PDF Output Properties

Generate the type of PDF files you want by setting the PDF output properties.

Property Name	Description	Default
Compress PDF output	Specify "true" or "false" to control compression of the output PDF file.	true
Hide PDF viewer's menu bars	Specify "true" to hide the viewer application's menu bar when the document is active. The menu bar option is only effective when using the Export button, which displays the output in a standalone Acrobat Reader application outside of the browser.	false
Hide PDF viewer's tool bars	Specify "true" to hide the viewer application's toolbar when the document is active.	false
Replace smart quotes	Specify "false" if you don't want curly quotes replaced with straight quotes in the PDF output.	true
Disable opacity and gradient shading for DVT chart	Specify "true" if you don't want opacity and gradient shading for the PDF output. This reduces the size of the PostScript file.	false
Enable PDF Security	Specify "true” if you want to encrypt the PDF output. You can then also specify the following properties: Open document password Modify permissions password Encryption Level	false
Open document password	This password is required for opening the document. It enables users to open the document only. This property is enabled only when "Enable PDF Security" is set to "true". When you set the Encryption level to Low, Medium, or High, the password must contain only Latin-1 characters and shouldn't be more than 32 bytes long. When you set the Encryption level to Highest, if your password exceeds 127 bytes, only the first 127 bytes of the password are used for authentication.	N/A
Modify permissions password	This password enables users to override the security setting. This property is effective only when "Enable PDF Security" is set to "true". When you set the Encryption level to Low, Medium, or High, the password must contain only Latin-1 characters and shouldn't be more than 32 bytes long. When you set the Encryption level to Highest, if your password exceeds 127 bytes, only the first 127 bytes of the password are used for authentication. If you set a password in the pdf-open-password property without setting a password in the pdf-permissions-password property, or if you set the same password in both the pdf-open-password and pdf-permissions-password properties, the user gets full access to the document and its features, and permission settings such as "Disable printing" are bypassed or ignored.	N/A
Encryption level	Specify the encryption level for the output PDF file. The possible values are: 0: Low (40-bit RC4, Acrobat 3.0 or later) 1: Medium (128-bit RC4, Acrobat 5.0 or later) 2: High (128-bit AES, Acrobat 7.0 or later) 3: Highest (256-bit AES, Acrobat X (10) or later) This property is effective only when "Enable PDF Security" is set to "true". When Encryption level is set to 0, you can also set the following properties: Disable printing Disable document modification Disable context copying, extraction, and accessibility Disable adding or changing comments and form fields When Encryption level is set to 1 or higher, the following properties are available: Enable text access for screen readers Enable copying of text, images, and other content Allowed change level Allowed printing level	2 - high
Disable document modification	Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 0. When set to "true", the PDF file cannot be edited.	false
Disable printing	Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 0. When set to "true", printing is disabled for the PDF file.	false
Disable adding or changing comments and form fields	Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 0. When set to "true", the ability to add or change comments and form fields is disabled.	false
Disable context copying, extraction, and accessibility	Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 0. When set to "true", the context copying, extraction, and accessibility features are disabled.	false
Enable text access for screen readers	Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 1 or higher. When set to "true", text access for screen reader devices is enabled.	true
Enable copying of text, images, and other content	Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 1 or higher. When set to "true", copying of text, images, and other content is enabled.	false
Allowed change level	Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 1 or higher. Valid Values are: 0: none 1: Allows inserting, deleting, and rotating pages 2: Allows filling in form fields and signing 3: Allows commenting, filling in form fields, and signing 4: Allows all changes except extracting pages	0
Allowed printing level	Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 1 or higher. Valid values are: 0: None 1: Low resolution (150 dpi) 2: High resolution	0
Use only one shared resources object for all pages	The default mode of Publisher creates one shared resources object for all pages in a PDF file. This mode has the advantage of creating an overall smaller file size. However, the disadvantages are the following: Viewing may take longer for a large file with many SVG objects If you choose to break up the file by using Adobe Acrobat to extract or delete portions, then the edited PDF files are larger because the single shared resource object (that contains all of the SVG objects for the entire file) is included with each extracted portion. Setting this property to "false" creates a resource object for each page. The file size is larger, but the PDF viewing is faster and the PDF can be broken up into smaller files more easily.	true
PDF Navigation Panel Initial View	Controls the navigation panel view presented when a user first opens a PDF report. The following options are supported: Panels Collapsed - displays the PDF document with the navigation panel collapsed. Bookmarks Open (default) - displays the bookmark links for easy navigation. Pages Open - displays a clickable thumbnail view of each page of the PDF.	Bookmarks Open