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Folks, Has anyone had any experience working with bleed and Odystar/Pitstop? I need to do two things - 1. Check that a PDF has the appropriate amount of bleed. 2. If the PDF doesn't have the appropriate amount, add that bleed. I was told that resizing the bleed box with the Prepress gateway...

Ok, I am FAR from an XML Xpert, but you'll be looking at something like - //od:XMPItem/[@XMPItemName='ns_78:Length']/@XMPItemValue As I said... no expert. It may need some tweaking.

Hi Steve, Once you have updated XMP info via the housekeeping gateway you should then view the ticket.jdf. Your metadata will be in that file. If you can cut and paste the block of XML where your metadata is I can probably help you write the XPath expression to use. Regards HP

Hi Rob, I MAY have jumped the gun a bit with my, "It's all now working a treat". It is still not 100%, but that's more to the fact that I've been doing other things. So the config file is pretty simple. I basically just edited the default file with - All the variables starting with "LP" are...

Hi Jeff, Yes, that is definitely an option. Thanks! Where this gets even more complicated however, is when a job is supplied scaled down. We work in large format print, so often a client will supply a file at 10, 25 or 50%. It's a real can of worms I know! What I was hoping to do was to get...

Folks, Firstly, thanks for all the help I have received on this forum! Odystar and myself are now playing well together :) That said, I have now run into a bit of a snag. I need to compare the trim size (or any other "box" size really) of the supplied PDF to the info we have in our job...

In case anyone else stumbles upon this through a forum search, I think I've come up with an answer. After much mucking about, the key was using ExifTool by Phil Harvey to write metadata to the PDFX namespace. It meant creating a custom .ExifTool_config file which included my variables. Then...

Hi Jeff, Thanks a lot for your kind offer. It seems, with your help (and help from Esko Australia), that I can now read and route via XMP metadata!! Very happy!! The next challenge is writing the data in to the correct schema via an Applescript gateway. Not sure how that is going to happen yet...

Ok, so I tested Jeff's method above and all works well. Thanks Jeff! Now, using Jeff's info, I thought I'd take this one step further, and to somewhere that I want to be. I'm experimenting with writing XMP data into the PDF file with specific information from our job database (MIS). I then plan...

Ah!! Cheers Jeff. Sorry for the delay, but I didn't get an alert email. Thought I'd check back. What you have explained all makes sense. Now I've just got to put it into practise. Thanks again! This will help a lot! Regards HP

Folks, May I start this by saying that I am FAR from an expert in Odystar. I'm probably even far from a novice, but I do enjoy tinkering with it. Dangerous probably describes me best. Anyhow... what I am trying to do is to route a job through a canvas based on public parameters (or any other...

Ouch! Oh well, looks like we may be up for new servers. Thanks for the info folks!

Ahhh! Well, I guess that will be ok. Our MIS was developed inhouse so we can normally get some decent XML out of it. Thanks for the advice though! I'm looking forward to getting more out of the software myself. I can see it is definitely capable! As a side note, is it true that Automation...

Thanks PrepressBB! I'm assuming we would first try integration via XML and see where we could go with that, and maybe JDF further down the track. Can you expand on the limitations a bit? I'm assuming you mean you can only have one-way communication with an XML file. I guess this would be a...

Sounds great!! Thanks a bunch for the reply guys. This functionality alone will be reason enough for us to migrate over!! ...and thanks for the email DECH. I'll be checking out the link tonight! Regards HP