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AVAproject does an exceptional job of creating a ‘Submittal Document’ from beginning to end, using the information provided in any given project. Between the concise reports, the beautifully rendered architectural drawings and the supplementary data provided in the form of ‘Catalog Cuts’ and ‘Attachments’ – the software has pretty much covered all the bases. Despite all this, there is invariably additional information that users would like to have included with their submittals. Often such material can include text documents, drawings created using applications such as AutoCAD and cut sheets for products that do not appear in AVAware catalogs.
In the past, users were advised to install a software product such as Adobe Acrobat (full version) to add the necessary sheets and intersperse amongst the ones created by AVAproject. This process does work and it “gets the job done”, but what it doesn’t do is create a perfectly consistent document; unfortunately, the manually added pages have neither the page borders, data block or page numbering that would make them look as if they truly were a part of the document.
This is where this feature becomes truly invaluable. Users can add their own PDF documents to the submittal document from the ‘Submittal Overview’ screen by simply clicking on ‘Add PDF’ button in the toolbar. Once a PDF file has been selected, options are presented that allow users to choose either the entire document or only selected pages for inclusion.
There is even an option to “Browse” the PDF – just as one would with ‘Catalog Cuts’. Users may select which pages to include by clicking on the individual pages.
Once the selections have been made, AVAproject automatically extracts the pages numbers, grouping them where applicable, and inserting those numbers in the settings box.
Any PDF pages added to the submittal are printed just as any other page would be – inclusive of all the optional page borders, data blocks and page numbering that make them look like part of the entire document. In addition, users may select portrait or landscape orientation, and AVAproject will perfectly rescale the PDF pages to fit within the page border at the appropriate size. Because AVAproject contains a vector-based PDF rendering engine, the PDFs will always look just as they should – perfect.
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