PDF Booklet

You can save Vertex drawings and other documents as a PDF book.

  • Active project's drawings with drawing sheets.
  • Drawing files: Vertex drawings p_* and *.vxp
  • Text files: ASCII, PostScript, Vertex text processing file.

PDF Profiles

PDF conversion is based to the PDF profiles, which specifies how the file is generated. Profile specifies, for example, size and orientation of the sheet, width and color of the lines. Functional links to the off-sheet and position references can also be added. You can specify different profiles.

You can easily create PDF book with the help of the selection file. The selection file includes information about PDF profile, documents in the PDF book, and the title of the contents (bookmark). You can specify different selection files.

PDF Booklet

  1. Before selecting the function, activate a project which drawings you want to select to the PDF file.
  2. On the tab, in the Sheet Sets group, click PDF Book.

    A dialog box is opened. Use dialog box functions to select documents to the PDF file.

    Create PDF Dialog Box

  3. To create PDF file, you can use an existing selection file or create a new one as follows:

Use an old selection file.

  1. Click the Open button and select the selection file from the folder.
  2. Name main title for the contents (Bookmarks) of the PDF file.

Create a new selection file.

  1. Name main title for the contents (Bookmarks) of the PDF file.
  2. Select PDF profile with the Select button.
  3. Select drawings to the PDF file with the Select from Archives button. You can choose the last approved revision from drawings.
  4. Select image files from one folder with the Select from Folder button.
  5. Select text files from one folder with the Select from Folder button.
  6. If you want to save selections into the selection file, click the Save button, select saving folder or accept Vertex default folder user and name the selection file. File format is PDS.

    Name a File

  7. Confirm the data in the dialog box.
  8. Select saving folder and name the PDF file.

Note

  • Selections of the latest created PDF will always be saved into Vertex folder under the name user/PDFbackup.pds regardless of whether the actual selection file is saved or not.
  • Creating PDF book creates log file user/applic_err, which you can open in log browser for viewing. Open the log file Application Functions in the log browser.

    View the Log Files