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mosese18317294
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May 8, 2020
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Please I need help to generate new serial numbers on a form during each print

  • May 8, 2020
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Please and please i need help getting my following attached adobe form on my PC to generate new sequential serial numbers on the specified "Ticket Number" field on the form during each print. I print lots of copies of this template, during the production, i want the form to be able to generate serial numbers on the specific field just like the illustration attached. say i send 1,000 copies of the form to print, the numbers should be generated accordingly till the last copy.

Please i will appreciate any support to this request. Thanks

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Kasan
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May 12, 2020

Deoptic,
Maybe you could print locally first by selecting a pdf printer (such as doc.printerName = "Adobe PDF"), which quickly generates a pdf for you. Then print this pdf (flat) on the industrial printer. Printing on paper should be fast.

Tip: rearrange your code with Thomp's correction.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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May 12, 2020

Not that quickly, as you'll need to manually enter the name for each file...

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Kasan
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May 12, 2020


hi try67,
but I understand that you can send silently to the printer to avoid asking for the file name.
Returning to the Thomp correction:
var start = 1;
var doc = this.getPrintParams ();
doc.interactive = doc.constants.interactionLevel.silent;
doc.printerName = "Adobe PDF";
doc.bUI = false;
doc.bSilent = true;

for (var nSheets = 0; nSheets <10; nSheets ++)
{
   for (var i = 1; i <= 12; i ++)
      this.getField ("Ticket_No_" + i) .value = util.printf ("% 04d", start ++);
      this.print (doc);
}

Before, "Adobe PDF" printer can be configured to indicate the path and not open the printed pdf.
With several printed pdfs you can use binder.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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May 8, 2020

Doing that requires using a script, and you can't use the Copies field in the Print dialog because that only prints identical copies of the file, so each print needs to be in a separate command.

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mosese18317294Author
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May 8, 2020

Ok, thank you try67,

are you saying it can only work like the following?

try67
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try67Community Expert
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May 10, 2020

Hello, guys am still not sure of how to go about this, I am confused, please i help here. can someone please help me out, i really need this now, this is what i did, 

and i did it with this scripts:

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_1");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "0001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_2");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "0001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_3");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "1001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_4");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "1001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_5");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "2001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_6");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "2001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_7");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "3001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_8");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "3001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_9");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "4001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_10");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "4001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_11");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "5001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

var f = this.getField("Ticket_No_12");
if (f.value=="") f.value = "5001";
else f.value = util.printf("%04d", (Number(f.value)+1));

 

but when i send to print, like i sent print 10 copies of this very page from the same acrobat page, it all came back the same, all 10 copies the same, not changing the numbers serially as i expected,

 

while in the real sense, what i want to achieve is to be able to send this singular page to print:

and it will print the first page as above and subsequent page with the increasing numbers until the end of the sent number of copies like the following:

please i need help to get this done, i will really appreciate help here, thanks.

 

 


Again, you can't us the Copies field of the Print dialog to do it. You need to do it using a script that both sets the fields and prints the file in a loop.

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