DOWNLOAD RTF TO SEE PROPER STYLING
Create Barcode Labels & Create Barcode Images
These are more of a legacy functionality. Lineup would have ideally been able to function with barcodes, but I was never able to make it work cleanly. Creating labels would match a unique barcode to the longer text the barcode represented. Create Images would let you create a range of numeric barcodes (say for inventory scanning purposes)
Tract Preview
This useful tool previews tracts & is an easy way to stage the tracts before InDesign PrePress. When laying out tracts, the darkest / highest ink coverage tracts should be closest to the color bars. Having a dark image at the end helps make sure that all of the ink isn’t taken for a lighter tract.
FYI: The color bars are at the back end of the sheet (the last part of the sheet through the press.) The color bars have patterns that show if there is enough ink left on the rollers after having inked the sheet.
To use:
Add all the tracts in (via item number) at the top left of the page.
ie. Add an item number and hit enter
Right click on the panel on the right, and click ‘Sort Items’
If there are still images waiting to scan, just wait till they’re done
It will sort from darkest to lightest tract.
Open the correct InDesign tract template from this folder:
X:\Production\Tracts\Imposition
In Tract Previewer, double click on one tract at a time (to copy file path), and in InDesign, relink desired tract, and paste copied file path.
Repeat for all.
Note. If it errors out ... find the tract manually 😊
These are the same set of tracts. The first is unsorted, the second is sorted.
Create Lineup Backup
This creates an xml file that could potentially be used to re-create the lineup sql database. It automatically runs ... every week? Running this function will show where it created the backup.
Lineup Imposition (YCC, BGC, CDC, Mini-Pamphlets ... )
Open the tools menu, and click ‘Impose Book/Pam/Etc.’
This form is comprised of two main functions. One is to search project folders for a title/keyword/item number. (Separate searches by semicolon) The other is to impose a pdf x up.
Note, these instructions depend on having a pdf (not an InDesign file) to work with.
Click Select PDF, navigate to the product’s project folder, and click on the exported pdf of the body.
Select the correct radio button.
Click ‘Save PDF As”, and save it to the correct production folder
(for calendars: Compare new pdf to last year’s pdf to make sure imposition is correct.)
Impose Design ID
This will impose a design from the website. Select the correct design type, and enter the ID. Then Impose.
Impose Home Print Tracts & Web Pics
This creates some of the files necessary for web. Including web pics, home print (a4 + letter) pdf’s. I believe it exports them to X:\Web\Products\2 New and Updated Pics. Read the prompts for help.
At the top, specify the folder to search through (including subfolders) for final .indd files.
Check each tract file you wish to create web files for.
Click OK.
Get GP Emails From Folder Names
This will return a list of all subfolder names in a txt file. (saved to where you specify) This can be useful when creating reminder emails for GP Customers.
Share Word Utilities
I recommend against using these unless you’re looking at the code. It may work fine ... ? It was created several years ago and is in connection with migrating John’s shareword files out of his documents folder, and into the specific shareword project folder. It connects to msword, and opens each document, and searches for all(?) product numbers. Sometimes it mis-finds a product (think 1918)
Book Cover Manager
This one has buggs. Don’t open 😊. It was designed to manage the transition between old style covers, and new style covers from MechGens. I think I may publish a new version with it removed.
Print TC Files
Useful in copying the addressed TC to a hot folder. (copies them 1 at a time, with a pause between each copy to keep them in order) Check the TC Manual for more details.