'm building:

[David]

so, that's just for the 4 page cover, right?



 

[DigiCorn]

turns out you have to create a custom XML template rule in the Plug-ins/TemplateXML folder

[gnubler]

Thanks for the posts.

It shows why printing sucks and why modern life sucks, in general.

[ninjaPB_43]

He's a real prick.  :laugh:  Someone post a dump of his sig again, it's so anal it's DVDA.

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When are you sissies When are you sissies gonna give his dumb ass a hard time for this?

[gnubler]

Um, we've reamed his ass several times. You haven't been around. That fuck is worse than I ever was at the height of my caring about spelling and grammar.

As I've said for years, anyone who refers to themself as a 'guru' is a dick. Case closed.