Licenses

Network license

If you want to use novaPDF as a printer server, you will need a novaPDF Server license with the number of users you wish to connect to the printer server. The license should be registered on the printer server computer.

Manage network licenses

You can manage network licenses only from the printer server computer using the Licenses dialog that is opened from the About page, Licenses button.

If a print job is started from a computer in the network, the computer name is registered automatically for a license, as long as there are licenses available. So if you bought enough licenses for your network, you don't have to configure anything, all computers will be automatically registered when they initiate their first print job to the novaPDF on the printer server. As the client computers are being assigned a license, you will see the number of Available licenses decreasing, and an Yes status will be displayed near the name of the Licensed Computers.

The client computers are automatically added in the computers list even when the server is not licensed. In this case all computers will be listed as unlicensed. When a license key is registered, the computers in the list are automatically licensed. If you have more computers in the list then the number of licenses, the computers at the end of the list will remain unlicensed.

You can see a status of the current available licenses in the lower right-hand part under the Available licenses text. If you wish, you can manage the licensed workstations manually in the Licenses dialog. You can Add, Remove, Rename or Unlicense workstations in the Licensed Computers list.

Depending on your network configuration, you can choose what machine names to use for licensing: NetBIOS names or DNS names. You can switch at any time between NetBIOS and DNS names. Just remember that if you already have machines licensed with one name they will not be recognized with the other name. You will have to change the names manually or you can remove all machines from the licensed list and let novaPDF license them with the new name at the moment of the first print job.