By applying appropriate keywords to custom label marks, you can give your own label marks intelligent functionality.

  1. Create and save the mark as an EPS in creative software such as Adobe Illustrator. See Creating marks in Adobe Illustrator for use in Pandora software. (This document is also available in the Pandoraversion\Documentation folder.) In the software, identify the color used in the mark as a spot color, even if it is a process color.
  2. Open the file in Adobe Acrobat, and select File > Document Properties > Summary.

  3. In the Document Summary dialog box, type the keyword in the Keywords box. The keyword provides the functionality of an intelligent mark. The keywords for dynamic marks are:

    Keyword

    Use

    DieStationNumber

    Needed to apply numbering functionality to the die station number marks

    Label

    Needed for all label marks

    Text

    Needed for all editable text marks

    NoForm

    Indicates that the artwork will not be forms-cached

    PreviewBorder

    Makes it possible for a preview of a knockout mark to show up in the Marks palette

  4. Click OK.
  5. If necessary, use the Crop tool to crop the mark.
  6. Save the file in Acrobat. You can include a prefix in the file name so that similar marks appear together in the list in the User folder on the Marks palette (examples of prefixes are REG for a registration mark, LBL for a label mark).

The items you can use in a custom text label mark are listed in the following table. You can use only the choices in the table.

All label marks must have the Label keyword applied.

Important: When creating the PDF file of the mark, do not subset the fonts, or you may have missing characters in the text mark.

Building blocks for custom text label marks

Description

<#>

Die station number. Requires the DieStationNumber keyword.

<Color.1>, <Color.2>

The first color listed for the job on the Output Setup tab of job properties, the second color listed for the job on the Output Setup tab, and so on.

<Contact Name>

The contents of the Contact box on the Job Information tab

<Contact Phone>

The contents of the Phone box on the Job Information tab

<Customer>

The contents of the Customer box on the Job Information tab

<Date>

The date you are sending the job to print from Pandora software, according to the computer clock

<Device>

The selected output device on the Output Setup tab

<Job Filename>

The name of the job file

<Job ID>

The contents of the Job ID box on the Job Information tab

<Job Note>

The contents of the Notes box on the Job Information tab

<MC>

The month the job was output, according to the computer clock

<Press>

The contents of the Press box on the Materials & Equipment tab

<Text>

The text entered in the Text box of the Mark Properties dialog box or job properties > Job Information tab

<Time>

The time you are sending the job to print from the Pandora software, according to the computer clock

<YC>

The year the job was output, according to the computer clock

You can add static text to text labels by typing the static text outside of angle brackets. For example, if you want the text label to be "Customer: Kodak" you can type the text label as Customer:<Customer> when the job is to print for the customer "Kodak."