Profiles

The Profiles page of the Printing Preferences allows you to add new profiles or manage existing ones (copy, edit, delete, reset), set the active profile and other options when activating a private or public profile.

The window can be opened by choosing the Printing Preferences menu item when novaPDF is selected in the Printers and Faxes window and clicking the Profiles tab. This tab is also accessible from the printing Windows application in the Print dialog if you press the Properties (Preferences) button when novaPDF is selected.

Profiles

When the novaPDF is installed, a Default Profile is automatically created. This profile is the only profile in the beginning and its settings will be used for all novaPDF print jobs. You can later define some other profiles and choose one of them as the active profile. All defined profiles are shown in the Profiles list-view.

If you have a novaPDF Server Edition, you can create private or public profiles. Public profiles are visible from all client computers. You are only allowed to create public profiles on the printer server computer. Private profiles are visible only on the computer where they were created.

New

The New Profile dialog window will open allowing you to create a new profile. The new profile will have default settings on all Printing Preferences dialogs.

Copy

The Copy Profile dialog window will open allowing you to create a new profile by copying the settings from the profile selected in the profiles list.

Edit

The Edit Profile dialog window will open allowing you to rename the profile currently selected in the Profiles list-view.

Delete

Deletes the profile selected in the profiles list. You cannot delete the current active profile. You have to set another profile as active profile first. There will always be at least one profile.

Set Active

Set the profile selected in the profiles list as current active profile. The active profile settings will be used in the subsequent printing jobs.

Reset

This button is enabled only for public profiles, that can be changed on client computers. On the client computer, if you changed a public profile, you can press this button to reset the options to the values from the server computer.

Options

This group allows setting options for public profiles (available only in Server editions) and for profile activation.

Propagate active public profile on client computers

If this is checked, once a profile becomes active on the print server, it will be automatically propagated as active profile to all client computers.

Show private profiles on client computer

Check this to allow private profiles to be defined on client computers (unchecking this will show only the public profiles on the client computers).

When activating a different profile

When activating a different profile you may loose some changes you made to the previous active profile, if you made some changes in the Printing Preferences property sheet pages and you did not press the Apply or OK buttons.

You have two options:

• Ask me what to do - let the system ask you if you want to save the changes to the previous active profile or not
• Automatically save changes to the current profile - let the system automatically save the changes to the previous active profile

New/Edit Profile

This dialog allows choosing a type of profile and naming/renaming it.

The dialog can be opened by pressing the New or Edit button from the Profiles window in Printing Preferences.

Profile name

You can type a name for the profile you're defining.

Profile type

Private

A private profile is visible only on the computer where it's created. Note that unless you have one of the Server editions, all profiles will be created as private, since only the Server editions support shared network printing.

Public

If you have a novaPDF Server Edition, you can create private or public profiles. Public profiles are visible from all client computers. You are only allowed to create public profiles on the printer server computer. When a public profile will be used, all the settings from that profile will be propagated to the client computers.

Options

PDF version

You can set a PDF version that will be used when creating PDF files: 1.4, 1.5 or 1.6. Note that a PDF created with a higher PDF version can be opened only using newer versions of PDF viewers.

Allow changes to this profile

If this checkbox is checked, the settings in the public profiles can be overwritten on client computers. If this flag is not set, the public profiles cannot be modified on client computers (all Printing Preferences pages are disabled).

Profile Settings Override Paper Settings From Printing Applications

Some settings regarding page size, page orientation and resolution (see Page settings topic) can be selected also from the printing dialogs of the application you are printing from. If you open the novaPDF Printing Preferences property sheet from the printing application, you will see the same settings automatically selected here too. But you can change them, and the changes will be taken in account when printing.

If you do not want this behavior, and you prefer to make page size selection only in novaPDF Printing Preferences property sheet, and you also want the settings you make to be remembered and used on the next printing jobs, you should check the Profile Settings Override Paper Settings From Printing Applications check box.

Active

This is checked by default and it will set the newly defined profile (or the edited profile) as the active one.

Copy Profile

This dialog is displayed when copying a profile (public or private) and allows naming the new profile.

The dialog can be opened by selecting an existing profile and pressing the Copy button from the Profiles window in Printing Preferences.

Copy Profile

This will create a copy of the selected profile from the profiles list-view of the Profiles window. You can type a new name for this profile and when you press OK the new profile will be added to the profiles list-view. This profile will have the exact settings as the original one.

Note that you have to use a different name for the profile, because if you're entering the same name you'll get a prompt saying that there is a profile with the same name.