Additional Content

This page appears as part of the Advanced Print Wizard and the print Output Preset wizard.

The Additional Content page allows you to add content at the time of printing. There are four different types of Additional Content that can be added at print time: Text; Images; Barcodes and OMR Marks.
They can be used to add either static content or variable content.

The Additional Content option is particularly useful when you might need to drive custom processes on production machines using either Barcodes or OMR Marks, or if you need to add some last minute additions to the print job via text and/or images.
Additional content can also be used on banner pages.

Additional Text and Barcodes can contain template and file variables (see File name variables), making it possible, for example, to display the output file name on banner pages.

Tip: Having a barcode added at the time of printing is also a time saver in an automated process where only a barcode needs to be added to an existing PDF and a template is actually unnecessary. In this case, content creation can be skipped. (See Print processes with OL Connect tasks.)

Page breakdown

The Additional Content table displays any Additional Content that has been set.
Additional Content can be added, edited, removed, duplicated or moved within the table via the buttons to the right of the table.

The Additional Content options are:

  • Add: Click to open some Additional Content.
    The choices are as follows:

  • Edit: Click to edit the currently selected entry. This will launch the appropriate edit box, for the selected entry type.
    Double clicking on an entry in the table has the same effect as this button.

  • Delete: Click to delete the currently selected entry or entries.

  • Duplicate: Click to create a duplicated copy of the entry. This creates a new entry that is exactly the same as the original.

  • / Move Up / Move Down: Click to move the selected entry (or entries) up or down within the table.

Additional Content Table: The table is split up into the following columns

  • Include in Output: Indicates whether the entry is to be included in the output or not. The settings made in the Additional Content dialog box can be over-ridden here.
    This allows you to create a virtual "library" of Additional Content options in an Output Preset, from which you can then pick and choose from at time of printing.

  • Type: Displays an icon showing what type the Additional Content entry is.

  • Description: Displays the Description" that was entered in the Additional Content dialog.

    Note: The entered text Description might stretch over a couple of lines, so it is possible that not all of the Description will be displayed here.

  • Left: Displays the Additional Content Left Positional value.

  • Bottom: Displays the Additional Content Bottom Positional value.

  • Content: Displays the actual Additional Content that is to be inserted.
    For Text, this would be the actual text (or data fields) that are to be inserted.
    For Image, this would be the name of the image file.
    For Barcode, this would be the data fields used for creating the barcode.
    For OMR, this would be the number of marks set for this entry.

  • Condition: Displays the condition that is used to determine whether this Additional Content instance is to be added to the output or not (see How to set up conditions). Document information variables that you can use in conditions are listed in the topic: Variables Available in Output.

Advanced Printing Wizard and Output Preset navigation options

  • Preview button (active in Advanced Print Wizard only): Click to launch a Proof Preview window, which displays how the printed output would look based upon the currently chosen selections.

  • Back and Next buttons: Used to navigate back and forth through all the selected options within the Wizard. Up until the Print button is pressed, one can reverse all the way through the wizard to return to the main selection page (the Print options page) and add or remove printing options from the print run.

  • Print button (Advanced Print Wizard only) or Finish button (Output Preset Wizard only):
    Click to produce print output/finalize the Preset according to the current settings.
    This can be done at any point within the Wizard, whether or not all the options selected in the Print options page have been completed or not.

  • Cancel button: Cancels the Print Wizard, without creating any printout or altering Preset.