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fourdeuces67 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-24-2005, 08:31 AM

First off i am using preps 3.7 with an Apogee workflow
I would like to ratate the whole presssheet on the plate and not the individual pages. Is there anyway to rotate the whole sheet with just one input number or do I have to figure each page and determine the next page by angle and distane apart using bottling

Similar to a cocked plate, for ghostong purposes.

jimking · #2 (**permalink**) 10-24-2005, 09:52 AM

I don't think you can rotate the template itself. What you can do is copy and paste the template you want to rotate. Click the bounding box to select and then copy then deselect it and paste. Globaly rotate your pages and thats it.

tbJAMMIN · #3 (**permalink**) 10-24-2005, 11:58 AM

I assume you are using apogee2.

In apogee3 you can rotate the sheet by 180 deg. on the Printdrive (after the RIP, before the Newsdrive). From what I've seen and heard about Apogee2, you should be able to do something similar.

jimking · #4 (**permalink**) 10-24-2005, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by tbJAMMIN

I assume you are using apogee2.

In apogee3 you can rotate the sheet by 180 deg. on the Printdrive (after the RIP, before the Newsdrive). From what I've seen and heard about Apogee2, you should be able to do something similar.

I'm using Apogee2. If you're able to rotate after rip wouldn't that put your color bars at the gripper?

fourdeuces67 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-24-2005, 12:58 PM

I only want to rotate 3 or 4 degrees.

I am using Apogee Seriers 2 and yes you can rotate the sheet 90, 180, 270, 360.
You can also rotate pages flip mirror and all sorts of stuff using DQS method.

I just want to cock the sheet on my plate.

jimking · #6 (**permalink**) 10-24-2005, 01:24 PM

I understand now. I don't think you can cock it. The only thing I can think of is adding ink takeoff bars or maybe taking the normalized pdfs, place them in Indesign and cock them there, then resend them back to Apogee. However, your marks will be off.

SlaveToTheMan · #7 (**permalink**) 10-24-2005, 08:26 PM

Just did a series of jobs like that, and we had to rotate each page in the template using the bottling setting. (Why I couldn't just add take-off bars like we normally would do is an entirely different post, more suitable for the Rants Section.) :roll:

This is with a Delta backend, so I can't offer any insight into the Apogee part of the equation unfortunately.

tbJAMMIN · #8 (**permalink**) 10-25-2005, 03:46 AM

You can export or print the entire plate from preps, make a pdf, place in favorite layout app, rotate as desired, and re-run through apogee.

fourdeuces67 · #9 (**permalink**) 10-25-2005, 06:14 AM

Thank you

tbJAMMIN

I knew that just had not thought of it yet.