topic Re: Publisher PDF defaults in Documentation

Publisher PDF defaults

JohnJay — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:05:43 GMT

Is it possible to change the PDF defaults when setting up publisher sets and adding layouts to sets?

I almost always need to add layouts to be published and AFAICT I need to check and set PDF options every single time.

Re: Publisher PDF defaults

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:14:04 GMT

You can organize your Layouts into folders, and if you set the PDF options for the folder, it will be applied to all Layouts within that folder.

Re: Publisher PDF defaults

runxel — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:32:11 GMT

Yeah, that would be great if there would the possibility to have some custom default so you can be sure.

Re: Publisher PDF defaults

Barry Kelly — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 01:39:30 GMT

LaszloNagy wrote:
You can organize your Layouts into folders, and if you set the PDF options for the folder, it will be applied to all Layouts within that folder.

You can create a 'Shortcut' of the layouts in the Publisher Set.
That will ensure that any new layouts are automatically included in the publisher set.

Having layouts belonging to a folder does indeed mean that when you apply the PDF settings to the folder in the publisher set, all the PDF settings in that folder get amended.

But I tested, added a new layout, it automatically added to the publisher set (because it was a shortcut), but it did not adopt the amended PDF settings.
Just used the standard default settings.

Barry.

Re: Publisher PDF defaults

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 08:52:50 GMT

Barry wrote:
But I tested, added a new layout, it automatically added to the publisher set (because it was a shortcut), but it did not adopt the amended PDF settings. Just used the standard default settings.

Barry.

I will forward this to Graphisoft. This sounds to me like unintuitive behavior and the opposite of what one would suppose should happen in such a case.

Re: Publisher PDF defaults

JohnJay — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 10:06:48 GMT

LaszloNagy wrote:
You can organize your Layouts into folders, and if you set the PDF options for the folder, it will be applied to all Layouts within that folder.

Thanks - this seems to be working for me

Open Organiser
Create Publisher Set
Within that set, create a new folder
Drag the first layout into the folder, then select the folder and set PDF prefs
Drag other layouts in and PDF prefs are as expected