Preferences Overview

Power PDF offers a range of preferences through the Options command in the File Menu. Items with an asterisk (*) are in Power PDF Advanced only. Here is a summary of the groups and choices:

 

Accessibility

On the Display page, adjust the colors used for document display to make them easier to read for people visually impaired. For details see Document Colors Options.

On the Speech page, set reading order and page range options for the screen reader.

 

Automation*

• In the Server Connections group, set a scan Inbox folder to be monitored for images arriving from a scanner, and set the integration with AutoStore or QuickConnect.
• In the Wached Folder group, set up a watched folder (with or without sub-folders)  to handle all supported file types or any one of them. All incoming files are converted to PDF (Searchable or Normal) or TIFF (single- or multi-page) and sent to a destination you have specified.

Collaboration

The Online Collaboration page offers the Server box. Specify the URL of the on-premise collaboration server in the box. For example:

https://10.0.0.1

https://mycollaborationserver

Online Collaboration requires Power PDF Advanced 5.0 or newer with Volume License and the supplied on-premise collaboration server up and running.

Refer to the Network Installation Guide for server installation and configuration details.

From a user's perspective, see Collaboration panel for details.

 

Comment

Restore comment defaults, set font attributes for text boxes and choose behavior for comments (for example, leave note fields blank or insert marked or covered text, set the author). For details see Comment Preferences.

 

Connectors

 

Manage your cloud and DMS connector accounts.

 

Document

• Specify a preference for Advanced Edit mode.
• Set OCR language and other settings for turning image-only PDF pages searchable.
• Set conditions for calling the Remove Document Elements dialog box.

 

Edit object

Specify an image editor for editing embedded pictures.

 

Forms

Specify form preferences.

 

General

Specify a wide range of general preferences, arranged in many subcategories.

 

JavaScript

Enable or disable Javascript in the program.

 

Movie

Define a preferred media player for viewing movies, and set choices for subtitles, dubbed audio, captions and descriptions.

 

New Document

Make font, margin, page size and orientation choices for all new documents on the New Document panel.

In the E-mail Conversion panel, set the PDF format and the way handling attachments. These settings are applied when opening an e-mail file (.msg or .eml) directly in Power PDF or when archiving e-mails.

 

Security

Specify security preferences relating to servers, import or export settings and protect settings files.

 

Signatures

Specify signature preferences such as appearance, verification requirements, digital identities, and time stamping.

 

Read Aloud

Make language and other choices for reading texts aloud. The Read Aloud page provides controls related to Windows text-to-speech settings.

 

Spell check

Enable on-the-fly spell checking in comment texts, choose an underline color and one or more dictionaries to be used.