Product Features

Batch Publishing & Printing

Adept PrintWave has been renamed PublishWave – and it includes more advanced capabilities for publishing and printing from inside Adept.

Adept PublishWave enables single or batch mode printing to hard copy and publishing to PDF, DWF or TIF formats directly from the Adept application. You get high fidelity, native application output quality – without having to open the file in its native application.

PublishWave is well suited for organizations that require native application output quality; tighter control over their output; or automated PDF, DWF, and TIF generation when a change to a document has been made or when a document has been approved.

PublishWave 2 New Features:

  • Publish and print native CAD and Office formats including AutoCAD 2008/2009 DWG, Inventor 2008/2009 IDW,
    SolidWorks 2008/2009 SLDDRW, Word and Excel 2003 and 2007
  • Publish to PDF, DWF and TIF formats
  • Print or publish any selection of files on-demand from within Adept
  • Publish to an Adept Library or to a network folder or FTP site
  • Automate publishing upon an event in Adept, including sign in or final approval
  • Pre-configure AutoCAD output to ensure consistent quality
  • Track PublishWave use in Adept’s audit trail, including a log of user, time and date information


PublishWave Benefits and Capabilities:

  • Publish and print native CAD and Office formats including AutoCAD 2008/2009 DWG, Inventor 2008/2009 IDW,
    SolidWorks 2008/2009 SLDDRW, Word and Excel 2003 and 2007
  • Publish to PDF, DWF and TIF formats
  • Print or publish any selection of files on-demand from within Adept
  • Publish to an Adept Library or to a network folder or ftp site
  • Automate publishing upon an event in Adept including sign in or final approval
  • Pre-configure AutoCAD output to ensure consistent quality
  • Processes requests on separate workstation to free up user
  • Uses native applications to generate output, ensuring high fidelity
  • Adept provides an Audit Trail for printing/publishing activities
  • Adept ensures your output is generated from the correct version
  • Watermarks indicate file’s status within Adept
  • Adept permissions determine who has rights to output which file
  • Can be used to put files into Adept that are created by non-Adept users - or external processes, such as scanning/ exporting files