Ahhhhh, the Preflight Panel! I always neglect that one – thanks!!

Quote from: orka81 on April 17, 2025, 10:16:58 AMThe newest Pitstop version does have this: Just make my Canva PDF work! - CMYK ISO Coated v2. I've used it several times and it does a great job. It would be nice if it cleared out the phantom boxes, though.

So, I updated (went fine) and am running the latest & greatest but I don't see this Action. is it a separate DL?

Quote from: Tracy on April 17, 2025, 10:35:03 AMI guess it's time for me to install my update!

Crap, same. I have the DL too, just sitting there...

Looking at the Registration page, I think it's actually run by PrintIQ, and NOT Enfocus. (Partners)

Which means yeah - more than likely a sales pitch. I'll maybe still tag in, can always opt Out of all the email spam later...

Quote from: DCurry on April 16, 2025, 05:28:47 PMI haven't had any problems with Canva PDFs in general. They actually seem to respond well to the various ways to add bleed in PitStop.

One thing I've noticed is when trying to select an object in PitStop there is a phantom unfilled grayscale box on top of every object. Mames it tough to select things so I use wireframe view a lot to select the item I need. Sometimes I delete the phantom box and don't see that it hurts anything but makes me nervous anyway.

Same, although the Bleed Fixes for Pitstop have intermittent success - was hoping they'd keep improving it in recent update but I haven't done the 2025 yet so can't say.

Re: Those Phantom Boxes – Same. wtf they're even FOR is beyond me, I may try the "Remove irrelevant objects" Action and see if it catches them. Kinda doubt it, as they're ON the page and may be seen as necessary.

Them.

Although, exporting PDFs out of it isn't that hard, assuming that they've set up the pages correctly.
(Ha!!!!)

Prob can't watch live but I'll register for the Recording - thanks!

I'm guessing they'll "wrap" automation sales into the webinar as AI blah blah blah. Especially with PrintIQ as a partner-used their MIS previously and it can be heavily automated, even with Enfocus Switch but takes a TON of development & $$$.

I've got the Pitstop Updater all downloaded & itchin' to get installed, still on Acrobat 2024.005.20320 though. Do I go balls out & update Acro first and then Pitstop, or risk the Pitstop update on an admittedly old ass Acro version?

If you need a variety of stepping options, but you want to keep using InDesign, might be worth looking into having a coding genius write a script for you. They'd be able to make it a custom Window/Panel where you could enter the # of steps, spacings etc. with fairly minimal cost I'd imagine.

Ok, THIS worked! I had to find a similar post in the FP Forum and modify theirs, I was getting nowhere using even the Wizard thingy.

if (Len(Trim(Field("Company"))) > 1)
{
return ",";
}
else
{
return "";
}

Quote from: DCurry on March 31, 2025, 12:04:43 PMA day off already?

Yeah, I'm special - what can I say?
Was our 24th Anniversary, thought it'd be a good idea to appease the Spouse. 

Took the day off, so I'll probably have a chance to mess with it tomorrow some-thanks for the ideas!

And I'd potentially try to move away from FP, except I'm not the only one using it & wouldn't want to be the only person able to handle VDP jobs if we did cross to say XMPie. It's not horrible, like ya said-just learning its' foibles.

To get it out the door, I did a CONCAT field in Excel for now, but this really shouldn't be a problem.
Stupid Friday brain.

Feel like should be one of the simplest Rules, and yet...here I am.

I've got a single line, with 2 fields, where if the 2nd field isn't populated, the "hard" comma separating them should drop out. Code as it stands:

if (Field("Company") > 1)
{
return ",";
}
else
{
return " ";
}
"Company" being the first field in the line. "Addressee" is the first field and always populates.
But, it never inserts the comma when needed. It's placed in the Text block as attached.
Are I dum?