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Assignment Presentation

The assignment presentation allows you to easily assign pages of PDF documents to page positions in page lists or layouts using drag-and-drop. The page lists or layouts can only be processed further and finally output in subsequent work steps if document pages are assigned to the page placeholders (page positions) of the page lists or layouts.

In the assignment presentation, the document pages are displayed as thumbnails in the left-hand area of the window and the layouts/page lists with the page positions are displayed as thumbnails in the right-hand area – regardless of the previously configured view setting (list or thumbnail view). In the left-hand area, you can select individual or multiple pages at the same time and drag them to the desired page positions and drop them there.

Switching to the assignment presentation

You can switch to the assignment presentation in the following ways:

•by pressing the F9 function key on the keyboard or

•by clicking on the "Layout assignment view" button or

•by selecting "Assignment presentation" from the context menu.

Pressing one of these elements again will switch back to the previous display.

Buttons in the assignment presentation

In the "Assignment presentation", the buttons are unchanged from the standard view. See The button bar in the "Imposition" step.

Context menu for the assignment presentation

In the assignment presentation, you can access a context menu in the left-hand "Pages" area and in the right-hand "Layouts" or "Page lists" area.

IconNote Note: Some of the context menu commands are identical to the commands in the context menu of the standard view of the "Imposition" step. See "Imposition" context menu. The following table only describes the commands that differ from this context menu.

Context menu for the "Pages" area

Menu command	Function
Assign to page list	The "Assign pages" dialog box opens. See "Assign pages" window.
Delete	The selected pages are deleted after a confirmation prompt (shortcut: Command + Del).
Paste to "Gang Job"	Pages that have been copied from another job and are in the clipboard are inserted into the active gang job (shortcut: Command + Shift + CV).
Paste	Pages that have been copied from another job and are in the clipboard are inserted into the open job (shortcut: Command + Shift + V).
Copy	The selected pages are copied to the clipboard (shortcut: Command + C).
Show Thumbnails	Switch from list view to thumbnail view (F4 key). The activated thumbnail view is indicated by a checkmark in front of the entry in the context menu. If the function is executed again, the list view is restored and the "checkmark" is no longer displayed.
Collapse All	All open lower levels are hidden (shortcut: Alt + CLeft).
Expand All	All open lower levels are displayed (shortcut: Alt + CRight).
View Properties	The "View Properties" window opens. See "View Properties Layouts (Thumbnails)" Window. You can set the parameters for the thumbnail display there.

Context menu for the "Page lists / Layouts" area

Menu command	Function
Delete	The selected pages are deleted after a confirmation prompt (shortcut: Command + Del).
Paste to "Gang Job"	Pages that have been copied from another job and are in the clipboard are inserted into the active gang job (shortcut: Command + Shift + CV).
Paste	Pages that have been copied from another job and are in the clipboard are inserted into the currently open job (shortcut: Command + Shift + V).
Copy	The selected pages are copied to the clipboard (shortcut: Command + C).
Show Thumbnails	Switch from list view to thumbnail view (F4 key). The activated thumbnail view is indicated by a checkmark in front of the entry in the context menu. If the function is executed again, the list view is restored and the "checkmark" is no longer displayed.
Collapse All	All open lower levels are hidden (shortcut: Alt + CLeft).
Expand All	All open lower levels are displayed (shortcut: Alt + CRight).
View Properties	The "View Properties" window opens. See "View Properties Layouts (Thumbnails)" Window. You can set the parameters for the thumbnail display there.