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Kodak Systems / Re: How do you deal with repri...
Last post by DCurry - February 07, 2025, 07:50:20 PM
I think you can open the templates with a text editor (I like BBEdit). Then you can do a find/change on the slugs pretty easily. Back them up first just in case something goes wrong!
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Kodak Systems / Re: How do you deal with repri...
Last post by RMPrepress - February 07, 2025, 06:10:46 PM
Quote from: scottrsimons on February 07, 2025, 09:01:17 AMOur slug is pulling info from the job and Preps using SmartMark as well.

$[Jobname_offset] Form$[SIG] $[SurfaceName] $[Workstyle] $SheetHeight x $SheetWidth $[Color_offset]

The jobname_offset is pulling the first 6 characters from the jobname. As our job numbers are always 6 digits.

And I set it up a long time ago, and everything was spaced out nicely, but looks like I should mess with it, but no one has complained about it. So I will probably leave it alone.

And this way, even when we do reprints, it pulls all current information.
So you are using that info in all your Preps impositions and as a plate slug too?
We need to do this in this manner but we are so entrenched with years of impositions that have a different slug line it would be a nightmare to edit thousands of templates and the endless sigs in all of them.
Might just have to start with the most common templates.
I wonder if RBA could be used to change them...hmmm?
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Kodak Systems / Re: How do you deal with repri...
Last post by RMPrepress - February 07, 2025, 06:00:25 PM
Quote from: DCurry on February 07, 2025, 09:34:25 AMSo if Prinergy lets you rename page sets now, does it also let you change the number of pages in a set? That used to bug me.
Ahhhh... that would be a no.
I agree it does suck sometimes.
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Adobe Illustrator / Re: Drop Shadow Transparency i...
Last post by andyfest - February 07, 2025, 02:23:10 PM
If I remember correctly we used to select all, and under the Object menu, expand objects.
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Kodak Systems / Re: How do you deal with repri...
Last post by DCurry - February 07, 2025, 09:34:25 AM
So if Prinergy lets you rename page sets now, does it also let you change the number of pages in a set? That used to bug me. 
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Kodak Systems / Re: How do you deal with repri...
Last post by scottrsimons - February 07, 2025, 09:01:17 AM
Our slug is pulling info from the job and Preps using SmartMark as well.

$[Jobname_offset] Form$[SIG] $[SurfaceName] $[Workstyle] $SheetHeight x $SheetWidth $[Color_offset]

The jobname_offset is pulling the first 6 characters from the jobname. As our job numbers are always 6 digits.

And I set it up a long time ago, and everything was spaced out nicely, but looks like I should mess with it, but no one has complained about it. So I will probably leave it alone.

And this way, even when we do reprints, it pulls all current information.
#7
The Rest... / Re: FusionPro Output by Qty Se...
Last post by scottrsimons - February 07, 2025, 06:42:28 AM
Quote from: Slappy on February 05, 2025, 12:50:49 PMAh, I just changed it to use that code snippet in "OnRecordStart" instead & added the "Output each page as its own Record" Rule too. Now I get 3 Distinct PDFs - but it's not seeing the other five sets that are defined in the data...

Closer.
It might be that the two rules are fighting each other, or your keycode field only has three options. When working on a job like this, I dup my data file, and then in the dup I use Excel to remove all duplicates in the keycode field. And test with that data. That way, I only have a few lines of data, and I should have the same number of outputs. If not it's quicker and easier to track down the issue.

If you want, send or post both of the rules and a slimmed-down data set, and I will test them.
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The Rest... / Re: FusionPro Output by Qty Se...
Last post by DigiCorn - February 06, 2025, 11:02:31 AM
FP is good for, say, up to 50,000... maybe 100,000 records. XMPie is good for stuff bigger than that. If you have a local XMPie server, than that's good... but the price tag is probably about 10x higher than FP.
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The Rest... / Re: FusionPro Output by Qty Se...
Last post by DCurry - February 06, 2025, 10:44:43 AM
I'm currently using XMPie and find it infinitely easier. It's just the desktop version so no uploading files anywhere. It can be a little slow for bigger jobs that way but after having used it for the past year or so I really like it. 

Funny you say that FP is not as powerful as XMPie. I think they are about the same but maybe the server version has more abilities. 
#10
Adobe Illustrator / Re: Drop Shadow Transparency i...
Last post by Tracy - February 06, 2025, 10:36:05 AM
It's printing fine now with flattening
Her first file had pieces and parts of image links for her drop shadow
I fixed that and now this is where I am