Several Feature Requests

[Defenestration]

1) Add new macro "Date ISO" which will insert YYYY-MM-DD

2) Remember last section of Properties dialog (ie. if on Save section, it should display Save section next time)

3) Add similar functionality to FinePrint. All the components seem to exist in PDF-XChange, but it's not streamlined for this purpose yet in that it requires too many steps. For example, with FinePrint I print to the FinePrint printer driver and the FP window will open up showing me a preview of the pages, and the ability to choose a layout (ie. how many pages per printed page - similar to n-UP/booklet), as well as changing the order of the print jobs (but not the page order within each print job). I can also change other things like remove graphics, add header/footer/watermark, create form and various other settings. More print jobs sent to the FinePrint driver are appended to the currently active job. I can then click the Print button to send it to the printer.

With PDF-XChange, I can do just about every thing I can do in FinePrint with the added bonus of being able to change the order of pages within each print job, but it requires more steps when using nUP or booklet as can be seen below:

a) Print 2 jobs to PDF-XChange from the browser (set to Append Current Job to Last Active Job) which sends the job to pdfSaver
b) Show pdfSaver and click Generate (which will automatically open the viewer)
c) Re-order pages as needed
d) Print to PDF-XChange again from the viewer using nUP=2 (will need to set to Save Generated PDF OR detach the job in pdfSaver)
e) in Viewer, print to Printer

With FinePrint, I would do the following:

a) Print 2 jobs to FinePrint from the browser (automatically append subsequent jobs to active job) - FinePrint window is automatically displayed.
b) Re-order jobs (not possible to re-order pages within jobs) and select 2 up printing
c) Click Print button.

Problems

- Cannot use PDF-XChange Viewer to output nUP/booklet printing direct to physical printer (ie. have to send to PDF-XChange driver first, then output to printer)
- Print job order is changed from pdfSaver, but page order changed in PDF-XChange viewer

It would be great if this process could be streamlined in PDF-XChange, as it could then be effectively used as a print manager (plus I could remove FinePrint and just use PDF-XChange )

[Defenestration]

4) Automatically select the first group (or possibly last selected/used group) in the New Document Management window.

5) Multi-select of Job Groups and Documents in the lists (ie. Ctrl+Click and Shift+Click)

[Defenestration]

6) Ability to automatically show the pdfSaver window when a print job is sent, and automatically select the relevant job group and document. Currently, there is only an option to show a tray icon.

If the pdfSaver Window is not currently shown, it should be brought to the front, but if it is already shown it should not be brought to the front (ie. so when printing multiple documents, the window will not keep coming to the front requiring the user to click on their app window before sending another print job). I neither case, the last print job group and document should be selected in the lists.

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

too many items
I will answer step-by-step

1) you can use %[Date:yyyy-MM-dd]

[Defenestration]

Thanks Ivan!

I've just purchased a licence for PDF-XChange 4 Pro as I like the software a lot. Most of my suggestions are quite small, apart from item (3). Item 3 would be the icing on the cake, and would effectively make PDF-XChange the premier print manager due to the fact that pages within print jobs can be re-arranged - Something no other product can do to my knowledge.

Re. (1), I didn't realise you could specify the date pattern within the DATE macro (maybe it's time for me to read the manual )

[Defenestration]

3) Add similar functionality to FinePrint. All the components seem to exist in PDF-XChange, but it's not streamlined for this purpose yet in that it requires too many steps. For example, with FinePrint I print to the FinePrint printer driver and the FP window will open up showing me a preview of the pages, and the ability to choose a layout (ie. how many pages per printed page - similar to n-UP/booklet), as well as changing the order of the print jobs (but not the page order within each print job). I can also change other things like remove graphics, add header/footer/watermark, create form and various other settings. More print jobs sent to the FinePrint driver are appended to the currently active job. I can then click the Print button to send it to the printer.

With PDF-XChange, I can do just about every thing I can do in FinePrint with the added bonus of being able to change the order of pages within each print job, but it requires more steps when using nUP or booklet as can be seen below:

a) Print 2 jobs to PDF-XChange from the browser (set to Append Current Job to Last Active Job) which sends the job to pdfSaver
b) Show pdfSaver and click Generate (which will automatically open the viewer)
c) Re-order pages as needed
d) Print to PDF-XChange again from the viewer using nUP=2 (will need to set to Save Generated PDF OR detach the job in pdfSaver)
e) in Viewer, print to Printer

With FinePrint, I would do the following:

a) Print 2 jobs to FinePrint from the browser (automatically append subsequent jobs to active job) - FinePrint window is automatically displayed.
b) Re-order jobs (not possible to re-order pages within jobs) and select 2 up printing
c) Click Print button.

Problems

- Cannot use PDF-XChange Viewer to output nUP/booklet printing direct to physical printer (ie. have to send to PDF-XChange driver first, then output to printer)
- Print job order is changed from pdfSaver, but page order changed in PDF-XChange viewer

It would be great if this process could be streamlined in PDF-XChange, as it could then be effectively used as a print manager (plus I could remove FinePrint and just use PDF-XChange )

You may also want to check out priPrinter for ideas, which is another virtual printer and on the surface appears to be better than FinePrint.