Product

Platform

Operating system

Error

Symptoms

In Prinergy 3.0.3.1, when you created variable overlapping text marks in Preps, the output text was populated with correct information.

After upgrading to Prinergy 3.1, you now find that variable text fields are not populated with job information when output to proof or plate.

Cause

Solution

There are two possible workarounds.

Workaround 1. Change Preps templates so that variable text marks do not overlap. Placing more space between the text marks (avoiding overlaps) ensures that the problem does not occur.

Workaround 2. The marks JTP replaces variables one by one, making it possible to have large gaps in your replaced text. For example, when printing the x and y trim offsets on one line, you can end up with space between the numbers. One method is to overlap text lines to make everything line up, but what if you don't know ahead of time how long the replacement string is?

Using the new $[Compound] variable mark to avoid overlapping variables, you can now group the variable marks to create a compound mark-set which provides variable spacing, that is, creation of a mark where you can embed other marks inside it that will be replaced in one shot. However, you must modify existing and future Preps templates.

This new $[compound] mark takes a string of mark variables as an argument (note the marks use %mark% instead of $[mark] and an underscore instead of a space). For example, if you want to put the jobname and the color on the same line, you can now use the following mark:

$[compound_JobName:_%jobname%__color:_%color%]

Permanent fix:

See also

Keywords

marks, output, plate, proofing, variable marks

Technical contact(s)

Malcolm Kenning

Submitted by

Malcolm Kenning

Date submitted

30 Aug 2006