• Page assignment and geometry assignment instructions are independent. You can use either or both in an APA file.
• In each page assignment instruction, you can use either the page set name or the page set prefix name.

• To express page names, you can either specify them explicitly or use wild cards and pattern matching. For example:

  Refined file name	Explanation
  Front.p1.pdf	Names the page explicitly
  .p2.pdf	wild card matches letters in the page name
  .p .pdf	wild card matches letters, then wild card matches numbers in the page name
  .p.pdf	wild card matches either letters or numbers. wild card matches the page number and uses it as a back reference to the page position.

• To assign a page to the same position in every page set, use a wild card for the page set name/prefix. For example:

  Refined file name	Page set name/prefix	Position	Layer
  Book.p1.pdf		1	1

• To make a back reference to the page set name page set prefix, position number, or layer number, use a pattern in the page name. For example:

  Refined file name	Page set name/prefix	Position	Layer
  .p1.pdf		1	1
  Page.p.pdf	pageset1		1

• To indicate page position, use simple addition and subtraction expressions. For example:

  Refined file name	Page set name/prefix	Position	Layer
  Cover.p.pdf	8-up	+ 25	1

• To assign one page to several positions, use the All Positions ( * ), Contiguous (..), and Noncontiguous (,) page position wild cards. You must type these wild card characters using your keyboard; no buttons are available. For example:

  Refined file name	Page set name/prefix	Position	Layer
  6x9Page.p1.pdf	OneFileToAllPgPostitions	*	1
  4x5Page.p1.pdf	OneFileToContigRange	1..5	1
  4x10Page.p1.pdf	OneFileToNonContigRange	5,10,20,30	1

• To use a geometry setting from the input file, include Mixed for that column in the Geometry Assignments view in the APA Editor. In a raw APA file, include empty square brackets [ ] for that parameter in the GEOM= statement.

  File Name	file.p1.pdf
  Offset X	-36 pt
  Offset Y	-36 pt
  Trim Size X	Mixed
  Trim Size Y	Mixed
  ScaleX	1
  ScaleY	1
  Orientation	0

• Layer number is relevant only for versioning jobs. The base layer is layer 1. For non-versioning jobs, type 1.
• Avoid using the characters *, %, #, and $ in filenames. Those are wild card characters in APA text file syntax.

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