Installation and activation

Both PDF Viewer and Advanced PDF are installed during initial installation of WorkZone. No further installation is required. PDF Viewer and the free version of Advanced PDF are also enabled by default in WorkZone Configurator and are available in the Preview pane of WorkZone Client.

The PDF Viewer pane is by default displayed to users in the Preview pane but Advanced PDF is not. If Advanced PDF is to be used to read or edit PDF documents, the Preview pane must be edited to also display the Advanced PDF pane to users.

If the licensed versions of Advanced PDF is purchased , you must first enable the licensed version in WorkZone Configurator, enabling the relevant feature settings (Annotations, Redaction and/or Advanced Editing) and then adjust the WorkZone Client configurations for users who are to employ Advanced PDF by changing the settings of the Preview pane to display the Advanced PDF pane.

Feature Feature Setting License Displayed by default in Preview pane

PDF Viewer

No feature setting

Free

Yes

Advanced PDF

Advanced PDF

Free

No

Advanced PDF

Annotations

Annotations and Redaction

No

Advanced PDF

Redaction

Annotations and Redaction

No

Advanced PDF

Advanced Editing

Advanced Editing

No

Note: The Annotations and Redaction license for Advanced PDF has been split into two features settings in WorkZone Configurator:

  • Annotations: Enables users to add, edit and manage comments to PDF documents.
  • Redaction: Enables users to redact PDF documents.

Enabling and disabling Advanced PDF

Prerequisite: You must be assigned the LICENSEADM access code to enable or disable WorkZone features.

Enable licensed versions of Advanced PDF

In WorkZone Configurator > Global tab > Feature settings, > Advanced PDF, select the features settings that correspond to the purchased license.

  • Annotations
  • Redaction
  • Advanced Editing

Disable licensed versions of Advanced PDF

In WorkZone Configurator > Global tab > Feature settings > Advanced PDF clear the feature setting you no longer want to use.

Clearing the feature settings does not invalidate the purchased license, it only makes the functionality of the feature settings unavailable to users.

Note: You cannot clear the Advanced PDF feature setting (the free license version) but you can remove it from the Preview pane.

See Also

Advanced PDF editor

Editing the Preview pane