Now the latest version is PP14 yes, Nuance was superstitious and skipped 13 , and its latest "point" release is I decided that adding PP14 to the previous article would result in a long, unwieldy article. In addition, a user of one version is not going to be concerned about the other two versions, so I decided to create three separate articles for PP11 , PP12 , and PP14 users. This is the PP14 one. The earlier point releases of PP14 — This article provides links to This article update fixes those links.
Links to Downloads The links are to a direct download of the upgrades for PP Beware the size — both are very large: PP For PP However, there's a bug in the PP If you have PDF Converter, that should also be uninstalled before installing the upgrade and it requires a separate uninstall.
Another improvement in the PP You will lose all of the work that you put into creating your custom scanning profiles. For further information, here is the Nuance PaperPort knowledge base article regarding uninstallation: Manual uninstall instructions for PaperPort 14 However, that article was written before PP Remover Tool Nuance recommends the standard Windows uninstallation procedure, as described in the section above which is what the PP However, if your uninstallation is problematic, Nuance provides a free Remover Tool that does a more thorough job of removing all traces of a PP14 installation.
After proper uninstallation, the next step is to install the upgrade. Each PP The PP Also, it gives the option of installing the Nuance Cloud Connector: You will need to reinstall PDF Converter separately if you have it and you uninstalled it.
Many, if not all, Nuance software installations also install this product. I do not like it, as I find it to be an invasive product that does not work well and has some undesirable side-effects. If you like FlexNet Connect, skip to the next section in this article.
If you don't like it, but haven't been able to figure out how to uninstall it, keep reading. It intentionally does not create an uninstaller, so you can't uninstall it from Programs and Features. Every time I see it come onto my system from some software installation, I uninstall it. For Word versions and later, the add-in offers the option to run a macro on the separate documents before they are finally saved.
This could, for example, be used to re-apply text formatting that had been applied to the data, but which would have been lost in the merge. In order to ensure that macros applied to this process actually run on the document they must pass a document parameter to the macro e.
Sub MacroName oDoc as Document. The variable name itself does not matter. The sample document includes such characters so that you may evaluate the results. If all has been entered correctly the function will now run and split the merge into the document type s requested.
As the process can take some time without much obvious sign of progress, I have added a progress indicator. You may also select the folder to store the merged documents by clicking the 'Browse' button, which offers the standard Windows Explorer dialog.
The browse button is not available for Sharepoint folder selection. The add-in creates a series of new documents. It works best if these new documents are created using the template from which the merge document was created. If that template is not available, the new documents are created using the normal template. Earlier versions of the add-in would prompt for missing filenames. This has proved a nightmare to code with the changes I wanted to effect, and was also rather irritating in its previous guise, where several records may have had illegal or missing filenames, so I have simplified the function.
Now when the filename field is empty or there is an illegal character in the field see list below , a dummy filename name is substituted. This name is in the format - "NoName Record Number", where Number is the number of the merged record. Where fieldnames have duplicated content, the fieldname of the first matching record is named in the format "Filename" whereas the subsequent matching records have an incremented number appended e,g, "Filename 1 ", "Filename 2 " etc.
In early versions of Word the PDF plug-in was an optional extra. The optional PDF plug-in will be available if Word is updated to SP2 as this removed the plug-in option and made it part of the application. If it is not installed, the add-in then checks whether the Acrobat printer driver Adobe PDF is installed, and if available will print to that. If neither is available a warning message is presented and the merge is made only to the choice of document format.
The Acrobat versions compatible with Word and later provide their own merge function which has greater functionality than is available from the Adobe PDF 'printer' driver or the Microsoft Office Plug-in, though not the ability to name the PDF files from the data source. If you have Acrobat installed, investigate this if you need to merge to PDF. The Acrobat add-in also offers the option to merge PDF to e-mail attachments which the individual merge letters add-in does not include. However see also my Many to One add-in which does provide this functionality.
Select the field in the datasource that will supply the filenames and check the box 'Do you want to create PDF files' in the dialog box shown below. When the 'Continue' button on the main dialog is clicked, a second userform will open to offer that facility.
Clicking 'Cancel' on this userform will cancel the whole process. Currently the additional security options are only supported when the option PDF is checked. Should you check one of the other PDF format types, the dialog changes as shown below and any security settings entered are returned to their default values. The items shown disabled in the illustration above become available when a Master Password is entered.
If you don't want additional security measures then don't set a Master Password! If you enter a Master Password and continue without setting options, you will see the following dialog. Click 'No' to set options or 'Yes' to continue without.
If you create a merge letter and merge to a new document without using the add-in to split the merge, you get one long document with each of the individual 'letters' separated by a section break. It is simple enough to print an individual 'letter' or range of letters by addressing the sections in the print dialog as in the illustration below. Having merged to a single document, it is still possible to split to separate documents, with the use of a macro. Anyone may create applications that read and write PDF files without having to pay royalties to Adobe Systems, however Adobe holds a number of patents relating to the PDF format and claims that it is an open standard, licensing them on a royalty-free basis for use in developing software that complies with its PDF specification.
PDF files are most appropriately used to encode the exact look of a document in a device-independent way. While the PDF format can describe very simple one page documents, it may also be used for many pages, complex documents that use a variety of different fonts, graphics, colors, and images. There are also front-ends for many platforms to Ghostscript. PDF readers are generally free. There is also specialized software for editing PDF files. Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Company or developer: Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Acrobat is fully featured document solution that works with PDF format and is able of both opening and editing of existing PDF documents, or creating new ones from scratch. You can purchase it as standalone desktop software. Adobe Acrobat Reader for Mac. Adobe Acrobat for Mac. Much like its Windows counterpart, the Mac version of Adobe Acrobat is software used view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in PDF document file format.
Extract images and texts from PDF files. Beware of emails with attachments. Best online converters. Top websites to download free ebooks. Software for working with PDF documents. How to convert PDF to Word. Convert ebooks for free. How to find PDF search results only in Google. PDF is a very common document format and thus is supported by all productivity software. A free viewer from Adobe is also available to open pdf files, its unable to edit them though.
Many applications can export their documents to PDF.
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