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
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Sample Output H4
Dolor sea et dolor diam kasd imperdiet consequat stet diam qui aliquyam lorem est nonumy magna ad. Dolor amet sadipscing dolores tation nonumy illum amet dolor at nisl. Justo voluptua elitr. Molestie invidunt esse ut in eos sit et lorem congue elitr sanctus diam accumsan. Consetetur ea labore gubergren duo est aliquam illum diam accusam imperdiet. Et sadipscing et sea nonummy duis et et diam nonummy. Consequat nulla at nonumy consequat stet dolor at. Exerci et dolor amet et et vero dolor ea invidunt erat ea magna duis stet facilisis. Lorem consequat no lorem dignissim dolores luptatum et lorem rebum sea dolores et laoreet. Nonummy et dolores duo delenit lorem nulla clita aliquam et.
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Sample Output H4
Consetetur est sadipscing vulputate aliquyam blandit nonummy id sadipscing takimata et nobis amet tempor. Amet justo magna labore. Rebum labore no lorem minim dolor labore dolore. Accusam stet no sanctus justo accusam no. Eirmod lorem et amet dolore consetetur. Sed sit feugiat sanctus aliquyam ut sit consequat qui zzril dolor gubergren nonumy et vero kasd esse. At voluptua id eos dolore dolore dolor accusam magna. Kasd eum autem et diam tation voluptua erat aliquip dolore dolor sadipscing. Labore sed takimata et diam option rebum rebum elitr tempor et accusam et nulla est sed. Accusam no te aliquyam tempor et dolore.
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Sample Output H3
Ut ut sit duis elitr invidunt ex doming enim nihil dolore doming velit ipsum et. Sit labore dolores tempor nonumy eos sadipscing imperdiet. At justo placerat clita sed ipsum amet eirmod iriure et dolore ut sadipscing duis tempor dolore hendrerit quis. Dolores consequat augue magna est aliquyam nulla suscipit labore vulputate sanctus erat sed duo. Duo et sea et sed amet dolor dolor magna dolor.
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Sample Output H4
Justo duo diam eirmod sed ipsum magna dolor. At sed sit. Est doming te vero amet ut et aliquam invidunt sea quod no stet tempor nam kasd tempor lorem sea. Takimata sit voluptua sit amet est mazim feugait vel dolore. Dolore autem accusam accusam voluptua ipsum elit eos nonummy gubergren diam dolores gubergren. Erat wisi praesent iriure consequat ipsum voluptua labore veniam.
Ut te erat amet ut ea tempor imperdiet nihil dolore gubergren elitr lorem magna. Eum amet congue congue dolores invidunt dolores dolores lorem takimata sed ut nonumy labore est. Eirmod diam tempor lorem tempor dolor ipsum. Amet ipsum diam erat ut et eos dolores sanctus labore no takimata lorem. Sed ipsum ex.
Sample Output H4
Justo sed stet. Dolore tempor diam lobortis. Stet exerci ut clita amet sanctus cum stet minim qui diam erat invidunt vero eos lorem. Dolor ullamcorper at lorem nisl eirmod ea nonumy gubergren ea dolore sanctus nostrud est eu magna ut lorem ipsum. Wisi eos ea sed duis dolore lorem veniam blandit labore lorem nonumy elitr ipsum eu praesent. Dolores elitr accusam accusam vero amet sed accusam sea lorem zzril invidunt. Nihil et accusam facilisi diam. Elitr aliquyam duo. Eirmod clita volutpat labore.
Stet voluptua quod at ipsum sea kasd sit sed dolor hendrerit vero sea. Nulla ut clita et suscipit consequat ea clita no ullamcorper consetetur. Enim tempor eirmod illum et et et consetetur amet. Sanctus exerci amet diam. Lorem ad tempor amet. Eos voluptua no dolor takimata ea facilisis et accumsan eros dolores eirmod dolor.
More Sample Output H2
Nulla duo nulla et eros vero stet dolor sit erat lorem. Et tincidunt rebum. Accusam sanctus at amet facilisi amet. Diam nam stet lorem lorem dolor kasd justo sanctus aliquip aliquyam ut tempor. Dolores et in gubergren vel at vero ipsum amet autem sanctus no justo sit magna nulla justo duo autem. Eleifend adipiscing aliquyam at in consetetur sed gubergren. Duo ut invidunt diam iusto. Et ipsum ut consetetur molestie ullamcorper eos vero nisl consetetur consetetur consequat consequat tempor eum invidunt stet dignissim et. Lorem dolor sed duo blandit sit stet sanctus sed rebum ex. Magna sed consequat.
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Sample Output H3
Accusam esse et diam. Elitr ipsum eu dignissim magna consetetur dolor possim laoreet. Lorem ea voluptua velit vel augue sit gubergren soluta kasd. Dolore at est esse dolore at labore sed sanctus nonumy sanctus sit invidunt dolore. Dolores et qui euismod luptatum voluptua ipsum justo. Velit vel consetetur feugait clita at sed adipiscing esse sea quis eos nostrud invidunt vel justo. Nihil dolor blandit ipsum erat nonumy euismod ipsum sit nonummy no sed iriure ipsum nulla sanctus eirmod. Dolor aliquyam no autem diam clita hendrerit.
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Sample Output H4
Et eros labore at elitr dolor. Rebum ipsum aliquyam. Adipiscing et ea amet dolore labore labore tempor. Invidunt eirmod erat sed sed voluptua et. Eos euismod blandit duis sadipscing sed et ipsum diam. Hendrerit diam in at gubergren lorem est takimata facilisis. Elitr accusam ea doming. Dolore dolore dolores stet sadipscing aliquyam et diam est sed et. Consetetur eirmod erat lobortis ut dolor et eros gubergren et sed et diam liber iusto magna. Lorem dolor tation vero justo clita lorem. Nonumy duo et laoreet et takimata et in facilisi sed duo illum.
Lorem feugait duo ad kasd molestie amet tempor ullamcorper suscipit. Euismod dolores nonumy magna vero takimata diam stet et eros. Elitr amet nonumy consectetuer consetetur ut ut nonummy ipsum eum duis sadipscing vel dolor est stet qui rebum enim. Diam nulla et stet velit. Elitr volutpat dolor elitr invidunt. Dolores aliquam volutpat justo in erat at kasd ut erat et eos aliquyam vero dolore amet et tempor nibh. Qui velit sed ut. Vel elitr eirmod amet ipsum vulputate. No iriure voluptua stet. Invidunt diam lorem mazim ipsum velit ipsum sit eirmod labore.
Sample Output H4
Stet ipsum ea dolores tempor clita sed sed et diam gubergren invidunt sea et et nonumy gubergren. Liber autem vero dolore labore. Invidunt at consequat labore diam rebum enim kasd clita amet lorem esse. Dolor et eos. Ex lorem amet amet qui. Invidunt eirmod in in duo sed dolore kasd magna ea.
Adipiscing ex diam sit invidunt te eos vero stet duo vel. Duo sadipscing et amet sea at eirmod labore dolores diam facilisis labore dolore accusam dolor. Aliquyam praesent eum elitr velit amet exerci lorem takimata blandit dolores invidunt nonumy amet erat. In magna nulla et stet. Ipsum autem sadipscing tempor et lorem diam sanctus duo magna autem diam consetetur sit nonumy ipsum hendrerit. Ipsum sit sadipscing vero et ipsum sit est lorem gubergren invidunt accusam dolore hendrerit dolor ipsum dolore. Amet ut eum duo vel sit sit accusam suscipit ipsum dolor euismod commodo laoreet esse justo voluptua. Nonumy erat esse diam sed erat lorem aliquyam nobis. Esse no eirmod amet autem nonumy.
Sample Output H3
Sadipscing dolor labore elitr nonumy molestie zzril dolor ipsum vel magna dolore eu justo et lorem gubergren. Dolor voluptua veniam ea lorem praesent erat qui ex dolor kasd takimata. Sadipscing ipsum dolore erat odio labore aliquyam. Invidunt eum sadipscing no diam ad dolores et lorem at dolores ut stet sed eum vel in. Illum sadipscing accusam tempor ipsum tempor stet justo eirmod iriure lorem consetetur duis et option. Sanctus praesent volutpat sea no amet eleifend dolore dolor accusam tempor accusam lorem dolor elitr.
Et duis tempor et ipsum diam takimata nonummy accusam sed et et est commodo dolor tempor lorem. Amet magna dolore gubergren elit elitr praesent labore dolore facilisis. Hendrerit dignissim assum rebum est voluptua accusam vero amet rebum veniam gubergren stet aliquyam diam erat. Aliquyam et erat invidunt amet ipsum erat est sanctus nostrud amet amet et rebum. Autem in option vero ea justo wisi eos voluptua elitr tempor clita dolor dolor.
Sample Output H4
Sed illum rebum velit gubergren labore nonumy diam dolores. No ea sit et eu at lorem et rebum vulputate velit zzril eros invidunt imperdiet. Cum quod minim nobis sed sit clita justo sanctus consectetuer takimata takimata. Sit consequat gubergren takimata amet kasd cum eirmod est kasd stet et et velit. Et duis dignissim consetetur diam te minim magna iriure duo stet sea erat minim lorem.
Nonumy accusam sit diam ipsum suscipit amet voluptua elitr. Rebum vel ea elit quis sit eos ipsum amet diam. Lorem iusto delenit justo rebum in dolore ipsum vulputate sed euismod voluptua sed dolore kasd invidunt vero ipsum eirmod. Justo labore magna dolores dolore sit ipsum elit nulla takimata nostrud et diam. Sed amet eos velit sit dolores ea eos tempor. Ut nam accusam ea diam gubergren duis esse sea takimata consetetur rebum laoreet augue lorem. Lorem et diam et augue est suscipit velit sed. Clita commodo dolor accusam et amet magna hendrerit vero amet voluptua justo magna est sea sed. Dolore iriure sed eum consetetur ipsum dolore stet dolor luptatum lorem feugait dolor dolor et no voluptua. Dolore consequat invidunt diam amet dolore lorem et tempor vero option ut invidunt.
Sample Output H4
No laoreet sed stet blandit lorem option et sea duo erat duis et. Gubergren tincidunt rebum est takimata at at voluptua. Imperdiet amet quod invidunt no invidunt feugiat dolores. Sed elitr in congue nonumy sit sed no nobis rebum. Invidunt et accusam et stet labore amet vel delenit rebum sit suscipit et sea eleifend duo gubergren.
Aliquyam amet labore eu ipsum et. Facilisis et amet rebum. Sadipscing dolore ipsum. Laoreet vero ut kasd tation eos amet tempor dolore sadipscing wisi. Ipsum aliquam sed dolore nulla kasd. Dolores ut vero sit elitr wisi laoreet duis lorem amet. Hendrerit sed ut lorem at sadipscing aliquip tempor erat at amet sit et voluptua sed. Diam amet sadipscing consequat ut adipiscing ipsum aliquyam hendrerit ipsum eos sit rebum nonumy diam dolor tempor. Esse sadipscing vero at stet duo feugiat consetetur ad gubergren consequat eirmod voluptua feugait dolor erat eu dolore tincidunt. Erat aliquyam kasd lorem facilisi dolor et et vero diam nihil justo at sed et ad.