Print Options

Print Options

Options offers these choices, the selections for Color, Image Processing and PDF Embed Fonts are important:

  • Set Processing tab, Options, Embed Fonts.

    This with normal fonts increases the size of the PDF to ten or more times it's current size, HOWEVER if fonts are restricted to Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New the Embed Fonts option converts those fonts to Helvetica, Times Roman and Courier and removes embedded font glyphs. This PDF file reads with GMail, is small and suitable for mobile devices such as cell phones and Pad devices.

    See HERE under PDFEmbed for details.

    Embed Fonts with normal fonts produces what is known as a PDF/A format (mandated in Europe for PDFs).
    • Option Description

    All options must be in the format -x[option]. Multiple options should be separated by a comma. For example, -xnocolor,nopjl

    -xcolor / -xcolour Use color commands.
    -xnocolor / -xnocolour Do NOT use color commands (default).
    -xfastimage (default)
    -xbestimage    		 Image Scaling is the most intensive task performed by FormTrap. Image scaling is required only for substitution images where FormTrap offers two modes for processing:

    FastImage is the default setting and scales at the same resolution as the original image, producing the output file quickly with a smaller image. This option is UNSUITABLE for low resolution images (typically 72dpi images). Please review your substitution library for low dpi images and replace them with images of 300dpi or above for preference. Consistency of images will produce consistency of output quality.

    BestImage scales to 300dpi, regardless of the original image dpi. This produces good quality images slowly. This is required if you have only low resolution images in your substitution library (high quality images are preferable).
    -xpdfembed Default is No Embedded Fonts.

    Embeds True Type font table(s) into the PDF file, the output file qualifies as PDF/A.

    WARNING: File sizes increase, by 10 times and more.

    Use when PDF files are required as PDF/A.
    Use when PDFs are required to be viewed by GMail or iPhone.

    The default GMail and iPhone PDF viewers at the time of writing (2016) will not view PDF files without embedded True Type fonts (if the text appears garbled or missing, lack of embedded fonts is the cause).

    There are two solutions:

    Solution 1:

    GMail has Connected apps Lumin and DocHub that open FormTrap PDFs without embedded fonts, a message in the Email should advise users of this in preference to the PDF File size increase.

    Solution 2:

    Include only Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New fonts in the form and use option PDFEmbed to produce a minimum-sized PDF that will use the three fonts embedded in the mobile and GMail viewers. This format of PDF file is minimum size and is viewed by Gmail and cell phones and Pad devices.
    -xpjl Use HP Printer Job Language before and after print job to setup printer and reset it (default).
    -xnopjl Do NOT use HP Printer Job Language before and after print job to setup printer and reset it.
    REMAINING COMMANDS ARE FOR VERY OLD SYSTEMS AND CAN BE IGNORED
    -xres Use high-resolution user-defined PCL fill patterns (default).
    -xnores Do NOT use high-resolution user-defined PCL fill patterns.
    -xgl2 Use HP GL/2 for advanced PCL drawing (default).
    -xnogl2 Do NOT use HP GL/2 for advanced PCL drawing.
    -xbigfont Turns on support for sending True Type font headers to PCL printers that are larger than 32767 bytes (default).
    -xnobigfont Type 2 font headers (under 32Kb) are used when sending downloaded fonts. REQUIRED for Lexmark T63x, T64x and T65x printers and all others that do not support Type 3 font headers.

    Note: Default is nobigfont for version 6.3 and lower, bigfont for version 6.4 and later.

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