I will buy lots of beer if anyone can help us

Quote from: born2print on February 11, 2019, 02:32:47 PM

Quote from: Mikie on February 11, 2019, 02:26:18 PMI am just replacing the old color bar with the new one, but using the old color bar name.

Brilliant!

Or as others have pointed out in my career, "hacky as shit" lol

Just wanted to say thanks guys. I have been playing with this and it is going to work using the create imposition option Mr. Curry pointed out to me. Because of our workflow it is going to be faster to just reimposed everything at the plate setter rather than trying to track down the thousands of jobs I already had .pjtf and .ps files in.

One thing I am doing slightly different is instead of changing the template file using a text editor, I am just replacing the old color bar with the new one, but using the old color bar name. I know some templates are gonna break, but the majority should go fine. So in prinergy when i create imposition, and select an existing template file, it uses the new color bar . I did test renaming the color bar in the template as text, and it did indeed work. But didn't solve my other issue.

So THANKS!!! You guys saved me a lot of time.

Quote from: Joe on February 08, 2019, 10:16:59 AMI don't think we have that many. I'll have to check.

hmmm, indeed they are and I just found the color bar info in the .ps file.

man i love you guys lol

Good question, and my answer is based on how things worked when i got here. I am currently looking for a way to impose jobs right before plating but haven't had any luck out of preps. We are plating over 100 jobs a day easily so it's a bit of a mess. Any chance you could walk me through how your method works? It sounds interesting to me.

90% of our jobs are automated. Data is entered into a web app, and an xml file is exported. I run indesign scripts to build the art, pass the Indd and pdf and xml off to prinergy which creates a new job based on a prejob(which contains the imposition files). We do flat work here so they are basic impositions, but we have a lot of varying sizes and possible presses we can send to.

Oh and...check out number of items

Got it. My issue here is we write out pjtf and .ps files for prinergy and thats what we import into each job with place holders. This is good info to know tho, so thanks guys

Could you guys elaborate on this a little more? Like how it works etc. I too recently found out we have the wrong color bars and would love an easy way to fix the templates. 

Sounds like color management is being applied?

oh... lulz didn't think that one through did I. I will send myself home early as punishment

Maybe I'm missing a part, but can you do a find and replace for 5 spaces and leave the replace field blank? That works for me. 1st screeny has 5 spaces in the find field. That's too simple so I have missed something

So they drop a PDF, you refine, push back a tiff, and you want to delete the original subpages and input files at the end? You would need an RBA license for that. If you do have RBA we can help figure it out because that would be possible.

Yeah pretty easy

Oh crap, I thought meant remove that page from the subpages, not remove the .p1 from the filename. Yeah that isn't happening without some database sorcery. Curious, why would it need to be removed harimaukuatkuat? Maybe knowing your end goal and reason would aid us in figuring out a solution with you.

Do you have an RBA license? If you do you can assign an RBA to the hot folder that might could do it. Without RBA though it isn't possible to do a whole lot with hot folders. Workflows is about as heavy as it gets there.

We tried to get it running a couple of months ago and it was a no go. When we contacted support we were privately told to let it go, it has so many bugs it isn't worth fooling with, and it didn't look like it was a priority anymore. If they ever did remove Workshop and Workspace is the only option, it's time to change vendors here. The first demo of it I saw at a GUA, and the very first question from the audience was, "Where is workshop?" and we were all told it wasn't going away.