swup from Markku

Anyone else having a problem with the program only generating a prn file
instead of a pdf? Is there something I need to do to convert PRN files to
pdf automaticly? I tried using bluebeam as well as my cutepdf writer --
both generate PRN files. It seems like back in 1.0 version it went straight
to a pdf.

any help is appreciated
Thanks
Steve T.

 

Hi, I changed that because people were having problems with Bluebeam. I
want it to work for everyone...so you need for example GhostScript and
FreeDist to change .prn to .pdf.

I have time tomorrow to do another version that uses only Bluebeam and
makes directly .pdf...and includes all the same stuff that 1.0e2 + one
small bug that I found today

regards
Markku

 

Errr, I mean, I will fix the bug

 

You totally rock! I'll be watching for the full bluebeam version, we have
never had a problem with it. We keep things in lots of sub folders due to
the many clients we work with so a secondary opteration to get a pdf seems
like as much trouble as manually exporting to pdf anyway.
Thanks for implimenting my revision suggestion -- you even have the
option for those who put the rev in the model! Awsome! Thank you soo much!

Thanks
Steve T.

 

Markku... I want to say thanks too.

I must be using an early version that saves straight to pdf using bluebeam
and it works great for me.

I only turn it on at the end of job when I have to creat pdfs... very handy!

Cheers,

Cam

 

Markku Lehtola wrote:

Ok, here we go again, these are tested very shortly, so they are pretty
much "beta" . Thanks to all for support. For SW05 and SW06:

SWup 1.1
creates .PRN files with your favorite PS-printer driver

SWupBB 1.1
creates .PDF files, using Bluebeam

free download: www.markkulehtola.net/swxx.html

ps. I want to keep the .PRN version alive because I'm a huge fan of
FreeDist and some users seem to have (still) problems with BB.

ps2. If you're using SW04, please test this for me:
www.markkulehtola.net/SWup_setup.exe. It's little bit older version but
I have difficulties to find a clean test enviroment for SW04, so I would
like to know is it working with 04 or not. Thanks.

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Markku Lehtola

www.markkulehtola.net

 

Thanks, nice to hear that it works for you. About revision attribute...I
knew that the only right way is to support every possible way...people
are using so many ways to handle attribute data (and luckily it was
quite easy to code also)

regards
Markku

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Markku Lehtola

www.markkulehtola.net

 

Well that was a bs release, 1.2 is out

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Markku Lehtola

www.markkulehtola.net

 

Small visual fix for XP users, 1.2a

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regards

Markku Lehtola

www.markkulehtola.net

 

Markku,

Great program. I make PDF's of my projects when they are officially
released to permanently document released status. So this is a great
program to have for me.

Just one complaint though. When I create a PDF of a released drawing, I set
the PDF file attribute to "Read Only" so it can't be accidentally
overwritten. This takes a permanent snapshot of that revision. This
program automatically un-sets the read-only attribute and overwrites it.

I have your program set to add the Rev attribute to the filename (just as I
would do manually). Let's say I have a Rev4 drawing that requires an
engineering change, and it already has a "Read-Only" PDF file associated
with it. If I were to open the drawing make some changes, and save it
before actually changing the Rev property to Rev5 (we are supposed to save
often, right...), the program will unprotect the PDF and overwrite it
without question, causing me to lose the original Rev4 PDF information. I'd
rather it just fail until I get the custom property changed to Rev5, and
then create a Rev5 PDF successfully (until I set it to read-only of course).

Is there a way to make this change?

Thank you,

 

Thanks for the feedback. We have this nice Bluebeam which is so dumb
that it does not have an option to avoid overwriting :-(.

I'll try to add option or something to handle this. Would it be better
to have an option to overwrite or not or should it ask you every time
what to do?

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regards

Markku Lehtola

www.markkulehtola.net

 

Markku,

My opinion as default would be to overwrite if the attribute is NOT set to
read-only, and fail or not even attempt if it IS set to read-only. But
other people may perhaps prefer it different than this. So I guess an
option of sorts that can be toggled either way is going to be required to
please the masses.

Great program though.

Seth