PDFX provides a convenient and familiar method for communicating from a report program to the PDF-generation process. Among other things, PDFX provides the following options, tools, methods and capabilities:
| • | Image conversion (from color to gray scale or black and white) enhances compression and reduces file size. |
| • | Image resolution (dpi) adjustment is helpful in reducing file sizes. |
| • | Fonts: choose to embed or not embed the fonts used. Embedding fonts increases file size, but ensures viewing consistency. Not embedding fonts reduces file size. |
| • | Non ASCII characters: PDFX fully supports Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts and characters. |
| • | Watermarks: You can add watermarks to your documents, using both text and images. |
| • | Overlays allow you to utilise a PDF page as a "merge document." This is most useful when printing simple reports onto the PDF equivalent of pre-printed forms, thereby ending up with a merged document that shows the form and all the data. |
| • | Security: choose whether to allow users to view, print, extract or add content to your files and password protect access to the functions allowed. Also allows you to use a Digital Signature on your PDF documents and to use the new Acrobat Reader 7 Page Markup/Commenting feature. |
| • | Links processing allows you to tell the PDF-creation process to look for, recognize, mark and "make live" text phrases that look like "www.abc.com," "http://www.abc.com," "info@abc.com," etc. When this feature is enabled, all such links in the document become "hot." |
| • | Bookmarks: by turning on this option and telling PDFX what to look for (font size, face, etc.), PDFX will analyze the document and turn all recognized headings into bookmarks--i.e., a hierarchical table of contents. |
| • | Save options allow you to specify where to save files, what and how to name them, etc. |
| • | Email: these options allow you to send out your newly-created PDF file using either your normal email program (Outlook, for example) or a simple SMTP server. |
| • | Paper Properties: A wide range of standard paper sizes are supported, and you can create and save your own custom paper sizes for future use. You can set the resolution from 50 to 2400 DPI. |
| • | Scaling allows you reduce or enlarge output to better fit the desired page size. |
| • | "Pages per page:" set up to 16 pages per sheet so that many pages from your original file can fit on to a single page within your PDF file. |
| • | Compression and optimization settings and standards are available for for both images and text, helping to reduce file size. |
| • | PDF/A archival-ready documents are optionally available via one simple setting. |
