Conversion Settings

The Font settings allows you to set whether fonts are embedded or not when converting word documents (.doc or .docx) to PDFs. It also allows you to set a fallback font to be used when the font does not exist on the server.

Note: By default PAS will use the DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf font that has been packaged with the installer as a fallback font.

To view the Font Settings: Preferences Panel > Office Conversion Tab

Settings

Word Convert

Do not embed fonts - fonts will not be embedded in the document when converted. Instead fonts will be referenced by name within the document and it will be up to the PDF viewer to find the font on the system to be displayed when viewing the document.

Embed fonts - fonts will be embedded into the PDF document when converted.

When embedding fails - Determines what PAS will do if the font named in the Word document does not exist on the server.

Throw error: if the font is not found on the system the document conversion will fail and display an error in the PAS log
Use fallback font: will attempt to find the characters within the fallback font set below.

Note: When converting a word document PAS will first look for the font on the system, then will attempt to find the characters within the fallback font set. If no characters are found within either the system or fallback font the entire document will fail conversion. It's important that, when selecting a fallback, a font is chosen with as many characters as possible to avoid conversion failures.

Fallback font - enter the complete file path to the location of the font file (.ttf) on the server.

Note: This directory is local to where the server is running not the PAS Manager and so the file path must follow the format set by the OS of the server.

Create bookmarks using headings - This option will create bookmarks using the Word heading styles (Header 1, Header 2, etc...)

Image DPI resolution - Images with resolution greater than the selected resolution will be converted down. DPI below 150 is not recommended as this could severely degrade images. Typical resolutions are 150 and 300. Going above 600 DPI can potentially cause memory issues.

Excel Convert

Add a Bookmark for each sheet - Creates a bookmark in the PDF for each sheet in the workbook

Scaling - Determines how the spreadsheet will be broken up into pages when converting to PDF. PAS will use page size and margin settings set within the Excel document when creating the PDF document.

Fit to Page: shrinks the entire worksheet so that it all fits on a single page
Fit to Width: shrinks the worksheet so that all columns fit on a single page. Rows will continue onto additional pages as needed
Actual Size: no scaling, when the data does not fit on one page it will be broken up into pages using the Page Order set within the Excel file.

Max page count - Extremely large worksheets may take a very long time or run out of memory during conversion. This sets the max number of pages to attempt when converting a worksheet. The default setting is 2,000 pages.

Embed fonts - fonts will be embedded into the PDF document when converted.

When embedding fails - Determines what PDF Studio will do if the font named in the Excel document does not exist on the system.

Throw error: if the font is not found on the system the document conversion will fail and display an error message in PDF Studio.
Use fallback font: will attempt to find the characters within the fallback font set below.

Note: When converting an Excel document PDF Studio will first look for the font on the system, then will attempt to find the characters within the fallback font set. If no characters are found within either the system or fallback font the entire document will fail conversion. It's important that, when selecting a fallback, a font is chosen with as many characters as possible to avoid conversion failures.

Fallback font - The full path to the font file (.ttf) to use. Click on the "Browse..." button to open a file chooser and navigate to the font file (.ttf) you wish to use.

PowerPoint Convert

Embed fonts - fonts will be embedded into the PDF document when converted.

When embedding fails - Determines what PAS will do if the font named in the Word document does not exist on the server.

Throw error: if the font is not found on the system the document conversion will fail and display an error in the PAS log
Use fallback font: will attempt to find the characters within the fallback font set below.

Fallback font - enter the complete file path to the location of the font file (.ttf) on the server.

Note: This directory is local to where the server is running not the PAS Manager and so the file path must follow the format set by the OS of the server.

HTML5 / SVG Convert

Minimum Stroke Width - sets the minimum line width size for vector based graphics on the page

Display Annotations - enable / disable converting PDF annotations on the page

Enforce text & graphics extraction permissions - when enabled, if the PDF document does not allow text & graphics extraction the document will NOT be converted

Show Page Border - enable / disable the page border in SVG output

Render Signature Verification - enable / disable showing validation markers on top of converted signatures

Compress Images - When checked will compress images found in the PDF to JPEG in order to reduce the size of the output

JPG Quality – Select the desired quality of JPG compression. Based on the quality parameter. Some guidelines for the quality value: 8 high quality, 5 medium quality, 2 low quality.

0 – very high compression, very low quality
10 – low compression, very high quality