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:

For more details on how to use profiles go to How to use Profiles topic.