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You could use iCut layout for this. Create a Print file based on irregular shapes for the digital printer and at the same time export a cutting file for your kongsberg. It's available as a trial on Esko's website. https://www.esko.com/en/products/i-cut-suite.

The zip file is a workflow - Download the zip file - go to AE pilot - Tickets & import the downloaded zip file. Open the ticket and run it to evaluate if it works for you...

You mention station number, so i assume you're in folding carton. Using the CAD based Step&Repeat tasks? There is a movie online showing showing the Create CAD sheet task. It can be driven from an XML file. The task was released in 12. something...

I prefer to have some steps automatically checked. Basic things like font issues / image resolution / trim box etc... Just because we can check them as soon as artwork is delivered. Anybody receiving customer PDF files can send those files in to the preflight workflow. We've setup an email...

You are correct that the task clean up rules will clear the history. But once the task history is cleared the temp files related to those tasks will be removed as well. Alternative the mark & select should do the trick as well...

But why would you like to resize this Panel? All options are available. Even when switching to "all page boxes" the window resizes automatically to the optimal size for these extra options. I see a need with the ink manager. But not with the trimbox. After all the standard AI align panel is...

Working fine with CC2014 and the 14.1 release...

Your cutting file can contain different cut seperations if you've defined them in the file - and if you've setup all the cutting inks in the export nested layout task / workflow which is linked to your gangrun output. To test this make sure the stickers cutting objects (circles) are named kiss...

You could also add the order identifier on the nested layout using a smartmark.

Seems you need to define extra cutting information. I assume you want AE to nest your full A4 artwork file. But from you description my guess AE considers the spot colour from the individual sticker as the cut path and uses the individual file as the file to nest in stead of the complete A4...

By default all Active jobs are shown in the job overview modus, showing jobs from 2014 & 2015. But you can use filter methods to show only jobs located in the 2015 folder from your main container. Use the filter tool "JOB URL" Contains "2015" and save this filter for future use.

I think you could use the "auto-number1" smartname for this.... Have a look at the help.esko.com page. And search for the article KB83165360: Automation Engine - What is the difference between the "n-th InputFile" SmartName and the "Auto-Number1" SmartName... Hope this helps out....

What os are you using running the nexus manager?

The fact that some of us experience the problem and others not is a bit strange. And might be the reason why it's so hard to solve the issue. Chevalier, you mention you need to restart several times a day. In the KB article they advice to delete your pref's folder. Did you try this? I suppose...

Hi Chevalier, What do you want to integrate? What kind of information do you want to share? If you can export your FM records to an XML file you can do nice integration between the two. Depending on the modules you have different scenario's are possible. You can either work with Workflow...

Try esko's help page.

The instant trapper is an interactive trapper. You choose object per object how you want to apply the trapping. There are options to add trapping to complete objects to make life easier. I really like it, it's easy to use. Puts the trap object on a separate layer which makes it easy to delete or...

Hi Phish, There is a guide online to activate your license / use your trial software... Check out this link. Once you closed the activation window you can still go to the AI help menu (esko/esko plugins) to get it working... Hope this helps!

If you're in the sign market have a look at icut preflight (trial available on the esko website). It has pretty nice tools dedicated for the sign market. Bleed creation, pitstop preflighting, cut path generation and more importantly it's a native PDF editor.

Correct as long as you're fine with crease lines @ 90 degrees... Thanks for sharing this toweri;)