Post-processing in Export

Our little group of 4 LR users (all on LR 2.4 and XP or Vista 32) has a puzzle. On selecting Export we all have the expected item, but for two of us it stops at "Metadata" - there is no sign of the bottom item, "Post-Processing", which the other two have. Any suggestions before I suggest a re-install?

THe two computers with an incomplete list are configured to export to CD/DVD. If you switch them back to Disk using the drop down menu Post Processing will return.

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Issue:
The Columns in the Excel Sheet are not fully visible when we export Report from CR viewer to Excel Sheet. So we had planned for Post processing of the Excel Sheet using VBA or .NET etc to format the Excel Sheet, which would be on the server side, meaning the End user will never see the formatting process, but only the End Report. Is it possible to achieve this ??
NOTE:
1) VBA or .NET could not be run on the Linux Server but we could take advantage of the windows server in the presentation layer.
Architecture:
Presentation Layer
Linux Server <--> Windows .Net Server <--
> End User
{Crystal RAS Server} <-->{GUI CR Viewer Application}<--
>
Our Proposed Solution:
1) Create an GUI Application that has CR viewer in it .
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3) when the user wants to export the report , he clicks the button.
4) The GUI/ application saves the Exported Excel Sheet from the Ras server to the windows server.
5) Then the .Net or the Vba code is applied to process/Format the Excel Sheet.
6) When complete the End user is prompted for saving the report to a local disk.
My questions:
1) Can this be achieved ?
2) what would be the best way to handle this ?
3) what should be the process flow ?
4) what are the things to be considered while planning for such a design ?
Regards,
Ramkumar Govindasamy

So you're looking at using RAS .NET SDK on the Application Layer to export a Crystal Report to Excel, save to temp file on the Application Layer machine, process that temp file, and stream that back out to the client web browser.
Considerations:
1. You need to create your own custom UI button to trigger the process, since the .NET Web Forms Crystal Reports viewer won't have the hooks to customize the Excel export.
2. Running Excel VBA from your Web App may be problematic - you'd have to be particularly careful if the system is under load, since the Excel VBA - COM-Interop isn't necessarily designed for high throughput. Under high load, you may get file locking or COM-Interop layer just refuse to process. It's pretty common to try and catch exceptions and retry if you encounter this.
You'd likely not find anyone here familiar with 2 above, but 1 is fairly common.
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When I export a set of pictures, I apply a post-processing Photoshop droplet to that applies the Imagenomic Portraiture filter. It works fine up to a certain point. I noticed that if the number of files is less than 21, it works fine. If the number is greater, it fails to perform the post-processing and won't even launch Photoshop to apply the droplet action.
Has anyone encountered a file limit problem with post-processing in export?
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I'll assume you are talking about Windows and not Mac since I cannot speak about Mac's. In Windows, the export action is invoked by passing the filenames on a command line to the program/script that you specify. There are limits to how many characters can be passed on a command line, depending on which method the programmers used. I expect the limit is 2048 characters. When that limit is reached, then the action does nothing.
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Hamish, I've been working with individual virtual copies but not for whole set of images. Do you know if there is easy way to view/select only the virtual copies at time ?
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Exported jpegs to folder on desktop. Everything worked nicely except the command in the Post-processing box to open files in PSCS3 did not execute. Any comments or explanations? Thanks in advance for your help.
Scott

scottbjones wrote:
> Exported jpegs to folder on desktop. Everything worked nicely except the
> command in the Post-processing box to open files in PSCS3 did not
> execute. Any comments or explanations? Thanks in advance for your help.
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"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in"

Export Post-Processing Feature Request

Using a post-processing action such as a Photoshop droplet in an export is limited by the command line length which must be sent to the application (Photoshop in this case). This means that exporting a few files will work ok with the action but exporting hundreds of files will not - they export ok but the action is not executed.
Can the way the post-processing action is executed be modified so that smaller batches of files are processed instead of one very large batch at the end? Either have a mechanism which builds maximum length command lines OR a "batch size" parameter so that, for example, several hundred files are processed on lots of, say, 10?

Roy-
Ian Lyons is one of the few kind souls who has the power to do that, but I am pretty sure there are current workarounds, short of buying a Mac! I don't do Windows, but check back as many others do and some will have suggestions.

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opinion, because:
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bookmarks at once (you can only collapse top-level bookmarks). You
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BTW.
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to "Page Only". This means that the bookmarks panel is not
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help) and because we do not wish to buy a full Acrobat license for
every author/publisher (the add-on that comes with RH should be
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linearizes (Fast Web View) the PDF.
You don't need Acrobat to do this and all auxiliary (and
free) programs to post process are in the sample project that you
can download from
here:
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2. BookmarksCollapsed_Linearized.pdf
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Toolbox";
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(just a free command line search/replace tool that I found), so
that bookmarks are set to collapse;
- The manipulated XML file + original
"Printed_Documentation.pdf" are then combined in "iText Toolbox" to
create the new "1. BookmarksCollapsed.pdf" in folder "PDF Output";
- The "1. BookmarksCollapsed.pdf" in folder "PDF Output" is
processed with Ghostscript's "pdfopt" to linearize the PDF again.
When you change a PDF and just "Save" a PDF (also in Acrobat), Fast
Web View is gone. In Acrobat you have to 'Save As' or use the "PDF
Optimizer" to linearize the PDF again.
The sample project is pretty large (11 MB), but this is
because Ghostscript and iText Toolbox are included.
BTW, you must have Java installed to use "iText Toolbox".
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I thought that because Ghostscript is command-line based, I
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But apparently there are some dependencies, and you have to
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Hi,
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(We need both the PDF and the data as the PDF will contain an electronically captured image of a customer's signature and need to preserve the actual image of the document.)
Any suggestions?
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Hi,
I am using the publiching functionality of BOXI 3.1 to create a large volume of PDFs. I have a report that I am publishing using a publication with a post processing plugin applied after distribution. I need to get the total page count of the pdf and store this value in the database. Becuase I am already using a post processing plugin after distribution, it would be ideal to extract it there...but I cannot figure out how to get the value at this point.
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I would post-process the PDF file as you're doing.
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Post Processing: Not Really Working

Ok now that I've spent 2 hours trying to set up an automation that would save me time Im throwing up my hands...
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I have created an Action in Photoshop.
Saved it as a Droplet.
Put that in the Export Actions Folder in LR.
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In order to do this, you will need 12 individual tasks. Since you have
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master does (Merge Errors VI would be helpful). This process will
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time. The output of each analog read will output an array of waveforms,
with each waveform corresponding to the samples acquired on a single
channel of that device. To specify the order with which the channels
are scanned, order them that way in the physical channel control. For
instance Dev1/ai1,Dev2/ai3, Dev1/ai5 will acquire one sample from
channel 1, channel 3, and channel 5, then repeat. Please let me know if
this is not what you were asking, or if you have any additional
questions.
Hope this helps,
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Lightroom Post-Processing

One thing I'd like to see added to the Lightroom export dialog, perhaps in the post-processing section, would be the option to update DNG previews and metadata (when exporting DNGs of course).

Thanks Dorin, but I think you misunderstood me a little.
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I am interested in learning what steps/workflow fellow DSLR, Magic Lantern users take to Edit, Color Grade and add FX to their RAW video? Here is my untested thought process so far:
Adjust the Exposure, White Balance, Lens Distortion, Etc of DNGs in Adobe Camera Raw.
Import DNG image sequence into Premiere Pro for Editing
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The 'fast and dirty' approach to getting a cinematic grade in Premiere would be to apply LUT files to the footage using the Lumetri effect (basically running SpeedGrade presets), or you can hand-grade it using the inbuilt Color Corrector tools - but that doesn't cover the other important stuff that ACR can do, such as lens correction, alignment, noise reduction, camera calibration profiles, etc. - for that, you should import the cDNG footage into After Effects (which does support ACR), correct and calibrate the frames, then export back to something high quality that Premiere can work with (such as DNxHD or ProRes 444). You won't notice any visual loss in quality, and Premiere then will play the timeline without struggling, but it takes a loooong time to chew through every clip.
As to if Adobe applications will ever support MLV files natively - well, since Adobe relies on close partnerships with camera manufacturers including Canon, you can guess what would happen if Adobe ever endorsed it. The only scenario I can imagine is if MLV is adopted in-camera by a major DC manufacturer (Alexa, etc) so vendors can support it without slapping Canon in the face. Flying pigs come to mind.

Photoshop post processing

I'm hitting a limitation with the way Lightroom handles TIFF files.
I have nearly two thosands scanned slides saved as TIFF. In addition to the normal R, G and B channels, each TIFF file includes an additional "infrared" alpha channel. This channel is created by the scanner using an infrared light to isolate dust and scratches on the film surface. I can then use a Photoshop action to read this infrared channel and eliminate most of the dust and scratches from the TIFF image. This is a step I do when exporting the TIFF as a JPEG for instance. I do not want to overwrite the original TIFF file. It is like my "raw" scan and I want to save it in case I come across a better de-dusting technique in the future.
Now the problem. Ligthroom is my tool of choice for cataloging and editing photos. It can read TIFF files but any edit applied to one during the export stage discarts the infrared alpha channel. Only the R,G,B channels are kept. This means that I can't use a Photoshop droplet or action to remove the dust as a post process step. I currently do not see a solution short of either dropping Lightroom, or keeping duplicate images (the original raw and the de-dusted version). Keeping duplicates is not an appealing option. It would take hundreds of GB of extra space to start with.
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Hi Jaap,
Here are the steps that I use to implement my own ICE dust removal. I'm on Photoshop CS3 mac by the way.
1) Copy the alpha channel (infrared) into a new channel named "Dust".
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3) Select the RGB channel
4) Load the Dust channel as a selection (Select -> Load Selection, Channel: Dust, Invert: checked)
5) Expand the selection by 1 pixel (Select -> Modify -> Expand)
6) Apply the Dust and Scratches filter (Filter -> Noise -> Dust & Scratches, Radius: 6, Threshold: 0)
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7) Work's done. Clean up by deselecting (Select -> Deselect, or simply Command D on a mac)
I've created an action for step 1 and another for steps 3 to 7. Step 2 is fully manual unfortunately. I don't think there is a way to set the markers programmatically like in the image above since the histogram varies for each image.
I also keep my alpha channel intact in case I find some better way to create the dust channel in the future. I'm a firm believer in the non destructive workflow. I won't scan these slides again. It may not even be feasible soon. Film scanners are being retired from the market much faster than I would have thought just a year ago.
Hope this helps

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