{"id":474,"date":"2017-03-30T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=474"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T10:26:44","slug":"how-to-make-a-pdf-report","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/knowledge-base\/how-to-make-a-pdf-report\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make a PDF report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The easiest way to make a PDF report from Diamonds, PowerConnect or any other BuildSoft software is by installing a free PDF maker such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfforge.org\/pdfcreator\">PDF Creator<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutepdf.com\/\">CutePDF<\/a>. These are lightweight PDF makers installed as local printers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"385\" height=\"326\" src=\"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/print_pdfprinters.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/print_pdfprinters.png 385w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/print_pdfprinters-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/print_pdfprinters-50x42.png 50w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/print_pdfprinters-60x51.png 60w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/print_pdfprinters-35x30.png 35w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">With for example PDFCreator, you can collect several prints (from Word, Excel, Diamonds, PowerConnect etc), combine and print them together as 1 PDF file. To do so:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Print the first document. When the PDFCreator window pops up, select &lsquo;Wait &#8211; Collect&rsquo;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1309\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PDFAfdrukken1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15201\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Print all other desired documents (CTRL + P in document, choose PDF creator as printer).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When you&rsquo;re done, open the dialog \u00ab\u00a0Reorder and merge Print Jobs\u00a0\u00bb of PDFCreator. Here you can reorder the document by dragging them (if necessary).<br>Click on \u00ab\u00a0Merge all\u00a0\u00bb and then on \u00ab\u00a0Continue\u00a0\u00bb to execute the print command.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PDFAfdrukken2b.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15202\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The easiest way to make a PDF report from Diamonds, PowerConnect or any other BuildSoft software is by installing a free PDF maker such as PDF Creator or CutePDF. These are lightweight PDF makers installed as local printers. With for example PDFCreator, you can collect several prints (from Word, Excel,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[1120,63],"ht-kb-tag":[1348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31107,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/474\/revisions\/31107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}