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Edit Job Properties
Click on the "Edit" button to view and edit information about the job. When the button is pressed, a new window will open containing the following tabs:
- Job Information: This tab contains general job information, such as the name and description and whether the job should be started when PAS is started.
- Source Settings: This tab contains information about where to look for incoming PDF documents. The tab allows you to set the polling interval and parameters as well as information specific to the source type. For instance, if the documents are coming in via email, this tab allows for configuration of the email address and server.
- Storage of Originals: Use this tab to tell the automation server what to do with the original PDF documents, before processing. The documents can be renamged and then saved to different folders, sent over FTP or via email.
- Trouble Handling : This tab contains information about how to handle errors when processing a PDF document. PAS can send notification emails whenever there is an error. Additionally, the server can save or send the file that caused the problem to a location so that it can be reviewed and the problem resolved.
Job Type Functions
Additionally, there will be another tab that will vary according to the job type. For instance, when editing a job to print incoming PDF documents, the tab will collect information about the print job, such as the printer name, margin handling, etc. The functional tabs currently available in PDF Automation Server are:
- Add Headers and Footers . Information about headers and footers to apply.
- Add Watermarks . Information about watermarks to apply.
- Clear Security. Information about how to open the document before clearing its security.
- Convert To Images. Information about how to convert the PDF to images, such as the image format.
- Convert Text to PDF. Information about how to convert text documents to PDF, such as the PDF formatting options.
- Crop Pages. Information about how to crop PDF documents, such as Crop Box margins and page numbers.
- Digitally Sign PDF. Information about how to sign PDF documents.
- Edit Document Properties. Information about how to modify the PDF document properties.
- Export Annotations. Infomation about the desired output format.
- Export Field Values . Infomation about the desired output format.
- Extract Text . Option to extract text from all pages or only a subset of pages.
- Flatten Annotations. Infomation about which annotations should be flattened.
- Flatten Fields. Infomation about which interactive fields should be flattened.
- Import Annotations. Infomation about the annotation source file.
- Import Field Values . Infomation about the source PDF document and an option to flatten fields after importing them.
- Insert Pages. Information about how to assemble and merge PDF document pages.
- Move Files. Information about moving or transferring any document type with no PDF specific processing.
- Preflight. Information about checking preflight document compliance.
- Print PDF. Information about how to print the file, such as the printer name.
- Set Passwords & Permissions. Information about what passwords and permissions to set.
- Split PDF. Information about how to split the file by page, bookmarks, text or blank page and how to name the output files.
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