A printed job ticket

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:06 pm

As part of my effort to organize the internal workflow I would like to prepare a printable (pdf) job ticket which includes all the metadata (external and internal).

I may be totally wrong but the only way I found (and I am new to the environment) is to export metadata convert it to csv (xslt) and to merge it with an VDP template (let's say Designer).

I have all the modules but before getting to code it I would like to know whether there is a easier way.

Thank you

Ariel

dkelly · Post by **dkelly** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:20 pm

I've implemented many simple and complex job tickets for my customers using Apago PDF Constructor. A Switch script creates an XML description of job ticket layout including text, barcodes, images, PDF pages, form fields, etc which PDF Constructor converts to PDF.

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:29 pm

sounds very interesting!

Unfortunately, we have already installed Indesign Server and DEsigner Server which as far as I understand - are covering more or less the same functionality.

dkelly · Post by **dkelly** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 7:35 pm

Here's an example of a job ticket we created for a customer.

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:08 pm

very impressive!!!

ArielRauch · Post by **ArielRauch** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:04 pm

there are no technical data on your ticket. What is the best way to extract size, color space, bleed and so on from the pdf file to a csv or at least to xml?

dkelly · Post by **dkelly** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:25 pm

Use Switch's Statistics variables or for more detailed information use Apago PDFspy.

dkelly · Post by **dkelly** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 10:31 pm

Another job ticket created by PDF Constructor in Switch flow