PDF writer

<< Click to Display Table of Contents >>

Navigation:  Table editors > Ticket Printer >

PDF writer

Previous pageReturn to chapter overviewNext page

If Enable PDF Writer is checked, Dispatch will create PDF file for each ticket as it is saved and printed. Note: This only applies to Ticket that are created from Print Tickets.

 

The PDF file will be saved to the location you specify using the Folder control. Click the Open Folder icon to select a folder. The PDF file can be stored locally (in Documents for example) or to a cloud storage service such as OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox and Box.

Using sub-folders

You can tell Dispatch to create sub-folders that include the following information:

 

Computer name
Table description
Current date

 

This is feature particularly useful if you have multiple locations running Dispatch and you are saving PDF files to a shared storage location like OneDrive. Including the Computer name allows you to easily locate Tickets created by a specific computer).

File name format

The file name will formatted using the File name format you provide. The %ld character sequence will be replaced with the Ticket Number. You can include %s to include the current date and an additional %s to include the current time. To include the Ticket Number and the current date use Ticket %ld %s.pdf. To include the Ticket Number, current date and current time use Ticket %ld %s %s.pdf.

 

If Open PDF is checked, the PDF file be opened by the program associated with PDF files (e.g. Acrobat, Chrome, Edge).

 

If Email PDF is checked, the PDF file can be also be emailed at the the time it prints.

 

clip0438

 

Date format

Specifier

Displays

c

Displays the date using the Short date format.

d

Displays the day as a number without a leading zero (1-31).

dd

Displays the day as a number with a leading zero (01-31).

ddd

Displays the day as an abbreviation (Sun-Sat).

dddd

Displays the day as a full name (Sunday-Saturday).

ddddd

Displays the date using the Short date format.

dddddd

Displays the date using the Long date format.

m

Displays the month as a number without a leading zero (1-12).

mm

Displays the month as a number with a leading zero (01-12)

mmm

Displays the month as an abbreviation (Jan-Dec).

mmmm

Displays the month as a full name (January-December).

yy

Displays the year as a two-digit number (00-99).

yyyy

Displays the year as a four-digit number (0000-9999).