The most amazing thing I remember about XMF was when they introduced sewn sewn sections impos where you'd break up a giant (unbindable) saddle stitch into the desired sewn sections, and the whole thing would reflow in a few seconds.
Gotta love progress.

Quote from: Tracy on October 22, 2020, 09:03:32 AM
I found it!!!!

It was under administrator,
Administrator/Templates/
Select Job Templates at the top, Select the Press you want
Select Edit/Select Plate Slug Icon (the green one)
Put what you want on there and those will show up on every plate
and you can still add or subtract when in the actual job.

ps I don't have a license anymore either, I loved it when I did!!

My dementia test in a year's time would be to be sat in front of XMF Client, and be given a saddle stitch impo., then be on a stop watch.  :laugh:

... with Creep compensation.

I do recall initially having probs with disappearing grip IDs, (purely for plate ID/colour etc.). ...and remember having to extend the size in which it fell... similar to Clipping Margin sizes. Not in front of me any more, so can't give you the exact term. and where you set it. But you seem to have sorted it.
Are you in the swing of XMF? Once you get past its quirks it's great.

I've had manager get a pleading Labrador look at times and say 'they really would prefer to get it as email attachments'.
One would then graciously say, 'oh ohkay...' swearing under breath of course. Some ppl either don't know how, or are too lazy, to click on a download link and wait a minute.

I did come unstuck (notice I'm using past tense here) a few times with non-integrity/still vector-present PDFs, so would often, instead, Export a plate-faithful PDF outa Black Magic. They could get big, but I then downsized them with a Custom Optimise in Acrobat.

This is also a dementia test for me; hope you don't mind too much.

'Progress'.

Quote from: Joe on April 04, 2020, 11:19:12 AM
Have to agree with Slappy. Servers are built to run.

After we got our previous HP one about 12 years ago, the woman who was hired to lead us into digital in-house, who had no intention of ever teaching me anything (a whole other story), wanted to shut it down nightly. The HP guy who'd been in to upgrade the RAID setup said '24/7'.
Now that was an interesting discussion with her... 

Quote from: Tracy on April 07, 2020, 12:43:05 PM
all fans are working

How old is it? They can get really clagged with dust. Left unattended to, can be a real issue. I'd only ever use the static-free aerosol, and always have an earthing wrist strap on. A Fujifilm guy in the past took a previous one outside and did it there.
But you gotta be careful, statics-wise.

BTW think of me with XMF as being like that spacecraft they hurled at Jupiter (?Saturn), which gave out increasingly faint messages until its battery/memory no longer worked, Give it 6 months. OTOH, it could be stuff I mutter on my deathbed... 'Bob, have you tried restarting XMF server?'   

Quote from: Tracy on March 30, 2020, 12:40:10 PM
So I left early Friday and the pressman tried to make a plate with the imagesetter turned off
I know that alone would not of caused this problem, I'm unsure what he did.

but there was a message that backup failed and call administrator.
so I had to delete the file he was trying to make a plate from (fyi he got his original plate to work) sigh

I'm dead in the water here I can't do anything, can't put a file in, It's like the server doesn't see me.
and trying to manipulate any file from the actual server is a fail
I'm hoping tonight once it does a successful backup it will be ok tomorrow kind of doubtful tho.
anybody seen this or have any suggestions?
If it doesn't work tomorrow, I will have to call Fuji, and my boss has not updated my license so it will be a pretty costly
phone call I think.

Hmmm, have you restarted XMF Server software? If no luck did you restart the server it's running on? So, quit XMF server software, then restart the server box, then XMF Server, then you Client. Retry the job, or maybe jst dlete it, and bring the PDF back in and do it again, (risky, possibly, but maybe that's what you have to do). I can't think of anything that would not be rectified by that. Unless he did something reeeeally stupid. Not ruled out.

Quote from: david on February 25, 2020, 08:23:15 AM
Sad to hear. I knew he was sick, I saw some of his post about it.

He's been a part of our world for quite some time.

Cheers Matt, rest in peace my friend.

Well summed up, David. Yep, remember him from prepressforum days. He was often 20% sorta selling something, but boy was the 80% useful, mostly. He made you think about stuff often, rather than shoving it down your throat. Shitty and sad.

Quote from: Possum on March 04, 2020, 04:44:06 PM
I liked the red opaque. That black stuff, at least what we switched to for a while, smelled like ammonia. Yuck.

When we had a darkroom with a small revolving door, I snuck in there one time when the boss was looking for me and kept all the lights off. He came in there, saw it was dark, and left. I wasn't a foot away from him. 

Ghost train moment.

Quote from: Foozball on March 04, 2020, 09:54:52 AM
The outdated nature of the print industry STILL irks me, and the chincey @&#^$rs who run it.


"We don't want to pay for HD TAPES, to back-up our outdated SERVER, running the outdated SOFTWARE and system"
... "Oh here's a better (bigger) option, it will be $600+ cheaper and more efficient, but you'll have to upgrade the USB hardware as USB 1.0 won't cut it"
"That will cost us $80 ... where are we getting that from now? (mumble, grumble, incoherent bitchin)"

So true...

I stared at this for a few seconds... Toast?... Toast?   : huh :

LOLOL

... what about driver for this on a current iMac/