Viewing PDF Thumbnails in Plotclient Win

Correct me if I’m wrong but, Plotclient win only needs to be used from the work station. Here, you should know what the file looks like. At the server you don’t need Plotclient win, just add the files to the queue and view them. Also, install Adobe reader to server.

What I’m finding with answering Plotbase questions for customers is, we really need to understand their work flow, and give simple solutions. I see some people doing things very difficultly for no reason making this software seem complicated.

Sitting at a remote desktop, you may want to view the files before sending to print. If you adding files from a disk given to you, you would not know what the files looked like unless you could see the thumbnails or individually launch each one. This would be time consuming. The whole idea behind using Plotclient WIN to print the PDF's is so that you do not have to launch and print each one individually.

With respect to adding the files to the queue at the server, I am not sure what you mean. You are not able to add files to a job that has already been rasterized and printed by Plotbase so I don't know how you would add them to the queue.

Let me know what you might know concerning this.

Open Plotclient WIN, click “view”, and check the “view file”. In the job ticket box select the file you want to view. The thumbnail will appear in the preview pain.

Once the file is added to the job ticket, you can’t change the order of files. If you highlight a file and “add” you would add the new file after the existing one. If you highlight a file and “insert” you would add the new file before the existing.

In Plotbase 3.3 - highlight an entry, then hold down shift, and you can drag and drop to change order of files.

I can get many types of files to view but not PDF's. A message comes up that says "This file will print but cannot be viewed" Are you able to see PDF thumbnails in Plotclient WIN prior to sending a job to Plotbase?

that is the way it is. You can not view PDF files in plotclient win. You can view them in plotbase.

You could open in Reader and then print with the WP driver if you need to view before printing. You ar eright - time consuming if you have a batch job.

In plotbase, right click on an entry, then click add. I THINK you can add PDF files then directly to Plotbase, and then they can be viewed.