Production

Choose the format in which to produce the Print output file, depending on what is available for your system:

PDF

PDF/VT-1

PDF/VT-3

Interactive PDF. See Interactive PDF File Format.

Preflight. See Preflight.

VPS

VIPP

PPML

VDX

Post script

Legacy PDF (deprecated)

JPG

PNG

EPUB (Fixed Layout) and EPUB (Reflowable). See EPUB File Format.

Notes:

• The print format you choose here determines the available Process page options. Note also that for some print formats, the automatic production optimization is disabled.

• The available print output formats vary according to the document format (InDesign or XLIM).

Name the print output files using one of the following options:

• Automatic: If your production is via uProduce, the output file name will be based on the processed document name. However, if the production is via Circle, the output file name will be based on the selected touchpoint name.

• Value: Enter the name you wish to use for the resulting print output file. If you wish, you can select the Append Job ID to File Name checkbox to append a job ID to the file name.

• ADOR: Automatically generate file names according to a text ADOR object. Select a text ADOR object from the ADOR list.

  The ADOR object value should use valid filename characters only. Invalid characters (for example, \, ?, *) are replaced with valid ones when an output file is created. The ADOR object value should not contain the file extension (for example, PDF or JPEG); this extension is appended automatically when the print output file is created.

  The ability to set the file name according to an ADOR object may be used in several scenarios, for example:

  • When selecting the separate file for each record check box, each file generated will be given a name that matches the value of the text ADOR object in the corresponding record.

  • When setting up production to automatically split the job into multiple batches, the name that will be given to output files of each batch will match the value of the text ADOR object in the first record in each corresponding batch.

When selecting a different data source (or a table in a data source) for each production run, the name that will be given to output files will match the value of the text ADOR object in the first record in the selected data source (or table in a data source).

See this video to learn how to name the VDP output file name with the name of the data source that was used to create the print file on the uProduce server. This is particularly important for mailing houses that use one InDesign template and regularly receive new data sources from the customer.

Select the required resolution of a PNG or JPG output format. Choose one of the following options:

• Low (72 DPI): useful for web productions.

• High (300 DPI): useful for print productions.

• Custom: enter the DPI value that suits your specific needs (for example, enter 144 to create large thumbnails).

• The Auto option calculates the best online display resolution based on the InDesign document size.

For PDF and PDF/VT, you can choose to display the interactive elements in the document. Note that these elements will appear but will not be active.

Generate a password protected PDF/Interactive PDF.

Protecting the PDF with a password is possible only when producing single-record PDFs. ​

Once selecting this option, enter a value or select an ADOR which will be used as the password field. ​

The output is single PDFs, each protected by the password provided by the ADOR. When opening the PDF​, a Password window opens requesting the reader to enter the password.

Note that if the password value of a specific recipient is empty, the document opens without requesting a password.

Notes:

• The password is assigned to opening or reading the document only. It does not set any other password-protected options such as printing or editing.

• This option is only available when the output is generated from uProduce.

A permissions password (the primary password) requires a password to change permission settings. Using a permissions password, you can restrict printing, editing, and copying content in the PDF.

You can enter a value or select an ADOR which will be used as the password field.

This option is available for PDF and interactive PDF output formats and is not supported in XLIM documents.

Select this option to specify to the screen reader in which language to read the PDF.

You can either enter the language or select an ADOR whose value contains the language.

This option is available for PDF and interactive PDF output formats, and is not supported in XLIM documents.

For PDF, PDF/VT and Legacy PDF (deprecated), you can choose to create a separate print output file for each recipient. This is useful for electronic distribution of output files.

Notes:

• For Interactive PDF, EPUB, JPG and PNG documents, separate files per record are automatically created and compressed to a ZIP file.

• By default, uProduce production engine automatically splits the job between all the available uProduce instances to optimize the production speed. However, if you select this checkbox, the production optimization will be disabled for this job.

• This option is not available in XLIM document type when choosing the PDF/VT output format.

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.

Generates a CSV file that contains meta data of the output.

Each row in the CSV relates to a single recipient, and includes information such as number of pages and ADORs.

Select this checkbox to set the number of document copies to be created for each recipient record in the data source.

If the number of copies is based on the value of a specific ADOR object, choose this ADOR object from the list.

Select this option to trigger an email notification when the production job completes.

The resulting email contains all the information about the job, the document, the database, the assets, everything including a UNC share path to the output files created. Read more

When submitting either a Process job or Proof job, you can determine its priority. Priority controls the order of the job in the waiting queue. It may also be used to interrupt currently running jobs in favor of a rush-job.

Choose between four priority options:

• Low: submit the job with a low priority. The job will be submitted to the lowest level of the waiting queue.

• Normal: submit the job with a normal priority (the default option for Process jobs). The job will be placed among other normal jobs in the waiting queue.

• High: submit the job with a high priority. The job will be placed at the top area of the waiting queue.

• Immediate: submit a "Rush Job" (the default option for Proof jobs). The job will be processed immediately. If all production instances are busy, one of the currently running jobs will be paused in favor of processing the "Immediate" job. If all instances are currently handling "Immediate" jobs, the job will be placed at the top of the waiting queue until one of the instances becomes available.