Loading Multi Page PDFs

Loading Multi Page PDFs

When loading new drawings into a drawing set, you can either load a JPEG or a PDF. There is also the  option to load multiple pages from a PDF. 

Loading your PDF 

Go to the ‘Drawing Sets’ tab in the hub, once you are in the drawing set you want to add to, click on the green “Add Drawing” dropdown to select the ‘Load multiple pages from PDF’ option. 
  1. Click to add drawing
  2. Click here to load from PDF (Multiple pages)
Any images displayed are representative only and may differ depending on the version being used.

Drag and drop PDF file or select one.

Once your PDF pages are loaded, you can choose which pages you want to keep or discard, as well as giving them unique names. 
  1. Enter drawing name prefix/padding/suffix here. (see Naming Details for more info).
  2. Rotate all selected drawings.
  3. Selection tools.
  4. Change page view size.
  5. Rotate individual image if needed.
  6. Click in text box to select and edit pages manually.
  7. Selected pages have a green border.  Click to select or unselect.
  8. Click to Create Drawing once selections have been made.
  9. This bar shows the progress of the PDF file load.

Naming Details
  1. Prefix goes at the start of the drawing name
  2. Number padding determines how many characters are in the drawing number. E.g; a ‘2’ padding means drawing one number is ‘01’
  3. Suffix goes at the end of the drawing name.
  4. Selects all the available drawing
  5. ‘Invert Selection’ will select the drawings NOT currently selected
  6. Only selected drawings will be named.

NOTE: If you want the names of your drawings to have a space in between them (e.g Floor 02 ELEC as opposed to Floor02ELEC), make sure to press the space key after the Prefix and a space before typing the suffix.

Once you’ve edited and selected your chosen pages, click on ‘Create drawings’. Your drawings will then be loaded.
  1. Stop and close 2.    Current progress 3.   Errors are reported here

Once complete, they will appear under your drawing sets. Done! 

Automatic naming feature 

If your multi page PDF has named bookmarks for each page, then when the PDF is loaded into a new drawing set, each page will automatically be named in the Hub as per the name on the PDF bookmark. 


Below is a screengrab of Adobe reader, showing the bookmark page names… 



And how the bookmark page names show once you load the PDF into the hub…



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