You can use the Job Browser to open all preview files for a job, and you can open the fronts and backs of multiple impositions
- Choose Job Browser from the File menu or select the toolbar icon
- Launch the Job Browser dialog box using either the File>Job Browser menu item or the Job Browser icon
in the toolbar - In the Open dialog that appears, select the Folder containing a set of job separations and press the Select button. (Note, you must select the enclosing folder, not the individual separations within the folder.)
- The Job Browser dialog opens and allows you to preview the number of signatures, imposition styles and colors contained in the separations.
- Click Open to open the imposition separations, or expand the top level folder to show all the available signatures, check the checkbox of each signature you wish to view, and click Open
- This dialog box displays the contents of the last folder selected. Press Rescan to select a new folder for viewing.
Job Browser File Formats
The Job Browser will recognize VPS and TIFF separations as members of a "Job" if the separations were created by Kodak PREPs or Pandora. Impositions created from Kodak software contain imposition metadata (DIG comments) that get inserted into VPS/TIFF files, and allow VPS+ to recognize them as imposition job files.
Output files created from non-Kodak imposition programs will not contain the necessary comments and will not be recognized as belonging to an imposition Job.
Loose page TIFF/VPS files do not contain imposition tags, and so will not be recognized as belonging to a Job.
LEN files are produced by non-Kodak systems and will not be recognized as belonging to a Job.
Prinergy Output
When outputting files from Prinergy, always select Advanced TIFF Tags in Prinergy Output Process Templates to embed color definitions and geometry information in VPS and TIFF files. If Advanced TIFF Tags are included in the files, VPS+ will recognize spot color names and display their color equivalents.
VPS+ is able to extract geometric information (such as trim size, bleed and imposition page number) for imposed VPS/TIFFs output from Prinergy workflow systems. This geometry and position information is written as proprietary Kodak tags into the headers of the files. VPS+ has UI selections that allow display of imposition information, press sheet, page and bleed edges, page numbers and type safety edges. This geometric information also allows the VPS+ Job Browser to recognize the files as part of an imposition Job.
There is no ISO standard for imposition tags, so VPS+ is not able to read proprietary imposition tags from TIFFs produced by other workflow systems.