We have some customers doing this same workflowfor different applications (prescription pads for doctors and traffic violation pads for police officers).
The key to this is having an external system that tracks the submissions and defines a new start number for the page numbering.
I would envision the workflow operating in this manner:
- imposition is always 9up
- you always submit a 1 page PDF
- you submit a manifest with the start number of the tags
- the usual MAX information
The system that's submitting the jobs has to track the number of tags in order to submit a new start number once a month.
That can be automated (e.g. the traffic violation pads above) or it can be input by someone before submittion (e.g. the prescription pads above)
The workflow would first add page numbers using a MAX variable for the start number
At this point you have tags with unique numbers starting with the number that was passed in via the manifest.
Finally, you impose 9up using the manual page order
The pattern above will put page 1 three times on the layout, increase by 1 page and then do the same. That pattern will repeat until the entire document is imposed.
