Configuring rendering options

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Configuring rendering options

For most publishing jobs, the basic options of the rendering profile that is assigned to the job are sufficient. When they are not sufficient, rendering options can be configured on a per document basis. These are properties of the source documents that contain the values for the rendering options. In this way, the settings are independent of the rendering profiles that are used to generate the renditions and the settings can be specific to each document.

NEW Although the rendering modules that are provided with BlueCielo Publisher can render most popular file formats, they do not render all file formats. Options are available for those file types to instead publish a pre-existing Adobe PDF rendition template file. The template file can take the place of the rendition instead of not publishing anything to the destination system, which could be perceived by users as the source document being missing. The template file could contain the text No rendition available, for example. Similarly, some files in the source system might not have a file extension at all. This prevents them from being associated with a rendering profile, which uses file extensions to specify which documents it renders. The rendition template file can also be published for these documents.

Notes

We recommend that you use the properties in the Rendition Properties property set with the options that use properties.
The published rendition template can also have watermarks or electronic signature pages applied to it and it can be merged with other renditions as described elsewhere in this chapter.

To configure the rendering options:

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the Data Exchange group, click Jobs. The All Jobs page appears and lists the existing publishing jobs. The jobs are grouped by the name of the computer (cluster node) to which they have been assigned.
Double-click the publishing job that you want to configure. The Overview page appears.
On the menu, click RENDERING. The Rendering page appears.
In the page header, click SETTINGS. A page that lists the mappable rendering options appears.
Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Note Some of the options in the following table are only available for specific rendering profiles.

Rendering options
Option	Description
RENDERING PROFILE OPTIONS group
Page size	If specified, applies the value of the property as the rendition page size. If unspecified, the page size as specified in the rendering profile is used. To select the property: Click SELECT. The SELECT PROPERTY dialog box appears and lists all of the available properties. To filter the list to show only similar property names: Type the beginning of a property set name or a property name in the filter box. The search operator that will be used is Starts With. Click the search icon . The list refreshes to show the results of your filter. To reset the filter results, clear the filter box and click the icon again. Click the name of the property that you want to use and then click OK. The selected name appears as the option value. To remove the current property: Click CLEAR. The property name is removed. For acceptable page size property values, see Page size names.
Page orientation	If specified, applies the value of the property as the rendition page orientation. If unspecified, the page orientation as specified in the rendering profile is used. To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option. The orientation values in the selected property can be Portrait, Landscape, P, L, or empty (default orientation). Valid values must match those in the localized language. If an invalid value is encountered, an error message will appear in the publishing log.
Page layout	If specified, applies the value of the property as the view layout to render. If unspecified, the default view is used. To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option. The supported property values are: All Paperspace Views (all views except model space) All Views Current Views A page layout name in quotation marks, for example, “Floor Plan”. A page layout tab number range specified as <StartNumber>;<EndNumber>.
Color/Black and White	If specified, applies the value of the property as the color depth to render. If unspecified, all colors will be rendered in the output. To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option. The supported property values are: Color Any other value will render all colors as black (monochrome)
Pen style	If specified, applies the value of the property as the pen table name with which to render. If unspecified, the default pen table will be used. To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option.
AutoLISP	If specified, applies the value of the property as the name of an AutoLISP function to plot the source drawing. If unspecified, the function name specified in the rendering profile will be used.For help creating the AutoLISP function, see Configuring an AutoLISP plotting command. To select the property, perform the steps listed for the SELECT command in the preceding option.
MISCELLANEOUS group
Use existing rendition	If enabled, prevents unnecessary re-rendering of vault documents. The existing rendition will be published instead if it is up to date.
Include redlines in rendition	If enabled, source document redlines are published to the destination system.
NEW Publish action for file extension not assigned in any rendering profile	Select what to do if the file extension of a source document has not been configured in the rendering options of any rendering profile. Publish unrendered – Publishes the source document in its current format. Do not publish – Skips publishing files with that file extension.
Use the next rendering profile if rendering fails	If enabled, allows failover rendering by a different rendering profile if a document cannot be rendered by the desired profile due to unavoidable errors. For example, if a drawing fails to render using the AutoCAD rendering module and the number of retries has been exceeded, the job can be retried using a profile with the AutoVue rendering module. To set the order in which rendering profiles will be attempted, see the preceding step. Note If rendering fails with any module and the next module is tried, the text _RETRYRENDER_<ModuleName>_ will be passed in the publishOptions arguments described in PublisherSourceEvent_AfterPublish event and PublisherDestinationEvent_AfterPublish event.
DEFAULT PDF TEMPLATE group
NEW Publish template	If enabled, publishes a pre-existing rendition file for documents with the file extensions that are listed for the Input extensions option. Note This option takes precedence over the Input extensions option of a rendering profile.
NEW Input extensions	The quantity of source file extensions for which to publish the template file. To select extensions: Click EDIT. The INPUT EXTENSIONS dialog box appears and lists the supported file extensions. Select the file extensions to which you want the rendition template to be published. Click OK. The quantity is refreshed to reflect your selections.
NEW Use for empty extension	If enabled, publishes the rendition template for all documents that do not have a file extension.
NEW Template PDF file	The name of the Adobe PDF rendition template file to publish for the documents that are affected by the other options in this group. To specify the file: Click EDIT. The RESOURCES dialog box appears and lists the custom resources that have already been uploaded to the server. Select an existing file or upload a new file as described in Managing custom resources.

Click SAVE.