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PDF Options
The PDF Options page is shown only when a PDF Print output type is selected in the Print
Options dialog. It is used to select PDFspecific options.
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PDF Type: Use the drop-down to specify which format the PDF should be
generated in. These options are standard PDF, archive format PDF(PDFA-1b),
graphics format PDF(PDF-X4 ) and variable data printing format PDF(PDF-VT).
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Font Creation selection: The choices are:
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Simple fonts when possible (smallest size). This is the default option.
This option uses Simple fonts in cases where the fonts do not use too many
characters. It automatically switches to using composite fonts when the
number of characters becomes too large to fit a Simple font. This allows
omitting fonts that are considered "standard fonts" in the PDF reference, which
helps reduce file size.
The drawback to this option is that some PDF viewers do not support it
properly, which can cause viewing issues with jobs using non-Latin1 encoded
characters.
Note
A Simple font can be a Type1 font, a TrueType font or a Type3 font.
One of the main characteristics of a Simple font is that its glyphs are
selected using a single byte character code, limiting the number of
glyphs to a maximum of 256.
For more information on Simple fonts, see Abode's documentation
regarding Portable Document Format files.
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Always create CIDfonts (best compatibility). This option always uses
composite fonts (CID fonts), regardless of the number of glyphs in the font.
CID fonts use 2 byte ids to select glyphs, so this option always leads to larger
file sizes.
The benefit of this option is that all the fonts get embedded in the output,
making for the most portable of PDF outputs.
Customers using Asian fonts should generally use the CIDfont option.
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