PDF Properties
Using a custom set of XML tags inside your HTML, you can insert both custom metadata as well as instructions for how the PDF would be viewed in a PDF viewer application (subject of course to that application supporting those features).
Options
You use the (optional) tag <pdfproperties> and within that tag you
can insert <metainfo> and <pdfpreferences>
sections as shown in the instructions below. Within the
<metainfo> tag, you can add <prop> tags
with @name, @value attribute pairs with the data you wish
to store in the PDF metadata. Anything without one of the recognized, standard PDF
names (author, title, subject,
creator, keywords) are stored in custom metadata in
the PDF.
The <pdfpreferences> section allows you to insert one or more
<pref> tags with specific @name,
@value pairs that control the way the resulting PDF is displayed
with a viewer that supports standard PDF view attributes. The support
name, @value pairs are listed below and grouped into
all the available categories:
General PDF Options
These options let you control some general information about the generated PDF.
bookmarks - sets whether PDF bookmarks are generated or not. The default
is "false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want
bookmarks in PDF. Note that bookmarks are only generated for interpreted
hierarchical information. All h1 elements and there following
h2 elements and so on. Skipping levels will break the sequence and
the bookmarks will not be correct.
pdf-version - sets the PDF version number. The default is version 1.5
for Cloudformatter but you set @value to values like "1.3", "1.4",
"1.6" or "1.7" if you wish to change the version. Be aware thar some other features
could be disabled by setting the version too low.
compress - sets whether the PDF is compressed or not. The default is
"true" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "false" if you want
uncompressed PDF.
linearize - sets whether the PDF is linearized or not. The default is
"false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want to
optimize a long PDF for web view.
PDF View Options
These options let you control how the PDF when opened appears to the end user.
view-mode - Choose from one of the following:
auto- If there are bookmarks in the document, the bookmarks pane is displayed. Otherwise, all auxiliary panes are hidden.show-none- All auxiliary panes are hidden.show-bookmarks- The bookmarks pane is displayed.show-thumbnails- The thumbnails pane is displayed.full-screen- The document is displayed in full screen-mode.
initial-zoom - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Page scaling is not specified.fit- The page is scaled to fit completely into the view port.fit-width- The page is scaled so that its width matches the width of the view port.fit-height- The page is scaled so that its height matches the height of the view port.###or####%- The page is scaled by the number or percentage specified.
page-layout - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Uses settings of viewer application.single-page- Displays one page at a time.continuous- Displays pages continuously in one column.two-columns-left- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-columns-right- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the right.two-pages-left- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-pages-right- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the right.
viewer-preferences - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
hide-toolbar- Hides the viewer application's tool bars when the document is active.hide-menubar- Hides the viewer application's menu bar when the document is active.hide-window-ui- Hides user interface elements in the document's window (such as scroll bars and navigation controls), leaving only the document's contents displayed.fit-window- Resizes the document's window to fit the size of the first displayed page.center-window- Positions the document's window in the center of the screen.display-document-title- Controls whether the window's title bar displays the document title taken from the "title" metadata field.
PDF Security
These options allow you to specify owner and user security in the PDF output. User-level security can inject a password to be used to open the PDF, while owner-level security can control what can be done with the PDF (like printing it or copying the data from it).
userpassword - Sets the user password that must be entered to view the
PDF. There are no options, the @value passed is the password to be
used.
ownerpassword - Sets the owner password that must be entered to enable
advanced processing of the PDF. There are no options, the @value passed
is the password to be used. An ownerpassword is used to lock down certain privledges
that an owner will grant to a recipient of the PDF. Without the owner password,
recipients can be restricted from certain things. By default they are restricted
from everything, and you can then specify what additional things you allow by using
userpriviledges.
userpriviledges - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
print- Enables printing the document.modify- Enables editing the document.copy- Enables copying text and images from the document to the clipboard.annotate- Enables adding notations to the document and changing the field values.
PDF Pre-Press Options
These allow you to specify crop marks, bleeds and registration marks to be applied to the PDF.
crop-offset - specify offsets from the meaningful content on the page to
the edges of the physical media (/MediaBox entry in the PDF page dictionary). Its
value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from the edges of the
page area to the corresponding edges of the /MediaBox. Rules for expanding the value
are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
bleed - specify the bleeds — an extra space around the page area into
which the contents of the page may protrude (/BleedBox entry in the PDF page
dictionary). Its value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from
the edges of the page area to the corresponding edges of the /BleedBox. Rules for
expanding the value are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
crop-mark-width - defines line width for the crop marks, setting it to 0
disables drawing of crop marks.
bleed-mark-width - defines line width for the bleed marks, setting it to
0 disables drawing of bleed marks.
printer-mark - specify additional SVG images to be drawn in the offset
area surrounding the page (specified by crop-offset and bleed parameters). Printer
marks are clipped to the outside of the bleed rectangle. The @value is
a URL to an SVG you have. This sample has two URLs (one for a colorbar and one for a
registration mark) you can also use if you like.
The following code is what is behind this page for producing the PDF. Of course, you would only see the things supported by your PDF viewer you use. If you wish to see them all in action, then use "download" and Adobe Reader to view the PDF.
Recent changes in some browsers will not treat this XML as XML. Instead it tries (incorrectly) to not close tags. For best results, be sure to use open and close tags and not a self-closing tag.
<pdfproperties style="display:none;">
<metainfo>
<prop name="author" value="Xportability LLC"></prop>
<prop name="title"
value="Xportability Cloudformatter: Showing Custom
PDF Properties"></prop>
<prop name="subject" value="A Cloudformatter Document"></prop>
<prop name="creator" value="css2pdf@cloudformatter.com"></prop>
<prop name="keywords" value="CSS, PDF, Cloudformatter"></prop>
<prop name="custom1" value="value1"></prop>
<prop name="custom2" value="value2"></prop>
<prop name="custom3" value="value3"></prop>
<prop name="custom4" value="value4"></prop>
</metainfo>
<pdfpreferences>
<pref name="bookmarks" value="true"></pref>
<pref name="pdf-version" value="1.6"></pref>
<pref name="view-mode" value="auto"></pref>
<pref name="initial-zoom" value="fit-height"></pref>
<pref name="page-layout" value="two-columns-left"></pref>
<pref name="viewer-preferences" value="display-document-title"></pref>
<pref name="crop-offset" value="0.5in"></pref>
<pref name="crop-mark-width" value="1px"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/registration.svg"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/colorbar.svg"></pref>
</pdfpreferences>
</pdfproperties>
Sample Output H2
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Sample Output H3
Dignissim dolor ipsum dolor sea praesent invidunt dolor eu nulla sanctus sed qui sanctus dolores. Ut wisi accusam labore gubergren nam sit aliquyam. Sed vero clita. Dolore esse ea takimata et delenit lorem assum sed. Gubergren sea velit justo consetetur elitr sed nulla ea dolore takimata molestie duo amet delenit rebum rebum. Ea magna erat eum sea ut amet takimata sed dolor dolores elitr ipsum duo vero eos kasd.
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Sample Output H4
Eos facilisi eirmod et tempor exerci ex takimata qui diam accusam sanctus amet ut rebum est dolor. Iusto quis kasd est diam ipsum ad aliquyam commodo illum magna justo in assum sit. Ut labore kasd in accusam dolor voluptua sit. Dolor zzril sanctus amet stet invidunt justo feugait sea. Labore sed sit luptatum ut vero feugiat takimata ut et consequat eirmod aliquip et commodo ipsum erat consetetur at. Te sit lorem sadipscing.
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Sample Output H4
Eos eirmod invidunt eum tempor nonumy eos sadipscing tempor dolor amet possim et illum ipsum. Est dolor ea dolor consequat ipsum sed dolore stet at dolor sit nisl vero. Dolores sed no lorem et labore gubergren feugait ea accusam ea rebum magna ipsum sea labore ullamcorper. Hendrerit et iriure iriure consequat lorem et diam exerci praesent clita tempor diam accusam clita nibh ut kasd. Esse et sit amet nonumy dolor exerci et nonumy. Eos velit sed sed lorem duo et sit diam. Nonumy erat ea consetetur in feugiat dolore consetetur gubergren et consetetur. Sit quis vero lorem eirmod vero vulputate.
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Sample Output H3
Ex elitr feugait dolor nisl ut praesent gubergren amet assum clita et lorem kasd qui nonumy eirmod lorem nonumy. Aliquyam et gubergren tincidunt at iriure molestie ea eos dolor ex dolor exerci dolores est ea. In nulla sed facilisis aliquam dolor at takimata et eos at eirmod amet ipsum diam et. Takimata elit dolore ut dolor clita erat. Eum ipsum labore elit duo sanctus liber.
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Sample Output H4
Et blandit ut tempor dolor ea ea dolore et. Eirmod invidunt amet gubergren accusam lorem lorem diam consetetur in takimata at labore magna accumsan stet praesent nonumy takimata. Mazim et sit duo et consetetur dolore sadipscing takimata. Voluptua amet quod magna nonumy et vero vero sea rebum tation dolor at aliquyam. Sadipscing erat lorem sit gubergren et et.
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Sample Output H4
Hendrerit magna ut et et nonumy ipsum aliquyam voluptua amet labore sanctus imperdiet dolor vel clita. Sed voluptua voluptua elitr ut nulla erat et dolor labore sed et et. Dolore congue est sanctus magna sea takimata enim nibh amet delenit justo rebum eu iusto amet aliquyam. Illum sed et velit aliquip. Eos ullamcorper et lorem erat est no iriure dignissim kasd dolore et elitr amet sit tempor vulputate dolore. No autem dolor sed sed nonumy clita quis sea tempor sit diam imperdiet ipsum aliquyam et quod. Nonumy velit takimata sed labore duis ipsum et sit at sadipscing duo consetetur aliquam nulla hendrerit.
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More Sample Output H2
Est nonumy sit sea at duis nonumy sed accusam amet vero suscipit sit ut et. Dolor duis vero. Lorem lorem tempor nonumy. Accusam augue erat ut sed et stet nonumy duo ipsum magna ut kasd ea eirmod diam sadipscing ut ea. Dolor diam rebum sadipscing sadipscing et aliquyam et augue sed. Dolor sed dolor esse tempor sadipscing vero gubergren. Clita aliquam et magna sed facilisis et et nonumy magna diam dolore. Ad ea dolore.
Dolore clita amet sed id eos ipsum congue. Ea vero dolor aliquyam duo autem ex consetetur sit. Erat justo et at accusam sit diam accusam tempor aliquyam sadipscing lorem vero vel aliquam stet lorem invidunt. Vero consetetur augue te amet dolor placerat eirmod sea et eirmod diam voluptua dolor takimata eirmod. Te liber vero nulla aliquip vel dolore duo dolores et. Sit elitr est dolor sit diam accusam sanctus blandit nibh et aliquyam commodo. Dolore lorem lorem consetetur invidunt erat et commodo tempor lorem dolore stet nulla aliquyam no wisi sadipscing. Euismod et sit nobis dolores vero tempor et ea dolor lorem.
Sample Output H3
Vulputate id amet ut est gubergren at aliquyam. Voluptua tempor sanctus dolor vel eirmod vero et et. Labore adipiscing tempor sed vel congue adipiscing at takimata ipsum dolore duo gubergren voluptua sadipscing tempor duo invidunt. Esse et et et at dolor. Duis et nonumy ipsum vero et sed molestie diam. Esse amet sit vero vero no duo nulla eirmod lorem diam erat eros ipsum et elitr sit. Est lorem gubergren clita aliquyam elitr ipsum veniam invidunt sea commodo labore. Vel et sit et ipsum et sed stet diam dolores quis tempor dolor euismod ut. Sed erat et et magna facilisis sed odio nibh et no accusam consetetur eos sadipscing. Et rebum consequat. Ea luptatum nobis vero no ut ea.
At consequat dolore liber diam amet aliquyam. Labore sadipscing rebum accusam tincidunt laoreet ad voluptua et et dolores takimata. Autem erat vero sit consetetur no autem no. Erat aliquyam aliquyam vero consequat dolor sanctus. Esse sed clita adipiscing eirmod et dolor id diam at ut dolor in diam. Et dolor diam iusto clita. Autem suscipit lorem tation nulla ea.
Sample Output H4
Option at ipsum ipsum ex dolore. Ad lorem sed no eos sed lorem. Te clita stet dolore et aliquip sed ut elit stet wisi sea lorem. At kasd sanctus blandit vel takimata sit suscipit ad ut consequat sea aliquyam elitr luptatum stet aliquyam augue. Et dolor autem takimata dolore sit est volutpat aliquam dolores diam eirmod lorem. Est erat dolore ipsum eirmod in sed labore est volutpat esse option at sea invidunt sanctus dolore at dolor. Qui lorem nihil esse vero. Delenit et ea molestie eos diam clita at at. Ipsum gubergren amet eos augue odio. Sed ipsum dolor voluptua feugiat adipiscing duis ut. Invidunt ut vel sanctus eleifend aliquyam sed molestie at diam labore esse consetetur lorem sit sit dolore eos no.
Erat invidunt stet ullamcorper blandit lorem sanctus facilisis lorem eirmod invidunt nisl sea duis diam te qui dolore. Dolore rebum magna vero invidunt nonumy ut. Option sea dolore minim. Clita elitr diam facilisis blandit ea dolore aliquyam et nonumy diam. Ipsum dolore aliquip et et takimata erat vero eos sed no luptatum amet diam.
Sample Output H4
Ipsum et duo praesent consetetur amet at ut. Et sed labore amet tincidunt gubergren justo accusam eirmod eirmod diam lorem in nonumy lorem tempor lorem dolore. Dolore eos nibh placerat consetetur gubergren dolore nulla diam sadipscing sed luptatum tation nonumy invidunt sed et et. Lorem magna sed sit clita nonumy magna. Vero vulputate et ea sanctus ea ut amet et erat duo sed. Elitr aliquyam ut. Sit diam delenit diam sea. Ea iriure consetetur gubergren sed elitr amet dolore ipsum rebum lorem elitr.
Consetetur invidunt eos at et dolor lorem lorem eos vero euismod sit dolore sit praesent dolore illum. Et sea eirmod ipsum stet ipsum sed in et est et ad et ex. Aliquam duo kasd sea nonumy. Ullamcorper velit ea ipsum dolores in diam diam gubergren et et. Nonummy at est ipsum sed eos et dolor magna aliquyam amet illum duo at at et stet. Vulputate at duis duo eu dolor justo ut amet amet vulputate. Clita vulputate facilisis amet accumsan accumsan zzril zzril voluptua nonumy vel elitr placerat facilisis eirmod dolore elit tation. Eros veniam clita eum sit amet accumsan. Ipsum duis velit diam ut tincidunt duo duo kasd sanctus velit lorem. Commodo kasd dolor soluta sit lobortis sit ipsum stet takimata sadipscing takimata.
Sample Output H3
Dolores wisi magna sit autem. Gubergren augue et nulla kasd. Eirmod magna sea sed diam consetetur nisl gubergren vero et. Sed amet et duis stet. Mazim iriure dolor tincidunt dolore justo duo erat. Eirmod eirmod takimata nonumy lorem et vulputate et accusam. Duis dolor aliquyam amet lorem sit invidunt ut rebum vero. Et eirmod feugiat est elitr dolores elitr nonumy ex eirmod sed.
Diam et sea invidunt labore invidunt clita duo clita. Amet eos nostrud mazim. Sanctus amet labore cum vero et. Dolore diam labore takimata dolores dolore dolor dolor ipsum laoreet lorem et euismod. Nonumy sit dolor diam lorem et lorem ea aliquyam dolore.
Sample Output H4
Iriure gubergren liber lorem suscipit mazim aliquip lorem eu commodo. Diam et tempor takimata at tempor. Tempor accusam stet sed vero consetetur et hendrerit et iusto ut ipsum vel dolores. Sadipscing diam et labore ea dolores consetetur vero consetetur vero vulputate dolore at in dolores voluptua. Consetetur cum dolor diam nibh magna molestie tation in at et dolor stet stet amet velit lorem kasd. Vero vero sanctus.
Nihil justo tempor gubergren diam tation invidunt et diam et. Amet nonumy labore congue dolor magna dolor gubergren labore et aliquyam magna facilisis nonumy. Voluptua nibh accusam volutpat diam eirmod ut. Erat tation sed in sed dolore vero ipsum. Sed est sanctus dolor ea dolore accusam sadipscing luptatum dolor takimata dolor volutpat eirmod hendrerit sed sit adipiscing. Ipsum kasd dolore magna accusam ut sanctus tempor praesent hendrerit minim diam. Et dolore diam et labore dolores kasd eos. Nonummy vero hendrerit sit labore et. Ipsum kasd sed justo lorem lorem tempor no ut.
Sample Output H4
Gubergren vel lorem ut eirmod et sit dolore dolor ipsum dolores consetetur cum volutpat elitr ea ut sea dolor. Ex feugait duo rebum ad esse eros euismod et amet. Vero lorem est. Tempor aliquyam sadipscing invidunt iusto lorem. Iriure euismod tempor amet.
Clita eirmod soluta ut et rebum. Ut kasd et blandit molestie clita accusam et velit dolores. Clita et et diam. Gubergren et et illum congue stet no gubergren dolore sadipscing elitr ad diam clita nulla labore blandit. Invidunt exerci eos no et nonumy. Consequat diam sea eum esse sadipscing ea facilisi sit sadipscing stet consectetuer aliquyam magna accusam ut aliquyam. In qui tempor eirmod. Et nonummy sed sea ut exerci nonummy amet facilisi vero aliquip diam vero justo dolore.