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If Enable PDF Writer is checked, Dispatch will create PDF file for each ticket as it is saved and printed using Print Tickets.

 

1.Enable or disable the PDF Writer

2.PDF files will be saved to the location you specify using the Folder control.

3.You can tell Dispatch to create automatically sub-folders within folder you have selected.

4.Dispatch  displays an example of the folder name using the items you have selected.

5.The file name will formatted using the format you provide.

6.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.

 

Folder

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.

Sub-folders

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

 

•Computer name

•Printer description

•Table name

•Ticket 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.

Date format