Using the Distiller service

When converting a PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript, or PRN file to a PDF file, you can use the conversion operation to specify several options to apply to the resultant PDF document. Here are the parameters you can use to specify these options:

  • PDF settings: This parameter provides the name of the Adobe PDF settings to use for the conversion. The named settings are defined on the Administration Console. The console is pre-configured with several Adobe PDF settings. The names of these settings are locale-specific. On English installations, these names include High Quality Print, PDFA1b 2005 CMYK, and Press Quality.

    If the Input Settings Document parameter provides a value, this parameter is ignored. If this parameter and the Input Settings Document parameter are both null, this operation uses the default file type settings instance that is defined on the LiveCycle server.

  • Security settings: This parameter provides the name of the security settings to use for the conversion. The named settings are defined on the Administration Console. On English installations, the console is pre-configured with only the No Security security settings.

    If the Input Settings Document parameter provides a value, this parameter is ignored. If this parameter and the Input Settings Document parameter are both null, this operation uses the default file type settings instance that is defined on the LiveCycle server.

  • Input Settings Document: An XML file containing conversion settings, including Adobe PDF settings and security settings. The Input Settings Document can contain multiple sets of settings. This operation uses only the default sets.

  • Metadata information to apply to the generated PDF document. Only UTF-8 encoded Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) metadata is supported. For details of the format and for the specifications, visit the main XMP page on the Adobe website.

For information about developing processes that use this service, see Workbench Help. For information about developing client applications that programmatically interact with this service, see Programming with LiveCycle.

In Administration Console, you can use the Applications and Services pages to configure default properties of the Distiller service. (See Distiller service settings in LiveCycle Administration Console Help.) You can also use the PDF Generator page to specify default PDF settings and security settings to apply when converting to PDF. (See Configuring PDF Generator in LiveCycle Administration Console Help.)

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