Here you will find a description and demonstration of how you can use PDF clipping in the PDF viewer. On this page you will find a description of the different applications as well as a short video showing you the clipping:

Description

The clipping function allows you and your customers to select pages from different PDF documents within libraries in order to save or print them later. The “clip” created in this way can also be extended to include a cover page with additional information and a table of contents. The clipping function is integrated into every library as standard and free of charge and can be deactivated if required.

In order to provide a particularly good service for your customers and your office staff, you can extend the clipping to include individual content. You can find more information here:

Create clipping

Clipping allows your customers or your office staff to put together individually compiled PDF documents with pages from different PDF documents. Trade customers or office staff from wholesalers use this function to provide individual offers and project-related documents to end customers. If a clipping is to be created, a PDF document must be opened in a library. You can then select the page that you want to include in the clipping. By clicking on the clipping symbol in the top bar, the page is added to the current clipping:

Open

Open

Once you have added all pages from the open document, you can close the currently open document. The clipping is cached for the current web session. A new document can then be opened to add more pages to the clipping. All pages in the current clipping are displayed in the Clipping area on the left:

Within this overview, you can then delete individual pages. The entire clipping can be deleted using the “trash can” symbol in the bottom left corner. To download the clipping document, click on the “cover page” symbol in the bottom left:

Move pages

Within the current clipping overview, you can change the order of the stored pages. To do this, you can use the arrow buttons below the page or move pages using the “drag and drop” function.

Cover page and table of contents

If you click on the previously described symbol for the “cover sheet”, the following menu will open, where you can enter information for the cover sheet:

In the first step, your trade customers or your office customers can store information such as contact details. In the second step, you can then enter your own contact details so that customers and end users can contact you as easily as possible. You can decide whether you want to store a cover sheet and a table of contents at all. However, it is important to note that you can only create a table of contents if you have also configured a cover sheet.

If you decide to use a table of contents, it will be displayed as follows:

The table of contents should be read as follows:

1. The first page number: This refers to the page in the clipping document.

2. The second page reference: This page refers to the page in the PDF document from which the “clipped” page was taken.

3. Finally, the name of the original document is given.