7.1
2013-09-23

Place PDF

You can insert a PDF file as a static PDF object or as a variable image object. As a variable image object allows for using variable pages within a (single) PDF document.

To insert a PDF image as a static PDF object, you can:

  1. Drag and drop a PDF file to your layout, or
  2. From the File menu, select New PDF based document, or
  3. In the Tools toolbar, click the Insert PDF button, or from the Insert menu, select PDF...

To insert a PDF file as a variable image object, you can:

  1. In the Tools toolbar, click the Insert Image File button, or from the Insert menu, select Image File.
  2. In the Tools toolbar, click the Insert Image Box button, or from the Insert menu, select Image Box.

Note: An image object can be linked to a single PDF file. As PDF files can contain multiple pages you can specify the page(s) to be used in your document through an expression, in this way you can use variable pages within that PDF file.

Mac OS
  1. In the Tools toolbar, click the Place Variable Image button and drag a rectangle to the desired size on your layout, or from the Insert menu, select Variable Image.
  2. Double click the name of your variable image in the Variables window, to display the Expression Editor.
  3. In the Expression Editor, define an expression or select a database field that contains the image filename.

Note: PrintShop Mail for Macintosh converts the color space that is embedded in the image to the color space of the printer driver. You can check the color space of the printer driver, selecting from the File menu, Print/ColorSync.