Work with pages in Fiery Compose

Fiery Compose lets you add, rearrange, and delete pages, or insert pages from another job. You can also make pages tabs, chapter starts, or covers; assign media to pages; and set duplex for selected pages.

Important: You should edit the job before you specify any mixed media settings. Editing a job can change page numbers, which can affect mixed media settings. Always check any mixed media settings after you edit a job.

Open a job for editing in Acrobat

Fiery Compose can open a job for editing in Adobe Acrobat and Enfocus PitStop.

Right-click a page in the Page View pane and then click Edit in Acrobat.

Reorder, delete, or set duplex for pages in Fiery Compose

You can manipulate selected pages in a Fiery Compose job.

Do any of the following:

To reorder pages, click the page’s thumbnail in the Page View pane and drag it to the new location.
To delete pages, select one or more pages and click Edit > Delete.
To apply duplex (if the printer supports it) to selected pages or chapters, select the pages, right-click them, click Page Duplex, and specify the setting that you want.

Note: To use duplex printing for an entire job, select the appropriate setting for the job in Command WorkStation before opening the job in Fiery Compose, or choose Duplex in the Settings pane.

Insert pages from another job in Fiery Compose

You can insert pages from a job on the Fiery Server, or from your computer.

Click Actions > Insert Page(s).
In the Insert Pages dialog box, do one of the following:
- From a local system, click Browse, select the file, and then click Open.
- From a Fiery Server, click Server Jobs, and click the file in the list.
Do one of the following:
- To insert specific pages, drag them to the Page View pane and arrange them in the order you want.
- To insert an entire job, drag the job label to the Page View pane.

Insert a blank sheet or page in Fiery Compose

Fiery Compose lets you insert blank sheets or pages anywhere in a document. Fiery Compose inserts the sheet or page before the selected page.

Note: You cannot add an insert when the selected page is a tab. If you want to add an insert before a tab, first add the insert, and then add the tab after the insert.

Select a page in the Page View pane.
Click Actions > Insert Blank Sheet or Actions > Insert Blank Page.

Assign media to pages in Fiery Compose

The Sheet View and Page View panes let you assign media to individual pages, or to ranges of pages. You can also assign media to an entire job in the Page View pane.

Select a page or pages.
Click Actions > Assign Media.
Specify the media in the Page/Page Range Media dialog box.

Work with chapter starts in Fiery Compose

To divide a document into chapters, you can mark the start of each chapter in the Page View pane, and then apply finishing options in the Settings pane. You can also remove a chapter start mark.

A chapter start page prints on the front side of a sheet. (This is the page on the right in a reader's spread.) Green checkmarks in the Page View pane indicate chapter start pages.

Do any of the following:

To add a chapter start, select a page that has no chapter start mark and click Actions > Chapter Start.
To remove a chapter start, select a page that has a chapter start mark and click Actions > Chapter Start.
To show the blank pages that Fiery Compose inserts before chapter start pages, click View > Show Implicit Blanks.

Fiery Compose inserts implicit blanks if needed to accommodate chapter starts and duplex settings and to place the chapter start page on the right side in the Reader View.

Set tabs in Fiery Compose

You can add a tab page anywhere in the document and select the tab media. (All tabs in a job must use the same media, even if multiple tab media are available.)

The Convert to tab option in earlier versions of Fiery Compose has been removed. To convert an existing page in the document, or an inserted page, to a tab in Fiery Compose, right-click and select Assign Media, then select a tab media from the list, as described below.

To add an insert before a tab, add the insert first, and then add the tab after the insert. You cannot add an insert when the selected page is a tab.

You can add one tab at a time in the Preview pane. You can also set up and add multiple tabs in the Tab Text Setup window.

Select the page where you want to add a tab.
Click Actions > Insert Tab.
A tab using the default tab media is added before the selected page. (If a tab already exists in the job, new tabs must use the same media as the existing tab.)
Click the inserted tab, and then choose Actions > Assign Media.
Specify the media in the Edit Tab window.
Changing the media for one tab changes it for all tabs in the job.

Note: In Fiery JobMaster, you can add multiple media for tabs in one job. See Add multiple tab styles to a document.

Set tab text and other properties in Fiery Compose

You use the Edit Tab window to set tab text and position properties, and the tab media.

Note: Earlier versions of Fiery Compose have the Tab Text option. Edit Tab replaced this option in later versions.

Select the tab page.
Right-click the selected tab page, and then click Tab Text.
Type the desired text in the Text field.
Use menus and buttons below the Text field to specify text attributes such as font, size, alignment, and text rotation.
If the job uses portrait layout, the tab text appears vertically so you can check the text alignment.
To apply the same text settings to all tabs, click Apply the same text attributes for all tabs.

Set up covers

Fiery Compose lets you set up the front and back covers of the document independently and choose their media from the Paper Catalog. You can use the document’s front and back pages as the front and back covers, or you can insert covers.

Note: You cannot add an insert or tab or mark a chapter start when the selected page is the document front or document back. See Paper Catalog Help, which is part of Command WorkStation Help.

In the Settings pane, click Cover > Define.
Do one of the following in the Cover Media dialog box:
- To apply the same settings to the front and back cover, click Apply the same setting for both front and back cover.
- To set up the front cover and back cover separately, select Front Cover or Back Cover.
Specify the settings.