The Convert Excel tab is used to convert Microsoft® Excel files to PDF files. It also allows to export the files to images and to send them to the printer. The tab allows the user to set security and permissions on the output PDF file, convert it to images and route it after optionally changing its name. The tab has the following sections:
Compatibility - Sets the compatibility for the PDF security in the converted document. The options are either Acrobat 5.0 (High 128-bit RC4) and later or Acrobat 7.0 (High 128-bit AES) and later.
Set the "Document Open" Password – also known as the user password, it is the password that will be required when the documents are opened.
Set the "Change Permissions" Password – also known as the owner password, it is the password that will be required when trying to change permissions and passwords on the documents.
Allow High Resolution Printing – Print the document at high resolution. When this permission is granted, the following permission 'Printing' is also automatically granted.
Allow Printing - Allow printing the document
Allow Text & Graphics Extraction – Copy or otherwise extract text and graphics from the document. When this permission is granted, the following permission 'Extraction for Accessibility' is also automatically granted.
Allow Extraction for Accessibility – Extract text and graphics in support of accessibility to disabled users or other purposes
Allow Document Changes – Modify the document. When this permission is granted, the following 3 permissions (Document Assembly, Comments and Form Filling) are also automatically granted. When this permission is not granted, the following 3 permissions (Document Assembly, Comments and Form Filling) can independently be granted.
Allow Document Assembly – Assemble the document: insert, rotate or delete pages and create bookmarks or thumbnail images
Allow Annotations & Comments – Add or modify text annotations. When this permission is granted, the following permission 'Filling Form Fields & Signing' is automatically granted. When this permission is not granted, then the following permission 'Form Filling & Signing' can be granted independently. And when this permission is granted and the 'All Changes' permission is also granted, creating or modifying interactive form fields (including signature fields) is allowed.
Allow Filling Form Fields & Signing - Fill in existing interactive form fields including signature fields.
In addition to converting the Microsoft® Word files to PDF an image of the file can also be created. This section sets the options when converting the document to images.
DPI Resolution - Resolution in DPI used to render the page, 72 is the PDF native resolution.
Format - The image format used when converting the PDF documents to images
JPEG - lossy compression that will reduce image quality and size
PNG - Lossless compression does not reduce quality and has no additional options
TIFF - Lossless compression does not reduce quality but allows for more than one image per file and additional compression formats
All - Converts all the pages of the document
Pages in the range - Converts only the pages in the designated range (if the pages exist)
Start with the PDF file name - Check this option to have the file name start with the file name of the PDF document
Add - Enter additional text to append to the end of the file name
Note: Page number and file extension will be appended to the pattern to create the file name.
Minimum Digits in Page Number (Zero Pad) - the number of digits to use in the counter using zeros as padding. For example: if set to 4 digits and the current count value is 15 it will display as "0015"
This section determines what happens once the PDF document has successfully been processed. If the processing fails for any reason the document will instead rout the document using the settings set in the Trouble Handling tab.