Limitations

This section describes the limitations of Publisher's support for the PDF 1.7 standard.

It includes the following topics:

PDF utilities have limited functionality in Publisher.

Limitations that apply to all the Publisher PDF utilities are:

Secured PDF documents can't be used as input to any Publisher PDF utility.
PDF documents generated by Publisher do not support most accessibility features.
Unicode passwords are not supported.
PDF utilities may not work properly with input PDFs that contain 3-D artwork and input PDF documents formatted as a presentation (slideshow).

Limitations that apply to the FormProcessor utility are listed in this section.

Limitations apply to the PDFDocMerger and PDFBookBinder utilities.

Limitations include:

The output PDF document version is determined based on the first input PDF document.
XFA Forms (Adobe's XML Forms Architecture) isn't supported.
Portable collection (portfolio) isn't supported.
Tagged PDF documents will lose tags after merging.
The following objects are preserved in the output, but the navigation panel shows only objects contained in the first input PDF document.
- Bookmark
- Attachment
- Layer
- Print characteristics (such as paper selection, handling, page range, copies, and scaling)

Limitations apply to the PDFSignature utility.

Limitations include:

Object signature isn't supported.
Selective encryption of embedded files isn't supported.
AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) isn't supported.
PDFSignature may not work correctly with the digital signature constraints and certificate constraints described in Section 1.2.5 of the PDF 1.7 specification. For more information about the PDF 1.7 specification, see the Adobe website at

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html