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Note: Ideally,PDFshouldnotbeusedforgeneratingMixplexoutput.Youshouldinsteadusea
printformatthatsupportsDuplex/Simplexswitching.PDFisnotsuitableforthisasithasno
devicecontrol.
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PDF Creation Group
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Type:Usethedrop-downlisttospecifywhatPDFformatwillbegenerated.Theoptions
are:
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StandardPDF(PDF)
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ArchiveformatPDF(PDF/A-1b)
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E-invoiceformatPDF(PDF/A-3b)
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GraphicsformatPDF(PDF/X-4)
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VariabledataprintingformatPDF(PDF/VT).
Note: PDF/AoutputcreatedfromatemplatethatusesCMYKcolorswillbemuchbig-
gerthanPDF/AoutputcreatedfromatemplatethatusesRGBcolors,because
PDF/AneedstocontainacolorprofileandtheCMYKcolorprofileisratherbigcom-
paredtoaRGBcolorprofile.Ifoutputsizemattersitisrecommendedtoavoidusing
CMYKcolors.
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Font Creationselection:Thechoicesare:
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Simple fonts when possible (smallest size).Thisisthedefaultoption.
ThisoptionusesSimplefontsincaseswherethefontsdonotusetoomanychar-
acters.Itautomaticallyswitchestousingcompositefontswhenthenumberofchar-
actersbecomestoolargetofitaSimplefont.Thisallowsomittingfontsthatare
considered"standardfonts"inthePDFreference,whichhelpsreducefilesize.
ThedrawbacktothisoptionisthatsomePDFviewersdonotsupportitproperly,
whichcancauseviewingissueswithjobsusingnon-Latin1encodedcharacters.
Note: ASimplefontcanbeaType1font,aTrueTypefontoraType3font.
OneofthemaincharacteristicsofaSimplefontisthatitsglyphsareselected
usingasinglebytecharactercode,limitingthenumberofglyphstoamax-
imumof256.
FormoreinformationonSimplefonts,seeAbode'sdocumentationregarding
PortableDocumentFormatfiles.
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