You can specify an earlier version if you like, but this does not actually affect the metadata content that is generated for the PDF document. What you are doing is changing the version number so that the document will pass review. This change does... Read More

When your application starts, it will call the PDFLInitHFT() method to begin the initialization process for the Library. When the Library initializes it compiles a list of all its available resources. In particular it identifies the file folders... Read More

Using the Adobe PDF Library, you can access the XML structure behind an XFA form field. XFA, or XML Forms Architecture, is a set of proprietary XML specifications for use with web forms. XFA forms are saved within a PDF document. If you want to merge... Read More

A Forms Data Format (FDF) file is a text file used by Adobe Acrobat to hold values exported from PDF forms documents. The Adobe PDF Library views an FDF file as a COS document. As such, it can be opened by the Adobe PDF Library, and can be used with... Read More

The watermark object created by the PDF Library PDDocAddWatermarkFromText() API is a form XObject in the PDF document, with Optional Content with the name “/Watermark.” If you create a watermark in a PDF document using the Watermark feature in... Read More

Adobe PDF Library honors any document security found in an input PDF document. If the document is password-protected, the application will need to provide the correct Owner or User password required to open it. If the document is opened with the... Read More

Refrying is the process of converting a PDF file into PostScript (or EPS) and back again to PDF. Though this practice of at least a double conversion (PDF to PostScript then from PostScript back to PDF) is no longer as commonly used, our Support team... Read More

This document provides an overview of the tools and support offered by Datalogics and Adobe for PDF development, highlighting the distinctions between their respective technologies and capabilities.   Datalogics and Adobe Product Overview Datalogics... Read More

The Adobe PDF Library cannot read PostScript input files, including Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). So you will need to convert EPS documents to PDF before you want to apply them to your application. If you want to convert a single EPS file into a PDF... Read More

Font embedding places the entire font within your output file, while font subsetting places only those characters which are actually used within your output file. A PDF file with all fonts fully embedded can be quite large. Adobe allows the embedding... Read More