Advanced PDF Tools v2.0 User Manual
Advanced PDF Tools Introduction
Advanced PDF Tools (Upgrade from PDF Information Editor software) help users to change or enhance their pdf files. These include Document Summary, Initial view, User Interface, Window option, Start Page, Page magnification, Page layout, Pages size, Page contents size, Page rotation, Page contents rotation, optimize PDF file, compress PDF file, Metadata, Custom Info fields and others.
Main Window
Advanced PDF Tools Features
* Advanced PDF Tools support PDF 1.6 and Acrobat 7 documents
* Advanced PDF Tools can return the following information
Filename | PDF Version | Encryption status (128-bits or 64-bits) | Page Count | All Page Size - ( size of media box and crop box of all pages ) | Open Action Status | Title | Subject | Author | Keywords | Modification Date | Creation Date | Producer | Creator | Custom Fields | Metadata Content | Rotate Angle | Page Mode | View Reference | Page Layout
* Advanced PDF Tools support set document Information fields
Title | Subject | Author | Keywords | Creator | Producer | Creation Date | Custom Fields (support any name / value string field and date field)
* Export the source XML Metadata from PDF files
* Data is returned via standard output and/or printed to a text file
* File path and filename can be printed at the beginning of the returned data
* Keep track of the progress in a convenient log file
* Support Batch processing, return data from a single or multiple PDF files
* Insert a XML file into PDF files
* Set how the new output file displays when opening
Set the document Page Mode ( UseNone | PageOnly | UseThumbs | UseBookmarks| Fullscreen )
Set the document's layout ( Single | Continuous | Continuous-facing | twoColLeft )
Set the document's Open Action ( FitPage | FitVisible | FitWidth | FitHeight | FitWindow | ...)
Set the document's start page number
Hide the toolbar upon opening the document
Hide the menubar upon opening the document
Hide scrollbars and other controls upon opening the document
Resize the window to the initial page
Center the window on the screen
Display document title in windows title bar
* Count PDF Pages and Returns the Numerical Amount
* Total Page Count - multiple file page counts added together
* Print results to Standard Output or to a Text File
* Do NOT need Adobe Acrobat software
* Change the page size and page content in your PDF files
Set page size to A3, A4, Letter, B4, B5, Legal, Custom Size
Scale the page size and page content
Rotate the page and page content (0, 90, 180, 270, 360, any angle)
Set the page margin, page offset
Set available pages range
* Unused object removal (a garbage collector for PDF files)
* Support drag and drop
* Optimize for the web (linearize)
* The optimize panel contain options for reducing the size and improving the reliability of a PDF document
* The Images panel contain options for compression and resizing Color, Grayscale and Monochrome images in a PDF file
* Replace/Append keywords field to existing PDF file
* Replace/Append custom properties to existing PDF file
Advanced PDF Tools Interfaces
Summary Panel
Using summary setting function, user can edit pdf file summary information including title, subject, author, keywords, create date, modify date, creator, producer. Following is the summary setting interface .
Summary
If you want to change pdf document's title information, select one or more pdf file first, than select the Title checkbox, input new title in the right textbox. After finish setting, click Change button. The same way to change other summary information.
Note:
If you want append "Keywords" to existing PDF file, you may add a "+" symbol before the keywords, for example, "+pdf tools, pdf writer".
Open action Panel
Open action panel include initial view, user interface option and window option. Following is the Open action interface.
Initial View Section
Initial view include the following options:
Not change
If you do not want to change pdf document's initial view you should select Not change option.
Page only
Neither document outline nor thumbnail images is visible. this function determine whether any of the extra panels on the left side of the document will appear when opened. If your document has no bookmarks and you see no need for display thumbnails, leave it set to Page only.
Bookmarks and page
This option determine whether display bookmarks or not when open the pdf file. If you want to display bookmarks select this option.
Thumbnails and page
This option determine whether display Thumbnails or not when open the pdf file. If you want to display Thumbnails, select this option please.
Open in full screen mode
If select this option, the document will display in full screen mode with no menu bar, window controls, or any other window visible when the document is opening.
UseOC
Optional content group panel visible.
Start page number
Specify a page to be displayed first when the document is opened.
Magnification
Determine how pdf pages should look in the viewer.
Page layout Section
Specifying the page layout to be used when the document is opened. Page layout include the following options :
SinglePage
Display one page at a time.
Continuous
Display the pages in one column.
Continuous-facing
Display the pages in two columns, with odd numbered pages on the left.
TwoColumnRight
Display the pages in two columns, with odd numbered pages on the right.
User interface Section
These control which parts of Acrobat's own user interface should be hidden when this document is displayed. These are useful for when creating a full screen presentation or you don't wish users to use Acrobat's own UI.
User interface include the following options:
Hide menu bar
Specifying whether to hide the viewer application's tool bars when the document is active.
Hide tool bar
Specifying whether to hide the viewer application's menu bar when the document is active.
Hide window control
Specifying whether to hide user interface elements in the document's window (such as scroll bars and navigation controls), leaving only the document's contents displayed.
Window Options Section
Resize window to initial page
Specifying whether to resize the document's window to fit the size of the first displayed page.
Center window on screen
Specifying whether to position the document's window in the center of the screen.
Display document title
Specifying whether the window's title bar should display, the document title taken from the Title entry of the document information. If not select this option, the title bar should instead display the name of the PDF file containing the document.
Pages Panel
Following is the pages setting interface:
Rotate pages Section
To rotate the pages, enter a rotation number into right combox in 90-degree increments.
Change page Info Section
In the Page Size section of this panel, PDF Info Editor allows you to set the size of the page. You may leave the size unchanged by select no change. You can set the size to a predefined standard paper dimension (eg. Letter or A4) or a custom defined size of your choosing.
Set page scale
To scale the page by a certain percentage, select Set page scale and enter the percentage.
Page content Section
The settings in the Page Content section allow you to control the contents in the page. In most cases you'll use the default "Scale to Fit" option to have the page contents scaled the same amount as the Page size. Alternatively, you can select "Custom" and enter a specific value. You can also choose "No Scaling" to leave the page contents unchanged. The "No Scaling" feature is useful when you wish to crop out unused white space surrounding the contents of your PDF document.
Center on page
Select this option to leave the page content center on page.
Increase pages margin
If you want to increase the pdf document page's margin input value here.
Rotate
To rotate the contents of the page, enter a rotation number in 90-degree increments.
Set pages range
Pages range setting determine which pages be affected by above setting .the default setting is all pages.
Optimization Panel
Following is the optimization interface:
You can remove all unused items from your PDF files within these options, this will make your PDF file smaller.
Image Panel
Following is the image interface:
On the Image panel, you select the Compression, Quality, Image size options for Color, Grayscale and Monochrome images.
Image compression is where you actually reduce the data in the image by lossless compression or by lossy compression, there are different algorithms for performing this operation and we offer you the choice of all those supported by Adobe Acrobat and PDF file, include Flate, JPEG, JPEG2000, CCITT G4 etc. types.
Metadata Panel
Consisting of general information about a document or a component of a document, such as its title, author, and creation and modification dates.
Following is metadata setting interface
you can set document's metadata information by select a xmp file with XML format.
Custom fields Panel
Besides change summary information by summary setting, you can add your own information . This editable list of items in the following interface lets you specify the keys and values that will appear in the different fields of Acrobat's Document Properties->Summary or Document Properties->Description dialog box. In addition to the standard items listed in the menu, you may add any custom items that you wish such as those specific to a document management system or indexing engine that you use.
Key
The key you want to add.
Value
This key's value.
After set the key and the value, you can click "Add" button to add the information to the list box above. You also can delete info above by click “Delete” button.
Note:
If you want append "Custom Properties" to existing PDF file, you may add a "+" symbol to the first item in the list, for example,
"+Company" => "VeryPDF.com Inc"
"Copyright" => "VeryPDF"
Shortcut Menu
Show Files Info
Select show files info menu PDF Info Editor will extract selected files info to a new window.
Change Selected File
PDF Info Editor allow user process one or more selected files instead of all.
View Source File
User can select this menu to view source pdf file selected in pdf file list. User can also double click on one source file to browse .
View Destination File
User can select this menu to view Destination pdf file selected in pdf file list. User can also double click on one Destination file to browse .
Delete All
Select this menu PDF Info Editor will clear the file list box after confirm.
Delete
Delete selected files in the file list box.
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