How to use PDF Creator

Log into Zscaler. Alfheim can be used as a backup. Once you are in Zscaler or Alfheim, open the Windows Start menu.

Look up PDF Creator.

Open PDF Creator. It should open to the Home page of the application.

Go to Profiles and open Output Format. Click on the PDF to change the format.

Change the Output to TIFF for later output into ALC and OnBase. Click Ok.

Click Output Format again and verify that the settings for TIFF files are Colors at 16 Million Colors (24 Bit). Change the Resolution (DPI) to 150 as shown. Click Ok to save.

Set the Profile to the <Default Profile> and click Save.

Click Printer. Make sure Printer says Adobe PDF – Batch. Check the box for Primary printer. Select <Default Profile> in the drop down menu.

Go to the first document you wish to put in the PDF Creator. Select Print file.

Select Adobe PDF – Batch as the Printer to send the document to the PDF Creator. Click Print.

The document should appear in the PDF Creator.

Open the second document that you would like to merge with the existing document in the PDF Creator. This is often a cover sheet. Click Print file.

Select Adobe PDF – Batch as the Printer to send the document to the PDF Creator. Click Print.

You should see a quick Progress window for a few seconds.

When PDF Creator opens, in the Merge dropdown option, a green 2 will appear in the top right corner, indicating that there are two documents in the PDF Creator to merge. Click Merge.

In the Merge and Reorder Window, select the documents to merge by clicking the checkbox next to them.

To reorder the documents, click Sort. Click and drag them in the correct print order, top to bottom.

Once the documents are in the preferred order, click Merge All. 

Click Continue after the files have merged.

Rename the file if necessary. Click Save.

Open the document using a photo viewer, like Windows Photo Viewer, to check if it all looks correct.