Memory mates with NeoPack/Professional and PackBuilder
Applies to: NeoPack/Professional, PackBuilder
The memory mate
For the purposes of this article a memory mate is defined as a product where the subjects' individual photo and their corresponding group photo appear on the same page.
Figure 1: A typical memory mate
Broadly speaking, creating memory mates involves three steps.
- Organizing subject data into folders
- Matching the group picture to the appropriate folder
- Creating a template that utilizes steps 1 and 2 above.
Let us look at each of these steps in turn
Organizing subject data into folders
Both NeoPack/Professional and PackBuilder allow the user to arrange the subject data into folders. This can be done automatically when importing the data via a text file or manually after the data has been imported or entered.
This article assumes the user is familiar with organizing data into folders.
Figure 2: A sports job where each tema's data has been arranged into folders
Matching the group picture to the appropriate folder
Setting up data and images for memory mates involves matching a group image to a folder and thereby all subjects in the folder.
- Import the group images into Images Mode
- Go to Match Mode
- Locate the first group image either manually or by using the "find image" window
- Ensure the vertical (insertion) bar is to the left of the group image
- Place the cursor in the "Match image with....folder" window.
- Begin entering the name of the folder for this group image. A drop down list will appear
- Select the correct folder
- The group image has been matched the appropriate folder
- Repeat steps 3-7 for all other group images
Only one group picture can be matched to a given folder.
Figure 3: Matching the group image to the folder in Match Mode
The memory mate template
Essentially a memory mate template simply contains two image holes - a standard hole for the subjects' individual image and a labelled image hole that calls the group picture that has been matched to the subjects' folder.
- Start a new pack layout
- Add the image hole for the subjects' individual image using the "Add image" tool
- Add any text, graphics and barcodes in the usual manner
- Add a labelled image hole for the subjects' group image using the "Add labelled image" tool
- When prompted for a label enter "@folder" (without the quotation marks)
- Save the template
Figure 4: Using the @folder tag in a labelled image hole .
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