tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53456602342543055042024-02-20T23:51:10.589-08:00Solid Documents BlogSolid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-7300033241973086952021-08-26T14:33:00.004-07:002021-08-26T14:33:55.639-07:00Solid Documents is now part of the PDFTron family of companies!<p> This acquisition combines PDFTron’s world-leading digital content platform with Solid Documents’ best-in-class document reconstruction and archiving solutions.</p><p> <a href="https://www.pdftron.com/blog/news/pdftron-acquires-soliddocuments/">Learn more -></a> <br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-25585581140085418242017-03-13T20:33:00.001-07:002017-03-14T15:31:05.721-07:00CJK plus Greek OCR Support<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have released new versions of Solid PDF Tools, Solid Converter Mac and Solid Commander that include optical character recognition (OCR) for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Greek.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This OCR support was added using Tessaract OCR. <span style="background-color: white;">Tesseract</span><span style="background-color: white;"> is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Solid PDF Tools download:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidPDFTools">http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidPDFTools</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Solid Commander download:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidCommander">http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidCommander</a></span><br />
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Solid Converter Mac download:<br />
<a href="http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com/download-pdf-to-word">http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com/download-pdf-to-word</a><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>In addition, Solid OCR includes high quality optical character recognition in 14 languages (English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish , Swedish and Turkish) for reconstructing scanned pages as editable documents.<a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/solid-ocr.htm?resource=28786"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-73406801490419236472016-09-06T15:53:00.000-07:002016-09-07T18:53:37.335-07:00Solid PDF Creator - I don't see my printer driver anymoreMicrosoft has some new patches out for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and their various server releases that breaks many printer drivers. Our Solid PDF Creator may have disappeared from your choice of printer after this update.<br />
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We have fixed the issue that Microsoft took offence to with printer drivers and have released a new version of Solid PDF Creator on our free PDF Creator <a href="http://www.freepdfcreator.org/">website</a>.<br />
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For more details on the Microsoft patch:<br />
<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3170455&source=gmail&ust=1473284035562000&usg=AFQjCNGy3LWtkF10ON4fGb6UOROCQlU58w" href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3170455" target="_blank">https://support.microsoft.com/<wbr></wbr>en-us/kb/3170455</a><u></u><u></u></span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-50910376607204652332015-10-15T15:54:00.000-07:002016-09-06T15:59:36.174-07:00Solid PDF to Word for Mac is now Solid Converter MacSolid PDF to Word for Mac was originally only a PDF to Word converter.<br />
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It has had a LOT more conversion features added since we released our Mac software so we changed the name. Find out more at our website:<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1160006319"><br /></a>
<a href="http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com/">http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com</a><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-40655307086031552192014-11-12T13:28:00.000-08:002014-11-12T13:28:20.829-08:00Solid PDF to Word for Mac - Version 2.1We have released an update to Solid PDF to Word for Mac - version 2.1.<br />
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<a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/_pdf_mac_version_2.1/324/19">Read more </a>...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-43943676818485751672014-06-23T21:04:00.000-07:002014-06-23T21:04:27.472-07:00Version 9 - Scanning - WIA and TWAIN support<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Question</b>: What scanner support is included with <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/-to-pdf-a-converter/307/11">Solid PDF Tools v9</a>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Answer</b>: We have added WIA support into version 9 as too many customers only had WIA support for their scanning devices. Now you can choose between TWAIN and WIA. We also pop up the manufacturer's device scanning dialog so you can use all the features that your particular scanner supports.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scanner Drivers: TWAIN or WIA</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TWAIN and WIA are standards for communicating with imaging devices - scanners, in our case, and software applications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"The word 'twain' is an archaic form meaning 'two'. It appears in Kipling's 'The Ballad of East and West' - '... and never the twain shall meet ...', reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were selected, but the entry 'Technology Without An Interesting Name' continues to haunt the standard."</i> - from Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TWAIN drivers are provided by your scanner's manufacturer (Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, etc.). When you run Solid Converter it discovers what TWAIN drivers you have installed so it can talk to your scanning devices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WIA (Windows Imaging Acquistion) is from Microsoft and is an utility that allows you to scan into any application that supports WIA.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-74972933936930742812014-06-18T19:07:00.001-07:002014-06-18T19:07:59.351-07:00Version 9 is available<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 18px;">Solid Documents has just released version 9 of all our Windows software products:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/-to-word-converter/304/1" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Solid Converter v9</a><br /><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/-to-pdf-a-converter/307/11" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Solid PDF Tools v9</a><br /><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidPDFAExpress" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Solid PDF/A Express v9</a><br /><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidPDFtoWord" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Solid PDF to Word v9</a><br /><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidScantoWord" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Solid Scan to Word v9</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 18px;"><b>Process Automation:</b><br /><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidAutomator" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Solid Automator v9</a><br /><a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidCommander" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Solid Commander v9</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Free, fully functional trials are available on our website.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Changes</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">New features include File | Print, Search and a new scanner interface (supporting TWAIN and WIA drivers). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We continue to focus on improvements to our industry leading PDF conversion engine, OCR and overall document reconstruction process. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-86761586276162693112014-01-13T13:35:00.001-08:002014-01-13T14:03:12.810-08:00PDF Files - Converting to Word <b>Question</b>: When I convert a PDF file to a Word document not all of the characters are correct. Why does this happen?<br />
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<b>Answer</b>: <span style="font-family: inherit;">Not all PDFs are made the same way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>PDFs</b> - you can say there are basically two types of PDF files - scanned from paper and created on a computer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Scanned PDFs</b> - pages are images. OCR (optical character recognition) has to look at all the dots of ink and figure out what is what.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Based on patterns our software tries to determine characters, images, font, etc. Some dots can be noise or can be diacritics. We try to figure this out as </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">best we can. Quality of scan and font type certainly affect analysis and success of detection. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Computer generated PDFs</b> - usually these types of PDFs include font information (PDFs are built with mapping/encoding details, they do not </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">include characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, headers/footers, details). We figure all this stuff out and reconstruct the document with structure. Some PDF creators do not use <a href="http://blog.soliddocuments.com/2010/06/what-is-non-standard-encoding.html">standard encoding</a> so we have to again do some detective work to try and determine what is in the PDF. If the font has been computer generated and we have details included in the PDF and the computer you convert to Microsoft Word has the same font installed, then you should get these other fonts in the Word file. For example, we convert CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) PDFs that have been computer generated into correct Word documents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Fonts </b>- if we have the information from the PDF or we determine the language/font and it includes diacritics we use the correct characters </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">for the font/language. We have done a lot of work to support foreign languages with our OCR and again, with our standard PDF conversion software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Forcing OCR on computer generated PDFs</b> - turning on text recovery for all characters and pages forces all PDFs through our OCR processing which is not the best solution. With non-standard encoded documents it can provide a better conversion, but if your PDF is a standard computer generated one then our default document reconstruction processing is best.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-85140707900633087452013-12-19T13:37:00.000-08:002013-12-19T12:26:35.444-08:00What is Non-Standard Encoding?Let's start by looking at what <span style="font-weight: bold;">standard encoding</span> is and how it works.<br />
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Each English alphabetical and numerical character A, B, C or 1, 2, 3 and so on has a corresponding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII" rel="nofollow">ASCII</a> (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) Decimal or Hexadecimal code associated with it. Microsoft Word, Notepad and plain text editors use ASCII to display the desired characters.<br />
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ASCII code is the numerical representation of a character such as 'a' 'A' or '@' and can also be an action as shown in the chart below. ASCII-formatted text contains no font formatting information or font decoration such as bold or italic.<br />
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Example:<br />
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The string 'Solid Documents' in ASCII is equivalent to:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Decimal Value</span> - 83 111 108 105 100 NULL 68 111 99 117 109 101 110 116 115<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hexadecimal value </span>- 53 6F 6C 69 64 1 44 6F 63 75 6D 65 6E 74 73<br />
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Using the chart below, you can find the referenced values in decimal and hexadecimal for the example strings above. This table maps the value to the character that will display when these values are used.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Does this mean that a PDF document uses the same codes?</span> Actually a PDF document contains neither decoration denoting fonts, boldface, italics nor plain text. Rather a PDF document contains '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphs" rel="nofollow">Glyphs</a>' or a collection of glyphs that display as the text you see. Commonly, each Glyph will also contain its own custom type of encoding for the letter 'C' or 'b' for example different from an ASCII or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode" rel="nofollow">Unicode</a> value.<br />
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In most cases, when standard encoding is used, each Glyph or collection will also contain the associated values or ASCII code needed to map and display the correct character during a conversion to Microsoft Word as shown in an example below.<br />
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Aring;00C5<br />
Aringacute;01FA<br />
Aringbelow;1E00<br />
Aringsmall;F7E5<br />
Asmall;F761<br />
Atilde;00C3<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">Non-Standard Encoding</span></span><br />
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Unfortunately there are no rules for PDF creation utilities to require the use of standard encoding, like ASCII, standard glyph names or mapping of Glyph names to ASCII codes.<br />
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While the PDF may appear fine when viewed in Adobe Reader or Acrobat, the document actually lacks necessary encoding needed to convert successfully to Microsoft Word. For a better understanding please note the example below:<br />
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Notice the PDF looks great. How you can tell if a PDF has standard encoding or not, is to copy and paste the text from the PDF to Word - if Word can display the correct character then it is encoded, if not, it is non-standard encoding.<br />
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This is known as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Non Standard Encoding (NSE).</span><br />
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While the created PDF document may render and look OK, the standard encoded associations to the Hexadecimal or Decimal values do not exist in the document making it impossible for Microsoft Word to map the values, associate and display the correct characters. You may have seen these results while working with a document created with low quality PDF creation tools or in a poorly scanned document.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">So what happens when non standard encoding exists in a PDF document?</span> It is then up to software such as <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/convert/PDF-to-Word/303/11">Solid Converter PDF</a> or <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidPDFTools">Solid PDF Tools</a> to determine and accurately recreate each character in Word. When NSE is detected the conversion engine of <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidConverterPDF">Solid Converter PDF</a> and <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidPDFTools">Solid PDF Tools</a> work to study each character individually in a process of rebuilding the character or characters in order to supply Microsoft Word with the necessary encoding to display each character correctly. This process requires a high degree of recognition and reconstruction accuracy.<br />
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To continually study and improve our conversion engine, <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/company.htm">Solid Documents</a> tests thousands of PDF files in a process using <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidFramework">Solid Framework SDK </a>to automate a rich set of conversion tests across a wide spectrum of PDF files in order to insure high quality and accurate conversion software.<br />
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With nearly decade of success in delivering best-in-class <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidConverterPDF">document reconstruction </a>and <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/convert/PDF-to-PDF-A/303/1">archiving software</a>, Solid Documents provides a technically sound and innovative document reconstruction software solution for standard as well as non-standard encoded PDF files.Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-9462884732887451422013-12-11T17:28:00.001-08:002013-12-11T17:32:54.520-08:00Batch Processing with Solid CommanderLooking for an automated batch processing solution for PDF processing? Try Solid Commander - automated PDF to Word conversion, PDF/A validation, PDF to PDF/A conversion, searchable PDF creation and text extraction.<br />
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Take a <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/automatedconversion.htm?product=SolidCommander&subject=CommanderGettingStarted">video tour</a> and learn more.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-54434339515095873522013-12-01T14:04:00.000-08:002013-12-01T14:06:00.275-08:00Scanners ...TWAIN... WIA... <b>Question</b>: What is TWAIN and WIA? What does this have to do with <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/-to-word-converter/304/1">Solid Converter v8</a>?<br />
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<b>Answer</b>: TWAIN and WIA are standards for communicating with imaging devices - scanners, in our case, and software applications.<br />
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<i>"The word 'twain' is an archaic form meaning 'two'. It appears in Kipling's 'The Ballad of East and West' - '... and never the twain shall meet ...', reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion. None were selected, but the entry 'Technology Without An Interesting Name' continues to haunt the standard."</i> - from Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing</blockquote>
TWAIN drivers are provided by your scanner's manufacturer (Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, etc.). When you run Solid Converter it discovers what TWAIN drivers you have installed so it can talk to your scanning devices.<br />
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WIA (Windows Imaging Acquistion) is from Microsoft and is an utility that allows you to scan into any application that supports WIA.<br />
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Solid Converter v8 only uses TWAIN as its interface to scanning devices.<br />
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If you scanner does not support TWAIN you can use the software supplied with your scanner to scan your paper documents. Save the scanned images as tiff and then create a PDF using <b>Create PDF </b>with Solid Converter.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-65661177819955460932013-11-18T13:29:00.002-08:002013-11-18T13:33:16.006-08:00Solid PDF to Word for Mac v2 - OSX 10.9 supportSolid PDF to Word for Mac v2 works with the latest OS X Maverick operating system.<br />
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To run the Mac PDF to Word converter, your Mac must meet the following requirements:<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Requires Mac OS X v10.6, v10.7, v10.8, v10.9</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent;">150 MB of available hard disk space</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: transparent;">iWork Pages required to create .pages documents from converted .docx documents</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-6919520787592421202013-10-09T17:39:00.002-07:002013-10-09T17:40:59.017-07:00PDF/A1-b or PDF/A-2b?<b>Question</b>: Is it recommended to use PDF/A1-b or PDF/A-2b?<br />
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<b>Answer: </b>PDF/A-1 is based on PDF version 1.4. PDF/A-2 is based on the latest PDF standard which supports more functionality and better compression than the older format (compressed object streams and compressed cross reference streams for example). With this in mind, we recommend PDF/A-2b.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-22760238524951062112013-09-30T15:25:00.000-07:002013-10-09T17:40:41.647-07:00What makes it a PDF?Often people will ask "<a href="http://blog.soliddocuments.com/2007/08/what-is-pdf-file-format.html" style="font-weight: bold;">What is a PDF file?</a>" or "<a href="http://blog.soliddocuments.com/2007/10/comparing-adobe-reader-to-foxit-reader.html" style="font-weight: bold;">How do you View a PDF File</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">?</span>". These lead to a couple of basic answers.<br />
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1. A PDF file is a "<span style="font-style: italic;">Portable Document Format (PDF), developed by Adobe Systems, Inc. PDF files maintain the original document formatting for both printing and viewing on a multiple computing platforms, including Windows, UNIX and Mac."</span>2. In order to view a PDF, you need a viewer , either created by Adobe, and available for <a href="http://get.adobe.com/reader/" rel="nofollow">free download </a>or you can use a viewer created by someone else<span style="font-style: italic;">.</span>You can create a PDF file using software designed for this purpose, such as <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidPDFCreator">Solid PDF Creator</a>, <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidConverterPDF">Solid Converter PDF</a>or <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidPDFTools">Solid PDF Tools</a>.<br />
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In order to be a "PDF" file, the file must be compliant with standards set by Adobe and the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) as set forth by ISO 32000. According to <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html" rel="nofollow">Adobe</a>: "<span style="font-style: italic;">ISO 32000 will continue to be developed with the objective of protecting the integrity and longevity of PDF, providing an open standard for the more than one billion PDF files in existence today."</span><br />
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This means that if you have a file stored on your computer or on a CD today in PDF format, you should be able to view it 10, 20, or more years down the road, exactly as it is. To further ensure this happens, the <a href="http://blog.soliddocuments.com/2009/08/pdfa-pdf-designed-for-long-term.html">PDF/A</a> format was also created.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Security</span>Not only are PDF files a universal format, but they can have <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdfconverter.htm?product=SolidPDFTools&subject=ToolsCreatePasswordProtection"> security</a> added so that they can be protected from viewing, printing, copying, editing, etc. There are several <a href="http://blog.soliddocuments.com/search?q=encryption&updated-max=2007-09-12T14%3A39%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=20">levels of encryption</a> available for protecting files. Adobe Acrobat and all of the<a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/"> Solid Documents products </a>allow you to apply custom security settings in your files.<br />
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But what about other options? Recently <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRM_%28computing%29" rel="nofollow">DRM</a> (Digital Rights Management)has become a buzzword.<br />
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According to Adobe, DRM Feature(s)” means any control and/or restriction on a PDF document that may include, but not be limited to, access rights, viewing, cutting, copying, pasting, printing, screen capturing, modifying, editing, watermarking, and/or document auditing (anonymous or authenticated), as expressly set forth in the Application.<br />
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It is important to be aware that while Adobe continues working with some <a href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/199910/19991006ebookspartnr.html" rel="nofollow">partners</a> to implement and improve DRM to better assist creators and publishers in protecting their works and still meet the industry standards, there are other programs on the market that promise protection and DRM.<br />
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Programs such as CopySafe PDF and LockLizard safeguard offer DRM protection over and above the standard PDF Encryption, while promising to maintain the original format and encryption, but they both require a proprietary viewer and change the .pdf extension to a different format, therefore, they are not really PDF files as they these do not meet the PDF standard and cannot be opened in a standard Adobe PDF Viewer.<br />
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If you want quick added security for the short term, these may be good options, however what about longevity? Will these proprietary viewers still exist in 20 years from now on new computing platforms yet to be invented or will they become an obsolete file format such as EFax.Com's .efx files. They originally used this format, then switched to PDF as well, but if you had archived copies of your .efx faxes, you could not open them, and sharing them with anyone else who didn't have Efax installed was useless. Only recently, it appears, did they add a converter to make these into PDF files. Luckily, Efax is a profitable enterprise that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon, so if you have .efx files, you will probably still be able to access them or convert them later.<br />
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One of the features of PDF is the ability to make your files searchable. In testing the added DRM features of these products, I found that the searchability of the document was compromised.<br />
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Claims that these DRM methods are unbreakable is also a fallacy in that they do protect from basic computer hacking, however if the document is viewed on a screen and a photo can be taken of it, then OCR can be used and the document can still be copied or re-created.<br />
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A good rule of thumb: If it doesn't have a .PDF extention on the end, it isn't really a PDF file!<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"></span>Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-23379360060106356382013-09-24T16:28:00.000-07:002013-09-24T17:24:38.482-07:00DOCX is Not a Portable Document FormatWe have had some customers wonder why .docx files display differently in Microsoft Office on OSX versus Office on Windows.<br />
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Layout in all documents depends upon font metrics. There are vertical and horizontal font metrics. Even if horizontal metrics look the same, the vertical metrics can be so different that the text line with the substituted font takes more or less vertical space than it does for the original font. This affects the layout of the entire document.<br />
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Mac OSX has its own set of fonts that are not available on Windows. If you have Office installed on OSX then it also adds typical Microsoft Office fonts. The Mac has a super-set of fonts and that means that documents converted on Windows have more chances to be displayed well on Mac than vice versa.</div>
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Microsoft Word is a word processor. While it has powerful formatting and design functionality it was never written to maintain the original document formatting for printing and viewing on multiple computer platforms. This is the purpose of PDF - Portable Document Format.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-51272475363876189652013-09-22T19:59:00.000-07:002013-09-22T20:06:47.535-07:00Solid PDF to Word for Mac v2 Released<div style="font-size: 14px;">
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We just released version 2 of Solid PDF to Word for Mac. </div>
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<span style="color: black;"> *<b> Prompt for Page Range </b>(convert 1 page or as many pages as you need)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">* <b>PDF to PowerPoint and PDF to .csv data</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">*<b> OCR languages supported </b>include English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">*<b>Improved OCR (Optical Character Recognition)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">*<b> </b>We continuously use your PDFs to <b>improve our conversion output</b>. Get all the latest updates</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">* <b>Simplified unlocking </b>from the application menu</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Mountain Lion</b> support with this version. We support OS X v10.6, v10.7 and v10.8</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com/download-pdf-to-word">Download</a> version 2 (free 15 day trial, fully functional but we watermark output)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-89939034698935305232013-09-19T19:09:00.000-07:002013-09-23T15:43:16.034-07:00Virus checkers, valid software blocked and hangs...We have been hearing from our customers that Norton and Symantec our quarantining parts of our version 8 applications. Why would anti-virus software block applications that do not contain malware or viruses?<br />
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Symantec and other anti-virus software companies use detection techniques to try and determine if something might harm your computer. Based on certain attributes that they decide, they quarantine or block applications from running if their tools believe your software may cause harm.
These detection techniques also make mistakes and can block clean software applications from running.<br />
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What does this look like for Solid Documents software?<br />
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<b>Software Hangs at Start</b><br />
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Run Solid Converter v8 or Solid PDF Tools v8 and you see the splash screen and then the cursor just spins and spins and spins. Hopefully you see your anti-virus software pop up a notice that it has blocked one of our services. The potential services that could get blocked:<br />
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SolidFramework.JobHandler.exe<br />
SolidScanServiceX86.exe<br />
SolidScanServiceX64.exe<br />
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<b>Microsoft Word Addin Gets Quarantined</b><br />
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We add a toolbar ribbon to Microsoft Word with version 8. This can also get blocked and quarantined by Symantec or other anti-virus checkers. You will see a message that SolidWordAddin.dll has been quarantined.<br />
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Our software is safe and free of any malware or adware. We use code signing certificates to mark our software from Solid Documents. You can trust the software you download from our website. When you install you will always see our company name when Windows verifies that you trust the provider of the software you are trying to install.<br />
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Fortunately Symantec has a way to report these false-positive quarantines to get us off their list. We have submitted our software for review to them and they have white-listed our software. Now they have to push out the definitions that include our software to all their users. We will pro-actively continue to ask for Symantec (and Norton) to white-list our releases to try and eliminate these false-positive reports from happening and hindering your use of our software.<br />
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If you ever have questions regarding our software, please email us at support@soliddocuments.com. If other anti-virus checkers are blocking our software please let us know.Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-50287699934859402302013-07-09T20:43:00.000-07:002013-07-09T20:43:23.016-07:00v8 has New User Interface<span style="font-family: inherit;">v8 includes a new and improved user interface where the core tasks are easily available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The v8 rewrite was a conscious shift back to our core features : a focus on document reconstruction functionality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Adding new features to the product going forward is prioritized by customer requests so please send your feedback to <a href="mailto:support@soliddocuments.com">support@soliddocuments.com</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The v8 rewrite was required to take advantage of 64-bit architectures and multi-core processors. A rewrite using Microsoft .NET was required so that we could engineer the product using our own <a href="http://www.solidframework.net/">Solid Framework</a> SDK (unlike the older products which were based on a legacy architecture).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch our getting started <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdfconverter.htm?product=SolidPDFTools&subject=V8GettingStarted">video</a>.</span></div>
Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-68304774605449572002013-07-09T20:35:00.002-07:002013-07-09T21:05:03.527-07:00Where's my Solid Converter PDF printer driver?If you had a pre-version 8 of <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/">Solid Converter PDF</a> or Solid PDF Tools, you know that you would choose Solid Converter PDF (or Solid PDF Tools) when you wanted to create a PDF from the File | Print menu:<br />
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With v8 versions of our software we are shipping Solid PDF Creator as the printer driver for PDF creation. File | Print and choose Solid PDF Creator from the printer list:<br />
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Please note that Solid PDF Creator is pre-unlocked. When you purchase Solid Converter v8 or Solid PDF Tools v8, Solid PDF Creator is ready to use. File | Print | and select Solid PDF Creator and get creating PDFs.Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-79270979847044643842013-04-01T21:09:00.000-07:002013-07-07T21:12:27.350-07:00New Version 8 AvailableWe have released version 8!<br />
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<a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/-to-word-converter/304/1">Solid Converter PDF</a> and <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/-to-pdf-a-converter/307/11">Solid PDF Tools</a> helps you improve, create and convert PDFs into Word and Excel in addition to other file formats, resulting in accurate, high quality documents that are easy to reuse. </div>
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Included in this version 8 release are two process automation applications: <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidAutomator">Solid Automator</a> and <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidCommander">Solid Commander</a>. Solid Documents has also released three new applications with specific functionality: <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidPDFtoWord">Solid PDF to Word</a>, <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidScantoWord">Solid Scan to Word</a> and <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/products.htm?product=SolidPDFAExpress">Solid PDF/A Express</a>.</div>
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"The v8 rewrite was a conscious shift back to our core features : a focus on document reconstruction functionality" said Michael Cartwright, CEO of Solid Documents. "The v8 rewrite was required to take advantage of 64-bit architectures and multi-core processors. A rewrite using Microsoft .NET was required so that we could engineer the products using our own <a href="http://www.solidframework.net/">Solid Framework SDK</a> (unlike the older products which were based on a legacy architecture)."</div>
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Getting started <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/documentation.htm?product=SolidConverterPDF">videos</a> are available, along with other product feature tutorials.</div>
Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-52394865444863107072012-12-13T17:04:00.000-08:002012-12-13T17:42:14.337-08:00PDF/A-1 vs. PDF/A-2PDF/A is an archiving standard that was published in 2005 by ISO. PDF/A-1 was based on the original Adobe PDF 1.4 version. This version set the standard for ensuring that PDF content could always be visually reproduced regardless of future changes to viewing and printing technology.<br />
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PDF/A-2 was released by ISO in July 2011. PDF/A-1 files are compliant archive documents and do not need to be converted to the new standard. PDF/A-2 does not replace the PDF/A-1 standard.<br />
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So, what is the difference between these two standards you might ask.<br />
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<strong>PDF/A-1</strong> is based on PDF version 1.4 (based on Adobe PDF specifications).<br />
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<strong>PDF/A-2</strong> is based on the ISO standard 32000-1 and takes advantage of features that came after the Adobe PDF 1.4 specification.<br />
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What is new in PDF/A-2:<br />
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<li>JPEG2000 compression (benefits for scanned color documents)</li>
<li>Embedded PDF/A files via collections/portfolios</li>
<li>Transparency</li>
<li>Optional content (layers): useful for mapping or engineering drawings or documents with multiple languages (implement different content on different layers)</li>
<li>Unicode support (PDF/A-2U)</li>
<li>Object level XMP metadata (new requirements for custom metadata)</li>
<li>Comments and annotations (defined list of acceptable and prohibited annotation and comment types for PDF/A-2)</li>
<li>Digital signature rules defined.</li>
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If you need the features and benefits of the new standard you can start creating or converting your PDF files to PDF/A-2b using <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/-to-pdf-a-converter/307/11">Solid PDF Tools</a> version 7.3.<br />
<br />Read more about PDF Standards <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/_standards_format/253/11">here</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-2672147638208830202012-12-11T14:05:00.000-08:002012-12-11T14:05:38.478-08:00Solid PDF to Word for Mac UpdatedWe've released an update for Solid PDF to Word for Mac: version 1.3.<br />
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Mountain Lion OSX (v10.8) support has been added with continued support for OSX v10.6 and v10.7. <br />
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Solid PDF to Word for Mac also includes improved heading/style detection, table of contents reconstruction and hierarchical list reconstruction for PDF to Word and PDF to HTML. We have also updated our Solid OCR engine with the latest improvements.<br />
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This update is free for all current v1 license holders.Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-57110859512697883442012-09-21T19:42:00.000-07:002012-09-21T19:42:36.172-07:00Solid Converter PDF 7.3 ReleasedSolid Documents has just released version 7.3 of Solid Converter PDF and Solid PDF Tools. Improvements in version 7.3 include:<br />
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<li><strong>Solid OCR</strong> (<a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/solid-ocr.htm">optical character recognition</a>) now supports 8 languages (English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish).</li>
<li><strong>PDF to Word</strong>: heading/style detection, table of contents reconstruction, hierarchical list reconstruction.</li>
<li>Complete rework of <strong>PDF to PowerPoint</strong> reconstruction including transitions, master slides and PowerPoint specific layout engine.</li>
<li>Great improvements to <strong>PDF to HTML</strong> conversion to take advantage of table of contents reconstruction and style detection. Single page output with navigation frame or multiple linked HTML pages for navigation.</li>
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<a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/pdf/-to-word-free-download/306/1">Download</a> Solid Converter PDF - 15 day fully functional trial version (we only watermark output while in trial mode)<br />
<a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidPDFTools">Download</a> Solid PDF ToolsSolid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-76499298845881659532011-10-13T17:09:00.000-07:002011-10-13T17:14:28.990-07:00Macworld reviews Solid PDF to Word for MacGreat little article about our Mac software product (<a href="http://www.mac-pdf-converter.com/">Solid PDF to Word for Mac</a>) on Macworld:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/162699/2011/10/how_to_convert_pdfs_to_word_and_other_formats_.html">How to convert PDFs to Word (and other formats)</a><br /><br />Thanks Kirk McElhearn for the review!Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345660234254305504.post-76478873128512753832011-07-13T17:43:00.000-07:002011-07-13T18:14:41.372-07:00Securing your PDF ContentPDF files can contain information with varying levels of sensitivity.<br /><br />You may have posters, flyers, calendars, etc. that you wish everyone to open, print and use as needed. Or you may have documents that only a few key individuals should be able to open. You may also have files that you want people to be able to view, but not change using a PDF editor (invoices or banking statements come to mind, as you don't want people to remove a couple zeros from a bill you sent them).<br /><br />PDF files can be secured easily, restricting the options of <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">most</span> users. Please note that no <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption">encryption technology</a> [wikipedia.org] is perfect, and there is software available that people can use to illicitly crack PDF files. The steps below can make it much harder for people to open or alter your documents, but they will not make it impossible.<br /><br />This guide assumes that you have Solid Converter PDF installed. If you have not purchased the program, you can download a <a href="http://www.soliddocuments.com/download.htm?product=SolidConverterPDF">free 15 day trial</a>.<br /><a name='more'></a><br />1. Open the document you wish to convert to PDF and go into <strong>File</strong> <strong>Print</strong> and select the <strong>Solid Converter PDF</strong> printer driver and click <strong>OK</strong>.<br /><br />Below is an example window of what this looks like in Microsoft Word:<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0NaInAfk7ocuPzRRbr02R3TuRz0CdgrHjLIJ9Q1AVXfqqWk3xm8pTOgziT35q83gmVYeog-C2-WnKBLSnHb8xk7JSqhC5wC3ACBH8hLKEZcPy8CHMtOfh_IPLYJ2ibu0E90Lyi0cOEU/s1600/print_dialog_blog.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629004842491439570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0NaInAfk7ocuPzRRbr02R3TuRz0CdgrHjLIJ9Q1AVXfqqWk3xm8pTOgziT35q83gmVYeog-C2-WnKBLSnHb8xk7JSqhC5wC3ACBH8hLKEZcPy8CHMtOfh_IPLYJ2ibu0E90Lyi0cOEU/s400/print_dialog_blog.jpg" /></a><br />2. In the window that appears, select the name and location of your PDF file, check "Prompt for Document Properties" and click <strong>Create</strong>:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg216KCbMq1UDjsSAvWDQ_5Qk_KxdHgDdTnGfbIoW0qMdAWEsv55LfAE4EvuKm6Cggbf6aFWRoZVTJ655cL5by5a44s51fPtqTlqsp_KreYbzH_t1uJpq9hBhfwlp9ElWaKj3iAtmLx9d0/s1600/create_pdf_security_2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 334px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629005066323614434" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg216KCbMq1UDjsSAvWDQ_5Qk_KxdHgDdTnGfbIoW0qMdAWEsv55LfAE4EvuKm6Cggbf6aFWRoZVTJ655cL5by5a44s51fPtqTlqsp_KreYbzH_t1uJpq9hBhfwlp9ElWaKj3iAtmLx9d0/s400/create_pdf_security_2.jpg" /></a><br /><br />You can now setup Security, Document Information and View Preferences. We will only talk about security in this post.<br /><br />3. First, determine if you need to prevent someone from opening your new PDF file without a password, or doing something with the PDF without a password (print, edit, extract contents, etc).<br /><br />- If you need to do the former, check "Require user password to open the document" and enter a user password. Anyone who wants to open the PDF file in Adobe Reader will need this password.<br /><br />- If you need to do the latter, check "Use owner password to restrict printing, editing and extraction". Next, enter an owner password and uncheck the items that you don't want people to do.<br /><br />You can restrict:<br /><ul><br /><li>Printing (printing the document to a paper printer, for example).</li><br /><li>Editing of contents (changing the PDF file using a PDF editor).</li><br /><li>Copying and extraction of contents (to prevent copy/pasting from the PDF file, or using a program to convert the PDF to DOC). </li><br /><li>Adding or editing of comments.</li><br /></ul><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 333px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629005638274182994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8w-Y0zB67i-sqagsh1ZHKwiNoA4rQQjG56Seg8OUjIFPRwr_Wm6aRpcmaquNgeVz38gHTQQ77d9nahVCqCpb27C-pEHsY9U2c6NuGy0NwkhubDWG6F3cvOKYNGDeDPU5eF_duetYpajk/s400/create_pdf_security.jpg" /><br />4. Finally, you can set the encryption level at the top of the window. If you select either password option it will automatically default to "High (128-bit RC4)". Opening this kind of file requires Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher.<br /><br />If you want to apply a stronger encryption method, select the drop down menu next to Encryption Level and select "High (128-bit AES) or High (256-bit AES)". This requires that viewers of the file have Adobe Reader 7.x or higher installed (you may <a href="http://www.adobe.com/reader">download the latest Adobe Reader</a> for free [adobe.com]).<br /><br />Finally, you can select a weak encryption method (40-bit RC4), but we don't recommend this, unless you have to make the PDF file display in Adobe Acrobat 3 or 4.<br /><br />5. Once you've setup how you want to secure the PDF file, click OK and the file will be created.Solid Documentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08325812318762675510noreply@blogger.com