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By default, objects which are marked as non-printable by setting the property Printable = false (Professional Edition and above), are not exported to external file formats, like PDF documents or image files. Vice versa, objects marked as non-viewable for the Preview are exported to external file formats.

VPE understands an export operation as a different way of printing. The reason is that for example PDF’s are sent most often by e-mail as a replacement for sending printed copies of documents by postal mail. So printed documents and e-mailed documents should be the same.

You can override this default behavior with the property ExportNonPrintableObjects. By setting this property to True, all objects of a document - which are marked as non-printable - will be exported to external file formats, too.