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The PDF Export Module is available in all editions of VPE.

The trial versions of VPE allow to use all features of the PDF Export Module. In this case the exported PDF Document will have demo banners and is always compressed.

 

The handling is trivial, you can create a complete PDF file from a VPE document with only one line of source code:

VPE.WriteDoc("My Document.pdf")

 

 

The PDF Export Module of the VPE Community Edition:

•Offers unrestricted 1:1 export of VPE documents to PDF, everything is written as true PDF vector graphics

•Optional creation of PDF files compliant to Acrobat Reader version 4, 5 or higher.
Acrobat Reader versions prior to version 4 are not supported.

•If one and the same image (i.e. a bitmap) is used multiple times within a document, for example on multiple pages, VPE will detect such multi-references and embeds the image only once into the PDF file.

•Compression is not supported. Compressed documents are in regular 4 – 5 times smaller.

•True-Type font embedding is not supported. The higher editions of VPE are capable to embed all used True-Type fonts into the generated PDF file. When sending a PDF document to a receiver which doesn’t have the used fonts installed on her / his machine, those fonts are not displayed.

 

The PDF Export Module of the VPE Standard and Enhanced Editions:

•Offers unrestricted 1:1 export of VPE documents to PDF. Gradients, rounded corners, barcodes, etc. are written as true PDF vector graphics

•Optional creation of compressed PDF documents

•Optional embedding of True-Type fonts

•Embedded images (except JPEG files) can be converted automatically to a lower resolution to save space. JPEG files are always copied with their original RAW binary data to PDF.

 

The PDF Export Module of the VPE Professional Edition and higher:

•Offers unrestricted 1:1 export of VPE documents to PDF. Rich Text, charts and 2D-barcodes are written as true PDF vector graphics

•Supports export to the PDF/A format for long-term archival, according to ISO standard ISO 19005-1:2005, PDF/A-1b.

•Encryption with a variable key length between 40 and 128-bit.

•Selective protection of documents and password protection
(e.g. protect a document against printing, copy & paste, modifications, etc.)

•Creation of Linearized PDF ("Fast Web View")
An enhanced PDF file format especially for the Internet. It allows to view any given page on a client site as fast as possible without downloading the whole document from a server.

•True-Type Font Subsetting
Font Subsetting means that VPE assembles on-the-fly a new font from the source font, which contains only the characters that are used in the document. A subsetted font is in regular much smaller than the original font, which results in significantly smaller documents.

•Font Substitution
Supports the optional usage of PostScript fonts by Font Substitution, e.g. the font 'Arial' can be used in VPE for the preview and for printing, but the PDF document will be created using the PostScript font 'Helvetica' instead.

•If embedded images are converted to lower resolutions, their quality can be increased by applying automatically the Scale2Gray algorithm (see “Scale-to-Gray Technology”). This feature requires the VPE Professional Edition or higher.

•Creation of Bookmarks
A PDF document may optionally display a document outline on the screen, allowing the user to navigate interactively from one part of the document to another. The outline consists of a tree-structured hierarchy of bookmark items, which serve as a "visual table of contents" to display the document’s structure to the user. Bookmarks are displayed in the left tree-view of Acrobat Reader.

 

The trial versions of VPE allow using all features of the PDF Export Module, including all methods of VPE Professional Edition.