Save Options

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Save Options


 

Editor-Icon Save Options

 


 

The save options are used to save documents in PDF-XChange Editor. They are enabled when the active document has been modified:

 

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Figure 1. File Tab Submenu. Save Option

 

Click Save to save the active document. Any changes made since the document was opened will be saved and the original version of the document will be overwritten.

Click Save As to save the edited document with a new name and retain the original version. Use the Save as type menu to determine the format of the saved file. When a format is selected, click the Options button beneath the Save as Type menu to determine format-specific options.

Click Save Copy As to save a copy of the document with its current changes. The Save File As dialog box will launch when this option is selected. The file name will be entered automatically in the File Name text box with the word 'Copy' added afterwards.

Click Save All to save all open documents.

Click Save To to save documents directly to My Computer, Sharepoint, Dropbox or Google Drive.

Click Save as Optimized to optimize files before they are saved. When this option is selected the Optimize PDF dialog box will open:

 

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Figure 2. Optimize PDF Dialog Box

 

Use the Settings menu to toggle between Standard Mode, which is best for computers, and Mobile mode, which is best for tablets and cell phones. When custom details have been entered into the variable parameters of the Optimize PDF dialog box they can be saved for subsequent use. Click the Settings menu and select Save Current Settings. Enter a name and short description for the settings. Click OK to save the settings. Use the Manage option of the Settings menu to Edit, Delete or Clone custom settings.

Click the Audit Space Usage button to view a breakdown of the space within the active file.

Use the Make compatible with menu to select the version of Acrobat with which to make the current document compatible.

Select the desired boxes from the choices on the left: Images, Fonts, Discard Objects, Discard User Data and Clean Up. Selected options will be included in the optimization process. Each option has further settings as detailed below:

 

Images

 

Click the Color Images, Grayscale Images, Indexed Images and Monochrome Images menus to select settings for the respective image formats.

Click the Bicubic Downsampling/Subsampling menus to increase/reduce the resolution of images.

Click the arrows in the dpi box, or enter a figure manually, to select the dots-per-inch resolution for new images.

Click the arrows in the for images above box, or enter a figure manually, to select the minimum dpi at which images are downsampled/subsampled.

Click the Compression menus to select the compression format of images. Where applicable click the Quality menu to select the compression quality.  

Optimize images only if there is a reduction in size is selected by default. Clear this box to optimize images even when there is no reduction in size.

 

Fonts

 

Use the menu to select a setting for font unembedding. The following options are available:

Do Not Unembed any font means that all fonts will remain embedded.

Unembed recommended fonts means that common fonts will be unembedded. (This is carried out in order to reduce the file size. Unembedding common fonts is less likely to be problematic as they are contained within most software and therefore it is not necessary for subsequent users to have them embedded).

Unembed All Fonts means that all fonts will be unembedded. This reduces the file size as far as possible with regard to fonts but also increases the risk of subsequent issues.

Select fonts to unembed manually allows the user to determine the fonts that are unembedded. When this option is selected the fonts used within the active document are displayed in the Embedded Fonts pane. Select fonts and click the Unembed button to unembed them when the file is optimized. Select fonts within the Fonts to Unembed pane and click Retain to retain them when the file is optimized.

Select the Merge fonts subsets box save additional space where possible.

 

Discard Objects

 

Select the Discard all form submissions, import and reset actions box to remove these elements from the document.

Select the Discard all JavaScript actions box to remove JavaScript from the document.

Select the Discard all alternate images box to remove instances of alternate images from the document.

Select the Discard embedded page thumbnails box to remove embedded custom page thumbnails from the document.

Select the Detect and merge image fragments box to merge image fragments. (Some images are composed of fragmented sections that are spliced together. Selecting this option can significantly reduce the file size).

Select the Discard embedded print settings box to discard left-over encoding from when the document was created with a virtual printer.

Select the Discard bookmarks box to remove all bookmarks from the document.

 

Discard User Data

 

Select the Discard all Comments, forms and multimedia box to remove all form fields, comments and annotations from the document.

Select the Discard document information and metadata box to remove all document metadata as detailed here.

Select the Discard file attachments box to remove attached/embedded files from the document.

Select the Discard private data of other applications box to remove information from the document that is useful only to the application used to create it.

Select the Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers box to remove hidden layers from the document.  

 

Clean Up

 

Select the Discard duplicates of Fonts box to remove any redundant fonts from the document.

Select the Discard duplicates of Images box to remove instances of duplicate images from the document.

Select the Discard duplicates of XForms box to remove any instances of duplicate Xforms. (Xforms are graphical groups of objects).

Select the Use Flate to encode streams that are not encoded box to compress information within documents that is pending for compression, and thereby reduce the file size.

Select the In Streams that use LZW encoding use Flate instead box to use Flate compression in the place of LZW encoding. This is recommended as Flate is compatible on a wider range of platforms.

Select the Discard invalid bookmarks to discard bookmarks that do not feature actions/working destinations.

Select the Discard unreferenced named destinations as desired.

Select the Find and Remove the content outside the crop box box to remove (as opposed to hide, which is the default setting) content outside the crop box.

 

Click OK to save settings.