Discussion:
Bluebeam PDF printer files?
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Brian
2005-08-22 15:51:17 UTC
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Spoke to my VAR this morning on an unrelated issue, but while I had him
on the phone, I posed a question to him.

Some of my older SW files contain references to a printer in their
document settings that I no longer have. If I simply open one and hit the
printer icon, it defaults to using the Bluebeam PDF printer rather than the
windows default. According to my VAR, when this happens, a file is, in
fact, created. He has ask SW tech ( previously ) where these files are
stored. They and he do not know.

This occurs relatively infrequently, and is decreasing as I save the
files with the new printer settings. But, at 2-3 times a week x 3 years (
however long the save as pdf has been available ), somewhere there is a
directory with several hundred useless files in it. The files are not
stored in the same directory as the drawing, nor are they stored with a .pdf
extension.

Anyone know where they are? I'd like to remove them.
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Brian Hokanson
Starting Line Products
SWX-VAR-JP
2005-08-22 16:01:37 UTC
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You need to look for *.PSB files. These are created when using the
BlueBeam printer. The default location is in your temp directory
specified in the environment of Windows.

Jeff Parker
Brian
2005-08-22 17:24:36 UTC
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Thanks found them. Were in the C:\temp\bluebeam software directory.
Just needed to know the proper file extension to search out. Seems it
creates two files for every use. One with the .psB extension, and another
with the .mxB extension. If the above directory does not exist, printing to
the bluebeam pdf printer will create it without user consent/intervention.
Post by SWX-VAR-JP
You need to look for *.PSB files. These are created when using the
BlueBeam printer. The default location is in your temp directory
specified in the environment of Windows.
Jeff Parker
Devon T. Sowell
2005-08-22 21:42:19 UTC
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Hello-

For the past 2 years, I've had these 2 shortcuts on my desktop:

C:\Documents and Settings\"User"\Local Settings
C:\temp

I clean them out everyday.

Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com
Post by Brian
Thanks found them. Were in the C:\temp\bluebeam software directory.
Just needed to know the proper file extension to search out. Seems it
creates two files for every use. One with the .psB extension, and another
with the .mxB extension. If the above directory does not exist, printing to
the bluebeam pdf printer will create it without user consent/intervention.
Post by SWX-VAR-JP
You need to look for *.PSB files. These are created when using the
BlueBeam printer. The default location is in your temp directory
specified in the environment of Windows.
Jeff Parker
Wayne Tiffany
2005-08-22 23:02:22 UTC
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Why not add both locations to a batch file that does it for you? If you log
in each morning, it could run automatically. If not, at least you then only
have to double-click on the icon and it does the work for you.

WT

"Devon T. Sowell" <***@3-ddesignsolutions.com> wrote in message news:%ErOe.313$***@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
Hello-

For the past 2 years, I've had these 2 shortcuts on my desktop:

C:\Documents and Settings\"User"\Local Settings
C:\temp
I clean them out everyday.
Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com
Post by Brian
Thanks found them. Were in the C:\temp\bluebeam software directory.
Just needed to know the proper file extension to search out. Seems it
creates two files for every use. One with the .psB extension, and another
with the .mxB extension. If the above directory does not exist, printing to
the bluebeam pdf printer will create it without user consent/intervention.
Post by SWX-VAR-JP
You need to look for *.PSB files. These are created when using the
BlueBeam printer. The default location is in your temp directory
specified in the environment of Windows.
Jeff Parker
Devon T. Sowell
2005-08-23 01:53:46 UTC
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Great idea, Wayne, thanks.

Devon
Post by Wayne Tiffany
Why not add both locations to a batch file that does it for you? If you log
in each morning, it could run automatically. If not, at least you then only
have to double-click on the icon and it does the work for you.
WT
Hello-
C:\Documents and Settings\"User"\Local Settings
C:\temp
I clean them out everyday.
Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com
Post by Brian
Thanks found them. Were in the C:\temp\bluebeam software directory.
Just needed to know the proper file extension to search out. Seems it
creates two files for every use. One with the .psB extension, and another
with the .mxB extension. If the above directory does not exist,
printing
Post by Wayne Tiffany
Post by Brian
to
the bluebeam pdf printer will create it without user
consent/intervention.
Post by Wayne Tiffany
Post by Brian
Post by SWX-VAR-JP
You need to look for *.PSB files. These are created when using the
BlueBeam printer. The default location is in your temp directory
specified in the environment of Windows.
Jeff Parker
iQ
2005-08-23 18:07:04 UTC
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this is a most interesting post, thank you for the information. i
always wondered where and what it produced.

now for the un-asked question. the files that are produced, are they a
PDF file? if they are why do they have a different suffix?

i would expect that if i used this printer that i would get a PDF
file... Wrong?

am i thinking too far outside of the box for this one? iQ
Post by Devon T. Sowell
Great idea, Wayne, thanks.
Devon
Post by Wayne Tiffany
Why not add both locations to a batch file that does it for you? If you
log
Post by Wayne Tiffany
in each morning, it could run automatically. If not, at least you then
only
Post by Wayne Tiffany
have to double-click on the icon and it does the work for you.
WT
Hello-
C:\Documents and Settings\"User"\Local Settings
C:\temp
I clean them out everyday.
Best Regards,
Devon T. Sowell
www.3-ddesignsolutions.com
Post by Brian
Thanks found them. Were in the C:\temp\bluebeam software directory.
Just needed to know the proper file extension to search out. Seems it
creates two files for every use. One with the .psB extension, and
another
Post by Wayne Tiffany
Post by Brian
with the .mxB extension. If the above directory does not exist,
printing
Post by Wayne Tiffany
Post by Brian
to
the bluebeam pdf printer will create it without user
consent/intervention.
Post by Wayne Tiffany
Post by Brian
Post by SWX-VAR-JP
You need to look for *.PSB files. These are created when using the
BlueBeam printer. The default location is in your temp directory
specified in the environment of Windows.
Jeff Parker
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