This section describes the limitations of BI Publisher's support for the PDF 1.7 standard.
It includes the following topics:
PDF utilities have limited functionality in BI Publisher.
Limitations that apply to all the BI Publisher PDF utilities are:
Secured PDF documents cannot be used as input to any BI Publisher PDF utility.
PDF documents generated by BI 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.
XFA Forms (Adobe's XML Forms Architecture) is not supported.
Portable collection (portfolio) is not supported.
Tagged PDF documents will lose tags after processing.
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) is not supported.
Portable collection (portfolio) is not 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 is not supported.
Selective encryption of embedded files is not supported.
AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is not 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