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.
Import profiles
The Import profiles dialog window will open allowing you to import private or public profiles (public only if you are using the Server editions) from a previously exported novaPDF printing profiles list file (*.nve).
Export profiles
The Export profiles dialog window will open allowing you to export profiles (as private or public ones) so that they could be used on another novaPDF installation after importing them.
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.
Show Select Profile dialog when printing
If this is checked, before starting the PDF printing process (after hitting the Print button) you'll get another prompt allowing you to select a profile you want to use for that particular print job. So even if you have a profile set as default in the Printing Preferences, what you select in this Select Profile dialog is the profile that will be used for the current printing job.
Create temporary profile for each printing job
If checked, novaPDF will attach to each PDF printing job a temporary profile. This is a safety measure, so that if you send a job for printing and you modify the profile before the printing is processed, your sent printing job will be using the profile that it had when the printing was initiated.
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 |
For more details on how to use profiles go to How to use Profiles topic.