I was hoping to implement a more comprehensive Bates numbering schema along the lines outlined in this post but using only the new built in imprinter and custom metadata rather than shuffling documents out to PDFPen Pro as was done previously. To this end I scouted around the applescript dictionary and found the ‘imprint’ command.
The command is defined as
Imprint (verb)
Imprint the record with a configuration defined in the parameters (from [Imprint Commands Suite]
FUNCTION SYNTAX
set theResult to imprint reference ¬
font text ¬
position position ¬
record record ¬
size integer ¬
text text ¬
background color color ¬
border color color ¬
border style border style ¬
border width integer ¬
foreground color color ¬
occurance occurance ¬
outlined boolean ¬
rotation integer ¬
strikethrough boolean ¬
waiting for reply boolean ¬
x offset integer ¬
y offset integer
with occurance being the pages where the imprint should occur
Unfortunately the occurance enumeration doesnt allow one to specify a particular page, only a set of page ranges.
This means that it is not possible to imprint text onto a specific numbered page.
This seems like an obvious oversight which would immensely increase the possibilities of the imprint command.
Seeing as this is beta 1, would it be possible to add an additional parameter to imprint to allow imprinting to a specific page rather than a page range?
Really enjoying everything new in DT3 and thanks to everyone in the team for all the hard work including all the documentation and background stuff.
Frederiko
(Sidenote: I have played around with the “Bates Number” placeholder but it isn’t sufficiently flexible to cater for scenarios that require specified starting number, prefixes etc)