General

PDF Filename	The output PDF filename. Not the full path, just the filename. e.g. When you go select the menu option "File | Save As" this is the default filename.   Sophisticated control codes and tags can be used, as described here. For example you can use Windows Environment Variables to set the backup directory to a specific path relevant to a user. The setting of %HOMEPATH% will set the backup directory to the users path for the logged in user. Thus environment variables can be used with pdfMachine in a server environment to set the backup directory differently for each user.
JPEG Quality	High quality results in larger PDF files, low quality smaller PDF files. "No JPEG" means JPEG compression is not used - "Flate" compression is used which is not "lossy" like JPEG.
Image Resolution (DPI)	The resolution that images are 'down-sampled' to measured in dots per inch. Sometimes images are sampled at a high DPI for better results when printing to high-end printers. These high DPI sampled images result in larger PDF files. Screen resolution is 96 DPI, which is a good setting for PDF files intended solely for screen viewing.
Auto append	When enabled, PDFs are automatically appended to the currently open PDF in the pdfMachine viewer. If disabled, a separate viewer is launched for each print job. Otherwise you can be prompted on each PDF creation.
PDF Level	Select the PDF level if you want the created PDFs to be PDF/A compliant. For example selecting PDFA/A-1b will make PDFs produced by pdfMachine conform to the PDA/A-1b file format for long-term preservation.
When you select print, pdfMachine will:	Show the System Printer Dialog Show the System Printer Setup Dialog Print to the Default Printer Print to a specific printer If you select this you must then also select the specific printer from the dropdown bos.
Weekly online check	If enabled, pdfMachine checks the Broadgun website once a week to see if a new version of pdfMachine has been released. If so, a message is displayed.
Show Printing Status	If enabled, a dialog box is displayed showing the progress of the print job when printing to pdfMachine.
Upload anonymous usage data	pdfMachine uses Analytics to help make the product better. If this option is checked then you are sharing your usage data with us, no personally identifying information is uploaded. Just events like which buttons were clicked, what menu options were chosen. This helps us know what features our customers use most often.

Output Filename

The resulting PDF file can be named using sophisticated tags and control characters to include things as timestamps, auto incrementing numbers and environment variables.

The time stamping follows the syntax of the C programming function strftime.

Time stamping codes
The formatting codes for strftime are listed below:

%a
Abbreviated weekday name

%A
Full weekday name

%b
Abbreviated month name

%B
Full month name

%c
Date and time representation appropriate for locale

%d
Day of month as decimal number (01 – 31)

%H
Hour in 24-hour format (00 – 23)

%I
Hour in 12-hour format (01 – 12)

%j
Day of year as decimal number (001 – 366)

%m
Month as decimal number (01 – 12)

%M
Minute as decimal number (00 – 59)

%p
Current locale's A.M./P.M. indicator for 12-hour clock

%S
Second as decimal number (00 – 59)

%U
Week of year as decimal number, with Sunday as first day of week (00 – 53)

%w
Weekday as decimal number (0 – 6; Sunday is 0)

%W
Week of year as decimal number, with Monday as first day of week (00 – 53)

%x
Date representation for current locale

%X
Time representation for current locale

%y
Year without century, as decimal number (00 – 99)

%Y
Year with century, as decimal number

%z, %Z
Either the time-zone name or time zone abbreviation, depending on registry settings; no characters if time zone is unknown

%%
Percent sign

Auto Incrementing Numbers (e.g. Bates numbering)

{AUTONUM} {AUTONUM2} {AUTONUM3} {AUTONUM4} {AUTONUM5}

These tags are dynamically substituted with a variable that is automatically increment upon each use.

The number after the AUTONUM refers to the field size of the number, i.e. how many digits make up the number, including leading zeros.

Document Name

{DOC_FULL}

This tag is dynamically substituted with the print job name. The print job name is set by the application that is doing the printing but is usually derived from the document file name.

{DOC}

This tag is similar to DOC_FULL, except this tag also strips out all characters prior to the first '-' character. It also strips out all characters after the last '.' character.

This can be handy if a long prefix is on all print job names of a particular application. It is also handy to remove the "Microsoft Word - " prefix and the ".docx" suffix on Word print jobs.

{DOC_NOSUFFIX}

This tag is similar to DOC_FULL, except this tag also strips out all characters after the last '.' character.

This can be handy if the print job names include the type of file as a suffix eg ".xlxs" and you don't want your PDF to have the suffix '.xlsx.pdf'.

Environment Variable Substitution

Any Windows environment variable can be used inside of the curly braces and the value is dynamically substituted to create a filename.