non-Preps software to build ganged jobs and aliases has not been
tested. The pages assigned to the impositions may be registered as
input files, and may require refining.
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Impositions populated within Prinergy—If, without using Preps, you
add more than one instance of a page to an imposition within
Prinergy, the pages are duplicated in the imposition.
Note: Prinergy now allows aliases and source pages to have different file names.
This enables you to take a copy of the PDF from the subpages folder and put it in
another folder, give the copy a new name, and create a layout job ticket that
references the renamed copy.
Ganging with page aliases
Page aliases are automatically created when you assemble with Preps
Ganging and import a ganged job into Prinergy using these steps.
Requirements:
For this procedure, using Preps 6.0 imposition software or later is
preferred. Preps versions 5 and earlier lower are no longer tested or
supported.
Important: Do not gang pages until the content is stable. If you rerefine a page
after it has already been ganged in Preps, the ganged layout is not imported into
Prinergy.
1. Start Preps Ganging.
2. Place refined pages into Preps Ganging. All refined pages contain a
hidden identification tag inserted on refine. You can place pages
using any of the following methods:
○
Drag the pages from Job Manager to Preps Ganging.
○
Drag the files from the
System\Subpages
folder for the job to
Preps Ganging.
○
Copy the files from the
System\Subpages
folder for the job
to another location on the job volume (for example, a staging
folder for gang jobs), either manually or using RBA. In Preps
Ganging, locate and add the files.
3. After you finish placing pages in the ganged imposition, print the
imposition to PJTF.
4. Import the populated imposition into a Prinergy job.
You can create a job specifically for the ganged imposition or use
an existing Prinergy job. If you use an existing Prinergy job, the
pages must have been refined in Prinergy 5 or later.
The import process template must have the
Set Initial Separations
option selected, so that the separations are properly assigned to
the incoming imposition.
A page alias is created in the ganged layout for each tag that
matches that of an existing page.
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