Centrally control Adobe PDF file conversion settings
- Optimize for file size, image resolution, or font subsets
- Set document open options
- Optimize for fast web view
- Preserve links, tags, and bookmarks
- Insert bookmarks
- Use press-quality settings
- Convert URL text to clickable links
- Add tabs to enable accessibility features
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- Help ensure consistently formatted output for customer or partner communications such as reports, regulated or mandated communications, case file generation and packaging, or archiving
- Comply with government regulations, organizational business processes, or corporate guidelines
- Enable fine control over document conversion settings
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Apply fine control to document security settings
- Apply passwords to control who can access, print, copy, modify, save, or extract content from PDF documents
- Integrate with Adobe® LiveCycle® Rights Management ES software to set or change policies for access control, revocation, revision control, and audit trails
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- Protect document confidentiality and authenticity by controlling how users interact with Adobe PDF files
- Apply persistent policy protection to electronic documents distributed inside or outside the firewall by integrating with LiveCycle Rights Management ES
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Create Adobe PDF files from a wide range of applications and file formats
- Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2007 (DOC, XLS, PPT,WPD, MPP, RTF, TXT, Microsoft Office Open XML Formats)
- Microsoft Visio 2003, 2007 (VSD)
- Microsoft Project 2003, 2007 (MPP)
- AutoCAD 2005, 2006, 2007 (DWG)
- Corel WordPerfect 12 (WPD)
- Adobe Photoshop® CS2 (PSD)
- Adobe FrameMaker® 7.2 and 8 (FM)
- Adobe PageMaker® 7.0 (PMD, PM6, P65, PM)
- OpenOffice 2.0 (ODT, ODS, DOP, ODG, ODF)
- Print files (PS, PRN, EPS)
- Web files (HTML)
- Image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNG)
Developers can extend this support to other programs or native file formats with the included application programming interfaces (APIs).
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- Render simple or complex documents with the reliability that has made Adobe the industry benchmark
- Capture rich information from the source including hyperlinks, layers, formatting, structure and accessibility tags, and metadata
- Embed fonts and capture structured information such as accessibility tags from native applications to create PDF/A-1a files, the highest level of conformance to the archiving standard
- Convert and store large volumes of print documents such as invoices, statements, reports, or portal pages in efficient electronic formats
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Convert PDF files to industry-standard formats
- Text (TXT, RTF, accessible)
- Web (HTML)
- Images (TIFF, multipage TIFF, PNG, JPEG)
- Print (PS, EPS)
- PDF-to-PDF
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- Support unattended print or archiving processes
- Give employees, customers, constituents, or partners the flexibility to deliver files exactly as needed
- Transform existing PDF files to change versions or adjust job settings for compatibility with departmental processing requirements
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Deliver documents in open-standard formats
- PDF 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7
- PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b
- PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3
- Searchable PDF files from images
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- Support the most current formats, including PDF v1.7, which was introduced with Adobe Acrobat® 8 software
- Support the automatic generation of PDF/A for archiving; PDF/A-1a provides the highest level of conformance to the archiving standard, containing structural tags within the file to enhance searchability and access for people with disabilities
- Deliver PDF/X , an ISO standard for prepress document exchange
- Apply optical character recognition (OCR) to scanned image files to generate searchable text within the Adobe PDF file
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Assemble, disassemble, and manipulate PDF document packages
- Combine new and existing PDF files or pages
- Combine multiple documents into one single file, or create a document package with multiple documents or eForms included
- Automatically generate a hyperlinked table of contents
- Add watermarks, backgrounds, or overlays
- Add headers/footers or numbering
- Add, remove, rotate, and scale pages
- Import, export, and manipulate attachments, annotations, links, and bookmarks in an XML format
- Manipulate document metadata
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- Repurpose PDF documents and customize them for a new audience
- Automate most assembly functions available in Acrobat 8, including document packages with pages that have been signed or secured — without compromising their integrity
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Support high-volume operations
- Multi-threaded performance when converting industry-standard formats including PDF to PS or image formats, PS or image formats to PDF, HTML or OpenOffice formats to PDF
- Automated conversion of native application files, such as Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, and AutoCAD
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- Deliver enterprise-class performance to support high-volume critical business processes
- Automate processes such as report generation, customer communications, case file generation and packaging, regulatory filings, or archiving
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| See statistics on PDF file creation and conversion
— such as success and failure rates, min/max/mean/variance of elapsed time for completed jobs, and number of operations per second |
- Monitor job processing and conversion statistics
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