Printing to PDF

You can print a chart as a PDF document. To protect the document, you can set PDF security options.

Procedure

  1. Optional: Set security options for the PDF document.
  2. To print the chart as PDF, click the Publish tab, and then in the Print group, click the arrow below Print to PDF. In the menu, click Print to PDF.
    The Save As window opens.
  3. In the Save As window, navigate to the directory in which you want to save the file.
  4. In the File name box, enter a name for the file to be saved.
  5. Click Save. If you previously set a password, the Confirm Password window opens. Enter the password if specified, then click OK. Analyst's Notebook confirms that the PDF file was successfully saved, and displays options to open or share the file.
  6. Select the option you require and click OK.
    You can open the file, view it in Windows Explorer or create an email with the PDF as an attachment.
Note: Analyst's Notebook returns an "Unable to print to PDF" error if your computer has enabled the Windows Policy security option "System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing". The Print to PDF function employs the third-party component PDFSharp, which uses an MD5 algorithm that is not FIPS compliant. If you are unable to print to PDF, contact your system administrator.