Generate PDF service settings

The Generate PDF service (GeneratePDFService) converts files in various native formats to PDF documents, and converts PDF documents to a number of file formats.

The following settings are available for the Generate PDF service. For details on how to configure these settings, see Configure service settings.

Adobe PDF Settings:
The name of the pre-configured Adobe PDF settings to apply to a conversion job, if these settings are not specified as a part of the API invocation parameters. The Adobe PDF settings are configured in Administration Console, by clicking Services > LiveCycle PDF Generator 11 > Adobe PDF Settings. These settings are applicable only to the PDFMaker based conversions.

Security Settings:
The name of the pre-configured security settings to apply to a conversion job, if these settings are not specified as a part of the API invocation parameters. The security settings are configured in Administration Console, by clicking Services > LiveCycle PDF Generator 11 > Security Settings.

File type Settings:
The name of the pre-configured File Type Setting to apply to a conversion job, if these settings are not specified as a part of the API invocation parameters. The file type settings are configured in Administration Console, by clicking Services > LiveCycle PDF Generator 11 > File Type Settings.

Use Acrobat WebCapture (Windows Only):
When this setting is true, the Generate PDF service uses Acrobat X Pro for all HTML to PDF conversions. This can improve the quality of the PDF files produced from HTML, though performance may be slightly lower. The default value is false.

Use Acrobat Image Conversion (Windows Only):
When this setting is true, the Generate PDF service uses Acrobat X Pro for all Image to PDF conversions. This setting is useful only if the default pure Java conversion mechanism is unable to convert a significant proportion of the input images successfully. The default value is false.

Enable Acrobat-based AutoCAD Conversions (Windows Only):
When this setting is true, the Generate PDF service uses Acrobat X Pro for all DWG to PDF conversions. This setting is useful only if AutoCAD is not installed on the server or the AutoCAD conversion mechanism is unable to convert files successfully.

Regular Expressions For Finding Out Prohibited Special Characters In User Name (Windows Only):
Specifies characters that interfere with the Export PDF and Optimize PDF operations when the characters appear in a user’s name.

ImageToPDF Pool Size:
The pool size of the default (pure Java) Image-to-PDF converter in the Generate PDF service. This setting controls the maximum simultaneous Image-to-PDF conversions that the Generate PDF service can perform. The default value of this setting (recommended for single-processor systems) is 3, which you can increase on multi-processor systems.

HTML to PDF Pool Size:
The pool size of the HTML-to-PDF converter in the Generate PDF service. This setting controls the maximum simultaneous HTML-to-PDF conversions that the Generate PDF service can perform. The default value of this setting (recommended for single-processor systems) is 3, which you can increase on multi-processor systems.

OCR Pool Size:
The pool size of the PaperCaptureService that PDF Generator uses for OCR. The default value of this setting (recommended for single-processor systems) is 3, which you can increase on multi-processor systems. This setting is valid only on Windows systems.

Fallback Font Family For HTML To PDF Conversions:
The name of the font family to use in PDF documents when the font used in the original HTML is not available to the LiveCycle server. Specify a font family if you expect to convert HTML pages that use unavailable fonts. For example, pages authored in regional languages could use unavailable fonts.

Retry Logic for Native Conversions
Governs PDF generation retries if the first attempt at conversion has failed:
No retry
Do not retry the PDF conversion if the first conversion attempt has failed

Retry
Retry PDF conversion regardless of whether the timeout threshold has been reached. The default timeout duration for the first attempt is 270s.

Retry if time permits
Retry PDF conversion if the time consumed for the first conversion attempt was less than the specified timeout duration. For example, if the timeout duration is 270s and the first attempt consumed 200s, PDF Generator will reattempt the conversion. If the first attempt itself consumed 270s, conversion will not be retried.

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