ScanSoft PDF CREATE! 3-HELP Reference guide

ScanSoft®PDF Create! 3

Online Help

ScanSoft®PDF Create! 3 Online Help

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Using ScanSoft PDF Create!

ScanSoft®PDF Create! 3 enables you to generate PDF files directly from any

Microsoft Windows (98, Me, NT, 2000, XP) application using the Print command.

In Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, you can also use the toolbar shortcut

to print a PDF file.

The PDF files will be viewable, printable, searchable and editable (they will be

“Normal” PDF files) unless the source file came from an imaging application or

security permissions prohibit some of these functions.

Scope of this Help

This Online Help tells you how to create PDF files using the Print dialog box in

your print-enabled applications. It tells how to use the ScanSoft PDF Create!

Properties dialog box to control different aspects of PDF creation.

This Help does not document the following items:

PDF Create! Assistant

This Assistant is called from the Windows Start menu. It lets you compile a list of

files to be converted. These files may have been created in different applications.

Choose to combine the files in the given order to create a single PDF file or have

each file converted separately. Files can also be overlaid for the conversion.

Please click the Help button in the Assistant to access its own Help system.

PDF Links dialog box

This dialog box can be accessed from Microsoft Word, from a toolbar button or

an item in the PDF Create! menu. It lets you define settings that are applicable

only when creating a PDF from a Word document. Define which paragraph styles

in the Word document should be converted to bookmarks in the PDF, which

comments should be transferred and how hyperlinks should appear. Please click

the Help button in the PDF Links dialog box to access its own Help system.

System Requirements

The following are the minimum system requirements to install and run ScanSoft®

PDF Create! 3:

A computer with an Intel®Pentium®or higher processor

Microsoft Windows®98 (from second edition), Windows Me, Windows

2000 (SP4), or Windows XP (SP1, SP2)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or above

Microsoft Word 97*, Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word XP or Microsoft

Word 2003

64 MB of memory (RAM), 128 MB recommended

50 MB of free hard disk space for application files plus 5MB working space

during installation

5 MB for Microsoft Installer (MSI) if not present. (This is present as part of

the operating system in Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP)

SVGA monitor with 256 colors, but preferably 16-bit color (called High

Color in Windows 2000 and Medium Color in XP) and 800 x 600 pixel

resolution

Windows-compatible pointing device

CD-ROM drive for installation

Note:Performance and speed will be enhanced if your computer’s processor,

memory, and available disk space exceed minimum requirements.

Note:Disk space and memory requirements may be higher on some operating

systems.

Installation and Activation

Please remove any version of the Zeon DocuCom PDF printer driver utility before

the installation. ScanSoft PDF Create! is a customized and updated version of

that utility and it cannot co-exist with other versions.

1. Insert the CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive

The installation program will start automatically. If it does not, locate your CD-

ROM drive in Windows Explorer and double-click the program’s setup.exe file.

Select a language for installation. The InstallShield®Wizard will appear.

(If you have downloaded the program from the ScanSoft web site, double-click its

setup.exe file.)

*Supports only File/Print. No ScanSoft PDF toolbar buttons.

2. Follow the on-screen instructions

You must accept the license agreement in order to proceed.

You must enter a serial number. You will find this on the CD sleeve or on the

ScanSoft web site at the download location. Be sure to keep the serial number in

a safe place; it is fully checked only during product activation and is also needed

for any re-installations.

The installer offers a default location for the program. Accept it or define a

different one.

3. Click Finish

Registration runs at the end of installation. Select Register Online to establish a

connection to the ScanSoft web site. We provide an easy electronic form that can

be completed in a few moments. When the form is filled, click Submit.

If you decide not to register or to be reminded later, you can go to

http://www.scansoft.com/ to register online any time later. Click on Support and

from the main support screen choose Register in the left-hand column.

For a statement on the use of your registration data, please see ScanSoft’s

4. Activate

You will be invited to activate the product at the end of installation. Please ensure

that web access is available. Provided your serial number is found at its storage

location and has been correctly entered, no user interactionis required and no

personal information is transmitted.

If you do not activate the product at installation time, you will be invited to do this

each time you invoke the program. PDF Create! can be launched only five times

without activation.

Note:The user performing installation or un-installation should have

Administrator rights on the computer. Administrator rights are recommended for

activation and de-activation.

Note:You will be allowed to re-install the program a reasonable number of times

without having re-activation problems, because un-installation includes a de-

activation step. The serial number is needed for re-installation and web access is

needed for de-activation and re-activation.

Network Installation: The program can be installed on a server and pushed to

local computers in a Local Area Network (LAN). Please contact ScanSoft for

license information and separate documentation.

Creating a PDF document

To create a PDF document:

1. Create a new document or open an existing document in any Windows

application.

2. On the File menu, select Print.

In the Printer dialog box select the ScanSoft PDF Create! as your active

printer if it is not already displayed.

3. Click OK.

4. Specify printing options.

Enter the target PDF file name and location in the Save As dialog box.

To view the PDF file, select View Resulting PDF.

5. Click Save.

Note:Your printing options may differ, depending on the settings you specify for

the ScanSoft PDF Create! driver, as described in the next section.

Modifying PDF Create! Behavior

The ScanSoft PDF Create! Properties dialog box includes two tabs,General and

PDF Settings, where you can modify driver settings. A third tab, About, provides

version information about the product.

You can set printing preferences for the current document only, or for all

subsequent documents.

To set properties for the current document:

1. On the File menu, select Print.

In the Printer dialog box, select ScanSoft PDF Create! as your active printer

if it is not already displayed.

2. Click Properties.

3. Select each of the tabs and specify settings for creating PDF files.

4. Click OK to confirm all settings.

To set printing preferences for all documents:

1. On the Windows Start menu, point to Settings, and then click Printers.

2. Then, right–click ScanSoft PDF Create! and click Printing Preferences.

3. Select each of the tabs and specify settings for creating PDF files.

4. Click OK to confirm all settings.

General Tab

The General tab provides controls for the size and page layout of the PDF file.

Note:Page Setup settings in applications, such as Microsoft Word, may override

some General settings made in PDF Create!

Paper Size

Select Standard and then choose a page size from the pull–down list, or choose

Custom and specify the page dimensions and margins.

Click Add to define or modify additional standard page sizes using page

dimensions you specify.

Orientation

Select Portrait or Landscape.

Resolution

This setting influences character spacing, line breaks, and image quality. Usually,

higher resolution produces a more accurate layout but a larger file size.

Select a resolution: Screen (72 dpi), Low (150 dpi), Medium (300 dpi), High

(600 dpi), 1200 or 2400 dpi (dots per inch).

Low resolution is ideal for screen viewing. However, if you require high-quality

hard copy, or accurate control of character position, choose a resolution of at

least 600 dpi.

Scale

Specify whether to reduce or enlarge a document, and by what percentage,

between 1 and 1000 percent.

Enter a value less than 100 percent to reduce the size of the text and images on

the page; enter a value greater than 100 percent to enlarge them.

View Resulting PDF

Select this option to view the PDF file. By default it is selected.

PDF Settings Tab

The PDF Settings Tab provides controls for Compatibility, Web optimizing,

Destination and Document Settings. It also provides a choice of standard

controls for Font Embedding, Compression, Watermarks and Security. Choose a

standard control or click the corresponding Advanced button to fully control the

process.

Compatible with

Choose PDF 1.3 or PDF 1.4 or PDF 1.5 to create files compatible with one of

these PDF versions.

Selecting the PDF 1.4 (compatible with Adobe AcrobatReader version 5.0 or

higher) option will create PDF 1.4 specific commands, such as “Transparency”

and may result in higher quality and smaller file sizes.

Selecting the PDF 1.5 (compatible with Adobe AcrobatReader version 6.0 or

higher) option will create PDF 1.5 specific commands, such as allowing you to

use the more efficient JPEG2000 compression and 128-bit encryption.

Optimized for Web Viewing

Choose this option to increase the viewing speed of your PDF documents on

web sites.

Font Embedding

ScanSoft PDF Create! lets you include fonts inside PDF documents. Font

embedding slows down PDF creation and increases file size, but it ensures

document layout and appearance are preserved, regardless of the fonts available

on a reader’s computer. Choose a standard control:

Embed Non-Standard Fonts (default)

Embed All Fonts

Do Not Embed Fonts.

The default embeds all fonts except the most common fonts that all computers

should have: typically Arial, Times New Roman, Courier and Symbol.

Click Advanced to see the settings for each standard control. To specify more

precise settings for a customized control, click New, name a new control, make

the desired settings and click OK.

To specify a list of fonts to be always embedded, de-select Embed All Used

Fonts, select Always Embed Fonts, select the desired fonts one-by-one and

use the right-facing arrow button to place them in the Always Embed Fonts

panel.

To activate the arrow buttons select the checkbox next to them and select a font.

Click an arrow button to change its direction. This lets you add or remove fonts

from the lists.

To have all fonts embedded except fonts that you choose, select Embed All

Used Fonts, then select Never Embed Fonts; add or remove fonts until the

desired ones are listed and click OK.

Note:Font files have a flag to allow or prohibit embedding. ScanSoft PDF

Create! respects this instruction.

Use Delete to delete a control. Use Default to return supplied controls to default

values and remove user-defined controls.

Compression

ScanSoft PDF Create! includes six predefined conversion controls which specify

settings for compressing text and graphics (line art) as well as specific

compression settings for color images, grayscale images, and monochrome

(black and white) images. Compression helps to make your PDF files smaller.

You can select the appropriate control from the drop-down list:

Medium Quality (level 50) (default)

High Quality (level 75)

Low Quality (level 25)

LossLess (level 100)

Image Place Holder (level 5)

No Image (level 0)

Set level 0 to have pictures in the source document dropped from the PDF.

Select level 5 to have very low quality images, serving only as place-holders.

You can edit the settings for an existing control, add a new control, or delete an

existing control in the Compression Controls dialog box.

To display the Compression Control dialog box:

1. Click the Advanced button.

2. Highlight a conversion control in the list of conversion controls and view or

edit the settings as needed.

Modify the Auto-setting

Move the slider from a pre-set value to a value of your choice. This affects the

compression for texts, line art and images in your documents.

Use Custom Settings

Select a compression method for any color, grayscale, or monochrome

images in your document.

For color and grayscale images, you can choose from a range of qualities of

JPEG and ZIP formats, from High to Low.

Which method is best depends on the kind of images in your particular

document. Some compression techniques do not lose any detail in the

original: these methods are called “lossless.” Lossless methods do not save

as much disk space as the other kind of compression, which is called “lossy.”

Files compressed using lossy methods can be much smaller than files using

lossless methods.

For example, JPEG is best for images requiring a smooth transition from one

color or shade to another while ZIP works well for sharper changes. For best

results, you might want to try different compression settings for different

documents.

The default value for each of the predefined conversion controls allows the

print driver to choose the best method based on the nature of the image.

For monochrome images, you can choose from ZIP, CCITT Group and Run

Length encoding.

CCITT (International Coordinating Committee for Telephony and Telegraphy)

compression method works best for black-and-white images made by paint

programs and 1-bit scanned images.

Run Length produces the best results for images that contain large areas of

solid white or black.

ReSample

Select or clear the ReSample setting. Resampling changes the pixel

dimensions (and thus the display size) of an image.

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