HELiOS Spooler

The HELiOS Spooler is the control centre of the Plot Manager. It is installed on the Plot Manager Server and coordinates the individual print jobs.

All applications used to create the documents you want to print/plot must also be installed on the Plot Manager Server, e.g. Word for Word documents (.DOC), Excel for Excel documents (.XLS) etc.

You start the HELiOS Spooler on the corresponding system. If it was installed to the suggested default path, you can either start it via Windows by selecting Start > All Programs > ISD Software und Systeme GmbH > HELiOS Spooler, or by double-clicking the HELiOS.Spooler.Admin.exe file in the directory C:\Programs\HELiOS Spooler\exe (provided that this suggested directory was used for the installation).

In this window, a list of the jobs that are handled via the HELiOS Spooler is displayed. From there you can also access various setting options for paper types, printer assignments and target directories.

Please note:

As of HELiOS 2015 a new HELiOS Spooler is supplied. As the HELiOS Spooler is an entirely new software, an update of the old Spooler is not possible. Before installing the new HELiOS Spooler, please make a record of the old Spooler’s settings, uninstall it, and then adjust the settings of the new Spooler accordingly.

The HELiOS Spooler must be started by a user who has been granted the permission to grant accesses to directories. Further information on user accounts and operation as service can be found at HELiOS Spooler: Installation.

If you work with HiCAD and the HiCAD Spooler, the HiCAD Spooler had to be started (before the HELiOS Spooler!) for the printing/plotting of HiCAD drawings. This sequence must be respected, also after a re-start of the Plot Management.

The output devices (printers) that are available in the HELiOS Spooler are those that had been installed on the Plotmanager Server system. Therefore, the adding or removing of printers and other devices takes place via the operating system.

The various formats to which documents can be converted via the Spooler from the HELiOS Desktop (e.g. DXF), are determined in the system file hel_fileconvert.ini. Please also read: Plotmanager: Installation Notes.