Bill,
I would do the project like this, assuming that you know that you are using 16
different pdf files...
==Create a 16 page template each with a graphic box
==Create 16 graphic rules (one for each page) like this...
var r = new FusionProResource("pdfFileNameOneHere", "graphic", true);
r.name = ("pdfFileNameOneHere);
r.pagenumber = CurrentRecordNumber();
if (r.exists) {
return r;
}
else {
return NullResource();
}
-----
This rule will return a specific page from a multi-paged pdf file according to
the count of CurrentRecordNumber. Once you have all 16 rules placed (renaming
the variable pdfFileNameOneHere with each of the 16 actual files names), then
all you need to do is compose the document from 1 to however many pages are
contained in the largest pdf file. This will place the first page for all 16
graphic pdf files I order, then continue with pages 2, 3, 4, ..., n pages for
each of the pdf files.
Currently this rule will place an equal amount of pages for the composition
stream for each pdf file (either as an existing input pdf file page or a
blank). If you have 16 pdf graphic files with 100 pages in each then your final
file will contain 1600 pages.
If you know that not all of the pdf files contain the same amount of pages and
you want to skip placing a blank page for that specific document, then you
could set all 16 pages to be "unused" and write an OnRecordStart rule turning
on any of the template pages that exist in the pdf graphic file. An example
would be very similar to the graphic rule...
var r1 = new FusionProResource("pdfFileNameOneHere", "graphic", true);
r1.name = ("pdfFileNameOneHere);
r1.pagenumber = CurrentRecordNumber();
var r2 = new FusionProResource("pdfFileNameTwoHere", "graphic", true);
r2.name = ("pdfFileNameTwoHere);
r2.pagenumber = CurrentRecordNumber();
... continue thru file r16
if (r1.exists) {
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("Page1", true);
}
if (r2.exists) {
FusionPro.Composition.SetBodyPageUsage("Page2", true);
}
... continue on testing through "if (r16.exists)".
Good Luck.
---
David A. Sweet
Web Designer/Graphic Designer
HKM Direct Market Communications
A DirectConnectGroup Company
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:34 PM
To: FusionPro Users Forum
Subject: [fusionpro] COLLATION of Multiple PDFs into One Document
Does FusionPro have the ability to take different 16 pdfs and essentially
collate them into one document? What I am trying to achieve is to take 16
1,000 page variably numbered pdfs and put them into one document so it
collates with page 1 of each document first, then page two of each
document... and so on. When I am done the document should have the first
16 pages be numbered as #1 (though all different), then pages 17-32 be
numbered as #2...and so on.
Can anyone help? Does FusionPro allow for this type of collation or is
there a piece of software out there anyone can turn me on to that will
accomplish this?
Thank you,
Bill Crook
Poor Richard's Press
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