Meridian Explorer can use one of the following viewers to show documents:
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Accruent viewer (ActiveX) control that is installed on the client PCs by the PowerWeb setup program. With this option, you can use the viewers described in Third-Party Viewers.
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Adobe viewer supported by the browser.
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PDFTron server-based viewer that is installed by default and can be used to view PDF renditions.
Which viewer is used and for what documents is determined by the viewers that are available to the client PC, by the central options configured as described in the following task, and by the preferences that are configured by the user. The default viewer window options are acceptable for most users but you can configure numerous options to further optimize their experience.
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Not all viewers display redlines.
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The viewers in the Viewers group are listed in priority order.
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The first viewer that is enabled will be used to show PDF documents.
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The default viewer is used to generate the thumbnail images shown in Meridian Explorer and the viewer must be installed on the Meridian Enterprise Server computer.
To configure the viewer options:
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In Administration Console, in the Repositories group, click Options.
The User Defaults Options page appears.
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In the menu, click Viewer.
The list of configurable options appears.
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Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.
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Click Save.
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Group |
Option |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Viewers |
Enable PDFTron viewer for PDF documents |
If enabled, renditions (only) are shown in the server-based PDFTron viewer window. Before a rendition can be viewed in PDFTron for the first time, the rendition must be updated. Note:
When Enable XOD Viewing is turned off, an error may occur in PowerWeb or Meridian Explorer when viewing a rendition of a complex drawing using PDFTron with Microsoft Internet Explorer. |
| Viewers |
Enable Adobe Reader for PDF documents |
If enabled and Adobe Reader is installed on the client PC, PDF documents are shown in Adobe Reader. |
| Viewers |
Enable Accruent viewer control |
If enabled and the Accruent viewer control is installed on the client PC, documents are shown in the Accruent viewer and documents can be batch printed. Otherwise, only draft printing single documents is possible. |
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Viewers |
Disable Print Rendition for all Users |
If enabled, the system hides the Print button in the Meridian Explorer viewer. |
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Viewers |
Disable Download Rendition for all Users |
If enabled, the system hides the Download option in the menu of the Meridian Explorer viewer. |
| PDFTron Viewer Settings | Enable XOD Viewing |
Allows users to view XOD files instead of native PDFs in PDFTron. This provides faster response times on multi-page documents, but reduced quality and limited functionality. We recommend you enable this setting if you use Internet Explorer 11. When this setting is turned off:
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| PDFTron Viewer Settings | Hotspots opacity | Allows you to configure the opacity of hotspots. You can enter a value between 0.1 and 1. |
| PDFTron Viewer Settings | Hotspots border thickness | Allows you to set the thickness of hotspot borders. You can enter a value between 0.001 and 15. |
| PDFTron Viewer Settings | Hotspots color | Allows you to choose the color of hotspots. |
| PDFTron Viewer Settings | Hotspots hover color | Allows you to choose a hover color for hotspots. |
