Hi.
I have a 50 * 90 mm business card
And I want to duplicate it so that it goes into the page (through the "quite imposing" plug-in).
After the duplication I created a new sheet with 20 tickets,
I want the top corner of the sheet to say "trim size"
So that the employee who cuts the cards knows what final size he needs to cut it.
How can I do it?
Please note that I have licenses for pitstop and for quite imposing
But none of their support knew how to give me an automatic solution. (In pitstop you can paste the trim size on the document But after imputation the number is deleted.)
It's clear to me that I can always type manually but I'm looking for an automated script.
It is important to emphasize that each time the size of the card varies from work to work.
Attached file with the target.
Thanks!
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OK, it has taken me a while as I am new to scripting, however I now have a fallback plan. I originally wanted to add the trim info into document properties metadata using PitStop Pro, however there appears to be a maintenance issue which Enfocus are now aware of…
Step 1: So the fallback plan is to add the trim box info as metadata using an Acrobat Pro javascript. Before imposition, run the following script on the 1up file. The script could be run in any number of ways, I tested with an Acrobat Ac
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I can’t download your demo files as Dropbox states that they are still uploading...
EDIT: OK, I can now see that they are placed in the middle of an A4 page, but all 4 pages are consistent, so all you would need to do is add in the same top/bottom and side values for setting the trim and bleed info.
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To keep this directly on topic for Adobe software, Acrobat Pro can do this using the Print Production Tools > Set Page Boxes:
While with Enfocus PitStop Pro you can also apply the page boxes from the current page to all other pages from the inspector:
Other options:
Using Acrobat Pro, one can create a preflight fixup to set the trim to say 5mm in from the mediabox. Then one can create an other fixup to set to bleed offset by say 1.5mm from the trimbox or using absolute values. Then using a preflight profile, one can include both fixups to all pages. One could even create a preflight droplet that one could drag PDF files onto for processing.
Using PitStop Pro, one can create an action list to set the bleed and trim boxes and apply to all pages. If one had PitStop Server, the same action list could be used to automatically batch edit multiple files from a nominated hot folder.
OK, it has taken me a while as I am new to scripting, however I now have a fallback plan. I originally wanted to add the trim info into document properties metadata using PitStop Pro, however there appears to be a maintenance issue which Enfocus are now aware of…
Step 1: So the fallback plan is to add the trim box info as metadata using an Acrobat Pro javascript. Before imposition, run the following script on the 1up file. The script could be run in any number of ways, I tested with an Acrobat Action, then settled on installing it into the File menu instead:
//Add trim size to document title.js
//Acrobat Pro javascript
//https://forums.adobe.com/message/10778492
//https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1246108
function TrimInfo(){
var aRect = this.getPageBox("Trim");
var width = aRect[2] - aRect[0];
var height = aRect[1] - aRect[3];
this.info.title = ("Trim: " + Math.round(width*0.3528) + " mm x "
+ Math.round(height*0.3528) + " mm");
}
app.addMenuItem ({cName: "Add trim size to title", cParent: "File", cExec: "TrimInfo()" });
The installation path would be similar to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Resource\Javascripts\
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat DC/Adobe Acrobat.app/Contents/Resources/JavaScripts
Then one would run the script from the foot of the File menu:
Note: it is presumed that the input file is either a single page or if multi-page, that all pages have the same trimbox size.
Step 2: After imposing with Quite Imposing Plus, a simple PitStop Pro Action List then adds the text from the document properties as a text slug on the upper left of the file.
The final result:
Enjoy!
P.S. If anybody can share code to add the text slug using an Acrobat script, then that would be fantastic!
1. I’m not sure what version this was added, look under the general category as in the screenshot below:
2. You could try wetransfer.com or if you have a Creative Cloud account you can share files through it similar to DropBox.
Perhaps you are looking for this action list item:
OK, knowing that the body text is 12pt and the numbering is 24pt… And presuming the file has no other text that is 24pt (unless it uses a different font and colour that would help to isolate only the page number).
Select by point size:
Or alternatively you could select only by region:
Or you could combine both methods with the AND logical operator, so that the text must be both 24pt AND also within a specific region on each page:
Option 1: Change the font used in the Action List file to what you require:
More here: Add page number
Option 2: Use the Action List and then change the font afterwards:
If you select the text added by your .eal file you will find that it is using TimesNewRomanPSMT and 12pt font size for the numbering.
So knowing this, it is very similar to my previous post #45… You need to select the page number based on font size and possibly position (optionally by font name), however instead of removing the selection – you then need to change the font name, change the font size and possibly re-centre the page number if it has moved off-centre:
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