Document Features Supported on PDF Export

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Any document loaded into Aspose.Words can be converted to PDF that conforms to one of the following compliance levels.

• PDF 1.5
• PDF/A-1b
• PDF/A-1a

Aspose.Words provides one of the high fidelity Word document to PDF conversion around. Many document features are exported to PDF exactly as how they appear in the original document.

You can also sign a PDF document and specify permissions such as allowing copying, modification or printing of the PDF document.

Aspose.Words also provides the save options to control how PDF generation is handled. The following is some examples of such options:

• Export bookmarks or heading styles to the document outline (navigation pane) in PDF.
• Specify the page range only to export.
• Specify if the PDF uses core or windows fonts (can be used to decrease PDF size).
• Set JPEG quality used during rendering.
• Specifying text compression used

Both TrueType and OpenFont font formats are supported and can be subsetted during rendering to PDF.

See the following links in the documentation for further information:

• Save a Document
• Rendering and Printing
• PdfSaveOptions
• PdfSaveOptions.Compliance

General

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Attached Template	N/A
Built-In Properties	Yes	Built-in properties such as word and character count are updated using Aspose.Words but are not updated automatically on save. Instead you need to explictly update these properties using the appropriate Document member. We will add an automatic update of these properties in a future version. Title, Author, Subject, Keywords is output to PDF.	- Document.UpdateWordCount
Custom Properties	Yes	There is an option to export custom properties as metadata to PDF. The metadata exported to PDF in this way is given the namespace “custprops” e.g custprops:MyProperty.	- PdfSaveOptions.ExportCustomPropertiesAsMetadata
Custom Payload Part	N/A
Custom XML Data Storage	N/A
Digital Signature	Yes	Non-visible digital signature is supported. There are plans to support visible signatures in a future verison of Aspose.Words.	- PdfSaveOptions.DigitalSignatureDetails
Embedded Package	N/A	Exported as a plain image.
Encryption	Yes	Creation of a PDF document with encryption and permissions is supported. RC4 encryption with key-length of 40 and 128 bit is supported. AES Encryption is not yet supported but will be planned for a later release.	- PdfSaveOptions.EncryptionDetails
Font Table	Yes
Glossary Document/Quick Parts/Auto Text	N/A
Hyphenation	Planned	Paragraphs that require hyphenation are wrapped to the next line instead.
Key Map Customizations	N/A
Mail Merge Recipient Data	N/A
Office Math	Planned	It is planned to convert Office Math to a regular image before rendering.
Themes	Yes
Toolbar Customizations	N/A
Variables	N/A
VBA Project (Macro)	N/A
VBA Project Digital Signature	N/A
Background	Yes
Thumbnail	N/A	Most rendered formats display thumbnails, however they are generated by the host application on open and not stored with the document.

Embedded Fonts

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Embedding Fonts	Yes	There is an option to embed full fonts or a subset only of the glyphs used in the document to PDF. There are plans to introduce an option to control whether fonts are embedded at alll. TrueType and PostScript fonts can be subsetted. PostScript fonts are embedded fully. Fonts that are embedded in the original DOCX are used during rendering and exported to PDF.	- PdfSaveOptions.EmbedFullFonts - PdfSaveOptions.UseCoreFonts - PdfSaveOptions.UseWindowsFont
Embed Only Non-Standard Fonts	Yes	There is an option to embed only non-standard fonts.	- PdfSaveOptions.EmbedStandardWindowsFonts

Bibliography

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Bibliography	Yes	Bibliography text is saved to PDF as normal text.
Sources/Citations	Yes	Bibliography sources are not saved to PDF
Citation Style	N/A

Protection

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Allow Only Comments	N/A
Allow Only Form Fields	N/A
Allow Only Revisions	N/A
Limit Formatting to Selection of Styles	N/A
Protection Password (Legacy)	N/A
Protection Password (OOXML)	N/A
Protected Sections	N/A
Protection Ranges	N/A
Read Only	N/A

Settings

Feature	Supported	Comment	See Also
Asian Typography Settings	N/A
Compatibility Options	N/A	Compatibility Options can influence how the document content appears. These properties are not supported upon rendering to PDF.
Endnote Options	N/A
Footnote Options	N/A
Mail Merge Settings	N/A
Print Settings	N/A
Show/Hide Settings	N/A
View Settings	Planned	There are plans to export view settings to PDF that apply to the format, such as default zoom amount.
Web Settings	N/A
XML Settings	N/A