If you enable Do in-place color management and image processing you may set options pertaining to the type of PDF information that should be processed; Text elements, Vector objects and Images.( See above screenshot) For images you can choose the JPEG compression to use, and you may even disable JPEG compression altogether to retain maximum quality.
If you choose to Convert PDF to Postscript / EPS, a number of conversion options are available by clicking Set conversion options.
Rather than process the PDF file, you may choose simple to extract the visual information from the files and render bitmaps. This is done by choosing Render a bitmap of the PDF page. These bitmaps will then be stored in the channel’ s output folder.
Further, you may choose to extract the images contained within the PDF documents for processing according to the channel’ s settings before they are stored in the output folder. By also enabling Create search links in PDF and Image Files, Color Factory will assign a unique ID to the PDF file and each image within it. Both the PDF and images within it will be stored in the output folder, and you may use FotoStation to search for images related to a specific PDF or the PDF from which a certain picture originates.
Finally, you may choose to copy the original PDF input file to the output folder, using all enabled channel features not involving manipulation of image data. Hence, files may be routed, captioned( as the caption is stored in a sidecar file), and renamed according to the channel’ s settings. When choosing this option, you may also click Set archiving options to enable updating of the images in the PDF with a Link ID. This is especially useful if you utilize FotoXStream for making remote layouts. By enabling this feature, Color Factory will add unique ID’ s to all images contained within the PDF file before the PDF is copied to the output folder. Then, The image ID’ s will be applied to the original images in the archive. The archive index is specified in the Index Folder field. Consequently, you may easily retrieve a published image by searching for an Image ID contained in a PDF, or vice versa.
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