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You can set up Prinergy to create custom file names for output to help you identify them. Custom file names can be based on specified file attributes. For example, when outputting separations, you can create file names that reflect the job name and the separation color.

Set up custom file names in the Processed File Options section of the loose page output, imposition output, and final output process templates.


File name template format

When setting custom file names in the Filename Template box in the Processed File Options section of your output process template, use the following format:

%tag1<n1>%.%tag2<n2>%...%tagN<nN>%

where:

  • tag1 is the name of the first tag, for example, Job or Color. For supported tags, see below.
  • n1 is an optional element and represents the maximum number of characters of the first tag that are displayed from left to right. This optional element can also be represented as n-1 to display characters for the tag from right to left. 
    For example, if the job name is TestJob, the file name template %JOB<5>%.Spot-%COLOR%.hello.pdf produces a file name such as TestJ.Spot-3.hello.pdf. For the same example, if you specified %JOB<5>%.Spot%COLOR%.hello.pdf, the file name is stJoB.Spot-3.hello.pdf.

The following truncation options are also available:

<n1,n2>

Start at n1 and use n2 characters to the right of it.

<n1,-n2>

Start at n1 and use n2 characters to the left of it.

<-n1,n2>

Start at –n1 (n1 characters to the left from the end of the job name) and use n2 characters to the right of it.

<-n1,-n2>

Start at –n1 (n1 characters to the left from the end of the job name) and use n2 characters to the left of it.

Notes:

  • The entire file name cannot exceed 128 characters.
  • If the file or job name has % in it use %% in the tag to get % in the name. 


Supported tags

The custom file naming feature supports the following tags:

Tag Name

Description

Artworkname

Name of the input page (same as Page)

Color

Color of the separation.
If the separation is a spot color, see Full Color Spot Names check box below this table.
See %LongColorName%.

Colorant

Color of the separation (same as Color)

Custom Fields:
%CustomfieldJob%
%CustomfieldSubpage%
%CustomfieldPageset%
$[CustomFieldPagePosition]
%CustomfieldPage%
%CustomfieldImposition%
%CustomfieldSignature%
%CustomfieldSurface%
%CustomfieldSeparation%

In Prinergy you can create custom fields for jobs or for elements within a job, so that you can track unique information about the job or element.
You can use custom fields to create variable marks and custom file naming. For example, if you have created custom fields at the job level or job element level (page, page set, imposition, signature, surface, and separation), you can use them for variable marks and custom file naming.

To create a filename based upon custom field, it is necessary to specify the name of the custom field in the custom filename syntax. Custom field filenames take the content that you define for the custom field as a parameter. For example: 

%CustomFieldJob_Salesperson%.%extension%, "Salesperson" is the name that you defined for a job-level custom field, and the value of the field would be the custom filename, for example, Bob.pdf.

%ImpositionJDFName%
%SignatureJDFName%
%SheetJDFName%

If you want to name the PPF file with values taken from JDF file, delete the variables that appear by default in the Filename Template box and enter these custom fields.

Extension

Appropriate file name extension based on the output type.
For example, if the output is for the Virtual Proofing System, the %JOB<6>%.%EXTENSION% template would generate the file name TestJo.vps.

Imposition

Name of the imposition

Job

Name of the job

Jobname

Name of the job (same as Job)

%%

%% is replaced with %. If the file or job name has % in it, use %% in the tag to get % in the name.

LongColorName

Replaces the spot color name with the full length name for the spot color, such as PANTONE 300C. This enables the PrintLink digital-ink profiling software external file name to identify the spot color name.

OriginalPagename

Name of the input page without the refiner.
For example, if the job name is TestJob and the page name is front.p1.pdf, the %ORIGINALPAGENAME%.pdf template would generate the file name front.pdf. In this example, 'p1' is the refiner.

OriginalArtwork

Name of the input page without the refiner (same as OriginalPagename)
For example, if the artwork name is front.p1.pdf, the %ORIGINALARTWORK%.pdf template would generate the file name front.pdf. In this example, 'p1' is the refiner.

PaddedSheet<n>

Sheet number is padded with zeros to create a number with n digits.
For example, if the tag used is PaddedSheet<3>, sheet 1 is represented as 001.

PaddedSignature<n>

Signature number is padded with zeros to create a number with n digits.
For example, if the tag used is PaddedSignature<3>, signature 1 is represented as 001.
This feature also works with the pageset position. For example, if the tag used is PaddedSignature<3>, pageset position 1 is represented as 001.

Page

Name of the input page.
Note: The input page name is not the same as the input file name.

Pagename

Name of the input page (same as Page)

Pageset

Name of the page set

SideLetter corresponding to the side (F = front, B = back)

Signature

Signature number

Sheet

Sheet number

Surface

Letter corresponding to the surface (A = front, B = back)

Username

Name of the current operator

Version

Number that is given to the output file. The system always sets the version field to 0 for the most recently created file. The second most recent file would be changed to 1 from 0. If there is a third output file, it would be changed to 2 from 1 and so on.

Date/Time Tags



Date

Date (DD-MM-YYYY) on which the file is created

Day

Day (DD) in which the file is created

Month

Month (MM) in which the file is created

Year

Current year (YYYY) in which the file is created

Time

Time (HH-mm-SS) at which the file is created

Hour

Hour (HH) in which the file is created

Minute

Minute (mm) in which the file is created

Second

Second (SS) at which the file is created


Controlfile Filename Template box

All of the following output formats require a control (master) file. If you are using one of these formats, you can specify the name of the control file using the Controlfile Filename Template box:

  • DCS Raster
  • DCS (Vector output)
  • Approval TIFF
  • LQS TIFF

The file name template format and supported tags for the Controlfile Filename Template box are the same as those for the Filename Template box.


Full Spot Color Names check box

By default, custom file naming uses the numerical format to identify spot colors. The numerical format is derived from the order in which spot colors are listed. For example, if Pthalo Blue is the third spot color listed, a file name template of %JOB,6%-%COLOR%.pdf would generate the file name TestJo-3.pdf.
If you want to use the spot color names in the output file names, select the Use Full Spot Color Names check box. To use this check box, you must include the %COLOR% tag in the Filename Template.

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