In Design and Variable Data Printing....

Does In Design have VDP capabilities. I am thinking of designing a 2 part NCR form that is numbered. Is it possible to include the numbering sequence in the design so that as it prints it numbers each form sequentially (similar to name and address info but a specific number)?
Thank you!

on the indystimer website there is no set of instructions or tutorials but the script is only used to generate the range of numbers that I want for the database e.g. 000201-000500. this can be done in excel too but i just find the indysnumbergenerator a lot quicker.
in terms of actually making a datamerge, see the adobe tutorial http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/indesign/articles/indcs2at_datamerge.html
to make a datamerge so that the end result is pages printed single sided but in duplicate so the records appear:
pdf page 1 - record 1 top sheet
pdf page 2 - record 1 bottom sheet
pdf page 3 - record 2 top sheet
pdf page 4 - record 2 bottom sheet...
is to design the merge on one page including the variable data, BUT once it is finished, duplicate the page from the pages palette so that there is now two pages in the file. when exported to PDF via the data merge as above should result.
is this what the OP is after?

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Text Manipulation and Variable Data in Photoshop

Our company is getting into variable data printing. There are a few ways to get variable data into photos. I've played with a program called Direct Smile. Its text manipulation tools are rather good. It lays a grid over the text and you can select each grid intersection and pull and push to get the text into the shape you want.
There are other programs that work through InDesign and Photoshop, using scripts to insert the variable data into the Photoshop text layer.
When I tried to warp the text in Photoshop I found that beyond a certain point, you have to flatten the text, at which point, it's no longer a text layer that can accept variable data from a database.
Is there anything like the grid tool in Direct Smile in Photoshop?

I’m unfamiliar with Direct Smile.
But for text-manipulation in Photoshop You might want to consider converting the Text to a Smart Object which can then be warped or treated with the Distort-Filter Displace, all the while maintaining the text-layer within the SO and thusly its editability.
And if I remember correctly one can even make Liquify applicable as a Smart Filter, but one would have to save the Mesh separately … possibly too problematic a solution.
Or You could go via Illustrator which offers Envelope Distort (which provides a grid-based »plasticity«) and then embed the result thereof as a SO in the Photoshop-file. Unfortunately Illustrator doesn’t Script as comfortably as Photoshop in my limited experience and Envelope Distort my be unscriptable altogether.
But if I understand correctly You will want to automate all that stuff, so maybe You should check out the respective Scripting-Fora.

InfoCube Design for Variable data - Use of Line Item Dimensions

I have an infoprovider based on billing conditions which we have extended the extractor structure for 2LIS13_VDKON and we now have a requirement to add Customer fields such as Customer Purchase Order Number and Contract Number. These fields are obviously highly variable. I have added to them to the reporting DSO and now need advice on what is the best way to add these types of fields as reportable dimensions to the infocube so as to not impact performance? I currently have 9 dimensions with multiple charachteristics and a time dimension. Should I just create a line item dimension for Purchase Order? Problem is I have 8 other line item dimensions to add which are customer specific reporting fields that we capture on the sales order and wish to report on. I know there is a limit of 16 dimensions and I am also concerned about performance.
Any advice is greatly appreciated
Lee Lewis

Hi,
To make sure that the infocube you have created should not have any performance issue: Please do the following
Go to RSRV > All elementary tests-> Database---> database information about infoprovider tables
Upon clicking on database information about infoprovider tables, on the right hand side, in the parameter enter your infocube name and execute and see the log: ( log will automatically popping up once you are done with execution )
There see the database infomation about infoprovider:
This log wil make you to understand how well you have designed your infocube and make sure that each (f ) table corresponding to each dimension will not exceed 20 % of the infocube size.
You create dimensions of infocubes in a such a way ( whether line item or normal dimension ) so that any of the dimensional F table will not exceed 20 % of the infocube size.
Actually this will give us the information of the size of the data of particular dimension and there by if any particular dimension is exceeding the 20 % of the infocube size, then you need to create line item dimension for the characteristics existing in that dimension .
After creating again, test it and see whether any of the dimension table exceeding 20% infocube size .
Repeat this process until you see all dim F tables less than 20 % of the info cube table size
This will negate any performance issues arise in reporting
Edited by: S Simran on Nov 6, 2009 10:11 AM

Obiee 11g - Formula between fixed date and variable date

Need some advice please, I’m trying to modify a campaign report for Marketing so we can track over different periods of time. For example
Start Date +7 days (all volume within this period)
Start Date +28 days ( all Volume within this period)
And so on and so on….
BUT I’m struggling to use a formula that will do this. The start date for a campaign will always be different hence why we want capture everything between Start Date + (what ever number of days are set). In the report we have a start date, campaign name and number converted to application (Measure). Any help here would be brilliant lol. At the moment when we go into the report, it gives us the measure count to date. We just want to split it down over different periods basically.

I assume we are talking about PCR for payroll. In this case look at documentation for operation NUM:
OOOOOO
Xnnnnn
X     Table
nnnnn Table field
nn    Date type 'nn' from the Date Specifications infotype (0041)
     Date types are taken from table T548Y.
Your operation would look like:
NUM=Faaesb
      F          Fixed indicator for deadline calculation
       aa           Date type: Start date of period to be
                    calculated; if the date type is not 'nn,'
                    the second position is left blank.
         e          Unit, in which the duration is calculated:
                    T = days
                    W = week
s         End date of period to be calculated:
          (blank) End of current payroll period
          J        End of current calendar year
          A        Start of current calendar year
          B        Start of WPBP period
         No other specifications are possible.
So it depends on what kind of fixed date you need.
Hope it helps,
Carlos.

ABAP and variable data definition

May not make sense ... but I'm trying to write code like this
if X
field-symbols: <ls_screenline> type Z
endif
if Y
field-symbols: <ls_screenline> type Y
endif
So basically I can create a field-symbol <ls_screenline> that has a different structure depending on a condition.
Background: I'm in a BSP application that passes in a table structure of ANY type. This table has lines that are either structure Z or Y. Structure Z and Y mostly have the same structure and field names. In the code I'm writing I'm only accessing the fields that are common to Z and Y. So it seems silly to write my code twice, once for Z and once for Y.

assign component 'EXTERNAL_ID' of structure <ls_screenline_any> to <lv_cgpl_extid>.
Full code
CRMT_BSP_MKTPL_ TREE / BASIC DATA / BASIC_DATA_TPM
Data: lv_text1 type cgpl_text1.
field-symbols: <ls_screenLine_any> type any ,
<lv_cgpl_extid> type CGPL_EXTID,
<lv_cgpl_text1> type cgpl_text1.
if iv_screen_structure_name = 'CRMT_BSP_MKTPL_TREE' or
iv_screen_structure_name = 'CRMT_BSP_MKTPL_BASIC_DATA' OR
iv_screen_structure_name = 'CRMT_BSP_MKTPL_BASIC_DATA_TPM'.
assign et_screen_structure to <et_screen_structure>.
loop at <et_screen_structure> assigning <ls_screenline_any>.
assign component 'EXTERNAL_ID'
of structure <ls_screenline_any> to <lv_cgpl_extid>.
CALL FUNCTION 'Z_CRM_MKTPL_STOREREAD_MECHANIC'
EXPORTING
EXTID = <lv_cgpl_extid>
IMPORTING
TEXT1 = lv_text1.
if lv_text1 is not initial.
assign component 'TEXT1'
of structure <ls_screenline_any> to <lv_cgpl_text1>.
<lv_cgpl_text1> = lv_text1.
CLEAR: LV_TEXT1.
endif.
endloop.
endif.

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And a couple more suggestions.
The Generic PCL Laser Printer included with Lion will only print in black and white. So open Print & Scan, select the Konica printer, click on Options & Supplies and then select the Driver tab. Ensure this does not show Generic PCL Laser.
And, there is also a Generic Postscript printer driver included with Lion that does print in colour. So to rule out an issue with the KM driver, create another queue to the printer but this time select Generic Postscript in the Print Using menu and see if this prints in colour.

Variable Data print

My company is looking at Darwin as a VDP print application. I am curious if anyone here might have any good information about this application, or advice on wether this is a good way to go, or if there is some other easier more robust software.

please post the question clearly.

Printing FILE NAME and DATE PRINTED?

when i was on a mac i used to be able to have a default in the printer dialog so that every page printed showed the file name and the data printed. i would like to do this in the mac but i am guessing that this has to be done in either the specialized software dialog box or perhaps in a mac dialog box?
in any event, can anyone help me figure out where i might find a place to do this? i haveadobe acrobat but i wold also like to do it in something like Preview as well.
TIA

hotwheels 22 wrote:
if i have documents coming that i print for a project and these are quite naturally coming from different software it i have no way now of being able to FIND this file in my computer when i am looking at it.
Consider using Find from the File menu or Spotlight to search for the document. In one of your previous posts, you stated that you name documents with a date and name. Then perhaps search for the name. Also, with your method of naming documents, if the document is a letter, wouldn't the date on the letter and the person to whom the letter is addressed to give clues to the filename and thus finding it on your computer?
this is a major organizational issue over here and customizing a template for all my various software should be unnecessary IMHO.
I do not know how many documents you deal with but I do know that there a many organizations that deal with billions of documents. In addition, if you share documents with others or others with you, there is not a filenaming method that works for everyone. People adapt to each other. A date in a filename could have several forms such as month-date-year or year-month-date, two digits or four digits for year and so on and so forth.
Are you saying it IS necessary to have this dual file type that has a Pages document which then prints a PDF?
No. Please re-read what I wrote and the Pages Help Center articles.
also, is there in fact a way to save a PDF back out as a Pages document?
Yes, re-read what I wrote (that which you quoted).
"Acrobat has the capability to save a PDF in other formats such as Microsoft Word, which can be opened in Pages. That said IMO, a separate Pages document for each "custom" letter/report would not be necessary."
alternatively i guess i could create a Pages TEMPLATE - that has a DATE in the header that automatically updates .../but/ i am realizing that this has the unfortunate consequence of having the DATE updated if i open the Pages document again
But that is what you stated you wanted because
...and try to remember to SAVE AS this document with another name with the original FILE NAME but a NEW DATE. this does not always work and sometimes i write over the original accidentally.
anyway, maybe the answer here is to create a Template for any new document type and simply use this template any time i need to create a PDF and then not save or delete the original Pages document but this seems a bit hairy and dangerous in terms of possibly losing a file if i forget to print to PDF or something.
You have redundant backups, yes?
It seems that your understanding of a template is different from what it actually is, its purpose and its use. If you have not already done so, try using one of the included Pages templates to create a document that you would reuse to get a better understanding of how it works and to help determine your workflow. What you wrote in the last post seems to be a lot of what ifs but not hands on experience with the software itself. My response was based on my experience of using many types of software and in particular to your questions, Pages and Acrobat. Perhaps you will find better responses in the Pages forum and for Acrobat there is a forum at the Adobe web site.
is there a lock file functionality in Pages in Mountain Lion or was this in Lion?!
Perhaps reviewing the tutorials for Pages or searching with Google would help answer many of your questions.

Oracle Designer and data

Hi!
I have a problem concerning Oracle Designer and "integrating" data.
Is there any way to somehow incorporate data with(in) Data Model, so that I do not need extra scripts for inserting data.
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Hi!
I have a problem concerning Oracle Designer and "integrating" data.
Is there any way to somehow incorporate data with(in) Data Model, so that I do not need extra scripts for inserting data.
Thanx

Any Function Module to translate variable data in smartform

Hi All,
I am working with smartform.
My requirement is, when user logins with Japan language.
then all the data ( text template and variable data ) should be in Japan .
By using SE63 ,i can translate only text data. How about the variable data in smartform?
Please suggest any solution.
Regards,
Kishan

Hope you are passing the variable from print program. If not then do the same. and in the print program do the below thing.
   wf_spras = sy-langu.
CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERSION_EXIT_ISOLA_OUTP
      EXPORTING
           input = wf_spras
      IMPORTING
           output = wf_language.
SET LANGUAGE wf_language.
wa_control_parameters-langu = wf_spras.
PS : wa_control_parameter , you pass through control_parameters, in to the SMARTFORM calling FM .
Make sure that the data, which u fill into the variable you are talking about in maintained in the log on language also.

Issue with Output designer and Konica bizhub Pro 920 Driver:

Hi, i would appreciate if someone could help me with the following issue:
I have designed a document using Adobe Output Designer and need to print it on Konica printer which uses above driver. Konica is not included in Adobe Presentment Target List so i am trying to use a Generic Postscript L2 - (PSLEVEL2) presentment target. I want to make few changes to this driver to match it with destination printer settings. e.g Output Order should be Face Up, Input and Output Tray should be Auto, Print position should be Left etc etc. I have tried to edit ICS file but it's not making any sense to me as i dont's know the PCL. Could anyone familiar with a similar situation help?
Thanks in advance
Tayyab.

Hi, i would appreciate if someone could help me with the following issue:
I have designed a document using Adobe Output Designer and need to print it on Konica printer which uses above driver. Konica is not included in Adobe Presentment Target List so i am trying to use a Generic Postscript L2 - (PSLEVEL2) presentment target. I want to make few changes to this driver to match it with destination printer settings. e.g Output Order should be Face Up, Input and Output Tray should be Auto, Print position should be Left etc etc. I have tried to edit ICS file but it's not making any sense to me as i dont's know the PCL. Could anyone familiar with a similar situation help?
Thanks in advance
Tayyab.

Merging variable data using data merge plug-ins for In-Design

Has anyone had any experience with merging variable data (such as articles for a newsletter) with either of these plug-ins:
DesignMerge, www.meadowsps.com/site/marketing/productinfo/designmerge.htm
or Pageflex Studio ID, www.bitstream.com/publishing/products/studioid/index.html

Only Pageflex Persona (cut down version of Studio - doesn't require InDesign Server).
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For a newsletter, I'd just find a way with InD CS5. Maybe with the Copyfit plugin if you want more functionality, but not with standalone software. For complex variable areas in InD, I just create pdfs or separate InD files of the variable area, and list these as you would images in the csv file. The free LayoutZone addon (Thanks Martinho!) makes region exporting very simple - beware of some occasional bugs with strokes changing.
I did a job recently with 36 variables per entry, including 2 embedded InD files. The layout was a 3-fold A4 double-sided flyer, with each 3rd page being a few mm shorter to allow for the fold-in. CS5 multi-page size and 3-page spreads made this quite simple to set up.

Batch Printing Variable Data

I have a small design (about 1.5" dia) that has 2 variables, one image and one text. I am struggling to find the best way to output the batch data to print multiple images onto a desktop printer.
Basically, I have a 1.5" circle that has 2 variables, and 48 data sets, and I want to output the 48 data sets onto one sheet of paper from my desktop printer.
I am limited in terms of software available. PC based. Illustrator/Photoshop CS5. Microsoft Office. Don't have InDesign. Would consider any freeware options out there if I can't do this with the software at hand.
I'm very impressed with the help that has been given on this forum especially from the people who have responded to Variable Data questions. If anyone has helpful advice on this, you would really make my day!

I have a 1.5" circle that has 2 variables, and 48 data sets, and I want to output the 48 data sets onto one sheet of paper
Are you talking about printing a sheetful of dupicates for each of the 48 DataSets, or are you talking about printing as many different DataSets (one occurrance of each) as will fit on one sheet?
The Variables feature does not support having two objects on the page bound to the same variable. So if you want to print, for example, a 6 x 4 array of DataSet 1, you can do that by applying Transform Effect twice to the bound variables so as to have 24 instances of a single set of the bound objects on the page.
If you want to print 24 of the 48 sets of bound variable objects on one page (24 different DataSets on the page at once), doing so would obviate the whole purpose of trying to use Variables for this, because you would have to have 24 different bound variables in one DataSet. In other words, there would just be two DataSets, each having 24 different sets of bound objects, so you might as well enter the 48 different sets of values as ordinary objects anyway.
If the latter, then once again an ordinary data-merge feature (like that in any database program or InDesign) would be more useful than Illustrator's Variables feature.
JET

Printing variable data

I have a form that is two pages. Page one is user inputed data. It has some radio buttons that hide or display certain options based on answering yes/no. The second page is a contract. The contract needs to print data from the first page. Depending on whether the answer was yes/no to certain questions on page one, certain data will/will not print on the contract. This was fairly straigtforward in Acrobat 6 but I am at a loss in Acrobat 8 and Live Cycle Designer. The contract goes something like this:
"XYZ Company, hereinafter referred to as COMPANY, and *CONTRACTOR*, hereby enter into the following agreement:..." *CONTRACTOR is the first field that is filled in from data from page one and is always present. There are many others following that depend on choices made on page one. Any ideas?
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I have a 1.5" circle that has 2 variables, and 48 data sets, and I want to output the 48 data sets onto one sheet of paper
Are you talking about printing a sheetful of dupicates for each of the 48 DataSets, or are you talking about printing as many different DataSets (one occurrance of each) as will fit on one sheet?
The Variables feature does not support having two objects on the page bound to the same variable. So if you want to print, for example, a 6 x 4 array of DataSet 1, you can do that by applying Transform Effect twice to the bound variables so as to have 24 instances of a single set of the bound objects on the page.
If you want to print 24 of the 48 sets of bound variable objects on one page (24 different DataSets on the page at once), doing so would obviate the whole purpose of trying to use Variables for this, because you would have to have 24 different bound variables in one DataSet. In other words, there would just be two DataSets, each having 24 different sets of bound objects, so you might as well enter the 48 different sets of values as ordinary objects anyway.
If the latter, then once again an ordinary data-merge feature (like that in any database program or InDesign) would be more useful than Illustrator's Variables feature.
JET

Variable's value passsing question between sapscipt and it's print program.

Hi, all.
I have a question regarding to the variable value which past between sapscipt and it's print program.
My question is :
in the print program , l_var = '123456'.
in the sapscript, can i straight away code like below,
&l_var&
to show the data 123456 on my form?
How to pass the variable value in the print program into the sapscript, beside using the PERFORM & FORM ??
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
Yes..You can use &l_var& to display in form..
But make sure the l_var is a global variable in the program..
Thanks
Naren

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