I would like to use a hotfolder or preset for the following workflow:
i) Scale document to A5 (scale to fit)
ii) Insert 5mm binding margin
ii) Convert Bookmarks to tabs
iii) Insert Bookmark text to tab text
iv) Insert bookmark/chapter text as header (top right of page)
v) Insert page number as footer (bottom right of page)
This doesn't work on two levels:
i) The tab automation does not work when I create a preset - it reuses the tab locations and text from the document saved as preset - instead of the steps of the workflow to insert them from the new document.
ii) If I instead create a preset to just do the scaling, imposition etc, and then do the tab & header insertion myself in the imposed document, this does not work either, as the impose function removes the bookmarks from the imposed document.
So it would be great if this could be fixed to allow:
i) Impose feature does not remove bookmark data from imposed documents:
ii) Use of presets or hotfolders to automate the insertion of tabs and headers/footers
FAO TF Prep Product Manager -
I'm disappointed to see that nothing has been implemented yet to make tabs compatible with presets. If you try to use ANY presets they remove the tabs, and also the bookmark/chapter info in the document.
We chose TF Prep because it supported A5 tabs when few others did and looked like the market leader in terms of sophisticated tab features for the legal market. However I hear that EFI are going to introduce A5 tab support for Jobmaster which will mean we technically can do everything that we need TF Prep to do from within Jobmaster.
I would therefore urge you to take seriously the feedback and constructive criticisms that people are giving on this forum to improve in particular the tabbing features. The competition is catching up and may overtake. I'd be more than happy to talk to you to discuss the improvements that need to be made, please feel free to get in touch. There is an opportunity here to be the best in the field or if not, a risk to fall behind.