All features and tool possibilities at a glance
Short facts
Conformance
ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7)
ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
Supported formats
Input Formats
PDF 1.0 to 1.7
PDF 2.0
Output formats
PDF 1.0 to 1.7
PDF 2.0
Features
Easy configurability through optimization profiles
Web profile
Remove redundant and unnecessary data for electronic document exchange
Down-sample, clip, and intelligently compress images
Merge and subset fonts
Linearize the output
Convert colors to RGB
Archive profile
Remove redundant and unnecessary data for archiving
Intelligently compress images
Merge and subset fonts
Print profile
Remove redundant and unnecessary data for printing
Down-sample, clip, and intelligently compress images
Merge and subset fonts
Convert colors to CMYK
Features and fine grained configuration for optimizing images
Separately configurable compression of bi-tonal, indexed and continuous (i.e. color and grayscale) images
Define threshold in dots per inch (DPI) for triggering image down-sampling
Define target image resolution in DPI for image down-sampling
Automatically select best compression type for each image
Configure enforcement of configured compression types
Color conversion to CMYK, RGB, or grayscale
Remove invisible parts of images
Reduce the number of color channels used for images, image masks and soft masks (if applicable)
Convert soft masks to image masks (if applicable)
Perform mixed raster content (MRC) optimization for images
Choose color management engine
Remove images entirely and substitute by empty XObjects
Features and fine grained configuration for optimizing fonts
Subset font programs to contain only the used glyphs
Merge compatible font programs and fonts
Compress Type1 fonts (convert to CFF)
Remove font programs
Features for optimizing page content
Remove unused resources
Automatic page content optimization
Flatten or remove page annotations and form fields
Fine grained configuration for removal of:
Redundant objects
Embedded standard fonts (e.g. Courier, Arial, Times)
Embedded, non-symbolic fonts
Unnecessary file information
Article threads
Alternative images
Metadata
Page piece information
Output intent
Document structure tree including markup
Miniature page preview images (thumbnails)
Spider (web capture) information
Features and configuration on file level
Read encrypted input files
Encrypt and set access authorization for the output file
Process memory-resident files
Automatic removal of obsolete objects stemming from previous changes to the file
Set minimum PDF version of the output file
Linearize output file for fast web view
Listing and extraction features
List fonts and their properties
List and extract images and their properties
Extract number of pages
Error code