Start a product assembly by entering the available product intent that describes the customer's product requirements, or by opening a JDF file that pre-populates this information.
The Assembly view provides access to all the information and settings that you need for planning a job's product assemblies:
Use this: | To view or edit this: |
|---|---|
Product Intent dialog box | The job information and product intent for the first product in a job |
Assembly workspace | The assembly of each product's parts and sections in graphic or list format, with visual indicators for items that require your input |
Products list | The basic structural components, with visual indicators for items that need to be added to a press run |
Properties pane | The detailed settings for a selected item, with visual indicators for settings that require your input. For JDF-based jobs, you can expand this pane to compare your settings with the original JDF requirements. |
You can also access product intent from other views:
- In all views, you can view the basic structural components in the Products list.
- In the Press Runs view, you can edit any of the press-run section properties that are linked to the corresponding product section's intent, such as the stock, fold pattern, or colors.
Notes:
- Other details that you add in the Press Runs view, such as marks and content page adjustments, have no relationship with product intent.
- To make significant structural changes, such as increasing or decreasing a product's total page count, you must edit the product assembly.
- For basic jobs that do not consist of multiple products, parts, or binding styles, you can ignore product intent and work entirely in the Press Runs view, using Pages view when needed.
- If you reopen a job that was created in an older version of the software that did not support multiple products and parts per job, then that entire job is treated as a single product with a single part.
Product parts
You can plan the following part types for a product assembly:
- Cover: The outermost part of a bound product. You typically choose a standard fold pattern for covers, depending on the binding type.
- Text: The body part of a bound product, consisting of sections that will be perfect-bound or saddle-stitched along the spine
- Flat work: A single-section part that consists of only one front and (for two-sided work) one back template page, with no anticipated folding or binding.