Save

The Save page of the Printing Preferences window allows you to configure save options for the generated PDF file and add after-save actions.

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 Save 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.

Destination

When you have a public profile on a novaPDF Server Edition, you can choose where to save the generated PDF file. For private profiles, the destination is always Local and the options are grayed out.

Local

If the destination is set to local, the file will be saved on the computer from where the print job was started.

Network

If the destination is set to network, the file will be saved on the printer server computer.

Save options

This group allows you to choose if the PDF will be automatically saved to a location or a dialog will be displayed each time.

Prompt Save As Dialog

If this is selected, each time you will create a PDF file you will be prompted with the Save As dialog where you can manually set the destination folder and file name for the generated PDF files. Using the Configure Save Options window you can add a default path to be remembered for each time you create a PDF file, as well as to automatically assign a name for the PDF file. This way when the Save As dialog will prompt, the default path will be opened and the name auto-generated. The Advanced window also gives additional optimization and correction options that can be done before saving the pdf.

Use predefined settings

Select this if you prefer to automatically save and name all generated PDF files in the same folder that can be defined in the Configure Save Options window.

After Save Action

You can set whether to perform an action or not after the PDF file was generated and saved:

• None: no action will be performed
• Open with default viewer: if this is selected the resulting PDF file will be opened in the default viewer
• Run application: if this is selected, you can choose an application to run after the PDF if saved. You can also add some parameters that will be passed to the application when started.

Configure Save Options

Configure Save Options is available when clicking the same named button from the Save window . You can set the folder where the PDF files will be saved after generation and also add file-naming macros to automatically name the generated PDF.

Folder

In the Folder field you can set a folder where the files will be saved. The path will be remembered for the next save operation even if you have selected the Prompt Save As dialog in the Save window.

File name

You can manually type a name for the generated PDF file in the File name field or use Macro to automatically name the PDF file created.

In order to use different file names for each generated PDF files, you can use some macros in the File name field (an example of how the macros are converted is shown just below the File name field).

You can select any of next macros:

• [N] - Document name
• [YMD] - Date in the format YYYYMMDD (year, month, day)
• [Y] - Year in the format YYYY
• [M] - Month in the format MM
• [D] - Day in the format DD
• [HIS] - time in the format hhmmss (hour, minute, second)
• [H] - Hour in the format hh
• [I] - Minute in the format mm
• [S] - Second in the format ss
• [C] - Counter in the format cc (it begins with 01 and increases at each printed document, if a file with the same name exists in the save folder)
• [W] - Computer name
• [U] - User name

If you selected the Use predefined setting radio button on the Save window but you did not enter a folder or a file name, you will be prompted with the Save As dialog when printing to the novaPDF. If you choose a folder that does not exist, it will be automatically created.

When file exists

This option is only displayed when you select Use predefined setting from the Save window and is not shown for the Prompt Save As dialog option. When a file with the same name already exists in the selected folder, you can choose one of the next actions:

• Prompt Query Dialog - a "Save as" dialog will be shown so you can change the name of the file or folder manually
• Auto number new - a counter is added to the file name of the new generate pdf file
• Auto number existing - a counter is added to the file name of the existing pdf file. The new pdf file will have the name set in this dialog
• Append Date/Time - the date and time is appended to the generated pdf file name
• Overwrite - existing file is overwritten with the new generated file

Advanced Save Options

Advanced Save Options is available when clicking the "Advanced..." button from the Save window . You can set some advanced options regarding how the printed documents will be processed and saved as a PDFs.

Enable optimization of image sequences

When this option is enabled, small image sequences are combined in one big image. The process time will be slightly increased but the resulting PDF file will be smaller. You should enable this option if you have many sequences of small monochrome images and your resulting PDF file is very large. By default, this option is not enabled.

Correct line widths

Depending on the application you print from, line widths can be sent in different ways. If lines are printed with a wrong width from a certain application, check this option to correct them.

Correct fill colors

Depending on the application you print from, fill colors can be inverted or not. If colors are inverted in the resulted PDF when printing from a certain application, check this option to correct them.

Optimize text

By default, novaPDF optimizes PDF size by compressing texts as much as possible. However, some fonts are not correctly defined in their font files and when applying this optimization the text may not be correct in the PDF file. Uncheck this option if the text is not correct in your PDF files. By default, this option is checked.

Ignore empty pages

If this option is checked, the empty pages from your original document will not be added to the PDF document. But the pages have to have no information at all (no page number, no header,...)