Sorry, I didn't notice that the thread moved here from the web-to-print forum. Or at least I didn't get the original message on this forum. For those of you who have no idea what we're talking about, I've pasted both the original request and my suggested solution below.
Dan -----Original Message----- From: Nicola DosSantos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:39 PM To: Web To Print Users Forum Subject: [pti_web_to_print] Suggestions on how to create a complex layout Hello Everyone, I need to create a template that was developed with very complex layout rules and I'm not sure if it can be done in Fusion Pro, so I was hoping if anyone had any suggestions on how I could get this to work.... The product is a letterhead. There is a gray line that runs horizontally across the top of the letterhead sheet. The length, stroke weight, and placement of the line is static. There is a variable text paragraph with contact information that prints directly beneath the horizontal gray line. The variable text paragraph is made up of 8 variable text fields (Name, Title, Address, Building, City, State, Zip, Phone). Most of these variable fields are optional. When all of the fields are used the paragraph results in 5 lines of text. When the minimum number of variable fields are used the paragraph results in 2 lines of text. Here is where I'm unsure how to proceed. The variable text paragraph is Flush Left. However the last or furthest right character on the longest line of text within the paragraph must always align with the right edge of the gray line. So that even though the paragraph is Flush Left, the location where the flush left edge is moves. I see this as creating two issues that need to be solved, If anyone can see any others please let me know what you think. First I'll need to find a way to determine where the furthest right character is within the paragraph and on which line it falls. Second I would need to find a way to move the flush left edge. When we typeset this letterhead in InDesign we type the information and then we move the left edge of the graphic frame until we can see that the furthest right character on the longest line is aligned with the right edge of the gray line. I know that in FusionPro we cannot move a variable frame using javascript. Any suggestions on how to achieve this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. I apologize if my explanation is at all confusing. -- Nicola DosSantos Ambit Press / Minuteman Press of Cambridge Five Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 Tel: 617.876.3688 Fax: 617.876.3896 www.ambitpress.com Please send all jobs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Dan Korn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 4:12 PM To: Web To Print Users Forum Subject: [pti_web_to_print] RE: Suggestions on how to create a complex layout This isn't really specific to FusionPro Web, so it should probably be on the other forum, but.... I was just looking at a job like this the other day. Here's what I did: 1. Put all the lines of text, with the fields, in a text frame, and select "Suppress if empty" (or "Suppress if containing empty variables"), as usual for a business-card-type job where some of the fields are optional. 2. Give a name to the frame in question, in the box at the top of the Text Frame palette. 3. Enable Copyfit for the frame (from the Text Frame palette, click the Overflow button, then click "Adjust text to fit"). 4. Get the effective width of the text frame, in points (72 points per inch). The easiest way to do this is to set the Units in your Acrobat Preferences to Points, then read the value in the "W" box on the text frame palette. Remember to subtract two times the sum of any border width and horizontal text inset in effect on the frame to get the effective text column width. 5. Go into the Rules dialog and edit the OnCopyfit rule, replacing its syntax with the syntax below. 6. In the OnCopyfit rule syntax, replace the name of the frame on the first line with the name you assigned to the frame in step 2. Replace the value on the third line with the width of the frame from the previous step, in hundredths of points. (Take the width in points from step 4 and multiply by 100.) You will also need to make sure that the text in the frame has no other indents set. Here is the OnCopyfit rule syntax: if (FusionPro.Composition.CurrentFlow.name == "Indented") { var FrameWidthHundPts = 14400; // 2 inches * 7200 var TM = new FusionProTextMeasure; TM.maxWidth = FrameWidthHundPts; var error = TM.CalculateTextExtent( FusionPro.Composition.CurrentFlow.content); if (error) { Print(TM.messages); return; } var LongestLineWidthHunPts = TM.textWidth; var IndentHundPts = FrameWidthHundPts - LongestLineWidthHunPts; var NewContent = FusionPro.Composition.CurrentFlow.content; NewContent = ReplaceSubstring(NewContent, 'findent="0"', 'findent="' + IndentHundPts + '"'); NewContent = ReplaceSubstring(NewContent, 'lindent="0"', 'lindent="' + IndentHundPts + '"'); FusionPro.Composition.CurrentFlow.content = NewContent; return; } if (!Copyfit(new MagnifyAttributes("text", 25, 400, 6, 72))) ReportWarning("Could not copyfit text in flow " + FusionPro.Composition.CurrentFlow.name); I can send you a sample job with this working if you want, but it should work in any job as long as you provide the correct frame name and width. 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