PDF Output Properties

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

Property Name Description

Compress PDF output

Default: true

Description: Specify "true" or "false" to control compression of the output PDF file.

Internal Name: pdf-compression

Hide PDF viewer's menu bars

Default: false

Description: 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.

Internal Name: pdf-hide-menubar

Hide PDF viewer's tool bars

Default: false

Description: Specify "true" to hide the viewer application's toolbar when the document is active.

Internal Name: pdf-hide-toolbar

Replace smart quotes

Default: true

Description: Set to "false" if you do not want curly quotes replaced with straight quotes in the PDF output.

Internal Name: pdf-replace-smartquotes

Enable PDF Security

Default: false

Description: If you specify "true," then the output PDF file is encrypted. You can then also specify the following properties:

  • Open document password

  • Modify permissions password

  • Encryption Level

Internal Name: pdf-security

Open document password

Default: N/A

Description: 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". Note that BI Publisher follows Adobe's password restrictions. The password must contain only Latin 1 characters and must be no more than 32 bytes long.

Internal Name: pdf-open-password

Modify permissions password

Default: N/A

Description: This password enables users to override the security setting. This property is effective only when "Enable PDF Security" is set to "true". Note that BI Publisher follows the Adobe's password restrictions. The password must contain only Latin 1 characters and must be no more than 32 bytes long.

Internal Name: pdf-permissions-password

Encryption level

Default: 2 - high

Description: 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)

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

Internal Name: pdf-encryption-level

Disable document modification

Default: false

Description: Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 0. When set to "true", the PDF file cannot be edited.

Internal Name: pdf-no-changing-the-document

Disable printing

Default: false

Description: Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 0. When set to "true", printing is disabled for the PDF file.

Internal Name: pdf-no-printing

Disable adding or changing comments and form fields

Default: false

Description: 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.

Internal Name: pdf-no-accff

Disable context copying, extraction, and accessibility

Default: false

Description: Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 0. When set to "true", the context copying, extraction, and accessibility features are disabled.

Internal Name: pdf-no-cceda

Enable text access for screen readers

Default: true

Description: Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 1 or higher. When set to "true", text access for screen reader devices is enabled.

Internal Name: pdf-enable-accessibility

Enable copying of text, images, and other content

Default: false

Description: Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 1 or higher. When set to "true", copying of text, images, and other content is enabled.

Internal Name: pdf-enable-copying

Allowed change level

Default: 0

Description: 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

Internal Name: pdf-changes-allowed

Allowed printing level

Default: 0

Description: Permission available when "Encryption level" is set to 1 or higher. Valid values are:

  • 0: None

  • 1: Low resolution (150 dpi)

  • 2: High resolution

Internal Name: pdf-printing-allowed

Use only one shared resources object for all pages

Default: true

Description: The default mode of BI 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.

Internal Name: pdf-use-one-resources

PDF Navigation Panel Initial View

Default: Bookmarks Open

Description: Controls the navigation panel view that is 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.

Internal Name: pdf-pagemode