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11/19/2019

Cover Page in SpecsIntact, and Automatic Blank Pages

My top two favorite features in the new SpecsIntact 5.0.0.98:

Cover Page: Right-click a Job in Available Projects, click options, and click the Cover Page tab. Very nice, now SpecsIntact can automatically add a cover page to project manuals. Ideally would like it to handle multiple volumes.

Blank Pages: You can add blank pages automatically for double-sided printing. If you are like me you have been adding these manually so each page of a spec section begins on a right-facing page because it is just weird to open one up and see it start on the left page, like if a chapter in a book started that way. If you're really like me you have even developed methods to help automate this, but nothing is quite 100% automatic. Well, now in SpecsIntact it has a checkbox in Print/Publish, Options, Insert blank pages for double-sided printing... HOORAY! Some testing is still warranted, as I am not sure if it works perfectly either, but they are headed in the right direction. For example, there should be a blank page right after the cover page, but there was none. Maybe time to test it out some more when not on a deadline or 3, and report any anomalies to their very responsive tech support group. Feel free to comment if you have found it to work well or not well. Also, does anyone else ever get repeated errors when trying to PDF the spec sections?