Creating Active Text Drafts

Overview

Active text drafts display only the paragraphs within the section that have been activated for printing. Active text drafts are akin to a print preview.

Documents drafts will include all formatting selected for the project as well as a “DRAFT” watermark will appear on every page in gray. 

Steps to Create an Active Text Draft

Follow the steps below to create an Active Text Draft:

1. Access the Print Menu in one of the following ways:

   a. From the SpecLink Cloud Dashboard, using the options menu (3 dot icon) and clicking "Print Project" from the dropdown list. 
   
   

   b. By clicking the print icon on the Quick Access Toolbar from the Sections List within a project.
   
   

   c. By clicking the print icon from the SpecLink Cloud Toolbar from within a specification section.
   
   

   
   
   
2. From the Print menu, choose Document Drafts as pictured below.
   
   
   
   
3. Select Active Text Draft from the Type of Draft area.
   
   
   
   
4. Select an available section from the pull-down menu.
   
   
   
   
5. Review and select the appropriate desired options from the Advanced Settings area. 
   
   
6. Click Print to create and open the PDF in another tab of your current browser, or click Export to download the PDF to your specified downloads folder.
   
   
   
   Selecting Print creates and opens the PDF in another tab of your current browser.
   Selecting Export creates and downloads the PDF to your specified downloads folder.