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4.1. Generating files
- Getting started (F1 START panel)
- Personalization with raster graphics (F3 RAS panel)
- Personalization with pdf pages (F4 PDF panel)
- Personalization with single-line texts (F6 TXT panel)
- Personalization with multi-line texts (F7 XLS panel)
- Types of codes
- Personalization with codes (F5 COD panel)
- Personalization by numbers (F8 NUM panel)
- Sequence of objects to be applied
- Applying geometric figures (F2 FIG panel)
- Generating files
- Personalization errors
- Additional tools available in Personalizator
- Rotate PDF pages
- Scale (resize) the page
- Add bleeds to pdf pages
- Insert pdf pages
- Duplicate pages in the pdf file
- Merge pdf files
- Shuffle the pages/sheets in the pdf file
- Extract pages from the pdf file
- Extract page ranges from the pdf file
- Convert bitmaps to pdf
- Convert txt files to pdf
- Flatten the forms in the pdf file
- Bulk renaming of pdf files
4.1. Generating files
Introduction
The file generation process is the final stage of work on a project, during which the prepared templates are converted into finished, personalized PDF documents saved on disk. This procedure is initiated in the F1 START panel, and its first step is automatic verification of the design for errors, such as exceeding safe margins or missing data in the database.
Before final saving, the user can use the optimization function, which significantly reduces the size of files when the same raster graphics are used multiple times. Proper personalization results in the creation of a clear subfolder structure, which protects against accidental overwriting of previous versions of the project. The system automatically assigns file names containing key information about the page range, number of repetitions, or serial numbering data, which facilitates later identification of materials. PDF files prepared in this way are optimized for further processing and professional printing, including imposition in a stack layout. Special data, such as automatic numbering, is also dynamically generated during the saving process.
Step 16. TNow proceed to generate the personalized pages and save them to disk. In the F1 Start panel, press the START button.
If there are errors in the personalization project, when you press the Start button, a window will appear on the screen with a warning about the type of these errors. Then you can decide to continue preparing to generate files, or to improve the personalization project.
The most common errors include the margin error and the error of no data for personalization ("blank" line).
Before starting the file generation process itself, we can set additional options.
If the same bitmaps are used repeatedly in personalized backgrounds (panel RAS), enabling the Enable bitmap optimization option can reduce the size of personalized files (measured in bytes).
Task completion. Personalized pages will be generated by pressing Save project and START. In the folder with the saved project, a subfolder named
where name is the name (without extension) of the project, and ordinal_number is the sequential numbering of the folder.
Each time you press the Save Project and START key causes a new subfolder to be created. If there is already a subfolder in the project folder, e.g., badge_PERSONALIZATOR_1 (where badge is the badge.pers project name), then another subfolder will be created with the name badge_PERSONALIZATOR_2 and so on.
The personalized PDF files are saved in the created folder. Information about the number of pages in the file is added to the file name in the form of a range, for example: test_001_100.pdf.
If a multi-page PDF file is used as a background and the option Repeat all elements on each page of the PDF is selected, the file name will include information about the number of repetitions, such as test_351_450_x6.pdf for a background file with 6 pages. The total number of pages in the resulting file is the number of pages in the range multiplied by the number of repetitions.
If the number of pages in a group is 1 (single-page files), the file names do not contain a page range, but instead contain a consecutive number (e.g. test_034.pdf). They may also contain information about the number of repetitions (e.g. test_034_x6.pdf).
If the personalization contains active numbering and the Add numbering from the NUM panel to the file names option is enabled, information about the first and last number (from the first active numbering in the F8 NUM panel), preceded by the letter n, will be added to the file names instead of page numbers. For example, test_n351_n450.pdf instead of test_001_100.pdf.
If the personalized background is a multi-page PDF file and more than one page was used for personalization, you can add non-personalized pages to the resulting PDF file by selecting the Include non-personalized background pages option. This feature also works when personalizing multiple background pages, provided that the Repeat all elements on each page of the PDF option is enabled. If the Start from page parameter is greater than the End to page parameter, non-personalized pages will be added in reverse order.
It is important to note that this function is practically useful only if the personalized file will no longer undergo imposition.
Imposition of the generated files should be done in a so-called stack, which allows them to be easily arranged in order from the first to the last one.