In January of 2022 Adobe, Inc., announced that it will disable support for authoring Type 1 fonts in January 2023 (see PostScript Type 1 fonts end of support). What impact will this have for Adobe PDF Converter? According to Adobe, a user's... 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

Overview After upgrading the Adobe PDF Library (APDFL) NuGet package in a .NET application, you may see this error: The type initializer for 'Datalogics.PDFL.PDFLPINVOKE' threw an exception. This message is the outer exception. The more... Read More

Overview Rendering a large PDF page at high resolution with Adobe PDF Library 18 can create a multi-gigabyte raster image. Users may experience long processing times, high memory consumption, application failures on memory-constrained systems, or... Read More

If the input document was originally rendered with no smoothing or antialiasing of any kind, you are essentially starting with a lot of glyphs that all have extremely rough edges, being rendered with nothing but black or white squares. If this is... Read More

Dynamic XFA PDF forms contain backup placeholder content in addition to the XFA data describing the fields and content of the form. The placeholder content can vary but is typically a warning to upgrade or use Adobe Reader.  When a dynamic XFA PDF... Read More

You can draw objects from a PDF document to a window in a specific order. You could draw out of the text stream first, then a graphic, and then a vector image. For example, you might want to render the text objects in a PDF document, and leave out... Read More

In Adobe C/C++, the PDPrefSetWorkingRGB, PDPrefSetWorkingCMYK and PDPrefSetWorkingGray APIs tie the nominal DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK and DeviceGray color gamut (respectively) to a specific ICC profile’s color gamut. Putting it another way, the... Read More

PDF Forms Flattener can use either online activation or an offline license file. This guide explains how the two licensing methods work and offers suggestions for resolving common activation and license errors. Which Licensing Method Are You Using?... Read More

Use this code to programmatically determine if a PDF document is an AcroForm: bool hasAcroFormFields = false;if(doc.Root.Contains("AcroForm")){var AcroFormDict = doc.Root.Get("AcroForm") as PDFDict;hasAcroFormFields = AcroFormDict.Contains("Fields") ... Read More