Cloud Print PDF

Cloud Printing

Convention master supports having your hosted environment generate the pdfs for printing, and have a on site computer handle the actual sending of print jobs to printers.

Theory

The way this works is that CM itself uses one of it's "pdf printers" which generates PDF's into a folder. Then, when enabled with cloud printing, the cloud printing system provides you a URL that you can use to download those print jobs. Then the script on premise, just constantly hits that url and the URL returns a the next pdf needing to be printed.

Printing Scripts

The printing scripts will be within your convention master installation folder. /other/client_print_scripts/cloudprintscripts/

Setting it up

1. Set up your PDF printer
   1. Before you start you will need to know the temp path of each of your pdf printers from your IT admin.
   2. Log into your convention master instance.
   3. Click on the "Admin Printing" menu followed by the "Manage Printers" tool.
   4. Click "Add Printer"
      • Name the printer whatever you would like to name the printer
      • Method: pdf
      • Path: The server path to your temp folder (must be writable to the webserver) and must end with trailing slash. Note: You can prefix your filenames by not ending in a slash
   5. Click Save
2. Enable Cloud Printing on your Printer
   1. Log into your convention master instance.
   2. Click on the "Admin Printing" menu followed by the "Manage Printers" tool.
   3. Click "Cloud Printing"
   4. Click "Generate New Key"
   5. Click "Ok"
   6. Click back into the "Cloud Printing" dialog, and copy the URL provided there.
3. Set up your local printing script
   1. Use the URL you copied from the Cloud printing dialog.