AcroPlot Repro Application Window

Contains commands to manipulate the current view or document

Allows you to either specify "Same directory as the file" or to browse to a folder to save the resulting output files to.

If the Ouput Folder is set to something other than "Same directory as the file" you will be able to specify a job number here and we will create a sub directory based on that number and store the files there.

This controls the output DPI of the TIFF file. You should set this to the native DPI of your printer, otherwise the printer may have to scale up or down the TIFF file which could produce undesirable results.

Controls the pattern we use for dithering. The AcroPlot Repro Enhanced Dithering works really well for thin light gray lines and text and the Clustered Dithering (64 shades) is close to the standard Ghostscript dithering. With the Clustered Dithering the lower the number of shades the smoother the plot but also it's fewer colors so gradient fills and color images may not look as well.

Allows you to increase or decrease the brightness of the resulting TIFF file.

Allows you to set the minimum line width in pixels to use when converting files.  Although this can help reduce the chance of thin, light gray lines from dropping out it can also increase the thickness of small text since many times PDF files created from CAD packages create the text as graphics.

Allows you to set a comma separated list of possible passwords to use when opening password protected PDF and DWF files.

This allows you to save your current settings and restore them at a later time. By default is does not save the Output Folder or the Job Number settings. The settings are saved in the users AppData\CADzation\AcroPlotRepro folder typically "C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\CADzation\AcroPlotRepro\AcroPlotReproSettings.ini" in Windows Vista and Windows 7 and "C:\Documents and Settings\[Username]\Application Data\CADzation\AcroPlotRepro\AcroPlotReproSettings.ini" on Windows XP(SP3).

 

Allows you to use the Browse Folder dialog to pick the output folder.

Open the AcroPlot Repro Help File.

If the Ouput Folder is set to something other than "Same directory as the file" you will be able check this and then we will Automatically increment up the job number each time you start a new Job by either restarting the program or using the [File->New] Job menu.

This controls the format that you want to output to. The most common is the TIFF - Monochrome Group 4 which is what monochrome plotters like Oce, KIP, and Xerox need.

When selected the white space around the resulting image will be removed. This works really well in monochrome images of vector PDF files. In PDF files that were scanned in images it will crop to the first and last colored pixel it finds which may be a stray pixel added by the scanner instead of the border of the drawing.

When selected the passwords will be displayed in the dialog box.  Otherwise passwords are masked with a * character.

Allows you to delete the currently selected setting name.

Allows you to save the current settings to a specified name.  If the name already exists it will be overwritten with these values.

Allows you to select and entire folder to add to the list.  We will add all DWF, PDF, and PLT files we find in the directory.

Allows you to select file(s) to add to the list for processing.  You can also drag and drop files from Windows Explorer onto the file list area of the interface.

Allows you to delete the selected file(s) or page(s) from the list so they are not processed.

Allows you to move up the selected file(s) or page(s) up in the list. You can also drag files and pages in the file list area.

Allows you to move down the selected file(s) or page(s) up in the list.  You can also drag files and pages in the file list area.

Allows you to process all of the files in the list. If you want to process just a single page or a single file you can just double click on it in the list or if you want to just process multiple files or pages just right click and use the Process Selected

 

Once AcroPlot Repro is finished processing you can use this button to have it rename all of the output files so they will be in alphabetical order. This allows you to easily pull them into your KIP, MetaPrint, or Océ software so you don't have to setup the plot order again in those files. When doing this it will add a random value plus a four digit file number to the output filename.

Check this to stop the processing of the files after the current one is done.

The File Area allows you to change the rotation and zoom of selected files by right clicking in the area and using the Context Menu commands.  You can also drag and drop the files in the list to move them up and down in the list.  When the File Area has the mouse focus you can use the standard windows shortcut keys like "Del" to remove the file and "Ctrl+A" to select all files.

 

To quickly convert a single page or file just double click on it.

 

Once a file is processed you can double click on it to view it in our built-in image viewer.