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Users Manual
Updated December 27, 2004
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Contents
CONTENTS.................................................................................................................. 2
LEGAL INFORMATION............................................................................................ 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................ 3 WHATS NEW IN VERSION 2.0 ?............................................................................. 4 CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT........................................................................... 10 OPENING AN EXISTING DOCUMENT................................................................. 11 SETTING DIFFERENT PROPERTIES ................................................................... 13 PROPERTIES BOX........................................................................................................ DOCUMENT PROPERTIES............................................................................................. PAGE PROPERTIES ...................................................................................................... GRID PROPERTIES....................................................................................................... OBJECT PROPERTIES................................................................................................... FIND TEXT ................................................................................................................. SELECT...................................................................................................................... LABEL....................................................................................................................... LINE.......................................................................................................................... FRAME ...................................................................................................................... ROUND FRAME.......................................................................................................... ELLIPSE..................................................................................................................... POLYGON .................................................................................................................. IMAGE....................................................................................................................... NOTE......................................................................................................................... FIELD ........................................................................................................................ BUTTON .................................................................................................................... SELECTION ................................................................................................................ TABLE....................................................................................................................... WORD ....................................................................................................................... GRAPH ...................................................................................................................... OLE OBJECT.............................................................................................................. 13 13 17 18 18 20 21 21 23 23 25 26 28 29 31 33 35 36 37 38 38 38
Q & A.......................................................................................................................... 39
Legal Information
Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of AMYUNI. The software described in this document is provided under a license agreement or nondisclosure agreement. The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. It is against the law to copy the software on any medium except as specifically allowed in the license or nondisclosure agreement. The licensee may make one copy of the software for backup purposes. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval systems, for any purpose other than the licensees personal use, without express written permission of AMYUNI. Copyright 2001-2004, AMYUNI Consultants AMYUNI Technologies. All rights reserved. Amyuni and the Amyuni logo are trademarks of Amyuni Technologies Inc. Microsoft, the Microsoft logo, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT and their logos are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Acknowledgments
This software uses the deflate algorithm developed by Jean-loup Gailly (jloup@gzip.org) and Mark Adler (madler@alumni.caltech.edu). This software is also based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group and on parts of the FreeType library.
Main Toolbar
Open a new document Open an existing document Save current document Print current document Delete object Cut selection Copy selection Paste selection Undo Redo Page view of the document Normal view of the document View grid lines Zoom out Zoom in Annotation mode Design mode Compile data/Switch to Run mode About PDF Creator Find
Format Toolbar
Edit font for selected object Set selected text to bold typeface Set selected text to italics Underline selected text Set text alignment left Set text alignment centered Set text alignment right Set text alignment justified Edit properties of the selected object Place selection in foreground Place selection in background Align all selected objects to the left Align all selected objects to the right Align all selected objects to the top Align all selected objects to the bottom Align all selected objects to the center vertically Align all selected objects to the center horizontally Make all selected objects same width Make all selected objects same height Change distances between grid lines
Objects Toolbox
Selection tool Add a text object Add a line object Add a frame object Add a rounded frame object Add an ellipse Add a polygon Add a freehand drawing Insert an image Post a note onto the document Highlight parts of the document Add an arrow object Add a data entry field Add a check-box Add a selection list object Add a table or spreadsheet object Add an Excel spreadsheet Add a Word object Add a bar graph Add an OLE object
Status bar
Indicates the Zoom factor Page number of currently displayed page and total number of pages
Annotation mode
You need to work in Annotation mode if you wish to add annotations to an existing document without modifying the original documents contents. The following toolbox objects are available in Annotation mode : Labels, Lines, Frames, Polygons, Images, Notes, Highlights, Arrows, Form field objects.
Design mode
You need to work in Design mode whenever you wish to build or make changes to the different objects or elements contained in a PDF. When you are in Design mode, you can make changes to the document. It enables you to add or modify text objects, insert a hyperlink, alter the position and properties of image, field, table or graphical objects. It will enable all object editing features of the Creator.
Compile mode
Compile mode is mainly used for viewing. Its also used when you are calling up data from a linked database. Most of the object properties cannot be modified in Compile mode. You can open, view, and print a document. Objects that have a specific Editable property which is enabled can be modified in Compile mode, more details on this is found in the Using different Tools section on p.19. Users creating documents linked to a database need to run Compile mode in order to generate the data that was specified by fields in Design mode. Clicking on the Compile button will generate one entry from the database.
2. Selecting File -> New will let you choose between a completely blank document, or a worksheet-style document with rows and columns.
In this example, we are creating a form or table style document and linking it to the database called Northwind, and creating a table or view for the data type Customers.
1. Drag and drop: If you drag and drop a PDF file icon onto the Creator icon or shortcut, it will automatically launch the Creator with that particular PDF file displayed. 2. Select from menu: You can also do it from within the application using the File > Open in the menu bars and then selecting the desired PDF file.
3. PDF Creator as your default PDF Reader: It is also possible to associate the PDF Creator as your default PDF viewing application, if you have done this, doubleclicking any PDF file will launch the Creator with that particular file displayed.
If you see an overhead view of the pushpin, this means the Properties box is pinned onto the document and wont disappear once you select an element on the displayed page. If you see the side-view of the thumbtack, the Properties box is floating and will not stay on top of the document if you select an object. The Properties box is floating The Properties box is pinned
Document properties
You can change the properties of the document displayed by right-clicking anywhere on a page of the document. These properties will then be set throughout the entire document. You will find Document Properties in the menu that appears. The Document properties dialogue box has three tabs; Standard, Advanced and All. The All tab includes all items listed in both Standard and Advanced properties.
STANDARD
Author
You can enter the name of the person creating the document into the Value field on the left with this property.
Keywords
This enables you to add some information about the subject of the document.
Title
This will allow you to change the default font for the document currently open. Select a font from a drop-down menu, specify a font size by clicking the up or down arrows, checking boxes to enable Bold, Italic and Underlines styles of font. The Choose Font button will bring up a standard Windows font properties dialogue box.
DefaultTitleFont
You can use this function to change the default font for cell titles when the document is a table style document.
EditBackColor
This property is used in Compile mode to allow the user to distinguish between editable fields from read-only fields. Editable fields will have their background colored with this color.
ScaleToWindow
This property will automatically resize the display of the viewed page as the window is resized. There are 4 values; None or 0 will turn this property off, Horizontal or 1 will display the entire width of the page, Vertical or 2 will display the entire length of the document and Both or 3 will display both the entire length and width of the page being viewed.
ScaleToPrinter
This property will automatically resize the document contents to fit on the printers paper. There are 4 values; None or 0 will turn the scaling off, Horizontal or 1 will shrink the page such that the width of the page fits into the width of the paper, Vertical of 2 will shrink the page such that the length of the page fits into the length of the paper, Both or 3 will shrink the page such that the width and length fit into the printed paper.
ZoomFactor
With this property, you can set a default zoom factor for the document. The numerical value shown is the percentage at which the display is enlarged or reduced. ADVANCED
ClipToBoundaries
When checked, object outside of the page boundaries will be clipped. It is useful to uncheck this property when designing a document so that objects can be placed anywhere on the work area.
Creator, Producer
These properties let other viewers of the document know what software was used to create it.
DataSource
Enter the path and filename of the database file of the name of the database server here.
DataTableOrView
This enables you to specify a table or view from the linked database.
DuplexPrinting
This property enables double-sided printing on printers that support this option.
FileSaveOption
View and Design; this will conserve all data for both Design and View. It results in a slightly larger file but it can be viewed by third-party software as well as opened and modified in the Creator. Design only; this setting will save all the data that is necessary to further modify the document. This type of data cannot be accessed by other applications. View only; Files saved under this setting will discard all data specific to the PDF Creator, including the connection to a database, editable OLE objects and table objects.
LockLastSelectedTool
This property allows the user to add multiple objects of the same type to the page without having to re-select the object from the Objects Toolbox. If this property is cleared, the PDF Creator switches to object selection mode every time a new object is created.
ReportState
Read-only property that indicated the reports state. The report state can be Run, Design, Loading, PrintPreview or Annotate.
Page properties
You can change the dimensions and orientation of the document displayed by right-clicking anywhere on a page of the document. You will find Page Properties in the menu that appears.
Landscape
Setting this property to True will set the document to be viewed in Landscape rather than Portrait mode.
LeftMargin, TopMargin, RightMargin, BottomMargin
These properties are an indication to the user that the objects should not go outside of these limits, the document would otherwise be truncated when printed to a real printer.
Length
This will allow you to specify the length of the document in twips. The default value for a new document depends on the settings of the system default printer.
I Whats a twip?
A twip is 1/20 of a Postscript point, or 1/1440th of an inch. There are thus 1440 twips to an inch or about 567 twips to a centimeter. Twips were devised in the olden days to describe the sizes of characters produced by dot matrix printers that were constrained to multiples of either 12 or 10 dots per inch. Courtesy of FOLDOC http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/
PaperBin
You can select the paper bin on your printer that you would like this document to be printed from.
PaperSize
This value should be set to one of the paper sizes that are predefined by Windows. The value 1 represents the Letter paper size, the value 9 that A4 paper size. When this setting is changed, the width and length values are changed accordingly.
Width
This will allow you to specify the width of the page in twips. The default value for a new document depends on the settings of the system default printer.
Grid properties
This feature can help you align the elements of your PDF document by placing them along grid lines. When you want to lock object positioning by certain increments, you can make changes to the grid properties of the document by clicking on the grid properties button on the main menu toolbar, shown at left.
Increment field
Specify a numerical value telling the application at what interval to place the grid lines.
Unit selection
Use this menu to select the unit of measurement by which you want to specify the intervals between grid lines. You can choose from twips, centimeters and inches.
Object properties
These will vary with each type of object. You can access these settings two ways; rightclicking on the particular object or on the Properties menu bar icon when that object is selected. The properties of each tool will be discussed in the next section, Using different tools.
You are able to change the degree to which the display enlarges or shrinks the page being viewed by using the Zoom in and Zoom out buttons on the main toolbar. You can also achieve this by changing the numeric value in percentage on the bottom status bar. Up and down arrows will respectively increase and decrease the zoom factor of the displayed document.
Page view When in Normal view, resizing the window will not cause the zoom factor of the document to change. When in Page view, the document will resize automatically as the window changes size, so as to keep the full page in view. View grids will enable you to see if and where the grid lines of the document are placed. This option is available only for tale style documents.
Switching modes Use these three buttons on the main toolbar to toggle between Annotate, Design and Compile modes. For documents linked to a database, the data specified in the fields while the document was in Design mode, will be inserted into the appropriate field when you switch to Compile mode by clicking on the exclamation mark. Return to Design mode to make further modifications by hitting the topmost button shown at left. Switching to Design Mode The user is prompted with an Optimization Prompt. Optimization is needed before editing PDF documents due to the structure of the PDF documents. 0- No optimization. The document is not optimized, text objects might be split into multiple pieces which makes editing quite difficult. 1- Line optimization. Text objects are grouped into lines whenever possible. 2- Paragraph optimization. Text objects are grouped into paragraphs whenever possible. 3- Table optimization. The PDF Creator tries to detect if there are tables within the page and attempts to reconstruct table objects.
Find text Text objects in the Creator can be searched. You can find any number of occurrences of a string of characters in the document with this tool. I Finding and Replacing Text If you would like to replace all instances of a word with another value, you can use the Replace function. This function has no tool bar shortcut but is available through the Edit drop-down menu or by CTRL + H
Select
Clicking on an element with this tool will enable you to change its properties or modify it.
Label
This tool lets you to insert text into the document. ADVANCED
AllowWordBreaks
This property defines whether words containing characters such as dash and comma can be split into two lines or should remain grouped on the same line.
CharSpacing
Text can be stretched of shrunk in the horizontal direction by modifying this property. Default value is 100.
Hyperlink
Associate a hyperlink to this element, within the document (connect the element to another part of the document), on the web (enable launch of the default web browser when clicked on) or even an email address (enable launch of the default email application when the element is clicked on).
Locked
Once the True checkbox has been selected, the object can no longer be modified in any way. Design Mode will not work on a locked document.
WordSpacing
TEXT
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object.
HorzAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
Indentation
Enter or modify the text you wish to appear in the label object.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
TextGap
This property enables you to adjust the distance between the text and the border of the object.
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered. BORDER
BorderColor
You can change the color of the border of the text. The default is white and therefore is not visible on your document.
BorderWidth
If you have selected a color for your border, changing the value from None to Simple, Double, Tripe or Quadruple with produce a border of varying thickness.
Line
Use this to draw straight lines.
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
StokeColor
Using this property you are able to select a color from the palette or create a custom color for this element.
StrokeStyle
You can choose from Solid, Dotted or Dashed for the object.
StrokeWidth
Using the StrokeWidth property youll be able to specify the thickness of the element.
Frame
Use this to create rectangular shapes. TEXT
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object.
HorzAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
Text
Enter or modify the text you wish to appear in the label object.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
TextGap
This property enables you to adjust the distance between the text and the border of the object. In this case, 1 equals
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered. STANDARD
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object. The FillStyle property must either be set to Solid or Hatch for this property to be displayed. If FillStyle is set to None, the color selections will not be displayed.
FillStyle
For BackColor or HatchStyle properties to be rendered, this property must be on Solid or Hatched. The default for this property is None.
FrameType
Options for this property are None, Rectangle, Oval and Rounded corners.
HatchStyle
You can choose from; None, Horizontal, Vertical, Left Right, Right Left, Squares, Diagonal. ADVANCED
CharSpacing
This property enables you to specify the size of the spacing between characters in the text.
Hyperlink
Associate a hyperlink to this element, within the document (connect the element to another part of the document), on the web (enable launch of the default web browser when clicked on) or even an email address (enable launch of the default email application when the element is clicked on).
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
WordSpacing
Round Frame
This tool will create rectangular shapes with rounded corners. TEXT
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object.
HorzAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
Text
Enter or modify the text you wish to appear in the label object.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered. STANDARD
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object. The FillStyle property must either be set to Solid or Hatch for this property to be displayed. If FillStyle is set to None, the color selections will not be displayed.
FillStyle
For BackColor or HatchStyle properties to be rendered, this property must be on Solid or Hatched. The default for this property is None.
FrameType
Options for this property are None, Rectangle, Oval and Rounded corners.
HatchStyle
You can choose from; None, Horizontal, Vertical, Left Right, Right Left, Squares, Diagonal.
ADVANCED
CharSpacing
This property enables you to specify the size of the spacing between characters in the text.
Hyperlink
Associate a hyperlink to this element, within the document (connect the element to another part of the document), on the web (enable launch of the default web browser when clicked on) or even an email address (enable launch of the default email application when the element is clicked on).
Locked
Once the True checkbox has selected, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
WordSpacing
This property defines the amount of space between words for the text.
Ellipse
You can create round and oval shapes with this tool. TEXT
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object.
HorzAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
Text
Enter or modify the text you wish to appear in the label object.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered. STANDARD
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object. The FillStyle property must either be set to Solid or Hatch for this property to be displayed. If FillStyle is set to None, the color selections will not be displayed.
FillStyle
For BackColor or HatchStyle properties to be rendered, this property must be on Solid or Hatched. The default for this property is None.
FrameType
Options for this property are None, Rectangle, Oval and Rounded corners.
HatchStyle
You can choose from; None, Horizontal, Vertical, Left Right, Right Left, Squares, Diagonal. ADVANCED
CharSpacing
This property enables you to specify the size of the spacing between characters in the text.
Hyperlink
Associate a hyperlink to this element, within the document (connect the element to another part of the document), on the web (enable launch of the default web browser when clicked on) or even an email address (enable launch of the default email application when the element is clicked on).
Locked
Once the True checkbox has selected, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
WordSpacing
Polygon
Use this tool to create complex geometric shapes. TEXT
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object.
HorzAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
Text
Enter or modify the text you wish to appear in the label object.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
TextGap
This property enables you to adjust the distance between the text and the border of the object.
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered. STANDARD
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object. The FillStyle property must either be set to Solid or Hatch for this peoperty to be displayed. If FillStyle is set to None, the color selections will not be displayed.
FillStyle
For BackColor or HatchStyle properties to be rendered, this property must be on Solid or Hatched. The default for this property is None.
FrameType
Options for this property are None, Rectangle, Oval and Rounded corners.
HatchStyle
You can choose from; None, Horizontal, Vertical, Left Right, Right Left, Squares, Diagonal. ADVANCED
CharSpacing
This property enables you to specify the size of the spacing between characters in the text.
Hyperlink
Associate a hyperlink to this element, within the document (connect the element to another part of the document), on the web (enable launch of the default web browser when clicked on) or even an email address (enable launch of the default email application when the element is clicked on).
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
WordSpacing
Image
This will let you insert image files into the document TEXT
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object.
HorzAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
Text
Enter or modify the text you wish to appear in the label object.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
TextGap
This property enables you to adjust the distance between the text and the border of the object.
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered. STANDARD
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object. The FillStyle property must either be set to Solid or Hatch for this peoperty to be displayed. If FillStyle is set to None, the color selections will not be displayed.
FillStyle
For BackColor or HatchStyle properties to be rendered, this property must be on Solid or Hatched. The default for this property is None.
FrameType
Options for this property are None, Rectangle, Oval and Rounded corners.
HatchStyle
You can choose from; None, Horizontal, Vertical, Left Right, Right Left, Squares, Diagonal. ADVANCED
CharSpacing
This property enables you to specify the size of the spacing between characters in the text.
Hyperlink
Associate a hyperlink to this element, within the document (connect the element to another part of the document), on the web (enable launch of the default web browser when clicked on) or even an email address (enable launch of the default email application when the element is clicked on).
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
WordSpacing
Note
Insert comments, questions and reminders in your PDF document, which can be opened and closed.
TEXT
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object.
Text
Enter or modify the text you wish to appear in the label object.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
TitleBackColor
This property enables you to set the background color of the notes title.
TitleFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
TitleHeight
You can set the desired height of the notes title space. The value is given in twips (1/20 of a Postscript point, or 1/1440th of an inch). The default is 300,
roughly a quarter of an inch.
BORDERS
BorderColor
You can change the color of the border of the note. The default is black.
BorderWidth
If you have selected a color for your border, changing the value from None to Simple, Double, Tripe or Quadruple with produce a border of varying thickness. ADVANCED
Author
You can enter the name of the person creating the document into the Value field on the left with this property.
Bitmap
Associate a different image to the note when closed. Default Bitmap1 Bitmap2
Bitmap3 Bitmap4
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
Open
This property sets the Open or Closed state of the note. Checking the True box will set the note to open. Double-clicking on the note in the document will change the setting of this property.
Print
Having the Print property enabled by checking the True box will have the notes displayed when you wish to print the file. Uncheck the box if you would rather the notes werent printed.
Field
When the document is connected to a database, this tool enables you to specify he type of data you wish to retrieve. TEXT
BackColor
You can select a color for the background of the frame object.
DataType
You can specify Text, Numerical and Date values for the data in this field.
Format
This property lets you choose from a selection of formats for the fields data, such as dd/m/yyyy.
HorzAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
MultiLine
Checking the Tue box will enable you to create a multi-line field.
Password
Text
Enter or modify the text or the formula to be used in the field object.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
TextGap
This property enables you to adjust the distance between the text and the border of the object.
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered. BORDERS
BorderColor
You can change the color of the border of the note. The default is black.
BorderWidth
If you have selected a color for your border, changing the value from None to Simple, Double, Triple or Quadruple with produce a border of varying thickness. ADVANCED
Editable
When the True box is checked, you will be able to modify the field while in Run or Compile mode.
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
Visible
This property lets you specify whether or not the field is to be visible when printing the document.
Button
Insert checkboxes into your document with this tool. TEXT
AutoRadio
This property is only used when the PDF document is opened with Acrobat Reader.
BackColor
You can specify Check-Box, Push Button and Radio Button values for the type of button.
Caption
Set the text value that is to appear alongside the button with Caption.
Formula
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
TextColor
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
TextPosition
You can specify Right or Left values so that the Caption text appears at the right or left of the button.
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered.
ADVANCED
Editable
When the True box is checked, you will be able to modify the field while in Run or Compile mode.
EditBox
When the True box is checked, you will be able to enter values other than the ones listed in the Values property.
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
SelectionType
Selection
Insert selection lists into your document with this tool TEXT
HorzAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned to the left, to the right, centered or justified with this property.
Text
You can select a specific color for the text in this element.
TextFont
Choose a font, font size and font style in this properties box, or call up the standard Windows font dialogue box by clicking on Choose Font.
VertAlign
You can choose to have your text aligned from the top, from the bottom or to have it centered. BORDERS
BorderColor
You can change the color of the border of the note. The default is black.
BorderWidth
If you have selected a color for your border, changing the value from None to Simple, Double, Tripe or Quadruple with produce a border of varying thickness. ADVANCED
Editable
When the True box is checked, you will be able to modify the field while in Run or Compile mode.
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
Table
Insert a table, which you will create from within the document. STANDARD
Columns
This will allow you to change the number of columns appearing in the table object. The default value is 3.
Rows
This will allow you to change the number of rows appearing in the table object. The default value is 3.
BORDERS
BorderColor
You can change the color of the border of the note. The default is black.
BorderWidth
If you have selected a color for your border, changing the value from None to Simple, Double, Tripe or Quadruple with produce a border of varying thickness. ADVANCED
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
Excel
Insert a table, which you will create from within Microsoft Excel
Word
Insert a text object, which you will create from within Microsoft Word
Graph
Insert a bar graph into the PDF document with this tool.
OLE object
Insert an OLE object into the document with this tool.
ADVANCED (Excel, Word, Graph and OLE objects all feature the same properties)
Editable
When the True box is checked, you will be able to modify these objects in the document.
Locked
Once the True checkbox has checked, the object can no longer be modified in any way.
Name
You can give a name to the object in this field with this property.
The options that are specific to printing from the PDF Creator are :
Fit to paper
The document is scaled in such a way that all page content fits on the printer paper. This is useful when the page contents are truncated outside of the papers margins.
Print as image
Some documents contain advanced features such as transparent images or custom fonts that prevent them from printing properly using regular printer drivers. The Print as image option prints the whole page as a single image in a more accurate way. Printing speeding can be largely affected when this option is used.
Print to file
Instead of printing to a regular printer, a file is created on the local hard drive or the network.
Tray selection
This option determines to which printer bin or tray each page should be directed.
PDF Setting The paper tray setting is retrieved from the PDF document if the PDF document contains such settings. Currently this is the case only if the PDF document was created using either the Amyuni PDF Converter or Amyuni PDF Creator products. Automatic The paper tray is determined by the printer driver and the settings that the user has entered in the printers configuration. The user is usually given the option to map specific paper sizes to specific printer trays. Manual In the case where the printer driver does not allow the user to configure the paper trays, or when the printer driver does not respond properly to changing the paper trays (happens with a number of printer drivers), the user still has the option to manually assign specific paper sizes to printer trays. When the manual option is selected and the user clicks on the button, the following dialog-box enables the user to assign paper trays :
Note that the printer tray assignment depends on each printer, i.e. the paper to tray configuration is not common among all installed printers.
9____________________________________________Q & A
Unable to modify objects I Ive enabled Design mode and still cant seem to be able to modify the objects in the document! PDF Documents generated by other software use different methods that may not be readable by the Creator. If the file was saved as a View only document (See FileSaveOptions 16) the data needed in order to make additional modifications was discarded.
Saving files correctly I How should I use the FileSaveOptions property? If you need a document which can be further modified in the Creator as well as viewed by other software, save using View and Design. If you need to make further modifications to the document before showing it to anyone, save using Design. If the document is to be viewed by others and doesnt require any changes, or if you need to reduce the size of the resulting PDF file, save using View.