Print Production Properties

A policy specifies how to handle missing items or inconsistencies.

For cases of missing assets, missing fonts, missing styles or text overflow, use the drop-down list to indicate how to handle the error. Choose one of the following options:

• Ignore: to process this record in spite of the error. The output file will include this erroneous customer information.

• Fail job: to stop processing this job altogether for all recipients. No output file will be generated.

• Skip record (missing assets and styles only): to move on to process the next record. The output file will not include a document instance for this record.

Choose whether and how to implement X-DOT in your document. Available options are:

• Use X-DOT: use the X-DOT technology.

• Ignore X-DOT as needed: do not apply X-DOT in this production run in the following cases:

  • The resulting mega object is reusable where at least one of the atomic objects was fixed.

  • The resulting mega object is unique where at least one of the atomic objects is reusable or was fixed.

  • The resulting mega object is reusable where at least one of the atomic objects is reusable.

  • Ignoring X-DOT results in: Special effects will not be visible. All shadows, feathering and opacity effects will be removed.

  • For transparent images, their transparent parts will appear white (paper color).

• Ignore X-DOT: no special effects will appear in the print output file of this production run. Note that this is equivalent to using InDesign's Pages panel menu to set the spread flattening feature to n (ignore transparency).

• Fail job: fail the current production run in each of the cases that affect the Ignore X-DOT as needed option.

More on X-DOT technology can be found in Using XMPie Dynamic Object Transparency (X-DOT) Technology.

You can produce large files (2GB or more) in all Print Output formats except for VDX.

Since some RIPs might have problems processing files larger than 2GBs, this production policy allows you to decide whether or not to fail such files.

Chose whether to fail job (the default option) or ignore.

Note that this option is not available for all formats.

Enter the number of personalized document instances you wish to create for each recipient.

Select the Step & Repeat or Cut and Stack option.

Note that all measurement values are in points. You can change the measurement units via the InDesign Preferences dialog (from the InDesign menu, choose Edit > Preferences > Units and Increments...).

Select one of the standard, preset sheet sizes or paper sizes
(for example, Letter, A4, etc.) from the drop-down list, to determine sheet dimensions.

Alternatively, choose Custom and then enter your sheet dimensions.

The width and height of the physical sheet used for printing.

• When you select a preset sheet size, these values are set automatically.

• If your sheet size is custom, set these values manually.

The width and height of the logical design page. These values are used to calculate the number of pages that can fit on a sheet.

Enter the width and height of the margins to be maintained between the edges of the logical pages and the edges of the sheet.

Note that to use cut (crop) marks, you must set the margin values. Make sure the margins are large enough to draw cut marks (it is recommended to set them to at least nine points).

Enter the X and Y values to set the gap that will be maintained between the logical pages on the sheet. These settings are required only if you wish to print or draw page information.

Automatically calculates how many documents fit into the chosen sheet or paper size. To adjust this number, change the sheet size selection.

Instead of using the auto calculate option, manually enter the number of logical pages (columns and rows) that should fit on each sheet or paper. If the values you set do not fit the sheet size selection, a warning is displayed, specifying range of allowed values.

Select this check box to order even sheets, so the front side and backside will match for each recipient (flip horizontally).

This setting is optional.

Select this check box to center all the pages that will be printed on the sheet. If you do not select this option, uCreate will set out the pages starting from the bottom-left corner of the sheet.

This setting is optional.

Select this checkbox to add the page information above each logical design page. This information includes the recipient number, and the page number of this recipient. This information is printed in the Gap/Margin area.

This setting is optional.

Adds cutting (crop) marks on the margin area of the sheet, by defining their coordinates from the outside of the document to the inside of the document (note that this value does not set the length of the cut marks).

Select this check box to add crop marks, and then set their inset value in the Bleed X and BleedY fields.

Note: Cut Marks require room to draw within the margin area (not next to the document). If you add cut marks, make sure the margin field has height and width values that are large enough to include cut marks.

Choose the PDF presets (job options file) for producing this file.

All job options files installed on your machine (InDesign’s Adobe PDF Presets) are available for selection.

Note: For PDF/VT-1, you can also customize specific job options (see Customizing PDF/VT-1 Export Settings).

These are advanced parameters. If you are unfamiliar with them, please leave the default values, or go online for further reading.

Define how transparency is implemented in the output, by choosing one of the following options:

• Flatten transparency in print output file (default): all transparent content is flattened when XMPie produces the Print Output file, without relying on the RIP’s ability to implement transparency.

  Choose this option in the following cases:

  • The RIP has no transparency implementation.

  • You are not sure if the RIP implementation supports transparency.

  • If you experience that the RIP transparency implementation is significantly slower than the production of flattened PDF, PDF/VT-1 or PDF/VT-3.

• Use RIP transparency: transparency is not flattened, but rather maintained in the PDF, PDF/VT-1 or PDF/VT-3 Print Output file. This option results in a significantly smaller and more efficient output file, in case transparency is used. With this option, the RIP is expected to implement transparency support of PDF, PDF/VT-1 or PDF/VT-3. Choose this option when you are using a PDF, PDF/VT-1 or PDF/VT-3 compatible RIP with transparency support.

Specify which of the following elements should be embedded in the print output file. Note that the available options depend on your image rendering setting.

Choose whether to embed fonts or not:

• If you choose to embed fonts, a complete font definition will be embedded in the Print Output file.

• If you choose not to embed fonts, the Print Output file will only contain references to the used fonts. Note that CID fonts are an exception: these fonts are not referenced but embedded as a subset.

This option controls the embedding of all fonts except for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) fonts. If the document uses CJK fonts, they are always embedded as subsets, regardless of this setting.

Choose whether to embed Assets and /or Resources in the print output file. When the check box is unselected, the print output file includes references to external asset /resource files resulting in a “thinner” VPS, VIPP, or PPML file.

If your printer’s RIP (Raster Image Processor) supports external Assets/Resources, you may choose not to embed Assets/Resources.

Note that when Require InDesign Rendering (Better color management) is selected, Assets and Resources are always embedded (so these check boxes are disabled).

Choose whether to embed PPML Resources in the PPML Print Output file:

• When this box is unchecked (the default option), uCreate produces two Print Output files:

  • A PPML file: a file containing a reference to reusable resources, which is submitted to the Printer Server (RIP).

  • A reusable resources file:before submitting the PPML to the RIP, this file should be placed in the RIP’s images folder (sometimes referred to as the “HighRes” folder). When processing the PPML file, the RIP resolves the reference to this file.

    Choose this option if your RIP does not support PPML 2.1, or does not support embedding reusable resources.

• When this box is checked, uCreate generates a single file to be submitted to the RIP (no additional actions are required).

  Choose this option if your RIP supports PPML 2.1, or supports embedding of reusable resources in earlier PPML versions.

Choose the method of rendering images in the XMPie print output:

• Allow non-InDesign Rendering (Optimized for performance): Allow XMPie to bypass InDesign handling of images, by adding the images directly to the output to improves performance.

• Require InDesign Rendering (Enhanced color management): Images will always be handled by InDesign.

Enter a name for the project to be generated in the VIPP Print Output format. This name enables the RIP to locate referenced images of the VIPP file that reside in the corresponding project folder.

For PPML/PS 2.1, PPML PS/1.5, VPS PDF/VT-1 and PDF/VT-3 Print Output formats, you can select the Use RIP Global Caching option to create the print stream in a way that enables the RIP to make use of cached elements from previous runs. The cached elements are shared between runs of the same document (with possible differences of the target data set).

Adobe InDesign includes a feature called Liquid Layout which enables the designer to create rules in the document that determine how the design will change if the page size changes.

You can find out more about setting up an InDesign document for Liquid Layouts at Liquid layouts and Alternate layouts.

If your document is designed to work with Liquid Layouts and is saved/uploaded to the uProduce server, then when you proof or process the document you can check the Liquid Layout option and set the required page height and width.

Note that this feature is not available for XLIM documents, and if the InDesign file does not have any rules defined for Liquid Layout, then changing the page size with the Liquid Layout setting will create output with the new page size, but the document will not be scaled or modified to fit the selected page size.

Create external files that hold the document’s reusable elements, which are referenced by the VIPP, PPML and VPS Print Output file, to optimize the document’s processing by certain print controllers.

This option is useful for troubleshooting errors in the PPML file.

Create external files that hold the document’s unique elements, which are referenced by the VIPP and PPML Print Output files, to optimize the document’s processing by certain print controllers.

This option is useful for troubleshooting errors in the PPML file.

Add recipient information values of any content object (except for tables) as metadata. These metadata are stored in the PDF/VT Metadata node of each recipient.

If your RIP supports document groups, determine the way to mark a document set (in PPML version 2.1) or a job (in PPML version 1.5) in the PPML file.

• When selected, each record in the collection of documents is tagged as a document set/job.

• When deselected, the entire collection of documents in the PPML file is tagged as a single document set/job (this is the default option, compatible with most RIPs).

This option applies only to Xeikon RIPs. It allows you to mark a background that is used for all records in a way that enables the RIP to process the Print Output file more efficiently.

If the document contains one or more Spread Visibility rules, no tagging as master page is performed, even if this option is checked.

By default, uProduce production engine automatically splits the job between all the available uProduce instances to optimize the production speed.

It is possible to limit a job to use only a specific number of instances, so that another job can also be run at the same time on the idle instances.

The production optimization is not available in the following cases:

• XLIM documents

• The following print output formats: VDX / JPG / PNG / HTML / PROOF_SET / FLAT / RECORD_SET / INX / IDML / EPS / CUSTOM.

• uProduce system with SI license

• When the number of recipients processed in the job is below a certain limit (100 recipients by default).

Select the checkbox, and then set the number of required instances.