Image->PDF

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The options on the Image->PDF tab determine how PDF files are created. In the rendered PDF document, each page will be a full page-sized image. This results in bigger files, but requires no embedded type fonts ensuring compatibility with all computers. Zan Image Printer can create two types of PDF documents:

image-only, non-searchable

image + hidden text layer, searchable

Output Image File Format
Select the format of image that you want to create, available formats are: BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PDF, PNG and TIFF.

Color
Select one of the file varieties: monochrome, 256 color, grayscale, and true color (24-bits).

Quality
This parameter allows you to specify the desired quality of the compression by varying a quality factor (QFactor) between 0 (worst quality) and 100 (best quality). A QFactor of around 75 produces good results for nearly all images.

File Mode
One multi-page
All pages of the current document are saved to a single multi-page PDF file. If the file exists prior to printing, all previous data is overwritten and lost.
Serialized (one page per file)
One page per file, each page of the current document is saved to an individual PDF file.
Append to existing file
Concatenate and merge all pages of multiple documents into one single PDF file so you can print and save them together. If the file exists prior to printing, all previous images in the file are not be touched, and the new images are appended to the existing file. We recommend that you define a fixed file name from the Save tab when using the append mode.

Create PDF in image + searchable text format
When this option is selected, Zan Image Printer adds an invisible layer of searchable text to the original image so the text can be indexed and searched.
When this option is cleared, Zan Image Printer produces the PDF in image only format that doesn't contain any searchable text.

Help
Loads the help file, and displays the Image->PDF topic.