This topic applies only if you are importing jobs, not importing impositions.
To import entire jobs, use the ImportAll process template. To import partial jobs, use the ImportJobIncremental process template.

Import section

Select this check box to enable the Import section of the import process template.
It determines how Prinergy imports impositions, exported jobs, and exported job files.

If Page Set Already Exists

Determines what happens if a page set with the same name already exists.
Note: When importing an imposition plan via a hot folder, choose any option except Keep existing page set and imposition.

The options are:

• • • Fail import—stops the import process.
    • Delete existing page set and imposition—replaces the existing page set and imposition with the page set and imposition being imported.
    • Create alternate page set and imposition—creates a new page set and links it to the imposition plan, without affecting the existing page set or its assignments. This is the default in the ImportAll process template.
    • Keep existing page set and create new imposition—retains the original page set and links it to the new imposition. The imported and existing sets must have the same number of positions. Selecting this option enables the check boxes in the Page Sets Options area of the import process template.
    • Keep existing page set and imposition—retains the existing page set and imposition. The imported and existing sets must have the same number of positions. This is the default in the ImportJobIncremental process template. Selecting this option enables the check boxes in the Page Sets Options area of the import process template.

Page Set Options

A set of check boxes that specify how to handle page assignments in an existing page set when the new imposition is linked to that page set. The check boxes are:

• • Existing assignments replaced by new assignments—Prinergy replaces the old page assignments with the new page assignments in the imported file. In the ImportIncremental process template, this check box is selected by default.
  • Existing assignments replaced by new unassignments—Prinergy removes page assignments from pages that are not assigned (blank) in the imported file. When this check box is selected, the other two check boxes in Page Set Options are automatically selected.
  • Existing unassigned replaced by new assignment—Prinergy retains existing assignments and applies any new assignments from the imported job or populated PJTF to any unassigned positions in the existing page set. This check box is always selected.

The check boxes are available only if the If Page Set Already Exists list is set to either Keep existing page set and create new imposition or Keep existing page set and imposition.
These check boxes are especially important when you want to manually assign pages to a page set and then link the page set to multiple imposition plans.

Set Initial Separations After Imposition Import

In the imposition software, you may inadvertently add marks that contain separations that are not present in the content of the refined pages.

• • • Select this check box when you want Prinergy to ignore the additional separations in the marks.
    • Clear this check box when you want Prinergy to show the additional colors in the marks.

Important: Clear this check box if you are doing color mapping in the imposition software. Otherwise, Prinergy may ignore your color mapping changes.

Overwrite Existing Automated Page Assignment File

Select this check box if you want Prinergy to overwrite the existing APA file and use the assignments specified in the job you are importing.

Continue Job Import if CRC Error Found

Select this check box when you want Prinergy to skip any files with CRC errors without failing the import. The names of the files with errors are logged in the History view, so you can correct and reimport these files into the job.

Do Auto Page Assignment After Unpopulated Imposition Import

Select this check box when you want Prinergy to perform APA assignment and allow pages to be automatically assigned whether they have been refined before or after an imposition import.

Important: Do not select this check box unless you have an APA file with the assignments that you want applied to the selected page set. Any existing assignments are deleted if you have an empty or invalid APA file and this check box is selected.

If you clear this check box, pages cannot be automatically assigned if they have been processed before an unpopulated imposition import (or before a page set is created).

Center Pages in Imposition

(For imposition imports only)
Specify the placement of each PDF page trim box (or media box) within its assigned imposition trim box during the job import.

The options are:

• • • Honor Existing—preserves the existing placement of each PDF page (centered or not centered) when the job is imported.
    • Centered—each PDF page trim box is centered within its imposition trim box. You can then reassign pages to different positions without worrying about the image shifts caused by different trim box sizes on different PDF pages.
    • Not Centered—each PDF page trim box is positioned in the lower-left corner of its imposition trim box.

Signature ID Code

Use these settings to override the default signature ID code syntax that is specified in Administrator.
Template—type the code syntax. For example, %jobname<7>%%signature<2>%
Number of sections per signatures in one imposition—type the total number of sections for each signature. For example, if you import an imposition with five signatures and signatures 2 and 5 each contains two sections, enter 1,2,1,1,2.
See Overriding default signature ID codes.

Normalize for PDF Marks File section

This section does not apply when you are importing jobs or partial jobs.

Normalize for PostScript Marks Files section

This section does not apply when you are importing jobs or partial jobs.

Optimize for PostScript Marks Files section

This section does not apply when you are importing jobs or partial jobs.

Import Raw Imposition Files section

This section does not apply when you are importing jobs or partial jobs.

Import Metadata section

Select XSLT File

If you use Business Link software, you can use this panel to import a defined XSLT file that you can use to create custom fields automatically. After you import the XSLT file, select the file in the Custom Fields Manager dialog box.
Instead of creating custom fields by typing information into the Custom Fields Manager dialog box, you can select an XSLT file and import predefined custom fields. Currently, only JDF-type imposition files can be imported.