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These options control the compression methods used during the creation of PDF output files. Table values in bold text are the default value for that setting.

 

Sample Profile

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Profile Type="0"

         DisplayName="Create PDF/A "

         Description ="Create PDF/A-1b">

  <Settings>

 

    <!-- Output file options -->

    <add Name ="Devmode settings;Color" Value="1"/>

    <add Name ="Save;Output File Format" Value="PDF Multipaged"/>

    <add Name ="Save;Prompt" Value="0"/>

    <add Name ="Save;Overwrite" Value="1"/>

    <add Name ="PDF File Format;PDF Standard" Value="PDF/A-1b"/>

    <add Name ="PDF File Format;Use compression" Value="1"/>

    ...

    

  </Settings>

</Profile>

 

 

Code Sample - C#

 

PNDocConvQueueServiceLib.PNDocConvQueueItem item = null;

 

// Create the conversion item

item = new PNDocConvQueueServiceLib.PNDocConvQueueItem();

 

// Set conversion settings

item.Set("Devmode settings;Color", "1");

item.Set("Save;Output File Format", "PDF Multipaged");

item.Set("Save;Prompt", "0");

item.Set("Save;Overwrite", "1");

item.Set("PDF File Format;PDF Standard", "PDF/A-1b");

item.Set("PDF File Format;Use compression", "1");

 

...

// convert the file

item.Convert("Microsoft Word",

             @"C:\Test\Report.docx",

             @"C:\Test\Out\ConvertedReport");

 

Code Sample - VB.NET

 

Dim item As PNDocConvQueueServiceLib.IPNDocConvQueueItem

 

 ' Create the conversion item

item = New PNDocConvQueueServiceLib.PNDocConvQueueItem()

 

' Set conversion settings

item.Set("Devmode settings;Color", "1")

item.Set("Save;Output File Format", "PDF Multipaged")

item.Set("Save;Prompt", "0")

item.Set("Save;Overwrite", "1")

item.Set("PDF File Format;PDF Standard", "PDF/A-1b")

item.Set("PDF File Format;Use compression", "1")

...

' convert the file

item.Convert("Microsoft Word", _

             "C:\Test\Report.docx", _

             "C:\Test\Out\ConvertedReport")

 

 

Conversion Settings - PDF File Format

Name:

PDF File Format;Embed Pages as Images

 

Values:

0 - Creates vector pages, where possible, in the PDF file; does not OCR

1 - Embeds each page of the PDF as an image, creating a raster PDF

 

Name:

PDF File Format;Include Outline

This setting applies only when creating vector PDF files, and only if the source file contains outline information. Outline information is shown as bookmarks in a PDF document.

 

Values:

0 - Does not include outline information in vector PDF files

1 - Includes outline (heading) information, where possible, in vector PDF files

 

Name:

PDF File Format;Use compression

 

Values:

0 - Do not compress the file

1 - Enable compression for the file

 

Name:

PDF File Format;Use ASCII

 

Values:

0 - No ASCII format compression

1 - Enable ASCII format compression

 

Name:

PDF File Format;PDF Standard

 

Values:

None - Create PDF files that are not PDF/A-1b compliant

PDF/A-1b - Create PDF/A-1b compliant PDF files when creating raster PDF

 

Name:

PDF File Format;Content encoding

 

Values:

None - No compression

ZIP - ZIP compression

RLE - Packbits (run length) compression

LZW - LZW compression

 

Name:

PDF File Format;Color compression

 

Values:

None - No color compression

ZIP - ZIP compression

RLE - Packbits (run length) compression

JPEG High - High quality JPEG compression

JPEG Medium - Medium quality JPEG compression

JPEG Low - Low quality JPEG compression

LZW - LZW compression

 

Name:

PDF File Format;Greyscale compression

 

Values:

None - No color compression

ZIP - ZIP compression

RLE - Packbits (run length) compression

JPEG High - High quality JPEG compression

JPEG Medium - Medium quality JPEG compression

JPEG Low - Low quality JPEG compression

LZW - LZW compression

 

Name:

PDF File Format;Indexed compression

 

Values:

None - No color compression

ZIP - ZIP compression

RLE - Packbits (run length) compression

JPEG High - High quality JPEG compression

JPEG Medium - Medium quality JPEG compression

JPEG Low - Low quality JPEG compression

LZW - LZW compression

 

Name:

PDF File Format;BW compression

 

Values:

None - No black and white compression

Group4 - CCITT Group4 Fax compression

Group3-2D - CCITT Group3 2D Fax compression

Group3-1D -CCITT Group3 1D Fax compression