3-Heights™ PDF Dekstop Producer, User Manual
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1. 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer Device Settings They are read only B Resolution PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 5 2 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 July 1 2015 Page 38 of 50 Document Settings Document settings define how a eh 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer Printing Preferences TIFF document is to be produced For example it defines the resolution color depth or what type of image compression is applied etc Advanced 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer Advanced Document Settings Gu Graphic i EINE 100 a e Document Options a TIFF Class Bilevel Orientation Portrait Paper Size A4 Document settings can be set for all users or for the current user e To configure the current user s settings In the tab General press the button Printing Preferences Bits pe B Resolution Image Compression CCITT G4 Compression Quality 75 Fill Order MSB First e To configure the default settings for all users In the tab Advanced press the button Printing Defaults Doing either will show the graphical interface for the 3 Heights TIFF Producer Printing Preferences There are default profiles available for the various TIFF Class Fax Standard Fax High Red Bilevel Grayscale and Color The default values of these profiles are listed in the table Default Profiles Each2. TOOLS COM Premium PDF Technology V PDF A compliant 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 User Manual Contact pdfsupport pdf tools com Owner PDF Tools AG Kasernenstrasse 1 8184 Bachenb lach Switzerland http www pdf tools com Copyright 2001 2015 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 2 of 50 July 1 2015 Table of Contents 1 Introduction ds 4 1 1 Description oe eee cto e ex Ra ete e ee ee me rt Pc Ee nah 4 IN i e EE ib E e E a aA REP RA Pre Ebr UC EU a UE 4 1 25 Features anne ee 5 1 22 Formats 2 2 EL 5 1 2 3 Compliance ne ln ne tke ne sla ieee ees 6 1 3 Operating Systems 2 an rn aan nl COR RE U RUE EROR 6 1 4 Applications co tenere rede Ven E Exe ew e erc hoe nd bd et ler dece ven 6 1 5 Understanding the 3 Heights PDF Producer sceeeeeeeeeeee en namen nn nnnen 7 1 6 Packages iere tere RO eleva RE ERE ER TAE RR NECARE PE Ua NER ERR ERA e 8 165d Software Kits RETE ur e a tpe DEF E e EA 8 1 6 2 DocumentatiOris u un en er e aug epa Gu a c a Kw Ri IR Y V Pa cr tror Re 8 UPAEBCLI CIy Em 9 2 Installation uunuunuunnnnnnnnnunnunnunnunnannunnannunnunnunnunnunnunnnnnnunnunnunnunnunnannen 11 2 1 Interactive Installation crece acia 11 2 2 Automated Installation using MSIEXEC sssssssssssrrssrrnssrrnusrrnnerrnnerrnnsrrnens 13 2 3 Uninstall oid ee ee 15 2 4 Troubleshooting A eerte uid ex ru Ve LEX RE YR AT E AH LEN
3. dc source xmp CreatorTool pdf Keywords xmp CreateDate Name of document path Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel or Microsoft PowerPoint Keywords Date of creation Name des Dokuments Dateipfad Microsoft Word oder Microsoft Excel oder Microsoft PowerPoint lt Stichw rter gt lt Datum der Erstellung gt PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 20 of 50 July 1 2015 4 Configuration of the 3 Heights PDF Producer After installing the 3 Heights PDF Producer its default settings are set to factory defaults The default values can be adjusted and set individually for the current user or for all users The current user s document setting are by default applied to any document printed using the 3 Heights PDF Producer 4 1 Printer Properties 4 1 1 General This tab lists the printer name and ii 3 HeightsTM PDF Producer Properties 5 optionally the location and a comment o of the printer It also lists the default features of printers such as color and available paper sizes Location Press the button Printing m Preferences to open a dialog box for the current user s personal default N document properties A description of Model 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Driver the available features that can be Features configured is available in the chapter Color Yes Pape
4. Version 4 5 Page 40 of 50 July 1 2015 Table TIFF Formats Compression s 3 3 3 7 3 3 8 y S 7 7 a S so gt 9 o XN v 2 DQ SG Y 383 US na Ve ve 3 N 38033 Lh KO 3G x E 05 2 N 59 2 x ER a y SEE lt 3 d Bi tonal None x x x x x x x x CCITT G3 x x x x x x x x CCITT G3 2D x X x x x x x x CCITT G4 x x x x x x x x LZW x x x x x x x x ZIP x x x Packbits x x x x x x x x Grayscale None x x X LZW x x x x x x x x JPEG Technote 2 x x x JPEG x x x x ZIP x x x Packbits x x x x x x x x RGB None x X X LZW x x x x x x x JPEG Technote 2 x x JPEG x x x x ZIP x x x Packbits x x x x x x x x CMYK None x x x x x x x x LZW x x x x x x x x JPEG Technote 2 x x x JPEG x x ZIP x x x Packbits x x x x x x x x x Supported PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 41 of 50 July 1 2015 How to print from a Windows Application Once the 3 Heights PDF Producer is installed it can be used as any other printer driver However instead of printing to a physical printer device it creates PDF documents If not defined differently the default values are applied see chapter How to configure the 3 Heights PDF Producer default values It is possible to adjust these default values when printing from an application by configuring the document settings Document settings can be configured at the time a document is printed They can be set indi
5. is used for this particular print job If the application does not allow for selecting the port but it is required to print to different ports one can simply install multiple instances of the PDF Producer each with different ports and select the port by selecting a different instance of the PDF Producer This trick can also be applied for other settings of the printer e g one instance produces PDF A another produces regular web optimized PDF Multiple Ports The 3 Heights Port Monitor Version 4 1 26 0 and later supports printer pooling This allows creating multiple ports for the same PDF Producer The port monitor delegates the print job to the first free port As a result documents can be created in parallel It is suggested to use 1 to 4 ports but not more than available CPUs The ports can be of different port types and or have different configurations e g different output directories When printing directly to the FILE port only one port is required because this port supports parallel processing implicitly To enable multiple ports do the following steps e Create additional instance of the 3 Heights PDF Port Monitor e Inthe tab Ports tick the box Enable printer pooling e Tick all ports that should be part of the pool PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 23 of 50 July 1 2015 Execute Program after Creation of PDF By checking Execute Comm
6. 4 A PDF A document may not be encrypted 128 bit encryption requires PDF Version 1 4 Adobe Acrobat 5 or later to read User Password The password to open the document If a user password is set the application displaying the document e g Acrobat Reader will pop up a box asking for a password At this point either the user or the owner password must be provided The user password is optional Owner Password The password to change the security settings permission flags and passwords of the document The owner password is required to be set if any sort of encryption is applied Permissions e Annotate This option sets the permissions of annotations Annotations are interactive features such as form fields check boxes sticky notes links file attachments etc 1 None PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 31 of 50 July 1 2015 2 Fill Form Fields including Signing 3 Annotate Document Fill Form Fields including Signing Default None e Print This option sets if and at which quality printing the document is allowed 1 None 2 Low Resolution 150 dpi 3 High Resolution Default None e Extract Allow mark and extraction of text and graphics 1 None 2 Extract Text and Graphics in Support of Visually Impaired Users 3 Extract Text and Graphics for any Purpose Default None e Author This option defines whether modifying the actual do
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8. Test Page 5 1 2 Sharing See chapter Sharing for the 3 Heigths PDF Producer PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 36 of 50 July 1 2015 5 1 3 Ports The installation process automatically 3 Heightscrm TIFF Producer Properties Ga installs the 3 Heights Port Monitor if not already installed and creates a new port of this type The port has the M 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer name that was defined during the General Sharing Ports Advanced Color Management Security Device Settings l nstallation a For exa m ple Print to the following port s Documents will print to the first free C Documents and Settings All er Users Documents OutBox Port en Printer z i B E FILE Print to File Pro C900 Fiery PS HP Universal The port mon itor hand les any 7 AL CX Standard TCP IP Port EPSON AL CX37 PS3 EPSON A document that is sent to a port of the I xPsPor Local Port Microsoft XPS Document Writer type 3 Heights TM Port E FOXIT_ Local Port Foxit Reader PDF Printer 7 CNBJN Canon BJ Network Port Canon iP7200 series XPS Cano To change the port check another E DocPo 3 Heights TM Port 3 Heights TM PDF Producer port e g FI LE I v 3 Heights TM Port 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer E Click Configure Port to view the Add Port Delete P
9. default profiles has default values for color space orientation bits per component resolution compression and fill order Some of the values can be modified some cannot e g when selecting Fax Standard the default compression is CCITT G4 but it can be altered to CCITT G3 G3 2D all other settings cannot be altered The TIFF class profile Custom allows for individually adjusting any settings Note that not all combinations are allowed e g a G4 compression always requires 1 bit per component The table below shows the default TIFF Class profiles A value on a gray background indicates it cannot be altered while that specific profile is active a bold value indicates it can be altered Table Default Profiles Orient ation Color Space Parameter Bits per Resolu Comp tion dpi Compres sion Fill Order Fax Standard Gray Portrait 1 204x98 CCITTG4 MSB first Fax High Res Gray Portrait 1 204x196 CCITTG4 MSB first Bilevel Gray Portrait 1 200 x 200 CCITT G4 MSB first passa Gray Portrait 8 150 x150 LZW MSB first Culo RGB Portrait 8 150x150 LZW MSB first PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 39 of 50 July 1 2015 Custom any any 1 4 8 any any MSB first Orientation Set the orientation of the paper the TIFF to either Portrait or Landscape Paper Size Select one of more than 100 paper sizes Color Space Select from Gray RGB and CMYK c
10. either the 3 Heights PDF Producer or the 3 Heights TIFF Producer you can use the Properties dialog box to set its properties You access the Printer Properties dialog box by doing the following e Windows 2000 Double click on the Printers icon in the Control Panel or select Settings in the Start menu and then choose the Printers option Windows XP Double click on the Printers icon in the Control Panel or select Printers and Faxes in the Start menu e Right click on the icon of the printer you want to configure and then select Properties from the pop up menu Printer properties are set per printer If multiple sets of printer properties e g different ports or different network sharing are required multiple instances of the producer need to be installed PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 18 of 50 July 1 2015 3 2 Document Settings Document settings define how a PDF or TIFF document is to be produced The settings are different for the PDF and TIFF Producer They include for example e Orientation e Paper Size e Color e Resolution e Image Compression e etc Document settings can be set for all users or for the current user e To configure the current user s document settings In the tab General of Printer Properties dialog box press the button Printing Preferences e To configure the default document settings for all users In the tab Adv
11. i log i 3 Heights TM PDF Producer msi PDFPORT_NAME C Documents and Settings All Users Documents PDF Outbox V Due to a feature of Windows it is not possible to pass the string FILE as argument FILE is transformed to FILE Instead the argument should be passed as Q FILE Q MSIUTIL replaces this by FILE For PDFPORT PROMPTNAME and TIFFPORT PROMPTNAME use value 0 to disable the prompt By default the file name prompt is enabled It is also possible to control the feature set to be installed The package consists of the following MSI feature set and hierarchy e PDFProducer contains the PDF Producer driver port monitor API DLL printer installer and port explorer executables the manual and readme file o TIFFProducer contains the TIFF printer driver o OfficeAddin contains the 32 bit MS Office plugin o OfficeAddin64 contains the 64 bit MS Office plugin o ShellOpen contains the support for automatically opening the output file e SDK contains the software development kit The INSTALLLEVEL for PDFProducer is 1 and 90 for ShellOpen making this the default features TIFFProducer has an INSTALLLEVEL of 200 OfficeAddin 110 OfficeAddin64 120 and SDK 300 Furthermore PortExplore exe has an installation condition of PE N To install just the PDF printer and the automatic file open support you would specify the following command msiexec qb 1 i log i 3 Heights TM PDF Producer
12. of the type 3 Heights TM Port PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 22 of 50 July 1 2015 The path may contain system Configure Port c E variables such as TEMP Output Folder If you would like to not use the DF DEA mm 3 Heights TM Port but another port such as FILE you can reset it by checking another port File Name V Make file names unique V Remove file name prefixes Press the button Configure Port to view and edit the settings of the port F Add time to file name V Execute Command Add user to file name C Program Files PDF Tools amp G mailopen exe a zzFILEZZ a By checking Make File Names Unique Alt U documents with the same name are automatically renamed by adding a number in brackets to the file name If it is not checked output files with the same name overwrite each other Remove file name prefixes With this box checked file name some predefined prefixes such as Microsoft Word etc are removed from the resulting file name This configuration parameter is set by default Check Prompt file name if you wish a dialog box to be prompted and asking for the file name every time a document is created User s Tip Ports can also be set by certain printing application For example in the print dialog of MS Word there is a check box Print to File if checked the port FILE
13. size and press the button Save Form Note that PDF limits paper sizes to 14399x14399 points PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 27 of 50 July 1 2015 4 2 2 Graphics Print Quality Define the resolution of rendering Available settings are High 1200 dpi Medium 600 dpi Low 300 dpi Draft 150 dpi Display High 120 dpi Display Low 96 dpi The print quality has different impacts 1 PDF Producer The selected resolution is applied by the PDF Producer It affects down sampling images as well as the precision for the calculation of coordinate systems e g for text and graphics Printing application The set print quality is reflected in the device capabilities This means the printing application renders or should render with the appropriate resolution Effects of that are The application may or may not apply up or down sampling of images Due to rounding to full pixels at low resolution the coordinate system may be missing one pixel to render the last character of a word whereas in higher resolution it fits in As a result line and page breaks e g of MS Word can vary with different resolutions These effects are related to the Windows printing architecture which does not support wysiwyg Generally a higher print quality results in a visually better output at the cost of a larger file size However selecting a too
14. that have an inherent vertical writing direction PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 7 4 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 45 of 50 July 1 2015 e JPEG compressed bitmaps The following capabilities are not yet implemented but planned in future releases e CMYK color space e ICM color management Conversion Accuracy Testing Tool PDF Tools AG provides tool to test the conversion accuracy of the PDF and TIFF producer It can freely be downloaded at www pdf tools com public downloads resources testafw zip It can used to experiment with various settings and compare the PDF and TIFF producer with products from other vendors e g the PostScript driver PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 46 of 50 July 1 2015 Samples 8 Convert from Office Document to PDF From the MS Office application select W the Print command A printer dialog Home Insert Page Layout References Mailings Review View window will be shown This window EN depends on the application The MS Be Save As imu ET Word printer dialog shown here iP open 2 E elChrose As printer driver name select the 3 in qu Height TM PDF Producer ab eL 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Click on Properties in order to EB Bench adjust the settings New e OE ings Make sure Print to file is unchecked Bg Print All Pages 7 if such a checkbox
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16. add on called crea oem pdf describing OEM interfaces Old documentations are obsolete Glossary This chapter should provide a quick overview of the most important key words that are used in this documentation Printer Printer Driver In terms of the Windows operating system a printer is an object which can be accessed by a printing Windows application to create print jobs Printers are listed in the window Printers See also chapter Installation using pdfprninstaller exe Examples for names of Printers e 3 Heights TM PDF Producer e 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer e HP Laser Jet 4050 Series PS Names of printers can be defined by the user Commonly a printer is also referred to a hardware device that is able to print a hard copy of a file However this type of printer is not mean in this manual A printer driver is a piece of software that is used by the printer to translate data from the printing application GDI to a format that is understandable by the printer device The most common formats are PostScript and PCL The 3 Heights PDF Producer Driver creates PDF Printer drivers can be selected in the Advanced tab of a printer s property dialog Multiple printers can use the same printer driver PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 10 of 50 July 1 2015 Port Port Monitor Print Job Printer drivers often have the same name as the printer by wh
17. anced press the button Printing Defaults This operation requires administrator rights Doing either opens the document settings dialog box 3 3 MS Office Add In The installation process also installs an MS Office Add in The add in is available in the following applications e MS Word e MS PowerPoint e MS Excel The add in allows for creating PDF documents via mouse click directly from MS Office applications It comes with a button that is labeled Save to PDF A English or PDF A Speichern German Pressing that button prints the current document to the 3 Heights PDF Producer with PDF A 1b settings If multiple instances of the 3 Heights PDF Producer are installed and one of them is set as default Windows printer the Word plug in picks that one Otherwise it chooses a random instance Metadata from the MS Office document s properties are mapped to XMP metadata of the PDF as described in Table Mapping of Metadata The table includes the names of the English and German MS Office Of course the plug in also works in other languages Table Mapping of Metadata XMP PDF MS Office English MS Office German pdfaid part 1 pdfaid conformance B B PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 19 of 50 July 1 2015 dc title Title Titel dc creator Author Autor dc description Comments Kommentar dc subject Subject Thema
18. and Alt X a command can be specified which is executed after the file is created The placeholder FILE can be used as a variable of the file name This feature can be used for example to launch an application to display the PDF after it is created Extended path names must be included in quotation marks like for shell commands Depending on the command the placeholder may or may not require quotation marks FILE Here are some sample commands C PDF Tools bin ViewerPro exe SFILES C Program Files Adobe Acrobat 7 0 Acrobat Acrobat exe SFILES The command is executed under the account that submitted the print job In order to execute different commands for different instance of the 3 Heights PDF or TIFF Producer multiple ports of the type 3 Heights Port Monitor must be installed and configured individually If this option is active then the specified command line executable has access to environment variables of the printing user s session In addition to the FILE variable the COPIES and COLLATE variables are replaced by the corresponding values in the device mode i e printer settings The command line may also contain variables from the system environment in the command The variable FILE is reserved and is automatically replaced by an empty string The same applies to invalid variables System Variables can be listed using the command set in the command prompt Example assuming VIEWERPATH is defin
19. and idea and is important to be understood It covers briefly what this product can and what it cannot The following section applies to the 3 Heights PDF Producer and 3 Heights TIFF Producer which will be abbreviated as Producer 1 From an application s point of view is the functionality and control of the Producer equivalent to any other printer driver This means 2 The Producer must be used in combination with a Windows application that has the ability to print A PDF or TIFF file is produced by the printer driver which interprets the Windows GDI calls from the printing application For more details see also chapter GDI Specification Coverage Example A way to create a PDF from an MS Word document is open the document with MS Word see example use the print functionality of MS Word and select the 3 Heights TM PDF Producer as printer 3 The Producer does neither have the ability to read the native file nor does it have the functionality to print it on paper e g the MS Word file 4 The API which is only available for the OEM version does not change the above concept A feature of the API is to add XMP metadata The samples that are provided do not use the API of the Producer All sample programs open or create from scratch a document and print it This is done using libraries which provide these functionalities and not the Producer This can be done using any programming language e Th
20. cument is allowed 1 None 2 Insert Rotate and Delete Pages 3 Assemble Document and Create or Modify Form Fields including Signature Fields Default None e Stamp File Set the path to an XML stamp file The stamp file can add content such as text or images to defined pages See chapter XML Stamp File Default None 4 3 XML Stam p File f 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Printing Defaults 494 7 Advanced In the Printing Preferences of the PDF Producer optionally a stamp file Ss can be defined This stamp file is an e E Fonts XML file defining one or multiple stamps that are to be added onto the Seton ES pages of the created PDF document miae Qui The stamps can consist of text or JPEG Quality 80 images or both and can be applied to wu selected pages Contiauous Tone JPEG There are two separate stamp files i User Password one for the foreground and one for Owner Password m the background c stamp mystamps xml Background Stamp File 4 m r Lok Cancel Apy PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 32 of 50 July 1 2015 4 3 1 Syntax Tags Attributes Names Attribute Values ps pdfstamp The Namespace of the PDF stamp The namespace can contain multiple stamps xmln ps http www pdf tools com pdfstamp ps stamp page first even pe robtate angle n origin X y ps transfo
21. d by the print function of the proprietary application e g Microsoft Word PDF Producer Output Formats PDF 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 PDF A 1b PDF A 2u PDF A 3u PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 6 of 50 July 1 2015 TIFF Producer Output Formats e Bi tonal o O O O O O uncompressed CCITT G3 CCITT G3 2D CCITT G4 LZW ZIP Packbits e Grayscale 4 or 8 bit RGB and CMYK o o o 1 2 3 Compliance uncompressed LZW JPEG JPEG old ZIP Packbits e ISO 19005 1 PDF A 1 ISO 19005 2 PDF A 2 ISO 19005 3 PDF A 3 e ISO 32000 PDF 1 7 1 3 Operating Systems e Windows XP SP 2 Windows Server 2003 32 and 64 bit e Windows Vista 2008 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 on Intel 32 and 64 bit 1 4 Applications e PDF creation on the fly e Microsoft Office Add Ins e Server based document conversion for all types of file formats such as Internet Explorer HTML MS Office documents etc e Integration in enterprise applications e g archiving systems PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 1 5 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 7 of 50 July 1 2015 Understanding the 3 Heights PDF Producer If you are not familiar with this product or not sure about its application area and functionality please read this chapter first It describes the concept
22. directly to the printer in the Pete Advanced tab default This means Driver 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Driver al New Driver the print command returns once the print job is closed and the PDF is e amp pssipint documents so program finishes printing faster com p ete n gt Start printing after last page is spooled Available from 00 00 00 00 1 9 Start printing immediately In order to create PDF documents asynchronously check the radio button Print directly to the printer Spool print documents so program Hold mismatched documents finishes printing faster This means at print spooled documents first the time the print command returns E Keep printed documents the PDF is potentially not yet completed but only in queue and the application can proceed without waiting until it s finished Y Enable advanced printing features Printing Defaults Print Processor Separator Page Se Printing Defaults Pressing the button Printing Defaults opens the document settings for all users If the 3 Heigths PDF Producer is shared these will be the default document settings for all users In order to modify these settings the logged in user must have the proper access rights User s document settings defined in General gt Printing Preferences overrule these document settings Color Management Not supported at this time Security S
23. e VB NET and the Delphi samples converting MS Word documents to PDF use the COM API of the MS Word Object The document is opened read and printed using objects of the MS Word Object The Producer is provided as printer This is achieved by passing the name of the printer as sting to a function of the Word API The C sample uses GDI calls to create a document and print it The program consists of Windows GDI commands only The Producer is used as printer PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 1 6 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 8 of 50 July 1 2015 Packages 1 6 1 1 6 2 Software Kits The 3 Heights PDF Producer comes in three different software kits Table Software Kits Product Code Product Name Description CRED PDF Desktop Producer The standard version of the 3 Heights PDF Producer Its installation is performed using Setup exe It provides a ready to use MS Word plug in CREA CREC PDF Producer The developer kit of the 3 Heights PDF Producer allows for creating custom plug ins Developer Kit e g a Word plug in using the producer API Its installation is performed using either pdfprninstaller exe or the OEM installation API CREB PDF Producer Runtime kits are used for computers where a Runtime Kit product is installed that was created using the PDF Producer Developer Kit Compatibility Notes Before the product CRED became available the product code o
24. ed e g as C Program Files PDF Viewer SVIEWERPATH viewer exe SFILES Execute a Script The command can only start processes In order to start a batch script bat cmd the executable cmd exe needs to be started with the batch file as parameter Example for an Execute Command C Windows system32 cmd exe c start C run bat SFILE And the content of the referred batch file C run bat C Program Files PDF Tools AG bin viewer exe 1 exit If the script resides at a location whose path contains blanks the path can be set using Dpath where path is an existing directory written in quotes C Windows system32 cmd exe c start D C sp ace run bat SFILES PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 4 1 4 4 1 5 4 1 6 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 24 of 50 July 1 2015 Time in File Name By ticking the checkbox Add time to file name the resulting file name is automatically given a prefix with the current time The prefix consists of 17 characters representing the current date including year month day hour minutes seconds milliseconds and an underscore Example 20110219082359777 stands for 2011 February 19 08 23 59 and 777 ms Advanced E 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Properties x Creating PDF Synchronously vs imn tau A indi n o Asynchronously In order to create PDF documents MAD aM synchronously check the radio button Print
25. ee PORTPOOLSIZE and PRINTDIRECT parameters Note 2 when configuring port pooling with multiple ports make sure to configure all port settings identically to ensure deterministic behavior PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 17 of 50 July 1 2015 Configuration 3 1 The configuration of either the 3 Heights PDF Producer or the 3 Heights TIFF Producer is done at two different places e Printer Properties e Document Settings Printer properties are set per printer Document settings are set per user or all users This chapter gives a brief overview for both producers Detailed configuration information is found at the in the corresponding chapters for the PDF and TIFF Producers Configurations applied in the printer are persistent In a Windows application that is printing a document specific settings for each document can be applied Document settings configured from within an application are volatile and are only valid for a print job or a series of print jobs After the application is closed the document settings are lost If document settings are not defined at the time of printing from an application the default values current user s document settings are applied Printer Properties Printer Properties define the properties of the Windows printer These are e Printer Name e Network Sharing e Ports e Windows Security e etc Once you install
26. emory buffer to support complex operations such as binary and ternary raster operations On documents where these operations are not applied enabling the back buffer comes with an increase of processing time For unusually formed documents using the back buffer may as well come with a better performance Default No Down sample Images Automatically down sample images if their resolution exceeds the value defined in the Print Quality Requires the back buffer to be enabled Re sampling adjusts the image and optimizes it for a defined resolution It always comes with a loss in information as it alters the original image The 3 Heights PDF Producer only down samples it never up samples Default Yes Rasterize Pages Store each page of the output PDF as one rasterized image that is rendered by the GDI The benefit of using this option is that any visual content can be rendered as the conversion to PDF operations is not required The downside is a usually larger file size and the loss of vector and text objects Default No Fast Web View linearize Add so called linearization tags to the document A linearized document has a slightly larger file size than a non linearized file and provides the following features among others PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 29 of 50 July 1 2015 When a document is opened through a PDF viewing application plug in for an Inter
27. ent relevant information such as document name output path and data type e Begin a page e Create a font taking into account the resolution e Write the text Hello World e Cleanup the page e Terminate the page and the print job e Cleanup the document PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 50 of 50 July 1 2015 Client and Server Data Flow On a client system the 3 Heights PDF Producer works like this e The Windows application makes calls to the Graphics Device Interface GDI e These GDI calls are interpreted by the printer driver the 3 Heights PDF Producer e The 3 Heights PDF Producer creates a PDF document In a network environment the structure is very similar However the output of the GDI is an enhanced metafile EMF The EMF is a spool file and sent over the network It is played back on the server system interpreted by an EMF Print Processor and changed to non EMF The 3 Heights PDF Producer is installed on the server where the PDF document is produced Client Client Application Application Network mmm 0 PDF Producer Server j HH PDF Producer PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology
28. er Down sample If the resolution of a raster image is higher than the desired Images resolution see print quality then the number of samples is reduced to match the desired resolution Down sampling reduces the quality of the image usually only visible when zooming but reduces the size of the resulting PDF file in general PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 7 3 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 44 of 50 July 1 2015 Print Quality This setting defines the resolution of the target page Although PDF is a resolution independent format the print quality influences how coordinates are rounded to integers This has an impact on the positioning of bitmaps graphics and text Furthermore if down sampling is enabled then the print quality defines the resulting resolution of the image Finally the print quality defines the resolution of the back buffer if it is enabled Increasing the print quality makes Rasterize Page This setting converts the page description in a single raster image which constitutes the page of the resulting PDF file This setting has a similar effect as using the back buffer but rasterizes all content independent whether the back buffer is required or not This setting is mainly used to protect the page content from being extracted the document cannot be searched anymore Rasterizing the page significantly increases the file size in general JPEG Quality The JPEG compression red
29. et the Windows standard permissions that you can allow and deny for users and groups PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 4 1 7 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 July 1 2015 Page 25 of 50 Device Settings The tab Device Settings shows a i 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Properties U subset of the document settings These are the factory defaults for the settings PDF Compliance Level Character Encoding Fonts and Image Quality They are read only General Sharing Ports Advanced Color Management Security Device Settings 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Device Settings Pages per Sheet 1 B Border er haracter Encoding Unicode El Page Rendering Options Rotate landscape pages PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 26 of 50 July 1 2015 4 2 Document Settings Document settings define how a PDF document is to be produced For example it defines what version of PDF shall be created or what type of image compression shall be applied shall fonts be embedded or not etc Document settings can be set persistently for the current user or default settings for all users or individually and volatile when printing from an application see chapter How to print from a Windows application Current user Under the tab General press
30. f the standard version of the PDF Producer was also CREA In previous versions the CRED was called PDF Producer as Printer Driver it was renamed to PDF Desktop Producer Documentations There are two manuals Table Manual Manual Product Name Description cred pdf PDF Desktop This documentation contain information mainly used by Producer the end user such as e The installation routine using Setup exe e Configurations and document settings e How to print from a Windows application e Samples for printing applications It is packaged into the CRED software kit or available for PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 1 7 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 9 of 50 July 1 2015 crea pd PDF Producer This documentation contains information for developers Developer Kit download here http www pdf tools com public downloads manuals cred pdf such as e The installation routine using pdfprninstaller exe e The Installation interface e The Licensing interface It does not contains end user and configuration information for that please refer to the manual cred pdf It is packaged into the CREA software kit or available for download here http www pdf tools com public downloads manuals crea pdf Compatibility Note In versions prior to 1 8 21 1 there was one documentation for all software kits which was named crea pdf and a separate
31. high print quality may result in the printing application up sampling images which does not necessarily improve the quality but only increase the file size Default Low Color Gray scale uses one color channel whereas color requires at least three channels Therefore gray scale PDF documents will in general have a smaller file size Default Color ICM Method Set the Image Color Management ICM to one of the following settings Disabled handled by Windows handled by the PDF Producer Default Disabled The ICM Intent Colormetric For matching a particular color Contrast Optimized for Photographic images PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 28 of 50 July 1 2015 Saturation Optimized for Presentation graphics Default Colormetric 4 2 3 Document Options Pages Per Sheet N Up This setting allows for placing multiple pages 1 2 4 6 9 16 on one sheet Default 1 Character Encoding Sets the character encoding of fonts This is important if the text must be extracted later UNICODE A 16 bit character encoding that can be used for most languages Windows ANSI An extension to ASCII using 256 defined characters Default UNICODE Rotate Landscape Pages Set whether landscape page should be rotated or not The available options are None Clockwise Counter Clockwise Default None Use a back buffer Use a m
32. hnology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 5 of 50 July 1 2015 1 2 1 Features Select PDF conformity 1 4 and later PDF A 1 PDF A 2 PDF A 3 Automatically detect and adjust portrait and landscape formats Use Unicode and ANSI font sets including Asian font sets Chinese Japanese and Korean Print in color or grayscale Set image compression quality e g JPEG Select resolution Embed fonts and form subsets Set compression for bi tonal images G3 G3 2D G4 JBIG2 ZIP Packbits Set compression for indexed images LZW Set compression for color and grayscale images JPEG ZIP Encrypt and password protect files set access authorization rights Select from more than 100 standard page formats Down sample images optional Linearize PDF files for fast web view Embed fonts optional Subset fonts optional Set standard settings for all users Set customized settings per user Port monitor for automated and configurable post processing of generated PDF files Port pool for parallel document creation in multi user environments Terminal Server Citrix Synchronous and asynchronous document creation Predefined settings in TIFF Producer Fax N bi tonal grayscale RGB CMYK Automatic resolution limitation to prevent memory space problems Optional application of stamps watermarks etc with the aid of XML control files 1 2 2 Formats Input Formats The tool accommodates all input formats supporte
33. ich they are used For that reason the terms printer and printer driver are confused frequently Example for names of Printer Drivers e 3 Heights PDF Producer Driver e HP Laser Jet 4050 Series PS Names of printer drivers are given by the manufacturer Every printer has a port The port defines to where documents are sent such as a printer port or a file port Examples for Ports e 3 Heights TM Port e LPT1 LPT2 COM1 COM2 e An IP address e FILE A port monitor is a piece of software that is monitoring a port and processing data sent to that port The 3 Heights TM PDF Port Monitor is monitoring the 3 Heights Port and saves the documents at the location that is configured in the port monitor and optionally post processes them e g opens them in a PDF viewing application A print job is a series of pages that are printed as one job When printing to a physical device all pages of a print job are printed on paper before the next print job starts When printing to the 3 Heights PDF Producer all pages of the same print job are printed into the same PDF file PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 2 1 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 11 of 50 July 1 2015 Installation Interactive Installation This is the standard installation process for the PDF Desktop Producer Product code CRED 1 When using Windows 7 log in as administrator If you cannot log in as administrator
34. is 3 HeightscrM PDF Producer Properties installs a port monitor called 3 Heights TM Port Monitor and General Sharing Ports Advanced Color Management Security Device Settings creates a new instance of this type j 3 Heights TM PDF Producer This is the default port after installation The port has the name a port s Documents will print to the first free chec port that was defined during the g 5 Port Description Printer installation The default IS 7 FILE Print to File Pro C900 Fiery PS HP E AL CX37 CC250B Standard TCP IP Port EPSON AL CX37 PS3 PDF OutBox 7 XPSPort Local Port Microsoft XPS Docum H A FOXIT_Reader Local Port Foxit Reader PDF Print wh ich means the output IS sto red In CNBJNP 180CAC2 Canon BJ Network Port Canon iP7200 series X v 3 Heights TM Port 3 Heights TM PDF Pal user s My Documents directory This requires that only users who have such a folder on the target system may submit print jobs otherwise the operation will fail Add Port Delete Port Enable bidirectional support N N the sub directory PDF OutBox ofthe Enable printer pooling Alternatively an absolute path can be defined such as C PDF OutBox The port monitor handles any document that is sent to a port
35. is available 0 Send st Print the entire document Pages Press OK Hep Print One Sided d Cb ptions 4 Only print on one side of the page ge s 2314253 M E Portrait Orientation X Letter 21 59 cm x 27 94 cm fr Custom Margins v E 1 Page Per Sheet v Page Setup The document is now printed to a PDF which is saved in the corresponding output folder 8 1 Convert MS Excel Tables When sending an MS Excel table to the 3 Heights PDF Converter it is important to ensure the print quality of the document is not set to High The print quality mainly influences the quality of images but it also sets the precision of text positioning When PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 47 of 50 July 1 2015 converting Excel Tables this should be set to Low or Medium Otherwise the creation of the PDF takes a lot of memory and is time consuming To apply this setting to an Excel document Open the document in MS Excel Click on the print button or select Print from the menu The Print dialog opens Select the 3 Heights TM PDF Producer click on the button Properties The 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Document Properties windows opens In the menu Graphics set Print Quality Low Save the document PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 8 2 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 July 1 2015 Page 48 of 50 Print from the I
36. msi ADDLOCAL PDFProducer ShellOpen PE N The silent de installation stops processes that have driver DLLs loaded There are two silent modes Option qb allows for popup qn suppresses popups Uninstall If you have installed and registered the 64 bit version of the Office Add in first unload the add in from the office application to remove the button from Normal dot or un register it Then proceed with the un installation If you installed the PDF Producer using Setup exe go to Start gt Programs gt 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Uninstall 3 Heights TM PDF Producer If the un installation process fails restart the print spooler service and retry Note that restarting the spooler means that all current print jobs are aborted If it still fails restart the system and retry If the restart does not help consult the chapter troubleshooting PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 16 of 50 July 1 2015 2 4 Troubleshooting 2 4 1 Un installation fails If you have trouble uninstalling an expired version of the 3 Heights PDF Producer please follow the first three steps described at the following website http www pdf tools com pdf Support FAQ Article aspx name Uninstall Expired Producer 2 4 2 Error 126 Should the installation or un installation fail with the error 126 Error message The specified module could not be found verify the PATH environmen
37. n particular the limitations of the GDI and EMF interface specification Furthermore some settings influence the conversion accuracy Known Issues of the GDI and EMF Spooler System 7 2 Direct Printing Direct printing produces the PDF output file synchronously during vs Spooling the print operation which means that the PDF file creation finishes at the same time as the print operation completes Spooling produces an intermediate EMF spool file which is converted asynchronously meaning that the print operation terminates earlier than the PDF file creation Direct printing produces more accurate results than spooling in general The following operations are not supported by GDI when choosing spooling ePattern brushes to stroke lines eCertain types of bitmap operations Conversion Accuracy Settings Back Buffer Usually a printer driver e g the PostScript driver assumes that the target page is a paper sheet Thus complex graphics features such as transparency blending is not supported In general all raster operations which require reading from the target surface are not supported Enabling the back buffer performs all complex raster operations in memory before sending the result to the target surface in this case the PDF page If simple raster operations are used which do not require a back buffer it is not used Enabling the back buffer increases conversion accuracy but makes the resulting PDF file in general bigg
38. net browser the first page can be viewed without downloading the entire PDF file When another page is requested by the user that page is displayed as quickly as possible and incrementally as data arrives without downloading the entire PDF file Default No e Compliance Level sets the PDF version Supported are PDF 1 4 Corresponds to Acrobat 5 and higher PDF 1 5 Corresponds to Acrobat 6 and higher PDF 1 6 PDF 1 7 PDF A 1b PDF A 2u PDF A 3u Selecting PDF A 1b automatically adjusts other settings Among other requirements in PDF A fonts must be embedded JPEG2000 compression is not allowed etc See also note about PDF A in the chapter Features Selecting PDF A 2u creates a document which is compliant to PDF A 2 levels B and U Default PDF A 2u e Fonts Embedding A font can be embedded as a resource into a PDF document This ensures the document is portable and the font displays equally on different systems Embedding a font file however increases the file size of PDF document Default Yes The following fonts are only embedded if embedding is selected PDF Standard Fonts Helvetica Courier Times Roman Symbol and ZapfDingbats Common fonts that are available on basically every operating system such as Arial Times New Roman The following fonts will always be embedded Fonts for uncommon characters e g Asian characters Fonts that use uncommon glyphs e g Hello World Symbolic fo
39. nt server properties y s Search Devices and Printers l Remove device Windows can display enhanced device icons and information from the Internet Click to change 4 Devices 3 Generic Non PnP Monitor VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device 4 Printers and Faxes 4 WIN 7X64 7 iv 3 Heights TM 3 Heights TM Fax Microsoft XPS PDF Producer TIFF Producer Document Writer 3 Heights TM PDF Producer litem selected State Default Model 3 Heights TM PDF Pro Category Printer Status 0 document s in queue E v e x 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Properties Apply Automated Installation using MSIEXEC This is a description how the 3 Heights TM PDF Producer can be installed using the Microsoft Installer MSIEXEC and its incorporated additional functionalities This is used for automated installation e g for deployment Type the following command to retrieve the usage of MSIEXEC PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 14 of 50 July 1 2015 msiexec The following command launches the installer of the 3 Heights TM PDF Producer without any additional parameters It is basically the same as starting double clicking the MSI file directly msiexec i 3 Heights TM PDF Producer msi If you would like to log the installation use the switch l The following command logs all inf
40. nternet Explorer Using the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 it is suggested to use the following steps in order to receive a good result From the File menu select Page Setup Press the button Printer and select the 3 Heights TM PDF Producer n Page Setup Press the button Properties to set 5 the document settings When done press OK to close the dialog From the menu File select Print select the 3 Heights TM PDF Producer and print the document Options Select Printer f Add Printer de 3 Heights TM PDF Producer a 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer Selection Current Page Pages 1 Enter either a single page number or a single page range For example 5 12 Canon iP7200 series Canon iP7200 series XPS ah EPSON AL CX37 FAX r Partie Number of copies 1 Collate 0023 38 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 8 3 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 49 of 50 July 1 2015 Create a Print Job using Windows Calls There is a C example available at samples sample c that shows how to print Hello World The relevant steps are e Open the printer driver 3 Heights TM PDF Producer using the call OpenPrinter e Get the document settings e Create device context for the printer e Begin a print job and thereby set the docum
41. nts e g 87x Barcode fonts Default Yes e Subsetting an embedded font means only the characters that are actually used are embedded in the document This has the advantage of reducing the file size in particular for Asian fonts which can be several Megabytes in size On PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 30 of 50 July 1 2015 the other hand if the document is modified at later time only the characters that are already used are available and not the complete font Default Yes e True Type Font Not supported at this time e Image Quality Set the compression types for bi level indexed and continuous tone images JPEG Quality Set the compression quality for JPEG compressed images allowed values are 1 to 100 A higher value results in an image with a visually higher quality and a larger file size A lower value uses a higher compression rate that comes with a visually lower quality and a smaller file size Default 80 Bi level None No compression CCITT G3 CCITT Fax Group 3 CCITT G3 2D CCITT Fax Group 3 2D CCITT G4 CCITT Fax Group 4 JBIG Joint Bi level Image Experts Group ZIP Flate compression Default CCITT G4 Indexed None No compression ZIP Flate compression Default ZIP Continuous None No compression JPEG Joint Photographic Expert Group ZIP Flate compression Default JPEG e Encryption Select between None and High 128 bit RC
42. olor space Bits per Component Select the color depth Available values listed in the table below Table Bits per Component Bits per Component Color Space Components Bits per Pixel i Gray 1 1 4 Gray 1 4 8 Gray 1 8 8 RGB 3 24 8 CMYK 4 32 Resolution X Y Set the resolution in dots per inch dpi Typical values are 150 dpi for color and 200 or more dpi for bi tonal images Fax Tiffs have always a horizontal resolution of 204 dpi and a vertical resolution of either 98 dpi Fax Standard or 196 dpi Fax High Res Compression All available types of 3 HeightscTm TIFF Producer Printing Preferences compression and color space combinations are listed in the table TI FF Fo m ats 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer Advanced Document Settings in Graphic Compatibility Note In versions prior lasse to 2 0 22 0 the JPEG compressions c LE had different names JPEG was Orientation Portrait named JPEG old and JPEG ip Scat Technote 2 was named JPEG Bits per Component 8 Compression Quality The value can TI gie be set from 1 lowest to 100 Ae VLSODA highest The default is 75 ee Fill Order Set the fill order of the ee bits Available orders are MSB most significant bit first and LBS least significant bit first PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer
43. on 200 300 font C Windows Fonts Arial ttf size 12 text Hello World gt lt ps transform gt lt ps stamp gt lt ps stamp page all not last gt lt ps translate offset 20 20 gt lt ps stroketext linewidth 1 0 color 0 3 0 3 1 0 position 200 300 font C Windows Fonts Arialbd ttf size 11 text Watermark lt ps translate gt lt ps stamp gt lt ps pdfstamp gt PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 35 of 50 July 1 2015 5 Configuration of the 3 Heights TIFF Producer 5 1 Printer Properties In the printer properties dialog box the tabs General Sharing Port Advanced Color Management Security and Device Settings are available 5 1 1 General Set the name of the printer and s 3 Heishtsimm TIFF Producer Properties optionally a location and comment Pressing the button Printing Preferences opens the current user s sa document settings General Sharing Ports Advanced Color Management Security Device Settings Location Pressing the button Print Test Page prints a 1 page test page to the TIFF Producer Model 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer Driver Features Color Yes Paper available i Double sided No Letter Staple No Letter Small 1 Tabloid Speed 100 ppm Ledger Maximum resolution 600 dpi Legal n Change Properties J Preferences Print
44. on the button Printing Preferences All users Under the tab Advanced press the button Printing Defaults User s Tip The initial value of the current user is defined by the All user setting Once the current user has a setting changes in the default for all users have no impact on already existing current user settings 4 2 1 Paper Output The paper format amd output s 3 HeightsTM PDF Producer Printing Preferences orientation are usually controlled by Advanced the printing application e g Paper size and format of a Word docu ment nr bal Producer Advanced Document Settings 3 22 Paper pu Paper Size All paper sizes la X installed on the system bbc including the 118 Windows Print Quality Low 2 default paper sizes are j ac el available for selection ICM Method ICM Disabled ICM Intent Colormetric Matching a particular color Default A4 Scaling 100 z a if Document Options e Orientation Choose between Pages per Sheet 1 Portrait and Landscape zen orientation Y 0 Pixel Default Portrait ee Rotate landscape pages None Use a Back Buffer No oc JC conca User s Tip To add additional custom paper sizes do the following steps e Open the Printers window Win 2000 Start gt Settings gt Printers Win XP Start gt Printers and Faxes e From the menu File select Server Properties e In the tab Forms check the box Create a New Form specify the paper
45. ormation except verbos and extra debugging messages msiexec 1 installation log i 3 Heights TM PDF Producer msi You can use 3 Heights TM PDF Producer specific configuration settings via MSI properties on the command line Supported settings properties are PDFPORT NAME PDFPORT COMMAND PDFPRINTER NAME PDFPORT_PROMPTNAME 0 default 1 prompt enabled TIFFPORT_PROMPTNAME 0 default 1 PDFPORT ADDTIMESTAMP 1 default 0 TIFFPORT_ADDTIMESTAMP 1 default 0 PDFPORT_ADDUSER 1 default 0 TIFFPORT_ADDUSER 1 default 0 PORTPOOLSIZE 10 default 1 maximum 20 PRINTDIRECT 1 default 0 No i e use spooling Note TIFF printer entries will by default use the same port s as PDF entries If you want to configure different port settings for the PDF and TIFF printer entries you must also configure different port directories The following command defines the name of the directory to which the port monitor outputs documents Note that the path must always end with a backslash msiexec i 3 Heights TM PDF Producer msi PDFPORT_NAME C Documents and Settings All Users Documents PDF Outbox The following command sets the printer name msiexec i 3 Heights TM PDF Producer msi PDFPRINTER NAME My 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Here is an example which combines several settings PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 2 3 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 15 of 50 July 1 2015 msiexec qb 1
46. ort Configure Port settings of the port Enable bidirectional support Enable printer pooling C oc JL cms 3 Heights TM Port Configure Port a e e a The port name cannot be changed after the installation Browse By checking Make File Names Unique FieName documents with the same name are automatically renamed by adding a E 4 Make file names unique Y Remove file name prefixes number in brackets to the file name If 4 BR it is not checked output files with the en a A same name overwrite each other Execute Command E Add user to file name By checking the box Execute Command an command can be provided which is executed after a TIFF document is created For further information see the corresponding chapter Execute Program after Creation of PDF in the PDF Producer section 5 1 4 Advanced See chapter Advanced for the 3 Heigths PDF Producer 5 1 5 Color Management Not supported at this time PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 July 1 2015 Page 37 of 50 5 1 6 Security Set the Windows standard permissions that you can allow and deny for users and groups 5 1 7 Device Settings The tab Device Settings shows the em 3 Heights TM TIFF Producer Properties factory defaults of the document sans Pots rm Device Satinas settings
47. r available Document Settings g Doutle sidet No Letter Staple No aa Press the button Print Test Page in Speed 100 ppm hers order to print a one page test page to Maximum resolution 1200 dpi Legal 7 the PDF Producer A Change Properties ll Preferences J Print Test Page PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 21 of 50 July 1 2015 4 1 2 Sharing Specify the name if the printer is 3 Heights TM POF Producer Properties U shared General Sharing Ports Advanced Color Management Security Device Settings Check the List in the Directory box to You can share this printer with other users on your network The publish the shared printer in the Active printer will not be available when the computer is sleeping or turned off Directory and thereby allow users to search for the printer based on its capabilities and location Share this printer Share name ir V Render print jobs on client computers List in the directory Drivers If this printer is shared with users running different versions of Windows you may want to install additional drivers so that the users do not have to find the print driver when they connect to the shared printer Additional Drivers Lok j Cm 0 4 1 3 Ports The installation process automatically
48. rm matrix a b o dx y ps translate offset x y filltext color rg p odd Stamp The pages to which the stamp is to be applied Comma separated combinations are allowed first First page last Last page odd Only odd pages including first page and last page in case it is odd even Only even pages including last page in case it is even all All pages not first First page excluded not last Last page excluded Rotate Stamp Rotate by n degrees counter clockwise e g 90 Set the origin of the rotation in points e g 100 100 Coordinate Transformation The transformation matrix to scale rotate skew translate etc the stamp e g Identiy 100 10 0 Scale by factor 2 2 00200 Translate 50 points left 200 up 1 0 0 1 50 200 Rotate by x cos x sin x sin x cos x 0 0 For 90 pi 2 thatis 0 1 100 0 Coordinate Translation The x horizontal and y vertical offset in points A translation by x y is equal to a transformation by 1 0 Q d x wy Add Filled Text The color as RGB value where all values must be from 0 to 1 e g Red 100 Green 0 10 Black 000 Gray 0 5 0 5 0 5 PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 33 of 50 July 1 2015 position x y Font path size n text text stroketext linewidth f color eg b position x y Font path size n Text text ps image rect x ywh filename path compression value 4 3 2 E
49. s PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 4 of 50 July 1 2015 Introduction Description 1 2 The 3 Heights PDF Producer creates files compliant with PDF and PDF A from any Windows application via the print function PDF A has been acknowledged world wide as the ISO standard for long term archiving since 2005 PDF A documents can also be created at the touch of a button from within Microsoft Office Suite and displayed automatically thanks to a plug in The OEM version offers software development partners a multitude of additional options The product is characterized by its high speed and the outstanding quality of its PDF A compliant conversions PDF Producer A PDF A Windows GDI O fce Document Port Monitor Producer Driver Other Document Application Windows Parameters Functions The PDF Producer converts documents from any Windows application into PDF PDF A or TIFF Page format compression and other parameters are customizable Fonts can be embedded whereby either the entire font set is stored or only the subset of characters actually used in the document The viewer integrated in the desktop version displays the file immediately after conversion The OEM version can handle multiple print jobs at the same time Synchronous generation means that the files are available again immediately after conversion a huge benefit for integration in applications PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Tec
50. s 2 of 3 subfeatures selected The Open output file when las printing completed EE Optional Install a feature IEEE to automatically open the created PDF or TIFF file See s Bak Next Ea after creation PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 2 2 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 July 1 2015 Page 13 of 50 8 The 3 Heights PDF and TIFF Producers should now be listed in the window Devices and Printers 9 This step is only required on Windows 7 and if you di d not install the PDF General Sharing Ports Advanced Color Management Security Device Settings Producer as administrator gt 3 Heights TM PDF Produce Left click the PDF Producer and select Printer ker Properties Under Security remove the user Sommet entry under which the PDF Producer was installed After that you will have button Change Properties Model 3 Heights TM PDF Producer Driver Feati under General If you ER Paper available want to change properties Double sided No letter E that button needs to be Staple No Letter Small 1 Tabloid pressed first Speed 100 pprn ie inn Maximum resolution 1200 dpi Legal bd Change Properties ll Preferences Print Test Page CC E Hardware and Sound gt Devices and Printers Eile Edit View Tools Help Add a device Add a printer See what s printing Pri
51. ss the button Next Please read the following license agreement carefully GENERAL LICENSING AGREEMENT of PDF Tools AG for the Licensing of Software Version 2 1 Valid as of 2011 02 01 jd I do not accept the terms in the license agreement InstallShield 7 Select the setup type Complete installs the 3 Setup Type Heights PDF Producer Choose the setup type that best suits your needs and all its sub components Custom allows for individually selecting which sub components shall be installed 3 Heights TIFF Producer Custom Choose which program features you want installed and where they Optional Install in Eisen anaes addition to a PDF producer a TIFF producer Add In for MS Office Optional Install and register an Add In for the MS Office suite On all Custom Setup platforms the Select the program features you want installed OfficeAddin DLL is installed On 64 bit platforms an Please select a setup type All program features will be installed Requires the most disk space InstallShield Click on an icon in the list below to change how a feature is installed Feature Description iti i i 3 Heights TM PDF Producer additional 64 bit version of eye the add in Add In for Microsoft Office 32 Bit OfficeAddin64 dll is ere dci o This feature requires 8464KB on installed and registered your hard drive It ha
52. t variable is set correctly and does not include any invalid directories To verify or change the PATH environment variable open System from the Control Panel In the tab Advanced click on Environment Variables Under System variables find and select the entry Path then press the Edit button underneath it Remove any invalid directories 2 4 3 Error 1722 Commonly error 1722 occurs when the 3 Heights PDF Producer is trying to being installed or uninstalled whilst the print spooler is stopped Start to print spooler to resolve this error 2 4 4 Printing via PDF Producer blocks Applications Printing via a PDF Producer printer entry works like printing through any Windows printer print jobs are serialized to pass one by one to the configured printer port This can block the printing application if other applications are also using the same printer and port and if printing is configured to not use spooling There are two parameters that permit performance tuning in these cases 1 The printer s advanced setting direct printing if direct printing is configured change this to Spool print documents 2 Port pooling make use of port pooling for the PDF printer and increase the number of ports to a sufficiently large count Note if you anticipate that multiple users and or application will be using the same printer s and port s you can specify the necessary parameters via command line during the installation s
53. ted Optionally the print dialog may allow to modify the document settings If document settings can be edited the document settings dialog of the 3 Heights PDF Producer is shown The default values are the user document settings If modifying document settings is not allowed by the application printer dialog the default values i e the user document settings are used for the print job The user confirms and initiates the print job The application prints the document The 3 Heights PDF Producer creates a PDF document Application Current document is shown Print Dialog is shown Print Dialog optionally may allow adjusting the document settings Yes No Document settings dialog of the PDF Producer is shown Document is printed 3 Heights PDF produces PDF document Producer PDF Producer PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 43 of 50 July 1 2015 Document Conversion Accuracy 7 1 The PDF Producer has been designed to map the printed appearance of the source document s pages into an accurate representation in the PDF document This is one of the reasons why the PDF Producer has been implemented without any dependencies to existing drivers such as the PostScript driver with its known limitations However there are inherent limitations regarding conversion accuracy which are given by the Windows spooler architecture i
54. uces the size of raster images at the price of inaccurate visual details which are usually not observed in photographic images This setting defines a trade off between the loss of visual accuracy and compression ratio GDI Specification Coverage The creation of PDF files with the 3 Heigths PDF Producer is accomplished by printing a document to a special printer driver that produces a PDF data stream instead of a printer hardware specific PostScript or HPPCL data stream In order to do so applications must use the Windows GDI graphics device interface and the printer spooler functions The GDI specification has been extended with each new version of the Microsoft Windows operating system The 3 Heights PDF Producer printer driver is based on the GDI specification for Windows 2000 and newer systems XP Windows 2003 Server VISTA All required printer driver functions including alpha blended parallelogram shaped color keyed and masked bitmaps as well as gradient fills have been implemented and will produce high quality PDF renderings The printer driver capabilities are e 24 Bit device surface e Constant alpha per pixel alpha transparency is replaced with white if compliance is PDF A 1b e Gradient rectangles Gradient triangles e Alternate and winding fills of shapes e Arbitrary opaque brushes for text background rectangles e B zier curves e Vector fonts TrueType OpenType and Type1 e Geometric wide strokes e Fonts
55. vidually for each print job Print job in this case means producing a PDF document In order to configure the document Print PE settings do the following steps ge 1 From the Windows application select the print function Canon iP7200 series Canon iP7200 series XPS 2 Select the printer driver with the m de EPSON AL CX37 FAX name 3 Heights TM PDF 7 Producer Status Ready E Print to file Preferences 3 Press the button Properties Ti The window of the printer dialog is Page Range provided by the application and is 9 AI Number of copies 1 therefore different for each i Ciperk Page application As an example a da ch as screenshot of the MS Word dialog is Zi shown here A description of the available features that can be configured is available in the chapter Document Settings PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 July 1 2015 Page 42 of 50 Here is a description of the work flow when a user prints a document from a Windows application using the 3 Heights PDF Producer 1 A user creates opens a document using a Windows application e g MS Word He uses the print functionality of the application to print the document The print dialog is provided by the application and therefore looks differently for different applications In the print dialog the printer driver 3 Heights TM PDF Producer is selec
56. xample The position in points on the PDF A4 595 x 842 points letter 612 x 792 points e g 200 300 The path to the font that is to be used e g C Windows Fonts Arial ttf The font size in points e g 12 The text that is to be written e g Hello World Add Stoked Text Outlined Text For parameters see filltext Set the linewidth in points e g 1 0 See filltext See filltext See filltext See filltext See filltext Add an Image The rectangle where the image is to be placed at x y correspond the the location origin at lower left corner and w h to width and height e g 100 200 50 50 The path to the file e g C pictures imagel jpg By default bi tonal images are compressed with G4 continuous tone images with JPEG and indexed images with flate To explicitly set the compression use this property Support values are Flate Flate encoded DCT DCT encoded CCITTFax CCITT G4 encoded lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt ps pdfstamp xmlns ps http www pdf tools com pdfstamp lt ps stamp page first gt lt ps rotate angle 90 origin 100 100 gt lt ps image rect 100 100 50 25 filename c images imgl jpg gt lt ps rotate gt lt ps stamp gt lt ps stamp page even gt PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 34 of 50 July 1 2015 lt ps transform matrix 1 0010 0 gt lt ps filltext color 1 0 0 positi
57. you can log in as a user with administrator privileges In this case there is an additional step to do at the end of the installation On other platforms log in as user with administrator privileges Uninstall any old version of the 3 Heights PDF Producer Download the latest final release version from http www pdf tools com pdf pdf producer aspx 4 The 3 Heights PDF Producer is delivered as a ZIP archive with a name similar to CRED2OOWIN32 zip depending on the version you are using Unzip this archive to an installation dictionary e g C PDF Producer 5 Inside the ZIP archive you JE 3 Heights TM PDF Producer InstallShield Wizard x find a file named 3 Heights TM PDF Producer msi If this is not the case you are using a different version of the PDF Producer please see chapter Packages Double click the MSI file and the dialog below will show up Press the button Next if you wish to proceed Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for 3 Heights TM PDF Producer The InstallShield R Wizard will install 3 Heights TM PDF Producer on your computer To continue dick Next WARNING This program is protected by copyright law and international treaties PDF Tools AG Premium PDF Technology 3 Heights PDF Desktop Producer Version 4 5 Page 12 of 50 July 1 2015 6 Carefully read the license agreement You must accept to license agreement in order to proceed to installation Pre
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