Previously posted by Mark Hilger: For subset finishing in FusionPro, there is a means available to specify your finishing options if you are fine with using PostScript as your output format. This is accomplished via PostScript commands that can be inserted in the FusionPro template itself.
To specify the finishing, you first need to know the PostScript commands to accomplish the specific finishing option(s). There seems to be both "standard" PostScript commands to accomplish tasks like staple, fold, and tray pulls, and then there are some proprietary commands for specific devices. That being the case, I am not sure what the commands are for the Doc 240 to accomplish the booklet staple. However, there are some methods we have to find this information out. The PostScript commands are all present in a devices PPD (PostScript Printer Description) file. You can open one of these PPD files up in a text editor and take a look, but I have another route that might be easier. Take a simple document, like an empty document in your text editor, and perform a "Print to File" on that document. Select your Doc 240 as the printer so it will use the Doc 240 print driver to make the PostScript file. In the printer driver, do not select any finishing options. Now, perform the exact process a 2nd time. This time, select the finishing options that you are looking for (subset finishing options). By comparing these 2 PostScript files that you have created, you can see the difference between them and should be able to locate the specific PostScript commands for your device to do the subset finishing. To give you an example of what you are looking for in the PS file that has the finishing command in it, here's a snippet of what that might look like: <</Staple 0>> setpagedevice <</MediaType () /MediaWeight 75 /MediaColor(white) /Staple 3 /StapleDetails <</Type 1 /StapleLocation (SinglePortrait) >> >> setpagedevice Now after you have located the PostScript command needed for your finishing, save just that PS snippet to a new text document. I think you may need to include an extra hard return at the end of that snippet (after the second setpagedevice in my above example). You also need to find the "end staple" in the PS. Might look like this: <</Staple 0>> setpagedevice Save that to another text file. OK - now that you have the 2 PS commands in the text files, it's time to link them to your job. Go to FusionPro -> Compose. Set the output type to "PostScript". Click the "Save" button and then the "Cancel" button to close out of the compose dialogue. You are now in PostScript mode. Now you need to set where you want your staple command to be in your job and where you want it to end (basically, specifying the booklet size). I am not sure on exactly where this would go, but I am going to guess that you want the begin staple on the very first page of your template and the end staple on the very last. Again - can anyone confirm? Last step is to go to FusionPro -> Advanced -> Page Media. In the Page Media Dialogue, select your first page and press the "Browse" button next to the "Insert Command File at the Beginning..." box. Find your begin staple command on your file system and insert it. Now select the last page in your template from the Page Media dialogue. In the "Insert Command File at the End..." box, browse to your end staple command. Viola. Compose that to PostScript and give it a try. Let us know if this works for you. Good luck. -Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:06 AM To: FusionPro Users Forum Subject: [fusionpro] Page Media options for Postscript Does anyone have any examples of Postscript Command files that can be inserted in the Page Media section for tray pulls? +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- FusionPro 5.0 Now Available! 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