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Add multiple tab styles to a document

You can add multiple tab styles to a document in Fiery JobMaster, if your printer supports the feature. You can nest the different tab styles also, if your printer supports the feature.

Import the spooled job into Fiery JobMaster.
You can create multiple tab styles and then either insert tabs or convert existing pages to tabs in a single job, and assign the tab styles.
  1. Do one of the following in the Page View pane:
    • To convert an existing page in your document, right-click and select Convert to Tab.
    • To insert a new tab, right-click a page and select Insert Tab. The tab is inserted as the page before.
    If your printer supports multiple tab styles, the available tab styles are listed. You can also create a new tab style by clicking Create New if the option is available.
  2. Select a tab style for your selected tab style.
  3. Continue to add tabs and select one of the available styles. In addition, you can do the following:
    • To change the tab media, right-click a tab page, and select Change Tab Media.
    • Right-click a tab page, and select Edit Tab to make changes to the tab style. See Insert and edit tabs in Fiery JobMaster.
    • Choose to nest multiple tab sets by selecting Nest multiple tab sets in the Edit Tab window.
      Note: If you choose not to select this option, each of the tab styles will be assigned sequentially wherever they are in the job. See the example below.
  4. To view the information about the tab style selected for a specific page, click on the tab page. The tab style information uses the following terminology:
    • Tab ear - a single ear that sticks out from the edge of the media
    • Tab bank - a single series of tab ears that often spans the media edge
    • Tab cut - the position of the tab within a tab bank
    • Tab set - multiple banks with the same tab styles that make up a tab set
    • Tab style - media attributes of the tab set (number of ears, first tab offset, reading order)

When you choose to nest multiple tab styles in a single job, the tabs using the second tab style selected will be nested within the first tab style's bank of tabs. For instance, you assign Tab Bank 1 with 3 sets of tabs to the first two tabs in the job. You then assign Tab Bank 2 with 5 sets of tabs to the third and fourth tabs in the job. When you assign the fifth tab in the job to Tab Bank 1, the tab will be position number 3 in that bank. If you then assign the sixth tab in the job to Tab Bank 2, the tab will be position number 1 in that bank. If you move the first tab of Tab Bank 2 before the first tab of Tab Bank 1 in the job, then Tab Bank 2 becomes the primary style, and Tab Bank 1 is nested within Tab Bank 2. Unused tabs in a bank will use the Output tray to kick out unused tabs option in the Tab Media window.

If you choose not to nest multiple tab styles in a single job, then the tabs for each tab style will be assigned sequentially in the job. Then, using the Tab Bank 1 and Tab Bank 2 example above, the sixth tab in the job which has been assigned to Tab Bank 2 will be position number 3 in that tab bank.

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