Note: This article is a work in progress. What is PDF/UA? PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) is a set of specifications for making PDFs accessible to persons with disabilities by imposing additional requirements over the baseline PDF specifications:... Read More

Please note that when you run PDF Converter and see a PostScript error, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you have found a bug in PDF Converter, any more than an error in compiling a program means that there is a bug in Microsoft Visual Studio... Read More

If the following error appears when PDF Converter starts: %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: setdistillerparams; ErrorInfo: CalCMYKProfile U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) ] %% %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ] %% Error... Read More

While APDFL has a .NET interface, PDF Converter only supports C++. To call PDF Converter with .NET, you need to call the executable using Process.Start(). The following is an example of what this might look like, where "tempPSFile" is the input PS... Read More

The Details When working with PDF documents, particularly those that are required to comply with the PDF/A standard for archiving, users may encounter a persistent warning message in Adobe Acrobat. This warning indicates that the document claims... Read More

Encapsulated Post Script (EPS) is a standard graphics file format for working with text, images, drawings, and layouts that can be dismantled into their component parts and then be combined into a final completed document. EPS files can present both... Read More

The iccProfilesDir and the iccProfilesStandardFolders are both parameters of NSClientData. NSClientData is an API that points to private client data. Private client data is a set of parameters that allow you to pass custom values to PDF Converter... Read More

Color profiles are standards for managing colors, used to guarantee that the colors for text or graphics in a file remain the same regardless of the hardware or software used to display, edit, or print that file. A color profile is usually included... Read More

Both PDF2IMG and Adobe Acrobat offer an Overprint Preview (OPP) option. Sometimes in printing a color in a graphic or image is printed directly on top of another color. The color on top can be opaque, and completely cover, or “knock out,” the... Read More

For this API: PDDocSetNewCryptHandler(document, ASAtomFromString("Standard")); The API Reference says: newCryptHandler - The ASAtom for the name of the new security handler to use for the document. This name must be the same as the pdfName used when... Read More