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1. Acrobat Reader displays text as bullets This is normally a problem with Acrobat incorrectly calculating the size of text displayed when using an embedded TrueType font In Acrobat Reader s File gt Preferences gt General dialog deselect the check box labelled Greek text below pixels Acrobat Reader does not display some text There are some undocumented restrictions on the commands which Acrobat Reader accepts in embedded CFF fonts PDF Creator uses the CFF format for all embedded Type fonts you can find out the type of fonts used in your documents using the menu option File gt Docu ment Info gt Fonts dialog in Acrobat Reader Where the PDF file produced by PDF Creator contains such unsupported com mands Acrobat Reader displays some characters in the font concerned as blanks Please submit a bug report if you find such a font 66 m Acrobat Reader v3 displays PDF with missing c and K characters There is a problem with Acrobat Reader for Windows that occasionally results in the charac ters c and K being omitted from the display This happens if the PostScript file is generated by the Microsoft printer driver This is not a bug with PDF Creator The workaround is to upgrade the version of Acrobat from v3 to v4 or later Acrobat Reader displays an unable to extract font message This is a TrueType font that has been downloaded as outlines using the Adobe PostScript driver Open the Font embedding ta
2. LA awspdf creator User Manual for PC Platforms 45 7 E GLOBAL GRAPHICS c Contents Introduction MERC 5 ADU ING Baal a See conga ERE o Er tr eR shed ede esse Vu deoa ee 6 Systemi REGUIFCMICNIS sered buted bad bob rss ici dota gus idi ani 6 Installing and uninstalling PDF Creator 7 pe MSc 7 Seral BUNC eco dcn a antes dum eaae a dandi banks 7 Upgrade from evaluation to a fully working version 8 Uninstall PES DSBEGI quise daten dudo aci xeu debeat qe ade paras d pic 9 Getting started with PDF Creator 10 Create a PDF file from an application iiis rre 10 Convert a PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript file to PDF 10 Create a PDF file containing bookmarks and links 10 Create a PDF file using custom page SIZE 1224 denses be res E Change the name or destination folder of the PDF file E Stop PDF Creator prompting for a fle name 12 Produce PDF files compatible with PDF viewing applications 12 Produce files that can be sent by mall iiis ood eo a 12 Produce more compact PDF eS etico Pera dima de erben EX e EET ud 3 Launch PDF application to view the file when complete 13 Change the author name in the PDF file 2516s 298 sar ceba 14 Jaws ToPDF converting
3. ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 52 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 53 gt output if a monochrome printer driver is detected When printing to a mono chrome printer this produces a smaller PostScript language file which prints more quickly However if your default printer is monochrome and in Print Setup you subsequently switch to a color printer this setting is not updated and the applica tion still believes that it is printing to a monochrome device This results in mono chrome PDF files being produced by PDF Creator because it is being given monochrome PostScript language input files To fix this click on Properties in the Print Setup dialog to display the Document Properties dialog In the Page Setup tab click on Color under Color Appearance This ensures that the application knows it is printing to a color device Colors in the PDF file do not match original colors If you have enabled the Con vert CMYK to RGB option see the Advanced Options dialog box you may find that the color reproduction of some images is compromised There is no universal way to convert CMYK images to RGB for on screen viewing The algorithm that PDF Creator uses for this conversion has been tuned to work well with photo graphic images This means that it may not work so well for tinted images or gradu ated fills where the CMYK color contains a large black component If this happens you s
4. PDF 1 3 files are compatible with Acrobat Reader v4 0 PDF 1 3 and PDF 1 4 files are compatible with Acrobat Reader v5 0 Note that PDF Creator v3 0 or later does not create PDF 1 2 files Thumbnail generation Jaws PDF Creator can optionally generate thumbnail images of each page either monochrome or color which can be used as a navigation aid in your PDF viewing application Some PDF viewers automatically create thumbnails so leaving this option set to off can reduce the size of the generated PDF JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 22 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 23 gt Resolution This option allows you to change the effective resolution at which the PostScript language job is rendered This only affects jobs which contain resolution dependent and therefore device dependent code If your job contains pattern fills the printer driver attempts to snap the pattern frequency to a sub multiple of the device resolution Some drawing packages also use the resolution in conjunction with the halftone frequency to calculate the number of steps to use for graduated fills All other page elements should be unaffected by the resolution If the PDF file is intended for printing you should set the resolution to be the same as the resolution of the intended final output device Otherwise you should only change the resolution if you experience poor quality output with page
5. Please see the www jawspdf com website for the latest list of available plugins You can also create your own PostScript plugins All such plugins should be given a jcp extension We recommend you place your PostScript plugins in the Plugins inactive folder Any plugins you wish to make active should be manually copied into the de ault folder in the same way as the supplied plugins The plugins are executed alphabetically and if a particular plugin fails the remaining plugins will still be executed All actions can be viewed in the Jaws PDF Creator log file Visit www jawspdf com for information on new plugins for Jaws PDF Creator If you have questions contact creator support jawspdf com Map of installed files The following tables list all the folders and files placed on your disk when you install PDF Creator INDEX CONTENTS 4 70 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 71 gt Windows installation files In the table below Windows refers to the Windows folder and is relevant to Windows 98 NT Me XP and 2000 Jaws PDF Creator refers to the folder in which you installed PDF Creator The default installation folder is on the same drive as your Windows installation and is Program Files JawsSystems Jaws PDF Creator Jaws PDF Creator The main PDF Creator folder ToPdf exe The PostScript language to PDF conversion utility Readme txt A Text file with late breaking news PDFCreatorhlp The PDF Creator on lin
6. This modification works under Windows 98 Me Windows 2000 and Windows XP but not Windows NT4 Therefore this modification is not available under Windows NT4 using the Microsoft PostScript driver Blank pages disappear under Windows 98 or Me This is due to a bug in the Microsoft Windows PostScript driver which does not print blank pages An updated driver is available from Microsoft Misaligned hyperlinks when printing from PowerPoint When a PowerPoint slide page size is different than the default page size of PDF Creator which is likely because as the default slide size in PowerPoint is On Screen show the bounding boxes become misaligned causing hyperlinks in the PDF to be shifted from the accompanying text This happens because On Screen show has different dimen sions to the PDF Creator printer s notion of the paper size which is usually set to A4 or letter To correct this problem you should change the page size in Power Point or change the paper size in PDF Creator JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 54 gt xv Appendix Technical Information How PDF Creator works This section describes how PDF Creator works and how it integrates with the operating system The information contained here is not essential for using PDF Creator however an understanding of the information will help you get the most out of the product PDF Creator is built around a complete PostScript language compatible interpret
7. Font The folder PDF Creator uses for the 35 resident fonts The data in these files is copyright Stream Technologies Inc and is not licensed for use with any software other than PDF Creator Resource This folder contains all the PostScript resources other than fonts that are known to the interpreter and which may be loaded by the findresource operator Plugins inactive This folder contains some PostScript language plugins which can be used to implement extra features See Section for further details INDEX CONTENTS 4 73 gt ee NT Index Compression tab Compress text 28 Compression filters 28 Downsample 27 Resolution 28 Control Panel reference 18 Compression tab 27 Font embedding tab 29 General tab 22 Reporting tab 34 Security tab 30 Settings tab 19 Create a PDF file and launch Acrobat Reader 13 compatible with Acrobat 2 and 1 3 12 containing bookmarks and links 10 from an application 10 from an EPS 10 that can be sent by e mail 12 using a custom page size using compression 13 without prompting for a file name 12 Custom PostScript language files epilogue ps 69 prolog ps 68 startup ps 68 E Exporting configurations 38 F File names Always output files to 59 Overwrite an existing PDF file 59 Font embedding TrueType fonts 60 Type fonts 59 60 Type 3 fonts 60 Font embedding tab Always embed 29 Embed all fonts except Base 14 fonts 30 Embed Base 14 fonts
8. JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 6 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 7 gt Installing and uninstalling PDF Creator If you are using Niknak v1 1 on your system it is recommended that you uninstall it before installing Jaws PDF Creator If you are using an earlier version of 5D PDF Creator on your system there is no need to uninstall before installing the current version Installation Jaws PDF Creator is supplied on CD ROM with its own installer or as a download from a distributor or www jawspdf com If using a download run the setup exe file If using a CD and you have Autorun enabled the installer starts automatically when you insert the CD ROM into the drive Otherwise use one of the following options Choose Settings gt Control Panel from the Start menu Select Add Remove Programs in the Control Panel window and click Install in the dialog box which appears Enter D setup exe and click the Finish button Choose Run from the Start menu and enter D setup exe If your CD ROM is assigned to a different drive letter enter a different path name accordingly and click OK Using Explorer open the root folder for your CD ROM drive and double click the program setup exe At this point the Jaws PDF Creator InstallShield Wizard will appear To complete the installation follow the instructions displayed on the screen NOTE On Windows N
9. With this option selected any changes to the PostScript graphics state overprint parameter requested by the job are passed though to the PDF file This feature along with Preserve OPI comments Transfer functions and Under Color Removal and Black Generation Information is intended primarily for use within a pre press environment Preserve Under Color Removal and Black Generation Information This option allows you to preserve or remove under color removal and black generation infor mation from the PostScript language file This is normally only used in pre press environments Use BoundingBox for As well as the conventional page size request embed ded in the PostScript language file many files also contain comments describing the actual extent of marks on the page This option lets you ignore these comments by selecting Nothing use the bounding box for the PDF page size by selecting Page Size or use the bounding box for the optional page cropping box by selecting Crop box Acrobat Reader always displays pages as if they were the size specified for the page cropping box Some applications may generate their own cropping box information using pdfmark which overrides any cropping box set in this way JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 26 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 27 gt Preserve OPI comments OPI Open Prepress Interface is used to
10. def The name ofthe dictionary appears first followed by the contents delimited by angle brackets The keyword def associates the dictionary contents with its name The dictionary contents are a list of pairs in free format although sticking to one pair per line makes the dictionary easier to maintain by hand NTfontnames is used to handle fonts whose names PDF Creator is unable to recognize automatically In this case each pair in the dictionary consists of two PostScript names A name is introduced by a slash and consists of the characters in the name Spaces are not allowed in names but the font names you are using here will not contain spaces The first name in the pair is the font name as it appears in PostScript language output The second is the actual font name INDEX CONTENTS 4 63 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 64 gt To discover the font name that is being generated in the PostScript language output you can produce a small sample document and select Print to file when printing it This will generate a PostScript language file which you can then inspect using a text editor You can then search for lines that look like BeginFont My font0432 which signal the start of an embedded font The font name is the name following the colon This becomes the first string in the pair that you are adding to the NTfontnames dictionary The second name in the pair is the PostScript Name field from the True Typ
11. for further details Zip with Predictor You may find that Predictor compression sometimes improves the performance on images where there are lots of similarly colored pixels Note that the terms Zip and Flate are interchangeable they both refer to the same kind of compression Launch PDF application to view the file when complete Jaws PDF Creator can automatically launch any application on successful completion of a job For details on how to set the Execute on job completion option see General tab JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 13 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 14 gt Change the author name in the PDF file The author name is the name that appears in your PDF viewer if you select File gt Document Info gt General info The author name that PDF Creator places in the Info dictionary of a PDF file is a combination of the current user name and the computer name If the computer is not on a network PDF Creator uses the name and company you entered during installation See prologue ps for more information Note that it is possible to change this by editing the file default prologue ps in the Jaws PDF Creator folder See General files used by all operating systems for further details If you edit this file with a text editor you will see the following lines oe 9 0 0 oe oe Here s how to change the Creator in the DocInfo
12. tructure Watch the YourNameHere DoAuthor n oe Change YourNameHere to the text you would like and remove the from the beginning of the line PDF Creator uses this for the author name Jaws ToPDF converting files to PDF Jaws ToPDF is a front end to PDF Creator that lets you treat it as a standalone application which allows you to convert existing PostScript language or EPS files to PDF Jaws ToPDF can accept PostScript language and EPS files including EPS with previews If Jaws ToPDF does not recognize a file format it generates a warning before processing There are two ways in which you can use Jaws ToPDF As a drag and drop target or As an application JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 14 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 15 gt Jaws ToPDF drag and drop If you have installed a desktop shortcut you can use Jaws ToPDF as a drag and drop target You can drag files onto the desktop shortcut to convert them to PDF By default the PDF file has the same name and is created in the same folder as the original file except that it has a paf file extension While each file is being converted a small progress window appears Source File FER Destination File EXTEMPYBOOKO pat loe tot Figure 1 2 The converting PostScript to PDF progress window NOTE If the destination file name already exists in that location and the O
13. 18 gt Control Panel reference This section describes all the options available in the Configure Jaws PDF Creator Control Panel Settings General Compression Font Embedding Security Reporting r Current Configuration Print Quality S Description PORRA r Configuration Manager Add Add a new PDF configuration using default settings Create a new PDF configuration based on the current configuration Duplicate Rename Change the name or description of the current configuration Remove Delete the current configuration Import configurations Export configurations Eont Management About Jaws PDF Creator Cancel Aor Heb Figure 1 5 Control Panel Use the following options to open the Configure Jaws PDF Creator Control Panel Select Start gt Settings gt Control Panel and then double click the Jaws PDF Creator icon Double click Jaws ToPDF and select Settings gt Configure gt Edit Configurations The PDF Creator Control Panel has a number of tabs for different tasks Click the various tabs to access and change the information contained under that heading Settings tab through to Reporting tab describe the options contained within each tab NOTE Some of the options in the Control Panel can be accessed using keyboard accelerators Such options use an underscore character _ to highlight the accelerator For example you can press i on the keybo
14. Many modern PostScript language compatible interpreters including PDF Creator are able to handle TrueType fonts directly but for historical reasons PostScript printer drivers make life more difficult The following paragraphs describe how the various PostScript printer drivers handle TrueType fonts and how PDF Creator s True Type font substitution works with each of them TrueType fonts with the Microsoft printer drivers The Microsoft printer drivers for Windows 2000 and Windows XP can handle True lype fonts so that text is automatically searchable and copyable You can however use the Windows NT4 printer driver on these platforms in which case the details below for Windows NT also apply INDEX CONTENTS 4 60 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 61 gt The Microsoft printer drivers for Windows NT and Windows 98 Me cannot embed True Type fonts in the PostScript language file as Type 42 fonts Instead the driver uses the TrueType rasterizer in GDI to render each character as either an outline or a bitmap and then construct a Type 3 or unhinted Type font using these outlines and bitmaps The choice between outlines and bitmaps is usually determined by the resolution of the printer and the point size of the text although it can be modified to some extent by the Download soft fonts as control in the printer setup It is important to realize that fonts embedded in a document in this way only look their best when pr
15. PDF file from an application To create a PDF file directly from an application print the document in the normal way ensuring that you select Jaws PDF Creator as the printer When the OK button is clicked in the Print dialog a Create PDF dialog appears allowing you to choose the location and name of the PDF file Clicking Save completes the process Do not select the Print to File option PDF Creator always prints to a PDF file If you select this option you will create a PostScript file instead Convert a PostScript or Encapsulated PostScript file to PDF Jaws PDF Creator can convert PostScript language or EPS Encapsulated PostScript files to PDF When Jaws PDF Creator is installed a desktop icon called Jaws ToPDF is created e Drag the PostScript language or EPS file from your Explorer window onto the Jaws ToPDF icon on your desktop Alternatively right click on the file If it has a ps eps or prn extension select Send To Convert To PDF The location ofthe PDF file is the same folder as the source document although this location can be changed see General tab for details The progress of the PDF file creation is indicated by a progress dialog Create a PDF file containing bookmarks and links PDF Creator includes an implementation of the PostScript p mark operator which is used to create PDF annotations Some applications such as FrameMaker directly support the generation of PDF annotations Others may
16. Security tab provide various levels of protection for your PDF documents JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 30 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 31 Select the Encrypt PDF files check box to enable the other options in the tab Configure Jaws PDF Creator SECURED forthe Visual impara Figure 1 10 Security tab Encrypt PDF files Select this option to encrypt the PDF files created by PDF Cre ator This option is as a default not selected which means that users of the PDF have full access to the available options When selected the security options within this tab become available and thus restrictions can be placed upon the user of the PDF doc ument The level of encryption depends on the selected PDF level see General tab for more information With PDF 1 3 you get 40 bit encryption With PDF 1 4 you get 28 bit encryption Passwords You can apply security to PDF files by entering passwords and restricting selected features such as editing and printing in the Passwords section of the Security tab JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 31 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 32 gt A PDF file can have both an Open document password and a Change security password If both passwords are applied the document can be opened using either one When the correct Open doc
17. allows you to change the output file name or place it in a different folder If you select Do not prompt for a destination Jaws ToPDF silently outputs the PDF file to the default output folder Although you can only change this setting from the Jaws ToPDF application window it also affects any jobs which are converted by being dropped onto the desktop icon or shortcut Whether or not you ask Jaws ToPDF to prompt for a destination it calculates the default output folder in the same way This is the same folder as the input file unless you have set the Always output files to option in the General tab in which case it is the folder you have specified See General tab for more information about the General tab If you have configured Jaws ToPDF not to prompt for a destination the default output folder is used If you have asked Jaws ToPDF to prompt you the browser dialog still allows you to change the output folder When you convert an EPS file Jaws ToPDF uses the bounding box in the file to determine the page size for the PDF file and ignores the currently selected Use BoundingBox for option See Advanced Options dialog box for more information When the configuration for the Jaws ToPDF application is completed select OK Selecting Cancel aborts the changes made to the configuration JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 17 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4
18. are fully compliant with the PDF 1 3 and 1 4 specifications published by Adobe PDF Creator has two modes of operation Embedded mode The application is embedded into the printing system of your computer s operating system OS so that it appears as a PostScript compatible printer to applications running on that computer You can produce a PDF file from any document by printing the document to the Jaws PDF Creator printer in the same way that you would produce hard copy by printing to a real printer When creating PDF files the printing system produces an intermediate PostScript language form of your document which PDF Creator immediately converts to PDF and writes to disk Jaws PDF Creator works with PostScript printer drivers from Microsoft and Adobe although on a Windows system Microsoft drivers are generally preferred for reasons discussed in more detail in Technical Information Because PDF Creator is integrated into the printing system it has no user interface of its own However it does have a Control Panel which allows you to configure various parameters affecting the final PDF output JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 5 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 6 gt Standalone mode A standalone version of Jaws PDF Creator called Jaws ToPDF takes an existing PostScript language file either a legacy file or a file produced on another computer and c
19. gen erated PDF file using the system registered PDF viewing application If a viewing application is not installed nothing will happen Send the PDF file as an e mail attachment This option will cause the active email application to display a Send mail dialog with the generated PDF already included as an attachment Overwrite an existing PDF file With this option selected PDF files with the same name as an existing file overwrite the existing file rather than create a file name with an increment This option only applies when the Do not prompt for a destination option is selected If Always prompt for a destination is selected you always have the choice of overwriting or creating a new name Advanced Click the Advanced button in the General tab to open the Advanced Options dialog box and access extra configuration options Advanced Options dialog box The Advanced Options dialog box accessed by clicking Advanced in the General tab allows you to apply different processing to full color grayscale or monochrome bitmap images Transfer functions This menu provides the option of preserving applying or removing transfer functions from the PostScript language file If you select the Apply option the document is displayed the same on screen as when printed Convert CMYK to RGB This option only applies to color images If it is enabled any four color CMYK images in the PostScript language input file are converted to RGB
20. if that option has been selected but are not written to the log file Discard messages If this option is selected all messages from the interpreter are discarded This is of use in a batch environment When enabled this also causes all error messages to be discarded so you should use it with caution JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 34 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 35 gt Create individual log files for each job If this option is selected PDF Creator cre ates an individual log file for each job and writes messages generated by that job to its log file The log file is created in the same folder as the PDF file and with the same name but with a log extension It may be viewed with a text editor If the messages are merely informative the log file is created in addition to the PDF output file If an error occurs the PDF file is not created and the log file contains the relevant error messages Log all messages to If this option is selected the messages generated by all jobs are collected in a single log file The location and name of the log file can be entered into the text box Alternatively use the browser to choose the location of the log file Select the option then select the path displayed enter a new path or use the Browse option to select a new location and name About Jaws PDF Creator The About Jaws PDF Creator splash screen displays u
21. interpreter Searchable text in a PDF Device font substitution may result in some glyphs being omitted if they are present in the TrueType font but not in the substitution font True Type font substitution is more successful in Windows NT 2000 XP and Windows 98 Me and the corresponding settings for these operating system printers are shown below To configure your printer for font substitution you must Set the printer to substitute for device fonts Select the alternative base 4 font for the system font being used Windows NT 2000 XP To configure whether to download TrueType fonts as Softfonts or to substitute for device fonts Right click the Jaws PDF Creator printer 2 Select Document Defaults INDEX CONTENTS 4 65 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 66 gt 3 In the Advanced tab select TrueType Font in the Graphic section 4 Inthe TrueType Font Settings section select either Substitute with Device font or Download as Softfont To change the Font Substitution table Right click the Jaws PDF Creator printer 2 Select Properties 3 n Device Settings tab under Font Substitution Table change the required system font to an appropriate base 14 font from the list Windows 98 Me To configure whether to download TrueType fonts as Softfonts or to substitute for device fonts Right click the Jaws PDF Creator printer 2 Select Properties 3 In the Fonts tab select Send TrueType fonts to t
22. nor cut and paste text from the PDF file to other documents If you enable True Type font substitution PDF Creator attempts to replace the Type 3 or Type font used in the PostScript language file with the original TrueType font from disk This lets you embed the real hinted font in the PDF file which in turn leads to more legible text when the document is viewed and printed PDF Creator will also undo the effect of the font recoding so that all strings such as HOOR in the file are turned back into Hello INDEX CONTENTS 4 6l gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 62 gt This process is normally reliable There are however a few situations that can cause problems Code pages Windows uses two different kinds of TrueType font those that support more than one code page and those that do not You can distinguish between the two by looking in the Fonts menu of an application If the font name appears several times with various locale names in parentheses the font supports multiple code pages if it appears only once it supports just one An example of the former is Impact an example of the latter is Onyx Some fonts such as Verdana support multiple code pages on Windows NT but only one code page on Windows 98 and Me The Windows 98 and Me printer driver supports code pages in such a way that PDF Creator is still able to perform TrueType substitution Text in the document from the basic Windows or Western code
23. of Jaws PDF Creator To do this click the Enter Serial Number option in the About Jaws PDF Creator dialog box The following dialog will appear Customer Information x To activate Jaws PDF Creator from evaluation mode to a full working copy please enter your name the name of the company for whom you work and your product serial number User Name fa N Other Company Name M Company Serial Number MEE ES Figure 1 1 Serial number dialog box Enter your name company and serial number and select OK The user name must consist of at least two characters The company name is optional JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 8 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 9 gt Your version of PDF Creator will become licensed and fully functional If required you can amend an existing serial number or even remove it and revert to an evaluation copy possibly required if you want to check out the facilities of a new version NOTE Under Windows 2000 and XP a user may not be able to upgrade to a fully operational version of Jaws PDF Creator This is because the information regarding serial numbers is stored in a part of the system registry which is normally only accessible to those users with Administrative privileges Uninstall PDF Creator To remove Jaws PDF Creator from a Windows computer Select Settings gt Control Panel from the Start menu 2 In the Con
24. the same as the options provided within the PDF Creator Control Panel See Security tab for more information Word macro settings You can change the settings for PDF Creator from within Word Select Jaws PDF Creator gt Settings from the File menu The PDF Creator Configuration has a number of tabs for different tasks Click the various tabs to access and change the information contained under that heading The following sections describe the options contained within each tab JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 39 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 40 gt General tab General Document Links Bookmarks Comments About F Create PDF Bookmarks from headings Iv Create PDF Links from hyperlinks I Create PDF Notes from document comments Iv Create PDF Links from Tables of Contents Figures and Equations Iv Create PDF Links to footnotes and endnotes M Create PDF Links from cross references FN Create PDF article threads from linked text boxes Send the generated PDF file as an email attachment FN Automatically open the generated PDF file Iv Prompt for the location of the output PDF file Keep the intermediate PostScript ps file after PDF creation Figure 1 12 General tab All the Create PDF options are selected as a default and should generally be left selected If required you can deselect any of these options Selecting t
25. thumbnails General Editing When this option is selected the PDF user can perform Docu ment Assembly and general editing but cannot extract the contents of the PDF Fill in forms and signing Allows the PDF users to sign and fill in forms but not create them Comment Authoring Allows the addition and editing of PDF sticky note com ments and use of the highlight pen but not general editing Printing Select either Enabled or Disabled to allow or disallow printing of the PDF file JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 33 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 34 gt Reporting tab The Reporting tab allows you to control what happens to messages generated by the PostScript language compatible interpreter Configure Jaws PDF Creator Browsen Figure 1 1 Reporting tab Display Messages If this option is selected PDF Creator displays all messages gen erated by the interpreter in an on screen message box This is useful for debugging You should not leave this option permanently enabled as the PostScript printer drivers normally cause messages to be generated continu ously for a serial printer this allows tracking of the job but viewing each message individually can become quite tedious Only log errors If this option is selected only error messages are written to the log file normal progress and user messages continue to be displayed
26. 30 Never embed 29 Subset fonts 30 Use original TrueType fonts Win dows only 30 G General tab Advanced button 25 ASCII format 23 Auto rotate pages 23 PDF file format 22 Resolution 23 Thumbnail generation 22 Importing configurations 37 Introduction 5 J Jaws ToPDF Configuration 16 drag and drop 15 Jaws ToPDF Configuration Always output files to 17 Always prompt for a destination 7 INDEX CONTENTS 4 1 gt Do not prompt for a destination 7 M Map of installed files General files used by all operating sys tems 73 Windows installation files 7 Microsoft PowerPoint macro settings About tab 48 Bookmarks tab 48 Document tab 46 General tab 45 Links tab 47 Microsoft Word macro 39 settings 39 About tab 44 Bookmarks tab 43 Comments tab 44 Document tab 41 General tab 40 Links tab 42 P PDF Creator Advanced topics 57 Custom PostScript language files 68 File names 57 Font embedding 59 PostScript ProcSet Resources 66 Control Panel reference Compression tab 27 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 2 gt Font embedding tab 29 General tab 22 Reporting tab 34 Security tab 30 Settings tab 19 Integration with the operating system 55 R Reporting tab Create individual log files for each job 35 Discard messages 34 Display messages 34 Log all messages to 35 Only log errors 34 S Searchable Text in a PDF 65 Security tab Encrypt PDF files 30 Passwords 3 Serial number
27. 7 Settings tab About PDF Creator 35 Font management button 36 System Requirements 6 1 Troubleshooting 5 TrueType fonts Adobe printer drivers for Windows 64 Microsoft printer drivers 60 INDEX CONTENTS 4 2 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 3 gt COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS Jaws PDF Creator User Manual PC Version 3 Document Issue 101 December 2003 Part number JAWS 3 PDFCreator Copyright 1992 2003 GLOBAL GRAPHICS SOFTWARE LIMITED All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of Global Graphics Soft ware Limited The information in this publication is provided for information only and is subject to change without notice Global Graphics Software Limited and its affiliates assume no responsibility or liability for any loss or damage that may arise from the use of any information in this publication The software described in this book is furnished under License and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of that License Jaws the Jaws logo Jaws PDF Creator Jaws PDF Editor Jaws PDF Server and Jaws PDF Courier are trademarks of Global Graphics Software Limited which may be registered in certain jurisdictions Global Graphics is a trademark of Global Graphics S A which may be registered in certa
28. Control Panel For more information see General tab Select Prompt for the location of the output PDF file to display a browser allowing you to change the location and name of every PDF file generated from the PowerPoint macro You may want to use your PDF viewing application as a previewer before sending your job to a PostScript RIP for outputting on an imagesetter or printer In this case select the Keep the intermediate PostScript ps file after PDF creation option This keeps the PostScript file which is created before the PDF so that you can use it for other processes The Print in Black and White option converts any color elements in the PowerPoint presentation to monochrome output Document tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration x General Document Links Bookmarks About pen at Page fi of 1 F Allow editing of document information prior to converting each document Include hidden slides Figure 1 19 Document tab JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 46 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 47 gt The options in the Open Options panel let you configure how you would like your PDF viewer to display the generated PDF There are various view options magnifications and even selection of the document page number All these options can be changed once the PDF is viewed within your PDF viewer Selecting Allow editing of document inf
29. DF Creator Control Panel and select the ASCII format check box For more information see General tab JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 12 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 13 gt Produce more compact PDF files There are several options that have an effect on the size of the output file all of which are available in the Font embedding tab and the Compression tab of the PDF Creator Control Panel The default settings after installation are designed to give the maximum lossless compression for general use The most important options are Compress text This option applies zip compression to the PDF commands in page descriptions Subset embedded fonts This option can help reduce the size of the output If you are working in a controlled environment where you know which fonts are loaded on the destination machines choosing not to embed some or all fonts can further reduce the size Image compression Zip compression is usually the best overall compromise setting as it is efficient and lossless JPEG compression If you can tolerate lossy compression that is compression that throws some of the data away never to be retrieved you can use JPEG compression Advanced users can also tailor the parameters used by JPEG compression These parameters are in the file default startup ps in the PDF Creator folder See General files used by all operating systems
30. F viewer About tab This tab provides useful contact and version information JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 48 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 49 gt Support This section offers support and troubleshooting advice Downloading PDF Creator You are able to download further copies of PDF Creator from www jawspdf com To download an installer you must either provide a valid serial number or legitimate e mail information Have the following information ready Serial number if you have one Your name job title Company name e Telephone number E mail address e Platform on which PDF Creator is going to be used language Reporting problems There is a FAQ section under the Support page at www jawspdf com If your problem is not covered here you should submit a bug report When submitting a problem you should provide the following information e Operating system For example Windows 98 Me 2000 NT XP Version of PDF Creator e Kernel build time the kernel build time uniquely identifies the PDF Creator kernel you are using JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 49 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 50 gt Class of problem kills application kills PDF Creator kills Operating System incorrect output Detailed description of problem Contact details Th
31. PDF Creator is supplied with a DocNames txt file that rationalizes document names used by some common applications PDF Creator never overwrites an existing output file without prompting unless the Overwrite an existing PDF file option in the General tab of the Control Panel is selected If you have selected Always output files to from the General tab and a file with the same name already exists PDF Creator appends a unique number to the file name When you use Jaws ToPDF to convert existing files PDF Creator uses the input file name instead of the document name because there is no document name as the basis for the output file name PDF Creator uses the name and location of the input file as the default destination except that the file extension is replaced by pdf If Always output files to is selected from the General tab the file is saved in this location If not PDF Creator displays the browser dialog and allows you to change the output file name See Section for more information on the General tab Font embedding PDF files are capable of containing fonts in three different formats PDF Creator is able to handle all three Jaws PDF Creator only ever embeds fonts that were embedded in the original PostScript language file Fonts that were read from disk including the base 14 PDF fonts but not including True Type fonts read as part of the substitution process described below are not embedded unless they are selected for embed
32. S PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 29 gt Font embedding tab The Font embedding tab allows you to control how fonts are handled in your PDF files Configure Jaws PDF Creator Remove Figure 1 9 Font embedding tab Always embed Fonts listed in this box are always embedded in the output PDF file Use the Add and Remove buttons to manage this list You should check the terms of your font license agreement before embedding any fonts Named fonts will be embedded if they are referenced in the original Post Script language file and are available to PDF Creator Base 14 fonts in this list are always embedded even if the Embed base 14 fonts check box is not selected This allows you to include individual base 14 fonts in a document rather than all base 14 fonts Never embed Fonts listed in this box are never embedded in the output PDF file Use the Add and Remove buttons to manage this list JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 29 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 30 gt Embed all fonts except base 14 fonts When this option is selected all fonts present in the document except base 14 fonts are embedded in the output PDF file and all fonts that were embedded in the PostScript language file by the printer driver or generating application will also be embedded If a font is referenced by the incoming PostScript file and is available t
33. T Windows 2000 and Windows XP you must be logged in as an Administrator to install PDF Creator During installation you can either enter a serial number or run in evaluation mode as described in Serial number below Serial number If you have a serial number for your version of Jaws PDF Creator you can use it at installation time This will immediately give you a licensed and fully featured version of the application JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 7 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 8 gt If however you wish to evaluate the product you can install it without a serial number To do this ensure that the word EVALUATION is entered in place of the serial number this occurs by default This will provide you with a working copy of the application In this case all PDF files generated by the application will contain a watermark on every page Upgrade from evaluation to a fully working version When you have evaluated Jaws PDF Creator you may wish to upgrade to a fully working version To do this go to the Settings tab ofthe Configure Jaws PDF Creator Control Panel and click the About Jaws PDF Creator button The About dialog will appear If you do not have a valid serial number select the link to the Jaws web site www jawspdf com and go to the How to buy page and follow the instructions When you have your serial number you can upgrade your version
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35. TS 4 42 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 43 gt Bookmarks tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration Figure 1 16 Bookmarks tab The Automatically open bookmarks in the PDF document to depth setting in this tab collapses or expands the document headings when the PDF is opened NOTE Please ensure your headings are correctly formed in Word so that they create correct bookmarks Bookmarks are created from the heading styles in Word If you want bookmarks to appear in the PDF correctly you must use headings properly in Word For example if you use a style with Heading3 in Word and set the Automatically open bookmarks option to only convert headings with a level of up to 2 into bookmarks your bookmarks may not appear correctly The Destination magnification option decides the zoom value when the PDF file is opened A number of Fit page to options are provided The Inherit zoom option opens the PDF with the zoom value currently selected in the user s PDF viewer JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 43 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 44 gt Comments tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration x General Document Links Bookmarks Comments About Reviewer s T Include comments by this reviewer T Display the comments opened Color for this reviewer s comments Yelow z Figure 1 17 Comme
36. The names of shared configurations are automatically prefixed with a space For example my conf becomes my con Editing a configuration If you want to make changes to an existing configuration in the Settings tab other than one of the standard configurations select it from the Current Configuration menu then make the desired changes to the other tabs Note that on Windows NT Windows 2000 and Windows XP only administrators can edit shared configurations On Window 98 Me you can only edit configurations you have created Your changes become effective when you click either the OK or the Apply button Clicking OK accepts the changes and closes the Control Panel Clicking Apply accepts the changes but leaves the Control Panel open Clicking Cancel aborts any recent changes and closes the Control Panel JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 20 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 21 gt Renaming or removing a configuration You may change the name or description of an existing configuration in the Settings tab by selecting it and clicking the Rename button You may remove a configuration by selecting it from the list and clicking the Remove button You must have administrator privileges to remove shared configurations NOTE An existing configuration can be made available to all users by clicking the Make available to all users check box requires administrator privile
37. ae lie dre due ena s 44 PowerPoint macro settings cu edad acd aa ced a i adole Ro du dcn 45 Sor RM r m 45 reo Nus cio PEPERIT ERE 46 LINKS AR T 47 Bookmarks taD ria egi Glen ad vied coe ithe hen es eed aAA 48 ABOUT TAD EH ccm see 48 INDEX CONTENTS 4 3 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 4 gt SUID DORE ret tacit teeta aera o ce 49 Downloading PDF Creator aa siccae aoi eR a ROAD 49 Reporting BRODISITIS iis ata sardo adea bier ica a 49 Resistenne POPE Sn ana nd NR RA 50 Contact IMOMMALION casadas raise 50 Troubleshooting HH a s comes E eee 5 Technical Information comes dica pk eke RC dia nids dla 55 How PDF Creator WOKS uad hats Rang ts aec dates cia ES Integration with the operating system 55 Advanced TODICS asata dade rint oiia APA UR arca n as E igh ie uad d 57 File names 57 Font embedding 59 PostScript ProcSet resources 66 Custom PostScript language files 68 Using PostScript plugins 70 Map Or installed TT 70 Windows installation files 7 General files used by all operating systems 73 INDEX CONTENTS 4 4 gt a x Jaws PDF Creator on PC platforms Introduction Jaws PDF Creator converts PostScript language files into PDF files Portable Document Format These files can subsequently be used with PDF viewing and editing applications such as Jaws PDF Editor and Adobe Acrobat products plus any other third party PDF tools The PDF files produced by PDF Creator
38. ard to choose the Import Configurations option in the Settings tab as shown in Figure 1 6 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 18 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 19 gt Settings tab Typically the options in this tab are the most frequently changed You can choose the default configuration that PDF Creator will use to create PDF files Settings General Compression Font Embedding Security Reporting rm Current Configuration Print Quality Description reme r Configuration Manager Add Add a new PDF configuration using default settings Create a new PDF configuration based on the current configuration Duplicate Rename Change the name or description of the current configuration Remove Delete the current configuration Import configurations Export configurations Eont Management About Jaws PDF Creator Cancel Aor Heb Figure 1 6 Settings tab The menu in the Current Configuration section contains the name of the default configuration Ifyou want to use a different configuration choose another name from the menu and click the OK button PDF Creator is supplied with three standard configurations that are suitable for most uses Press Ready Optimized for sending jobs to a commercial printer at 2540 dpi dots per inch Print Quality Optimized for printing to office type laser pri
39. b in the PDF Creator Control Panel and select Use original TrueType fonts If this does not help you need to click Font Management in the Settings tab and click Select Folder to find the TrueType font Add it to the PDF Creator list of fonts and try again JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 51 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 52 gt Text in some fonts is garbled PDF Creator is probably re encoding a TrueType font which it should not be or not re encoding a font which it should be You can control this by editing the font tables in default startup ps in the PDF Creator folder These are described in startup ps Alternatively you may be using Jaws ToPDF to convert a file with TrueType substi tution enabled which originated on a different operating system Text which should be outlined is displayed as solid This appears to be a problem with the way Acrobat Reader displays certain Type 3 fonts The document prints to a PostScript language compatible printer correctly Text appears jagged This means that a TrueType font downloaded by the printer driver as a bitmap or an outline font has not been substituted back into the PDF file by PDF Creator Check that you have enabled True Type substitution and that the original font is known to PDF Creator in the PDF Creator Control Panel If you are using Windows 98 or Me make sure that you are using the Microsoft printer
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41. ct Jaws PDF Creator gt Settings from the File menu The PDF Creator Configuration has a number of tabs for different tasks Click the various tabs to access and change the information contained under that heading General tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration General Document Links Bookmarks About Iv Create PDF Links from hyperlinks Send the generated PDF file as an email attachment Automatically open the generated PDF file Iv Prompt for the location of the output PDF file Keep the intermediate PostScript ps file after PDF creation T Print in Black and White Figure 1 18 General tab The Create PDF Bookmarks and Create PDF Links from hyperlinks options are selected as a default and should generally be left selected If required you can deselect either of these options Selecting the Send the generated PDF file as an email attachment option will cause the active e mail application to display a Send mail dialog with the generated PDF already included as an attachment JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 45 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 46 gt Select the Automatically open the generated PDF file option to automatically open in your PDF viewer every PDF file created from the PowerPoint macro The setting of this option will override the setting of View the PDF file after creation option in the General tab of the PDF Creator
42. d Therefore PDF Creator may offer a default file name that is different to that which was expected However the file name that PDF Creator generates is always legal NOTE When PDF Creator finds illegal characters such as a colon or backslash in the file name it replaces them with To rationalize document names that consist of an application s document name with a fixed prefix or suffix PDF Creator provides a means to remove anticipated prefixes and suffixes from document names before it creates the output PDF filename You can configure this by editing the DocNames txt file located in the PDF Creator installation directory INDEX CONTENTS 4 58 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 59 gt For example if the Acme Wordpro word processor always prefixes documents with Acme Wordpro followed by the full path name of the document you are printing you could add an entry to the DocNames txt file to instruct PDF Creator to strip Acme Wordpro from the beginning of any document name it processes To do this use any text editor to add a new line to the end of DocNames txt that reads SP Acme Wordpro If you have an application that adds a suffix to the document name instruct PDF Creator to remove it by adding a line like this to the end of the DocNames txt file SS Acme Wordpro The Ss and SP directives which must be at the start of a new line mean Strip Suffix and Strip Prefix respectively
43. ding See Section for more information INDEX CONTENTS 4 59 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 60 gt Type fonts Type fonts are the traditional format for hinted fonts in the PostScript language community Type fonts are always handled in a standard way by printer drivers and PDF Creator can always extract them from the document and embed them in the PDF file PDF Creator always converts Type fonts to the new CFF Compact Font Format which is a more compact way of encoding the same information Version 3 of Acrobat supports both the original Type format and the Compact Font Format however there are some undocumented restrictions in the CFF commands that Acrobat Reader understands For this reason you may sometimes find that PDF Creator embeds a Type font which will not display correctly on screen but which does print correctly from Acrobat to a PostScript language compatible printer If you encounter such a font you should submit a PDF Creator bug report which will enable us to comply better with the undocumented restrictions Type 3 fonts Type 3 fonts are the format used in the PostScript language community for unhinted fonts such as complex logotypes and bitmap fonts PDF Creator does support Type 3 fonts and will embed them TrueType fonts TrueType is an alternative format for hinted fonts which originally evolved in the personal computer community rather than the PostScript language community
44. dling by PDF Creator For more information about the contents of startup ps see Section In addition the PostScript language compatible interpreter executes the file prologue ps at the start of every job it converts This file can contain any PostScript language code that needs to be run for every job An example of this is the code that changes the contents of the document info dictionary in the PDF output file described above It also executes the file epilogue ps at the end of every job This may be used for example for any p mark calls that you may want to apply to every job you convert See Section for more information on prologue ps and Section for more on epilogue ps Advanced topics This section describes topics to do with file names and font embedding File names PDF Creator has two strategies for creating the output file name depending on whether you are using the PDF Creator printer or are converting files with Jaws ToPDF When you are printing directly to PDF Creator from an application the document name passed to it by the printing system is used as a starting point from which to generate the name of the PDF output file e If the document name contains a file extension the extension is removed and if it appears to contain a path specification such as c documents PDF Creator removes all the drive and folder names from the path to obtain a simple file name Lastly PDF Creator appends a pd extension to the file
45. driver version 4 0 If you are using Windows NT you may need to add the font to the tables in default startup ps Bitmaps which should be transparent mask the background color Acrobat Reader sometimes has problems displaying large bitmap masks displaying them as opaque images instead Use the Acrobat Reader menu option File gt Preferences gt General to open the General Preferences dialog and unselect the Smooth Text and Images check box Invalidaccess error with setdistillerparams The setdistillerparams operator is the way that PDF settings are controlled from within a PostScript language file PDF Creator supports mostly the same set of parameters that other PDF creation applications support although there are some extra parameters for PDF Creator which are used by the PDF Creator Control Panel as well as some parameters which do not make sense for PDF Creator You only ever see this message if you attempt to distill a PostScript language file which explicitly requests LZW using the setdistillerparams operator If so you should amend the PostScript language file to request Zip compression instead Color documents produce grayscale PDF files on Windows NT This is due to an interaction between the Windows NT PostScript printer driver and certain applica tions An application can poll the printer driver to see if it is for a color device or not Some applications do this and generate monochrome PostScript language JAWS PDF CREATOR
46. e described in a data file The universal means of doing this is to issue a PostScript Printer Description PPD file for each printer although the Microsoft Windows 98 and Me driver uses SPD files instead An SPD file is usually just a subset of the information from the printer s PPD file PDF Creator comes with its own PPD and SPD files Most of the information in a PPD file describes the physical attributes of a printer such as available page sizes installed fonts and so on For this reason you can often print a file to one printer with a PPD file that nominally describes a different printer This is also true for PDF Creator you should be able to print to the PDF Creator port using any PPD file although the PPD file that comes with PDF Creator would generally give you the best results As with any PostScript language compatible printer the more different the printer whose PPD file you are using the greater the risk of introducing subtle compatibility problems INDEX CONTENTS 4 56 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 57 gt When the interpreter starts up normally before every job is processed it executes the file startup ps This flle may contain any code that is to be executed once for all jobs You should only modify this file if you are capable of writing PostScript language code It contains the default parameter sets used by the image compression filters and the lists of TrueType fonts which require special han
47. e font s name table If you have access to TrueType font editing tools you can extract this name directly Otherwise you can see which fonts PDF Creator has found by inspecting the file edir in the font folder in the PDF Creator installation folder This file contains a large dictionary which maps font names to file names you can search down the left hand column with a text editor until you find the name you want The font name must not contain any spaces a font name of My font is not acceptable If you extracted the name directly from the TrueType font you must replace any spaces with underscore characters to produce My ont notice that the font names in the edir file have already had this substitution made NTfonttypes is used to handle fonts that have not been recoded as expected In this table each pair in the dictionary consists of one name and one integer The name is the font name and is found according to the same rules as the second name in NTfontnames above The integer is a code telling PDF Creator whether or not to decode text that uses this font A value of 0 means decode a value of 2 means do not decode TrueType fonts with the Adobe printer drivers for Windows The Adobe printer drivers for Windows 98 and Me can also send True Type fonts to the printer as bitmaps and outlines Unfortunately they do not include enough information in the file to allow PDF Creator to identify the True Type font concerned so no substitut
48. e help files PDFCreatorfts PDFCreatorcnt PDFCreatorHlp ico Manual pdf This manual in Acrobat PDF format LICENSE txt A text file containing a copy of the end user LICENSE agreement PDFCIS dil A helper library required when uninstalling JawsPDFCreatordot These are the macro files for Word97 2000 2002 4 4 JawsPdfCreatorlnit dot is a copy of the file installed in the Word LE startup directory and is provided so that you can add it to a subsequently installed copy of Word JawsPowerPointMacr These are the macro files for PowerPoint 97 2000 2002 o ppa JawsPowerPointMacr olnit ppa Default See general files Font See general files Resource See general files temp This folder is used for temporary files during conversion and should normally be empty between jobs TTFont This folder is used for TrueType font stub files PFBFont This folder is used for ATM font stub files INDEX CONTENTS 4 71 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 72 gt PdfClient exe ShutdownClients exe COM client COM utility function The following files are installed in various Windows directories on Windows NT 2000 XP systems Windows system32 spool drivers w32x86 PDFCreatorPPD The PostScript Printer Description file This defines the capabilities of the PDF Creator printer to the printer driver Windows system32 PDFCreator cpl The PDF Creator Control Panel PDFCreatordll The PDF Creator P
49. e kernel build time is available in the About Jaws PDF Creator splash screen To open the splash screen click the About Jaws PDF Creator button in the Settings tab Registering PDF Creator Jaws PDF Creator can be registered on the World Wide Web Point your browser at www jawspdf com and select the Support page and fill in the form You should have the following information ready Your name Company name and address E mail address e Company size Where PDF Creator was purchased Number of copies purchased The serial number supplied with the software Contact information If you need to contact Global Graphics Software Limited directly for any reason you can use the address and numbers below Global Graphics Software Limited Barrington Hall Barrington Cambridge CB2 5RG United Kingdom Tel 44 0 1223 873 800 Fax 44 0 1223 873 873 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 50 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 51 gt Web site www jawspdf com Mail regarding PDF Creator can be sent to sales jawspdf com Troubleshooting This section offers some troubleshooting advice The application I m printing from goes blank when print to PDF Creator Only applicable to Windows the printing application is suspended waiting for you to select a destination During this time it cannot respond to repaint messages from Windows This is harmless
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51. e these locations are system specific and may not be appropriate on your system JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 38 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 39 gt Microsoft macros Jaws PDF Creator treats Microsoft Word and PowerPoint as special applications When PDF Creator is installed on Windows platforms it creates a macro for Word97 Word2000 PowerPoint 97 and PowerPoint 2000 applications Word2002 and PowerPoint 2002 for Windows XP and Windows 2000 are also supported This macro allows Word and PowerPoint users to print directly to PDF Creator In both Word and PowerPoint the Jaws icon appears in the tool bar thus allowing fast access to PDF creation Microsoft Word Document 197 File Edit View Insert Format Tools Table Window Help x Del 6ayv BS o o ee poms mrm Gs gt it ee se Normal Times NewRoman 10 y B 7 U E zz zm iE g a A Note that if you uninstall Jaws PDF Creator the Microsoft macros are automatically uninstallled Microsoft Word macro To create a PDF from Word select Jaws PDF Creator gt Create PDF File from the File menu A Jaws PDF Creator working message appears followed by a Create PDF Browser dialog that allows selection of the location and name of the PDF file This dialog also allows selection of the various security options that can be applied to a PDF file These security options are
52. eator does this by looking at the text baseline and making it travel from left to right so it gets the result wrong if most or all of the text on the page is mirrored JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 23 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 24 gt For more information on rotation see Troubleshooting Optimize for fast web viewing Before distributing PDF files via the web you should make sure they are created using this option This option may reduce file size and prepares the document for page at a time downloading sometimes called byte serving You will generally find that this option significantly reduces the file size of your PDF document When a document has been optimized for page at a time downloading the web server sends each individual page of information requested by the user rather than the whole PDF document When working with large documents which can take a long time to download using the Optimize for fast web viewing option is particularly important The following items in the Output Options section of the General tab allow you to control what happens to the PDF once it has been created Always output files to If this box is checked PDF Creator does not prompt you for a destination file name but outputs all PDF files to the specified destination folder The file name is com posed of the document name with a numerical suffix if necessar
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54. ent control over the Allow Content Access for the Visually Impaired Document Assembly and Fill in Forms and Signing options When creating PDF 1 3 documents these options are automatically selected at the same time as the Allow Copying of Text or Graphics General Editing and Comment Authoring options Security Options The Security Options section of the Security tab contains the following options Allow copying of text and graphics With this option selected the PDF user is able to copy and paste text and graphics from the file JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 32 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 33 gt Allow content access for the visually impaired With this option selected the PDF user is able to configure various reader options such as custom text background colors and create more visible color schemes Note When generating PDF 1 3 files the visually impaired option is disabled and mimics the text or graphics option Changes Allowed The options in the Changes Allowed section of the Security tab allow you to define the level of changes you will allow users to make on the PDF document No options selected With no options selected users are unable to do anything to the PDF document including filling in signature and form fields Document Assembly With this option selected PDF users can insert delete and rotate pages and create bookmarks and
55. er In the case of PDF Creator the interpreter is called Jaws and is a clone interpreter developed for incorporation into hardware and software products Also the raster based back end of the interpreter has been replaced with code which outputs graphical primitives as text in this case the text builds up into PDF page descriptions It is also possible to convert PostScript language files into other page description languages using the same approach The PostScript language compatible Jaws interpreter allows a number of transformations to be carried out in the interpreter pipeline which is how PDF Creator implements features such as TrueType font substitution Integration with the operating system One component of the printing system is a DLL Dynamic Link Library called a port monitor Normally a port monitor takes the output generated by the printer drivers whether bitmaps for GDI printers PostScript or some other format and is responsible for delivering the data to the printer via a hardware port typically a serial or parallel port or possibly a network interface INDEX CONTENTS 4 55 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 56 gt In PDF Creator the port monitor communicates with a separate process called PDFCreatorSV that contains the entire Jaws PostScript language compatible interpreter As far as Windows is concerned the PDF Creator port monitor is an interface to a real PostScript language compatible pr
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57. f they were created on a different machine If you try to convert such files without making the fonts available to PDF Creator the document is converted with incorrect text metrics By making the fonts you need available to PDF Creator the document is converted with all the correct fonts and spacing JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 36 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 37 gt If you add a Type font to PDF Creator because it is used but not embedded in a PostScript language file remember that it is not embedded in the PDF output files unless you also add it to the Always Embed list in the Font embedding tab See Font embedding tab for more information The main reason for installing TrueType fonts is so they can be used with the True Type substitution feature described in TrueType fonts For any bitmap or outline font to be a candidate for TrueType substitution the original TrueType font must be installed By default PDF Creator searches for and installs all True Type fonts in your Windows directory when it is first installed However if you subsequently add any new TrueType fonts to your system you must manually make them available to PDF Creator using the Font Management options Clicking the Select Folder button displays a browser dialog allowing you to select the folder where PDF Creator can find the fonts you want to add The System Fonts button i
58. files to PDF 14 Jaws ToPDF drag and drop usd uobis es eras 15 Using NEP Mp 15 INDEX CONTENTS 4 2 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 3 gt Els al Las E ot er P er Eb RP EP b eas 16 Control Panel reference stie litro ars 18 Settings ON 19 Creating a new Configuration ana died dette asada wads 20 Editing a COMIGUIAHO citados pira ri dal ahd doe d ced naire nS 20 Renaming or removing a configuration 2 Cc A E e a a T E ER 2 Advanced Options dialog BOX sies usps eer est doner E TER S e 25 Compression taD rente ane eo 27 Font embedding TAD PPP CE 29 SECUN TAD annesi ior p CE s ea de Ead Cb ada Eaa 30 Pee CWS RS dod cus tu Bs A ads 3l SECARSE Ro a RR p nt a decida 32 Changes Allowed re ORAS E Ro E 33 Reporting tab Eine ii tirpo paraa Ena ciate cate educa E RENEE ada 34 About Jaws PDF Creator Jeanne mins aa CiU ten Ada EA 35 PONE FAANABE EME seei piigi poania Koipe Ansa ind i e deer aa Mark 36 Importing CONUSUPABIONS is porerna aa dida tela eb 37 Exporting CONIZUPATIONS a eina eter d AGI eub bd Ed dob RP la oa e dan 38 Microsoft MACrOS MEAM 39 Migos Word Maci saris baad ddug des od dd 39 Word matro seres NES 39 A A vr 40 Document APP et aa rea ch aAa AE a EAR i 4 IME taD 2568s cons dices cater ae pau g tree yeas et nie 42 Bookmarks tab AAA eA OIN RARE C EIER NOE 43 E RP 44 POGUE D oec na cd in ds de dci ce Cd 44 PowerPoint DRREFOR eL nt ain RP
59. ges on Windows NT Windows 2000 and Windows XP The names of shared configurations are automatically prefixed with a space For example my conf becomes my _ conf The standard configurations that are shipped with PDF Creator may not be renamed or removed therefore these buttons are disabled when a standard configuration is selected from the menu If you do make changes to a standard configuration you are prompted to save the modified configuration with a new name A configuration name can contain any characters you wish except for backslash Leading and trailing spaces are removed from the name apart from shared configurations which are identified by a leading space Configuration names must be unique and are not case sensitive that is ConfigName and configNAME are considered to be the same JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 21 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 22 gt General tab The General tab provides options to configure the type of PDF file the location for the file and the actions to perform when the PDF has been created Configure Jaws PDF Creator Figure 1 7 General tab The following items in the File Options section of the General tab allow you to control the format of the output file PDF file format Use this option to create either PDF 1 3 or PDF 1 4 files All PDF 1 3 and 1 4 are compatible with Jaws PDF Editor
60. he Send the generated PDF file as an email attachment option will cause the active e mail application to display a Send mail dialog with the generated PDF already included as an attachment Select the Automatically open the generated PDF file option to automatically open in your PDF viewing application every PDF file created from the Word macro The setting of this option will override the setting of View the PDF file after creation option in the General tab of the PDF Creator Control Panel For more information see General tab Select Prompt for the location of the output PDF file to display a browser allowing you to change the location and name of every PDF file generated from the Word macro You may want to use your PDF viewing application as a previewer before sending your job to a PostScript RIP for outputting on an imagesetter or printer In this case select the Keep the intermediate PostScript ps file after PDF creation option This keeps the PostScript file which is created before the PDF so that you can use it for other processes JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 40 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 4l gt Document tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration Figure 1 13 Document tab The options in the Open Options panel let you configure how you would like your PDF viewer to display the generated PDF There are various view options mag
61. he interpreter e Startup ps prologue ps epilogue ps These files are located in the C Program Files JawsSystems Jaws PDF Creator Default folder You can use these files for any custom PostScript language code that you want to be executed Needless to say you should only modify these files if you are comfortable with writing PostScript language code startup ps This file is executed when the interpreter first starts up You can use it to make any global changes In particular the parameters that PDF Creator uses for the JPEG and CCITT image compression filters are stored here as well as the lists of TrueType fonts that need special handling by the TrueType substitution code The image compression parameters are stored in four PostScript dictionaries at the start of the file which give the parameters for the JPEG low medium and high compression filters and the CCITT fax compression filter respectively If you understand how the PostScript compression filters work you can modify the parameters here to change the behavior of the filters The most common example might be to change the Q factor for one or more of the JPEG filters The TrueType dictionaries are stored near the end of the file and are initially empty You can add the names of any fonts that you have determined require special handling by the TrueType substitution code For more information on the format of these dictionaries see Section Font embedding prologue p
62. he printer according to the font Substitution Table To change the Font Substitution table Inthe Fonts tab select the Edit the Table button 2 In the fonts list change the required system font to an appropriate base 14 font from the list PostScript ProcSet resources Fonts are one kind of resource that the PostScript printer driver may embed in a PostScript language file Procedure sets or ProcSets are another Typically both the printer driver and the application itself can generate ProcSets which are used to define PostScript language procedures which are frequently used by the document These ProcSets are identified by comments within the PostScript language file INDEX CONTENTS 4 66 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 67 gt The convention used for these identifying comments allows a printer driver to omit a resource from a file when it is first generated and subsequently arrange either for the printer to read the resource off disk or for the spooler to insert the resource into the job immediately before sending it to the printer Control over application generated ProcSets is left to the individual applications and may not be possible You can instruct PDF Creator to intercept ProcSet resources in files sent to it and save them to disk for later use This option is not accessible from the PDF Creator Control Panel Instead you must find the following lines in the file prologue ps see Section for detail
63. hould deselect the Convert CMYK to RGB option This results in slightly larger PDF files but should have no other side effects Internet Explorer 4 01 locks up when printing This appears to be a problem with earlier versions of Internet Explorer 4 Windows only Later versions do suc cessfully print to PDF Creator on Windows 98 Me 2000 XP and NT If you expe rience this problem you should upgrade your version of Internet Explorer Rotation and applications and drivers that do not generate ViewingOrientation For applications and drivers that do not generate ViewingOrientation DSC comments a new option called PageOrientation has been added to the printer driver By default PageOrien tation is switched off and the auto rotate setting in the PDF Creator configuration is respected There are four other options Rotate by O degrees Rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise Rotate 90 degrees clockwise and Rotate 80 degrees These four options all switch off auto rotate if it was enabled and apply the specified rotation to the page The page is rotated from its default orientation Because different applications do different things when for example they are asked to generate a landscape page from a portrait page and vice versa some trial and error is required JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 53 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 54 gt
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65. images in the PDF output This can result in a smaller PDF file that displays more quickly You should enable this if your documents are intended for on screen viewing and disable it if they are intended for printing JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 25 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 26 gt Enabling this option can cause an apparent color shift in the images to which it is applied The conversion that PDF Creator uses is better suited to photographic images than to CMYK approximations of spot colors You may find that on screen reproduction of some graduated fills and tinted images is better with this option dis abled than with it enabled Convert device independent colors to device dependent colors With this option selected PDF Creator converts colors specified in device independent CIE based color spaces into device dependent RGB This produces PDF files which display more quickly Otherwise these colors are converted into a device independent cal ibrated RGB color space This produces PDF files which render more slowly but whose colors are more constant across properly set up output devices Preserve Halftones With this option selected any halftone changes requested by the job are passed through to the PDF file You should select this option when pro ducing PDF files for print and disable it when producing PDF files for on screen viewing Preserve Overprint
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67. inted at the same resolution as the printer that was selected when the PostScript language file was generated At all other resolutions the text displays jagged edges In particular these fonts do not perform well when embedded into a PDF file To address this problem the PDF Creator TrueType font substitution code identifies the original True Type font used for the text and embeds that font in the PDF file instead Both printer drivers do two things when generating PostScript language that makes this task more difficult Firstly they alter the name of the font This is necessary because each font represents the output of the TrueType rasterizer at a specific point size and if the same font is used twice at different sizes in the document each instance must have a unique name PDF Creator contains code to recover the original font name from the font embedded in the file Secondly they recode all the text in the document that uses the font Every character code is replaced by its glyph index within the font and all text using that font in the document undergoes a similar recoding so that for example a string Hello in the original document appears as HOOR in the PostScript language file Because the font and text are both recoded the string HOOR still gets printed on paper as Hello but if the recoded font is distilled into PDF exactly as it appears in the PostScript language file you are not able to search for Hello in the PDF file
68. inter The port monitor advertises itself to the printing system as JawsPDFCreatorPort which appears in the list of available printer ports alongside the more usual ports such as LPT and so on Any output sent to JawsPDFCreatorPort is passed to the PDF Creator interpreter any output directed to any other port is not This also applies to non PostScript language output so if you accidentally try to use a non PostScript language compatible printer driver with the PDF Creator port monitor alot of error messages are displayed as PDF Creator tries to interpret a stream of binary data as if it was a stream of PostScript language PDFCreatorSV is started automatically by the PDF Creator port monitor when the first job is sent to the PDF Creator port PDFCreatorSV continues to run doing nothing for up to a minute after the PDF file has been generated If no other jobs are sent to the port in this time the PDFCreatorSV process automatically closes down reducing the memory demands on the system PDFCreatorSV is restarted if it is not already running when the next job is sent to the port monitor To use any printer with Windows it is necessary to provide a printer driver For PostScript language compatible printers this is easy as any one PostScript language compatible printer driver can handle all possible PostScript language compatible printers Any product specific features of a given printer such as which paper sizes are available can b
69. ion takes place The resultant PDF file contains jagged unsearchable text INDEX CONTENTS 4 64 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 65 gt These printer drivers can also send fonts to the printer as Type 42 fonts Whether you can select this from the printer driver Control Panel depends on the printer s capabilities the standard PDF Creator PPD file does allow you to select this but other PPD files might not If you choose to do this you get a hinted TrueType font embedded in your PDF file but the text will not be searchable In summary if you want to get the best results when producing a PDF file from a document that uses True Type fonts you should use the Microsoft printer drivers and enable TrueType substitution in PDF Creator This gives you the best visual quality and you are able to search for text in the PDF file and cut and paste text from the file to other applications If for some reason you need to use either of the Adobe printer drivers you should elect to send TrueType fonts to the printer as Type 42 fonts This gives you the best visual quality when viewing the PDF file but you are not able to search for text in the file or cut and paste text to other applications Please note that the LICENSE from Adobe for use of their latest PostScript drivers for Windows 98 Me XP and NT precludes the use of those drivers to print to printers which do not contain an Adobe interpreter PDF Creator does not contain an Adobe
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71. n this folder but with the same name as the input file and a paf extension If you select Always prompt for a destination in the Configure Jaws PDF Creator dialog box a prompt for an output file name appears for each file See Jaws ToPDF configuration for more information about configuring the Jaws ToPDF application This setting also affects jobs converted by dropping the input files onto the Jaws ToPDF shortcut When the prompt for a name and destination folder appears you can also change the security options For more information see Security tab Stop PDF Creator prompting for a file name In the PDF Creator Control Panel click the General tab and select the Always output files to check box Then select the folder in which you want to save the PDF files For more information see General tab Produce PDF files compatible with PDF viewing applications Jaws PDF Creator can produce PDF version 1 3 and 1 4 files PDF 1 3 and 1 4 files are compatible with Jaws PDF Editor although PDF Editor cannot currently open PDF 1 4 files using 128 bit encryption PDF 1 3 files are compatible with Acrobat v4 0 or later PDF 1 4 files are compatible with Acrobat v5 0 or later The PDF 1 4 files produced by PDF Creator comply with the Adobe specification but do not support all PDF 1 4 features Produce files that can be sent by e mail To produce files that can more easily be sent by e mail select the General tab in the P
72. name This is the file name which PDF Creator offers you in the Save dialog box it normally displays for every job INDEX CONTENTS 4 57 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 58 gt The output folder is determined by considering the following options The folder specified by the Always output files to option in the General tab in the PDF Creator Control Panel if selected The folder given as part of the document name if there is one Windows only The last folder to which PDF Creator wrote a PDF file Unless the Always output files to option is selected PDF Creator always provides you with the opportunity to change both the folder and the file name using a browser dialog At times you may be surprised at the file names that PDF Creator generates in this way The reason for this is that the document name is not normally used by the printing system except in dialogs to provide information about the status of the job This means that there is no official format for the document name and most applications make up their own rules Some applications such as Microsoft Word 97 add the application name before the document name Some such as Adobe PageMaker put the full path in the document name Occasionally a document name will be too long for the application and it truncates the name and appends an ellipsis Some applications put an asterisk in the document name when a document has been modifie
73. nifications and even selection of the document page number All these options can be changed once the PDF is viewed within your PDF viewer Selecting Allow editing of document information prior to converting each document displays the following dialog every time a file is converted to PDF Jaws PDF Creator PDF Document Information Figure 1 14 PDF Document Information dialog box Enter information in each text box of the dialog and click OK The Convert document bookmarks into PDF named destinations option converts Word bookmarks into named destinations within the PDF This provides direct access to those topics using Bookmarks options within your PDF viewer JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 41 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 42 Selecting the Include hidden text option allows you to create a PDF which includes any text designated as hidden within Word Normally hidden text does not appear in the PDF file As a default this option is not selected Links tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration Figure 1 15 Links tab The options in the Hyperlinks to Process panel control which hyperlinks within your Word document are turned into links within the generated PDF file Use the options in the PDF Link Appearance panel to configure how the links appear in the generated PDF file JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTEN
74. nt Management button in the Settings tab The Font Management dialog allows you to control which fonts are installed and available to the PDF Creator printer These fonts are always installed on your disk of course but you can control whether or not they are visible to PDF Creator and therefore whether or not they can be loaded by the PostScript findfont operator This dialog lets you manage both Type fonts also known as ATM fonts or PFB format fonts and True lype fonts Each kind of font is distinguished by an icon in the margin This option makes no distinction between PFB format PFA format an ASCII format for Type fonts typically used on UNIX platforms or raw PostScript files containing Type 3 fonts All of these fonts are displayed as PostScript fonts in this dialog and all may be successfully installed for use with PDF Creator The core fonts that are installed with PDF Creator are listed in red and may not be removed The core font set includes clones of the 35 standard PostScript printer fonts as well as stub files which refer to them For example Helvetica is one of the standard fonts but the font file for Helvetica is just a stub that substitutes the clone font Helsinki instead The reasons for wanting to make the fonts visible to PDF Creator differ for the two formats The principal reason for installing Type fonts is if you are using Jaws ToPDF to convert files which do not contain embedded fonts for example i
75. nters at 600 dpi Web Optimized for screen viewing and for use in web pages at 72 dpi Note that you cannot edit the standard configurations As each option is selected the window below contains a brief description of that option JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 19 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 20 gt NOTE The Add Duplicate Rename and Remove options are described in the following sections See About Jaws PDF Creator Font management Importing configurations and Exporting configurations for details on the About PDF Creator Font management Import configurations and Export configurations options Creating a new configuration If none of the existing configurations in the Settings tab are appropriate you may create a new one Use the Add or Duplicate buttons Add creates a configuration with the default settings Duplicate copies the settings from the currently selected configuration Although a unique name for the configuration is generated automatically you may want to change the name and description to reflect the intended use Select the Make this configuration available to all users check box if you wish to allow other users to use the new configuration On Windows NT Windows 2000 and Windows XP this option is disabled unless you are logged in as administrator Note also that only administrators can edit shared configurations
76. nts tab If your Word document contains comments PDF Creator lets you convert those comments into sticky notes type comments in the created PDF file Use the Reviewer menu to select the name of each reviewer For each reviewer selected you can choose whether to automatically include the comments by that reviewer whether to display those comments open in the generated PDF file and to select a color for any included comments About tab This tab provides useful contact and version information PowerPoint macro When PDF Creator is installed on Windows platforms it creates a macro for PowerPoint 97 PowerPoint 2000 and Office XP 2000 applications This macro allows PowerPoint users to print directly to PDF Creator To create a PDF from PowerPoint select Jaws PDF Creator gt Create PDF File from the File menu A Jaws PDF Creator working message appears followed by a Create PDF Browser dialog that allows selection of the location and name of the PDF file JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 44 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 45 gt This dialog also allows selection of the various security options that can be applied to a PDF file These security options are the same as the options provided within the PDF Creator Control Panel See Security tab for more information PowerPoint macro settings You can change the settings for PDF Creator from within PowerPoint Sele
77. o PDF Creator it will be embedded in the generated PDF file If this option is not selected the font will only be embedded if it is named in the Always embed list Any candidate for embedding is rejected if it is one of the base 14 fonts unless it appears in the Always embed list or it appears in the Never embed list Embed base 14 fonts If this is selected all base 14 fonts present in the document are embedded in the output PDF file Selecting this option implicitly adds the base 14 fonts to the Always embed list Note that if you wish to embed individual base 4 fonts rather than all base 14 fonts you should add them explicitly to the Always embed font list and deselect this check box Subset fonts With this option selected only subsets of the original fonts are embedded in the PDF file This is the preferred setting as it leads to smaller files However selecting Subset fonts prevents you from subsequently using Acrobat plug ins or other tools that allow text editing within a PDF file as not all characters from the embedded fonts are available for use Use original TrueType fonts The Windows PostScript printer driver replaces True Type fonts with bitmaps and unhinted outlines If this feature is selected PDF Cre ator will attempt to substitute the fonts generated by the printer driver with the original TrueType font This substitution is discussed in detail in True Type fonts Security tab The options under the
78. onverts it to PDF About this manual This manual is intended as a guide to the installation and use of PDF Creator e Installing and uninstalling PDF Creator describes how to install upgrade and uninstall PDF Creator e Getting started with PDF Creator covers basic use of both the Jaws PDF Creator printer and the Jaws ToPDF application Jaws ToPDF converting files to PDF describes the Jaws ToPDF application in more detail Control Panel reference provides a comprehensive reference for the PDF Creator Control Panel This is where most of the configuration is done Microsoft macros describes how to use and configure the Jaws PDF Creator macro for Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint on Windows Support is where you will find all the support information you may require such as how to register your copy and download new versions Technical Information contains technical and more advanced information about PDF Creator as well as a map of all the installed files Throughout this manual references to PDF viewer or PDF viewing application should be understood to refer to Jaws PDF Editor Acrobat Reader and Acrobat System Requirements The system requirements are Windows 98 Me 2000 XP or NT4 for Intel Windows 95 is no longer supported e At least 10 MB of free disk space Memory requirement is heavily dependent on the nature of the document being converted into a PDF file
79. or dialog box Configure Jaws PDF Creator x Select the configuration that you would like Jaws PDF Creator to use when generating PDF files Destination Always prompt for a destination Do not prompt for a destination Edit Configurations Cancel Figure 1 4 Jaws ToPDF configuration Three standard configurations are provided from the Configuration menu Press Ready Optimized for sending jobs to a commercial printer at 2540 dpi dots per inch Print Quality Optimized for printing to office type laser printers at 600 dpi JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 16 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 17 gt Web Optimized for screen viewing and for use in web pages at 72 dpi Any custom configurations you have created also appear in this menu Note that you cannot edit the standard configurations The names of shared configurations are prefixed with a space for example my_conf See Creating a new configuration and Renaming or removing a configuration for details Use the Edit Configurations button to display the PDF Creator Control Panel where additional configurations can be defined Jaws ToPDF can be configured to either prompt for an output file name or to save the file in the default output folder When you select Always prompt for a destination a PDF Creator browser dialog is displayed every time you convert a file This
80. or may occasionally fail to substitute a True Type font because it is reconstructing the original font name incorrectly and therefore cannot find the original font on the disk This most likely INDEX CONTENTS 4 62 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 63 gt occurs if you are subjecting the font to geometric transformations such as shearing the font to simulate an oblique face This kind of transformation is not possible with many Windows applications so you are unlikely to see this The font is not being recoded when PDF Creator expects it to be The Windows NT PostScript printer driver sometimes does not recode fonts when embedding them This is under control of the application printing the document and is documented as a legacy feature in the driver Because there is no guaranteed indication in the PostScript language file that this has happened PDF Creator may still decode the text in the normal way This leads to garbled text in the PDF output file It is possible to correct these last two situations by editing the tables in the file default startup ps in the PDF Creator installation directory You can edit this file using any standard text editor In this file there are two tables one called NT ontnames and the other called NTfonttypes These are both PostScript dictionaries located near the end of startup ps he syntax of a PostScript dictionary is as shown NTfontnames Mytfont0432 My font gt gt
81. ormation prior to converting each document displays the following dialog every time a file is converted to PDF Jaws PDF Creator PDF Document Information x EE tex Figure 1 20 PDF Document Information dialog box Enter information in each text box of the dialog and click OK Selecting the Include hidden slides option allows you to create a PDF which includes any slide designated as hidden within PowerPoint This option is selected as a default Links tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration Figure 1 21 Links tab JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 47 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 48 gt The option in the Hyperlinks to Process panel control which hyperlinks within your PowerPoint document are turned into links within the generated PDF file Use the options in the PDF Link Appearance panel to configure how the links appear in the generated PDF file Bookmarks tab Jaws PDF Creator Configuration Figure 1 22 Bookmarks tab The Automatically open bookmarks in the PDF document to depth setting in this tab collapses or expands the document headings when the PDF is opened The Destination magnification option decides the zoom value when the PDF file is opened A number of Fit page to options are provided The Inherit zoom option opens the PDF with the zoom value currently selected in the user s PD
82. ostScript language compatible interpreter PDFCreatorSV exe Contains the main part of PDF Creator the actual interpreter eventconsumerdll COM helper DLL expat dll Support file for XML import export niknakXML dll Support file for XML import export PdfCreatorMessages COM server exe The following files are installed in the Windows directory on Windows 98 Me systems Windows system PDFCreatorcpl The Control Panel applet for configuring PDF Creator PDFCreatordll Contains code to manage the PDF Creator port PDFCreatorSV exe Contains the main part of PDF Creator the actual interpreter PDFCreatorppd The PostScript Printer Description file used by the Microsoft PostScript driver it defines the capabilities of the PDF Creator printer PDFCreatorspd A simplified PostScript Printer Description file used by the Microsoft printer driver it defines the capabilities of the PDF Creator printer INDEX CONTENTS 4 72 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 73 gt Windows system unicows dil Unicode handling General files used by all operating systems lepilogue ps A PostScript language file run after every job see Section prologue ps PostScript language file used to configure PDF Creator see Section startup ps A PostScript language file run at startup contains compression settings see Section Default A folder PDF Creator uses for miscellaneous files
83. page is subject to the full substitution process so that recoded text strings are decoded Text from other code pages for example Greek Cyrillic are rendered with the correct TrueType font However text from these code pages is not decoded and is not searchable in the PDF file The Windows NT printer driver supports code pages in a different way Only text from the basic Windows code page gets substituted Text from other code pages is printed as bitmapped graphics and is not recognized as text by PDF Creator As mentioned above some font files such as Verdana are different on Windows 98 Me and NT Since the recoded text in a PDF file is based on the glyph index within the font file it is important not to mix up different versions of the same font Jaws ToPDF does not disable True Type substitution so if you use it to convert a document using a bitmap or outline font that can be substituted with a True Type font it is substituted However if the PostScript language file was originally produced on a different operating system to the one on which Jaws ToPDF is running at the time the text in the PDF output file may be garbled due to the mismatch between the fonts on the two systems If you are using Jaws ToPDF in this way make sure you always convert PostScript language files that were created on the same system The algorithm that the Windows NT driver uses to alter the font name is documented but not always reversible PDF Creat
84. reduce net work traffic by substituting high resolution images with low resolution screen images for the purpose of screen display and page make up With this option selected OPI comments in the PostScript language input file are reproduced as OPI dictionaries in the PDF output It is not necessary for the high resolution image data to be available to PDF Creator it passes the file name through to the output PDF Creator produces only an OPI 1 3 dictionary only an OPI 2 dictionary or both depending on whether the PostScript language file input uses one or both versions of the OPI comments Compression tab The sections in the Compression tab allow different compression techniques to be applied to different types of images Configure Jaws PDF Creator JPEG medium compres Don t downsample Resolution Figure 1 8 Compression tab Downsample These options allow you to control whether and how PDF Creator reduces the resolution of images in the PostScript language file input JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 27 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 28 gt Set this to Don t downsample if your documents are intended for printing Subsample reduces the resolution of the image by dropping pixels Average reduces the size by averaging neighboring pixels and produces good quality results You cannot average a monochrome image in PDF Creator beca
85. require the use of special macro packages or hand made EPS files In each case any method of generating annotations that works with other PDF creation applications also works with PDF Creator JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 10 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 I gt The pd mark operator is documented in Adobe Technical Note number 5150 which is freely available from their web site Create a PDF file using a custom page size If you are generating a PDF file intended mainly for on screen viewing you may want to generate it with an unusual page size so that it fits more neatly onto the screen The PostScript compatible interpreter in PDF Creator can accept any page size specified via the setpagedevice operator There are two ways to achieve this The first solution lets you print to a standard page size instead A PDF file actually contains two boxes for each page the MediaBox is the notional paper size and the optional CropBox is the size to which the page content is cropped Jaws PDF Editor and Acrobat always use the CropBox if it is present as the size of the page it displays on screen If your application is able to generate pdfmark code you may be able to set the CropBox for the pages you generate 2 Otherwise you have to generate a PostScript file that asks the printer to use the custom page size If you are using Windows 98 Me or Windows 2000 XP bo
86. s Here s how to turn on Resource Capturing Uncomment the next line systemdict NiknakDict get begin ExtractResources true def end To enable saving of ProcSet resources to disk uncomment the line by removing the character from the beginning of the line Once the ProcSets have been saved to disk you are able to send jobs with the ProcSet resources omitted to PDF Creator and have them processed properly If PDF Creator detects that a job requires a ProcSet resource that has not been saved to disk it issues a warning message to that effect although the job will probably fail with a PostScript language error PostScript ProcSet resources normally have a version number as well as a name PDF Creator treats ProcSets with the same name but different version numbers as being completely different When using this feature you should bear in mind that ProcSets are PostScript language code and usually subject to copyright restrictions Saving the resources to disk is equivalent to permanently downloading them to a printer the authors of your application may or may not have granted you permission to do this You should only make use of this feature if you are working in a controlled environment and you are already comfortable with the idea of ProcSet resources INDEX CONTENTS 4 67 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 68 gt Custom PostScript language files There are three PostScript language files that are executed by t
87. s This file is executed by the interpreter at the start of each job This gives you the opportunity to make any changes that you want to apply on a per job basis INDEX CONTENTS 4 68 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 69 gt There are three pieces of example code here that you can use directly The first section of code enables collection of PostScript ProcSet resources The line systemdict NiknakDict get begin ExtractResources true def end turns on the collection of resources from incoming PostScript language jobs After installation this line is commented out the at the start of a line introduces a PostScript language comment To enable collection of ProcSet resources uncomment the line by removing the using a text editor When you have collected all the ProcSet resources you need you should comment out this line again The code to override the default author and creator information is also located here normally extracted directly from the PostScript language file being converted The code for each field is similar The PostScript procedure DoAuthor changes the author name YourNameHere DoAuthor This causes YourNameHere to appear as the author of the document DoAuthor works by mangling the Author comment present in the job which is why the operand to DoAuthor must start with a colon and space before the name itself The PostScript procedure DoCreator changes the creator in the same way Crea
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89. s a shortcut equivalent to opening the fonts folder Importing configurations You can use the Import configurations option in the Settings tab to import an XML file containing the PDF configuration s from another machine or user To create such an import file you must use the Export configurations option described in Exporting configurations For example this option can be used to ensure all users within an organization have the same configuration settings and therefore create PDF documents of the same type To import an XML configuration file Click Import configurations in the Settings tab 2 Use the displayed browser to choose the XML file to be imported The file will have a xml extension 3 Click Open to import the file 4 For each individual configuration setup a confirmation prompt will appear 5 Click Yes to import the configuration JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 37 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 38 gt NOTE NOTE NOTE If you have an existing configuration of the same name as a configuration being imported it will be overwritten Clicking No does not import the configuration When an XML file is exported and subsequently imported the Always output files to and Execute on completion locations are not transferred This is because these locations are system specific and may not be appropriate on your system Exporting config
90. s containing patterns or graduated fills ASCII format If this option is selected any binary data including compressed text in the PDF file is converted to a printable ASCII representation This makes it safe to transmit your PDF pages over a medium that does not support binary transmission internet e mail for example Using ASCII format will increase the size of your PDF file Auto rotate pages PDF Creator will always honor requests for landscape output however some Windows applications will produce landscape output by rotating the output onto a portrait page When printed this is not a problem as the page can easily be rotated However when producing a PDF this leads to text running up the screen f this option is selected PDF Creator will look for and act on the ViewingOrientation DSC comment in the incoming PostScript job The ViewingOrientation comment explicitly specifies how to rotate the page from its default orientation so that the PDF is produced at its optimum viewing orientation oe The ViewingOrientation DSC comment is inserted into the job by the application generating the PostScript files and or the printer driver Not all applications and drivers generate this comment If the ViewingOrientation DSC comment is present in a job it will be used Otherwise PDF Creator will attempt to determine the orientation of the majority of the text on the page and rotate the page until this text is upright PDF Cr
91. seful information about your version of Jaws PDF Creator To open the splash screen click the About Jaws PDF Creator button in the Settings tab The splash screen contains the following information Version This is the version number of PDF Creator Kernel build This is a unique identification of the version of PDF Creator that you are using and should be included on all bug reports that you submit Serial No This is the Serial number you entered when installing the registered ver sion of PDF Creator You need this if you wish to report bugs or otherwise require support If you installed a demonstration version of PDF Creator this will read Evaluation version Debugging mode Selecting this box causes PDF Creator to generate a verbose log describing its progress through the document You may be asked to provide this information after you have filed a bug report Otherwise you should leave this disabled JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 35 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 36 gt Once you have generated the requested debug log you must remember to switch off Debugging Mode otherwise the debug file continues to grow in size with every job distilled until your hard disk is full Enter Serial Number This option is used to license your version of Jaws PDF Creator For more information see Serial number Font management To manage fonts click the Fo
92. ser agrees to be bound by the terms of this Licence If the End User does not wish to be bound by the terms of this Licence the End User should not install load copy store or otherwise use the Software and return the Software or the Documentation for a refund of the Total Charges INTERPRETATION The expressions set out below shall have the meanings in this Licence ascribed to below 2 Charges mean the fee payable by each End User as identified in the Purchase Order and Total Charges means the total fees payable by all End User s 3 End Users means the individual or company licensed to use the Software under or in respect of this Licence as set out in the Purchase Order 4 Intellectual Property means copyright domain names design rights database rights semi conductor topographical rights pat ents trade marks registered or unregistered service marks registered designs or any applications thereof and all other intel lectual or industrial property rights of a similar nature and Intellectual Property Rights means rights in such intellectual property 5 Purchase Order means the written or electronic order for the Software submitted by the End User 6 Software means the registered version of the JAWS PDF Editor together with any changes modifications adaptations or alterations thereto together with any subsequent versions releases and corrections and any accompanying documentation INDEX CONTENTS 4 3 JAWS PDF CREA
93. th the Microsoft and Adobe PostScript printer drivers allow you to specify up to three custom page sizes for a printer in the Paper tab in the Printer Properties dialog box If you are using Windows NT the printer driver has no provision for custom paper sizes however you can edit the PDF Creator PPD file see Map of installed files for details with a text editor to add the required paper sizes which will then appear in the Printer Properties dialog box in the usual way You should restart your computer after editing the PPD file Change the name or destination folder of the PDF file When you print to PDF Creator from an application PDF Creator prompts you for a destination folder for the output file unless you enable the Always output files to option in the General tab The default destination folder is the last folder you used and the file name is constructed from the document name provided by the application You may change either of these before clicking OK to save the PDF output file JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 I gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 12 gt NOTE Jaws ToPDF does not prompt you for the output file name by default Instead the output file is created in the same folder as the input file and with the same name except for a pd extension If you enable the Always output files to option in the General tab Jaws ToPDF places the file i
94. torName DoCreator After installation the example lines for DoAuthor and DoCreator in prologue ps are both commented out If you wish to change the author or creator information you must uncomment these lines by removing the initial as well as changing the strings to reflect the names that you want epilogue ps This file is executed by the interpreter at the end of each successful job Any PostScript language code placed here is included in the PDF file if it generates any pages of output More importantly you may wish to place any calls to pdfmark here that you want to be applied to all jobs you convert INDEX CONTENTS 4 69 JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 INDEX CONTENTS 4 70 gt Using PostScript plugins Jaws PDF Creator has the ability to dynamically load PostScript language plugins PostScript language plugins can be used to implement extra features For example we have supplied the following plugins e XPressTrim jcp an idiom set that catches crop marks in QuarkXPress jobs and adds a TrimBox to the page e CorelTrim jcp an idiom set that catches crop marks in CorelDraw jobs and adds a TrimBox to the page e ConfigRecorder jcp adds a text annotation to the first page of the job recording the Jaws PDF Creator configuration used to make the PDF file These plugins are stored inthe Plugins inactive folder see Section for further details To use a plugin you must copy the relevant jcp file into the default folder
95. trol Panel click Add Remove Programs and select Jaws PDF Creator in the list 3 Click the Add Remove button to remove the program A confirmation prompt is displayed In some circumstances the uninstaller is unable to remove the PDF Creator printer from the Windows printing system If this happens a message is displayed asking you to wait a few minutes and re attempt the uninstall If the second attempt also fails you should reboot your computer and uninstall again NOTE An uninstall of Jaws PDF Creator removes the application and the registry entries for any configurations created by that particular Administrative user but does not remove any of the configurations created by any other users who have logged onto that machine Because these user configurations are left behind on the machine individual users can then reinstall Creator retaining the configurations that they previously created If so desired the configurations for a user can be removed manually by logging in as that user and removing the registry key HKEY CURRENT USERMSoftwareNGlobal Graphics Jaws PDF Creator See the documentation for your operating system for details on how to edit registry settings JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 9 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 10 gt Getting started with PDF Creator This section describes the main features of PDF Creator and how to use them Create a
96. ument password is provided the document is opened and decrypted However use of the document is limited by whatever restrictions have been specified in the Security options section of the dialog The Change security password allows the user to open the PDF and modify the security settings When a file is opened with a Change security password you have unrestricted access to the document in effect the security restrictions are temporarily disabled If you wish to limit access to your file you should apply a Change security password otherwise anyone who opens the file is able to remove the restrictions It is important to note that the PDF viewing application will not prompt for a password if no Open document password is entered when creating a secured PDF This means that when only a Change security password is used the document is opened without the user having to provide a password and use of the file is limited by whatever security restrictions have been imposed As a result if the user only has the free version of Acrobat they are never able to obtain unrestricted access to the document With Encrypt PDF Files selected you can choose various options to define the level of user actions allowed It is important to note that the options available in the Security Options and Changes Allowed sections are different depending on whether you are creating PDF 1 3 or PDF 1 4 documents When you are creating PDF 1 4 documents you have independ
97. urations You can use the Export configurations option in the Settings tab to export an XML file containing details of your configuration s for use on another machine or by another person This XML file can be transferred between Macintosh and Windows versions of Jaws PDF Creator To import such an XML file you must use the Import configurations option described in Exporting configurations For example this option can be used to ensure all users within an organization have the same configuration settings and therefore create PDF documents of the same type An XML file is a text file which can be opened and hand edited However doing this may cause your version of Jaws PDF Creator to produce unexpected results or fail When a configuration file is exported all configurations default and custom are saved to the XML file When an XML file is subsequently imported you are presented with the option to accept or reject each individual configuration To create an XML configuration file for distribution to other users of Jaws PDF Creator Ensure all your configurations are correct in all details Click Export configurations in the Settings tab Use the displayed browser to choose a location and name for your XML file Ensure the file has a xm1 extension Click Save to save the file When an XML file is exported and subsequently imported the Always output files to and Execute on completion locations are not transferred This is becaus
98. use PDF Creator does not promote such images to grayscale Bicubic reduces the resolution by performing bicubic interpolation to generate new pixel values This option can generate more pleasing results though the PDF will be slower to generate Bicubic is not available with monochrome images Compression There are three compression filters available for dealing with images The Zip filter uses a lossless compression technique and normally produces good compression ratios It can optionally apply a predictor algorithm which can further improve the compression for some classes of image The JPEG filter uses a lossy algorithm which irretrievably discards data but it pro duces excellent compression ratios on photographic images You can optionally modify some of the JPEG compression parameters by editing the file startup ps as described in startup ps The CCITT filter uses standard fax compression and is only applicable to bitmap images You can control the selection of group 3 or group 4 fax compression in startup ps See startup ps for details Resolution If you have enabled downsampling this option lets you specify the target resolution of the reduced images actually embedded in the PDF file Compress text If this is selected PDF Creator compresses textual information such as page descriptions using Zip compression JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 28 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAW
99. verwrite an existing PDF file option is not selected in the General tab a unique number is appended to the file name An example of a name is BOOK pdf BOOK0 pdf BOOK1 pdf See General tab for more information Using Jaws ToPDF You can run Jaws ToPDF as an application by double clicking the shortcut on the desktop or by selecting Start gt Programs gt Jaws Systems gt Jaws ToPDF In this case a larger application window is displayed JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 15 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 16 gt You can drag and drop files onto the application window You can also convert files by using the File gt Open option which displays a file browser allowing selection of the files to be converted File Settings Help Files processed 0 Files left 1 Input File K actobat_out SW_LE bk ps Output File K Nacrobat ou SW LE bkO pdf Progress MEM se EUN Figure 1 3 Jaws ToPDF application window When you have converted all the files you want click Done to exit the application NOTE While drag and drop from Explorer works with both the desktop shortcut and the application window drag and drop from the File Manager only works with the Jaws ToPDF application window Jaws ToPDF configuration With the Jaws ToPDF application open use the Settings gt Configure option to open the Configure Jaws PDF Creat
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101. y to avoid duplicate file names This feature is mainly of use when using PDF Creator to generate all files in a single location In this case you should also make sure that you do not have Display Messages enabled in the Reporting tab described in Reporting tab The numeric suffix generation can be defeated using the Overwrite an existing PDF file option See later in this section for more information Select the check box then either enter the full path or click Browse to select the required folder Execute on job completion You can select an application which PDF Creator exe cutes each time a job is successfully converted to PDF Select the check box then either enter the full path or click Browse to select the required application If you wish you can use the string ss as a place marker in this command line it is replaced by the actual name of the PDF file If you click Browse to locate the appli cation to run a s is appended to the commandline for you JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 24 gt JAWS PDF CREATOR 3 JAWS PDF CREATOR ON PC PLATFORMS INDEX CONTENTS 4 25 gt The s place marker should be surrounded by double quotes if there is any possi bility that the generated PDF file will be written to a file name where any compo nent of the path contains a space For example C myapp myapp exe x p s View the PDF file after creation Select this option to automatically open your
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