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PDFG Network Printer allows users to generate a PDF document
from any application that supports printing. After a user installs
the PDFG Network Printer, a new printer named LiveCycle PDF Generator appears
in the Printers section of the Windows Control Panel. If a printer
with the same name already exists, the user is prompted to provide
another name.
Printing to this printer from any application sends the document
(in PostScript format) to PDF Generator, which converts the PostScript
file to PDF. Depending on how you configured PDF Generator, it sends
the PDF document to the user as an attachment to an email message,
forwards the PDF document to a specified LiveCycle service or process,
or performs both actions.
The following steps are required to set up a PDFG Network Printer:
Configure email settings. (See Configure email settings for PDFG Network Printer.)
In Administration Console, configure the PDFG Network Printer
settings. (See Configure the PDFG Network Printer settings.)
Ensure that your users are configured with a valid email
address in the LiveCycle database and assign the PDFGUserPermission
to each user. (See Setting up and organizing users.)
Ensure that 32-bit JRE6 is installed on your users’ computers.
Install the printer on your users’ computers. (See Install PDFG Network Printer on a user’s computer.)
Configure email settings for PDFG Network PrinterIn Administration Console, click Services >
Applications and Services > Service Management.
On the Service Management page, click provider.email_sendmail_service, specify
the SMTP settings, and click Save.
Configure the PDFG Network Printer settingsIn Administration Console, click Services >
PDF Generator > PDFG Network Printer
In the Adobe PDF Settings and the Security Settings lists,
select the options to apply to the generated PDF. For details on
these settings, see Configuring Adobe PDF settings and Configuring security settings.
To send the converted PDFs back to users, select the Email
The Converted PDF File Back To The User option and specify the following
information:
The email address to use to send PDFs
to the users
The subject of the email message
The header, body, and footer of the email message. In the
email message, <receiverName> is replaced with the full name
of the user who printed the document.
To send the converted PDFs to a LiveCycle service or process,
select the Forward The Converted PDF To The Specified LiveCycle
Service Or Process option and specify the following information:
The name of the service to invoke
The name of the operation of the service to invoke
The name of the input parameter, as specified in the component.xml
file of the service or process. The PDF document will be used as
a value for that input parameter.
Click Save.
If you want to revert to the original default email text, click
Restore E-Mail Contents.
Install PDFG Network Printer on a user’s computerUsers who have either the PDFG Administrator or PDFG User
role can install a PDFG Network Printer. You must have a 32-bit
JDK installed on the computer.
(PDFG Administrators) In Administration Console, click
Services > PDF Generator > PDFG Network Printer.
(PDFG
Users) Go to http(s)://[host]:[port]/pdfgui and
click the link under PDFG Network Printer Installation.
Under PDFG Network Printer Installation, click the link.
When prompted for user account information, specify the user name
and password that you used in step 1 to log in. A message appears,
stating that the printer has been successfully installed. Note: If
the user’ password changes, then users will need to reinstall the
PDFG Network Printer on their computers. You cannot update the password
from Administration Console.
Click OK.
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