During installation novaPDF gives the option to install add-ins for Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher and Visio). By default this option is checked and it will add in Microsoft PowerPoint another tab called novaPDF that will let users create PDF files directly from the Office interface by simply clicking a button.
Create PDF files from Microsoft PowerPoint using the add-in for Microsoft Office:
- Open the presentation created with Microsoft PowerPoint that you want to convert
- Click on the novaPDF tab
- Optionally you can change the settings of novaPDF, or those of the add-in for Microsoft Office
- Click on Save to novaPDF and you'll be asked for a location where to save the resulting PDF file
Configure the settings of add-in for Microsoft Office:
The add-in installs with default settings, but those can be modified if you need advanced customization of the resulting PDF.
PRINTERS
This lets you manage the available PDF printers.
With novaPDF you can create as many printers as you want, all sharing the same driver but each could use a different profile. From the list of Printers you are able to choose which will be active and how to handle the PDF creation. Furthermore, if you have older versions installed, those will show up as printers too in this list.
Show one Save As PDF button
If this is checked, in the Save As PDF section of the addin ribbon tab you'll be able to choose (with a drop-down) what printer to use for creating the PDF.
Show each printer as a button
You can also choose to show a different Save As PDF button for each printer in the ribbon addin tab.
Links
This section lets you customize how links will be detected and converted in the resulting PDF file.
Convert links
If this is checked, all links in the current document will be detected and converted as active links in the resulting PDF file.
Web links
If checked this will convert all hyperlinks pointing to Internet addresses in the resulting PDF document.
Cross document links
If checked it will convert links pointing to other documents.
- Use relative paths - check this to use non-absolute links for file paths (i.e. /Documents/file.pdf instead of C://Documents/file.pdf )
- Change file extensions to PDF - when creating cross document links, all those pointing to other files can point to PDF files having the same name/path (in case those will be converted afterwise)
- Open file in new tab - w hen this option is checked, the file linked from the current PDF will open in a new tab of your PDF reader (if the PDF reader has support for tabbed reading).
Cross reference links
If checked this will convert the cross-reference links from Word (links that point the reader to various places within the same document).
BOOKMARKS
Choose whether to add bookmarks in the resulting PDF or not.
Add PDF Bookmark for each slide
If this is checked the resulting PDF file will have as bookmarks each separate slide from the presentation created with Microsoft PowerPoint.
DOCUMENT
This lets you select which printer to use and if you want to save the document before converting it.
Add document information
If you have any information added via document properties in the original file, you can have that recognized and transmitted in the PDF as Document Information (i.e. the Author, Title/Subject, Keywords,...). By default this option is checked.
Save before printing
When checked, it will save any changes done to the currently opened document before doing the conversion to PDF.
Print document markup
When checked, document markup will also be included in the resulting PDF file. If for instance your word document includes reviewing markup notes (i.e. comments, corrections), those will be included in the PDF file too.