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Publisher PDF defaults

JohnJay
Expert
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.
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
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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.
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runxel
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Yeah, that would be great if there would the possibility to have some custom default so you can be sure.
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Barry Kelly
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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.


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Laszlo Nagy
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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.
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JohnJay
Expert
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
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