General

 

Save Filename Action Controls the filename of the resulting PDF file.
Valid Values  Description
Use the 'Default Directory' and 'Default Save Filename' Use the values for "Default Directory" and "Default Filename" to generate a file name. This file will be overwritten without any prompting.
 
Use document title as filename Use the document title for the filename. The file will be saved in the "Default Directory". The document title is obtained from the pDocName member of the DOC_INFO_1 print job structure. 
This gives developers the opportunity to control the filename programmatically.
Note that the value may be automatically converted into a legal filename if it contains illegal filename characters. 
 
Random number as filename A random number is used for the filename prefix. e.g. "45389328.pdf"  

 
Default Directory
 		 The directory that is used to store the PDF file in.
Default Filename
 		 The output PDF filename.  Sophisticated control codes and tags can be used, as described here
Printer Resolution (DPI) Defines the resolution that is used by the printer driver in dots per inch. This usually has little effect on file size but controls the precision with which text and graphics are placed.
 
Image Resolution (DPI) The resolution that images are 'down-sampled' to measured in dots per inch. Sometimes images are sampled at a high DPI for better results when printing to high-end printers. These high DPI sampled images result in larger PDF files. Screen resolution is 96 DPI, which is a good setting for PDF files intended solely for screen viewing.
 
JPEG Quality High quality results in larger PDF files, low quality smaller PDF files. "No JPEG" means JPEG compression is not used - "Flate" compression is used which is not "lossy" like JPEG.
 
Auto append When checked, PDF's are automatically appended to the currently open PDF in the pdfMachine viewer. If not checked, a separate viewer is launched for each print job.
 
Save settings for shared printers When this button is clicked the following files are updated:
C:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2\bgsconf.ini
C:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\win40\0\bgsconf.ini

The actual location of the files may differ on your system.

If this machine is designated a "print server", these files are used upon installation of network printer clients in "point & print" installations. This enables network administrators to customise installations.

The first file contains the initialisation parameters for Win NT/2000/XP printer clients, the second one contains the same parameters but is used for is the Win9X network client installs.
Show Printing Status If  enabled, the following dialog is displayed during the printing process:


 
Weekly online check If enabled, pdfMachine checks the Broadgun website once a week to see if a new version of pdfMachine has been released. If so, a message is displayed.
PDF/A-1b If enabled, files printed through pdfMachine will conform to the PDA/A-1b file format for long-term preservation.
Colors Launches the color selection dialog for user interface color customization.
   

 

Output Filename

The resulting PDF file can be named using sophisticated tags and controls characters to include things as timestamps, auto incrementing numbers and environment variables.

The time stamping follows the syntax of the C programming function strftime.

Time stamping codes
The formatting codes for strftime are listed below:

%a
Abbreviated weekday name

%A
Full weekday name

%b
Abbreviated month name

%B
Full month name

%c
Date and time representation appropriate for locale

%d
Day of month as decimal number (01 – 31)

%H
Hour in 24-hour format (00 – 23)

%I
Hour in 12-hour format (01 – 12)

%j
Day of year as decimal number (001 – 366)

%m
Month as decimal number (01 – 12)

%M
Minute as decimal number (00 – 59)

%p
Current locale's A.M./P.M. indicator for 12-hour clock

%S
Second as decimal number (00 – 59)

%U
Week of year as decimal number, with Sunday as first day of week (00 – 53)

%w
Weekday as decimal number (0 – 6; Sunday is 0)

%W
Week of year as decimal number, with Monday as first day of week (00 – 53)

%x
Date representation for current locale

%X
Time representation for current locale

%y
Year without century, as decimal number (00 – 99)

%Y
Year with century, as decimal number

%z, %Z
Either the time-zone name or time zone abbreviation, depending on registry settings; no characters if time zone is unknown

%%
Percent sign


Auto Incrementing Numbers (e.g. Bates numbering)

{AUTONUM} {AUTONUM2} {AUTONUM3} {AUTONUM4} {AUTONUM5}

These tags are dynamically substituted with a variable that is automatically increment upon each use.

e.g. If the output filename is "tmp_{AUTONUM}.pdf" then the first time the file will be "tmp_0.pdf" and the second time it will be "tmp_1.pdf" and so on. 

The number after the AUTONUM refers to the field size of the number, i.e. how many digits make up the number, including leading zeros.

Document Name

{DOC}

This tag is dynamically substituted with the print job name.   The print job name is set by the application that is doing the printing but is usually derived from the document file name.

e.g. if the output filename is set to  "{DOC}.pdf" and the user prints a Word document called "test.docx" the resulting filename will be "Microsoft Word - test.docx.pdf"

Environment Variable Substitution

Any Windows environment variable can be used inside of the curly braces and the value is dynamically substituted to create a filename.

e.g. if the output filename is set to "{USERNAME}.pdf" and the user "Fred" is logged on then the filename will be "Fred.pdf".


Default Value

The default output filename for scanning is:

 "%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S scan by {USERNAME} - {AUTONUM5}.pdf"

If the user Fred is logged on the first scanned document will have a name of:

2009-03-29 13-31-35 scan by Fred - 00000.pdf