In this article, you will learn
- which requirements are needed for the Fixup and
- how to apply this Fixup.
1. Introduction
The Fixup Duplicate all Pages is available in the Workflow. The aim of the Fixup is to duplicate all pages of a Print Items. The user has the option of rotating or mirroring the duplicated page.
2. General
The Fixup Duplicate all Pages can be used if you want to duplicate all pages of an Article or Print Item. The user has the option of rotating the duplicate by 180° or mirroring it horizontally or vertically.
The Fixup can be found in the Data Preparation tab of an Article, Order or Production Job by
- Entering the name of the Fixup in the Filter area,
- Activating the Page option in the Category area,
- Activating the Rotate, Transform and Mirror options in the Process area and/or by
- activating the Duplicate option in the Search area.
3. Description
This Fixup duplicates the individual pages in the Print Item. The duplicates can be rotated by 0° or 180° and can also be mirrored horizontally, vertically or not. This turns a 3-page Print Item (1/2/3) into a 6-page Print Item with the page sequence 1/1/2/2/3/3.
3.1. Requirements and Functionality
There are no special requirements for this Fixup.
Figure 1: The Dialog of the Fixup Duplicate all Pages
You can choose from the following options:
- Rotate [1] - select the angle by which the Print Item should rotate. The following values are available in the selection menu:
- 0° - the duplicate is not rotated.
- 180° - the duplicate is rotated by 180 degrees.
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Variable content [3] - select the desired placeholder - database field or user-defined field - from which the value for the rotation is to be taken. The following values must be found in the selected field for the rotation to be carried out:
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Mirror [2] – - to select the axis around which the Print Item is to be mirrored. The following values are available in the selection menu:
- No mirroring – no mirroring is carried out.
- Horizontally – the Print Item is mirrored along the horizontal axis (X axis).
- Vertically – the Print Item is mirrored along the vertical axis (Y axis).
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Variable Content [4] – select the desired placeholder - database field or user-defined field - from which the value for mirroring is to be taken. The following values must be found in the selected field for the mirroring to be carried out:
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Figure 2: Left: The available values in the selected field for the Rotate option; Right: The available values in the selected field for the Mirror option
Figure 3: Left: By selecting 180° in the Rotate option the page is duplicated and rotated by 180°; Right: By selecting Horizontal in the Mirror option, the page is duplicated and mirrored along the horizontal axis
3.2. Before/After
You can use the "Duplicate_Sample.pdf" sample file to experiment with this function. The sample file contains four pages with different Print Items, where the Spacing from the TrimBox to the CropBox is different on each page.
After applying the Fixup, the file "Duplicate_Sample_End.pdf" is created. In this example, the duplicate pages have been mirrored on the vertical axis, as seen in Figure 4.
Figure 4: Left: Original file with four pages; Right: Edited file for which the duplicated pages were mirrored on the vertical axis
Article update: Workflow 1.20.0 – 03/2025