Is there a reason that "multi-page" is grayed out on Image? I have the output type set to PDF file.

Thanks.

FormMaster,

The "Multi-page" option is for actual image format that support this option such as Tiff.

A PDF, by default, is always multipage (though it can contain only 1 page) so the option is always on.

Hope this helps,
Eric.

Thank you.

I guess my question is then, why is it not concantenating the PDF files?

FormMaster,

The PlanetPress Image does not concatenate PDF files. It creates images.

If you want to contatenate PDF files you can do a few things. First, in PlanetPress Workflow 7.1 there is a new input plugin called "Concatenate PDF" which can work by taking all of the PDFs in a folder with a certain mask, and put them all in a file.

Second, you can use a "Send to Folder" output with the "concatenate" option checked to do it (this, however, requires Office or Production, it does not work in Watch).

Lastly, you could use a PlanetPress Design document to display all your PDFs using showpage() commands in a runpage with loops - but that's not an easy solution.

Hope this helps,
Eric.

I'm going to bring this back to life from 6+ months ago.

Eric, I believe I'm looking for the same solution that FormMaster is.

As an example:
I have a text data file that has multiple form-feeds in it, resulting in 4 pages of data. I have PlanetPress Design v7 document that is set up to work with one page of data from that text file at a time. The way this works now for me is that in Watch I would set up a generic splitter that splits on a form-feed, and sends the resulting split "page" of data to a PP Image connector. That connector would then create a 1-page *.pdf file from that "page" of data, and in the end I would have 4 1-page *.pdf files.

What I would like to do is to send that text file to Watch, and somehow generate a single *.pdf file that has all 4 pages in it.

Is something like that possible using Watch and Design? If there's any more info I can provide about what I'm trying to do, or if there's any way I can make it more clear please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks!
Guy

Hi Guy,

Using your data file without splitting it will generate a single PDF with all pages. The splitter here is the one generating all the single page jobs, not the FF emulation in your form.

Hope this helps. Regards,

Olivier