Cut and Stack Script problem

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    • #33901
      jonh Denver
      Participant

      Hi everyone.

      I’ve been searching for a script to make sequencial numbering for cut and stack, and i found this one
      from Mr. Jared Katz (https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=3148022)
      on adobe Foruns. The script is realy great but i’m experiancing a problem.

      I have a page with 25 tickets per page to print, so i’ve followed the instructions, created 25 text boxes on a master page,
      linked all the text boxes, and run the script.
      The script make the sequencil numbernig in the firts page but it wont go further to create next pages to continuing the numbering process until the end.

      To try to figure out the problem, i’ve used an exemple ID file (with 18 linked Text Boxes) that comes with script, and the exemple file works very weel, create all the pages needed. So in took that exemple file added more text boxes unitil the 25 that i need, linked the text boxes to the existing thread, and this time the script don’t run again.

      So i think i’m making some mistake in linking the text boxes on master page.
      (I have the option Smart tex reflow turned on.)

      It is diferent linking text boxes in master pages than it is in normal pages?

      Any ideia of what could be?

      Thks for your time and esquese my long description :)

    • #33904
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I don’t know about that script, and cannot look at it today, but there are many ways to make numbered tickets, such as:
      https://creativepro.com/making-numbered-tickets.php

    • #33945
      Jake Overton
      Member

      John,

      David’s suggestion kind of works, but you said you needed cut and stack tickets. If there are 6 tickets on a page and you have 300 tickets, the first page will have ticket 001 in the first position, page 2 will have 002 in the first position and so on for 50 pages. Position 2 on page 1 will be ticket 051, position 3-6 will be 101, 151, 201, 251. This is a trickier problem.

      One way to deal with this is to use a script for cut and stack. There is one called Rhimposition Cut & Stack (I easily found it on Google – search rhimposition script). You would first make a pdf of 300 pages of single tickets, in order 1-300. This is easily accomplished with a data merge. The script will do the rest.

      The other way is to brute force it in data merge, but you will have to come up with a clever way to get the numbers in the correct order. And this will only work with a specific numbering scheme and fixed number of tickets on a page. If this is a repeating project (same event each year for instance), this can work and you just re-use this template and data file with the new artwork.

    • #33964
      jonh Denver
      Participant

      Hi Everyone.

      Thks a lot for your answers. I still can’t run the script corretly and i don’t know why.
      I’ll heck your script to se if i can do it.

      Thanks again.

    • #71989
      gamouning
      Member

      Hi Jonh,

      Did you ever get your ticket numbering project to work successfully? I have been using the CutStack “Numbering.jsx” script you referenced with much success and for a variety of multiple up projects. It sounds like to me you may be having a problem with how InDesign’s auto text flow feature. Typically, I place the linked text boxes on the master page as you do. However, I select the first text box on the document page to place my numbers. Depending on the size of your linked text boxes, pages should begin autoflowing like magic! :-)

      Let me know if I can be of more assistance and if this information helped your particular situation.

      -Greg

    • #79724
      gamouning
      Member

      FYI, I created a zip archive with this script inside at the following weblink:

      https://1drv.ms/21pIhSf

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