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Category:

General

Policy Name:

Allow Change List of Tools

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.318 or later.

Description:

Specifies whether or not PDF-Tools is allowed to add new tools/delete existing tools.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

b.CanEditToolList

Registry Key Type:

REG_DWORD

Available Values:

“1” – enabled, “0” – disabled

 

Category:

General

Policy Name:

Allow Edit Tools

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.318 or later

Description:

Specifies whether or not PDF-Tools is allowed to change the options of existing tools.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

b.CanEditToolParams

Registry Key Type:

REG_DWORD

Available Values:

“1” – enabled, “0” – disabled

 

Category:

General

Policy Name:

Allow Export/Import Program Settings

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.318 or later

Description:

Specifies whether or not PDF-Tools is allowed to export/import its settings.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

b.CanImpExpSettings

Registry Key Type:

REG_DWORD

Available Values:

“1” – enabled, “0” – disabled

 

Category:

General

Policy Name:

Custom Categories Visibility

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.322 or later

Description:

A list of identifiers of custom categories with their visibility factors. The list is a string of elements each separated by a pipe '|' character. Each element consists of two parts separated by a ':' (colon). The first part is the ID of the category and the second part is the visibility factor. Possible factor values are:

 

0 - hide;

1 - show;

 

An asterisk '*' defines the level for all panels that are not explicitly mentioned in the list that follows it.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

t.CustCatVisibility

Registry Key Type:

REG_SZ

Available Values:

custom Tool IDs.  See Category IDs and Names for details.

 

Example

 

*:0|{17F9DA9C-0E4E-4276-B40FFD223D1F5397}:1 - to show only the custom category that has the specified ID.

 

Tip: Run PDFXTools.exe with the following command line to view the identifiers of all existing categories:

 

PDFXTools.exe /DumpCategories "c:\PDFTools_Categories.txt

 

Category:

General

Policy Name:

Custom Tools Access

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.318 or later

Description:

A list of identifiers of custom tools with their access modes. The list is a string of elements each separated by a pipe '|' character. Each element consists of two parts separated by a ':' (colon). The first part is the ID of the tool and the second part is the access mode. Possible factor values are:

 

0 - read-only (note that if this option is selected then it is not possible to edit the parameters of the tool);

1 - editable;

 

An asterisk '*' defines the level for all panels that are not explicitly mentioned in the list that follows it.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

t.CustToolsAccess

Registry Key Type:

REG_SZ

Available Values:

custom Tool IDs.  See Category IDs and Names for details.

 

Example

 

*:0|{C57F2DF9-FC8C-4521-8E0F5A39AEAB8895}:1 - to prevent the changing of access modes for all custom tools except the custom tool specified.

 

Category:

General

Policy Name:

Custom Tools Visibility

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.318 or later

Description:

A list of identifiers of custom tools with their visibility factors. The list is a string of elements each separated by a pipe '|' character. Each element consists of two parts separated by a ':' (colon). The first part is the ID of the tool and the second part is the visibility factor. Possible factor values are:

 

0 - hide;

1 - show;

 

An asterisk '*' defines the level for all panels that are not explicitly mentioned in the list that follows it.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

t.CustToolsVisibility

Registry Key Type:

REG_SZ

Available Values:

custom Tool IDs.  See Category IDs and Names for details.

 

Example

 

*:0|{C57F2DF9-FC8C-4521-8E0F5A39AEAB8895}:1 - to show only one custom tool that has the specified ID.

 

Category:

General

Policy Name:

Standard Categories Visibility

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.322 or later

Description:

A List of identifiers of standard categories with their visibility factors. The list is a string of elements each separated by a pipe '|' character. Each element consists of two parts separated by ':' (colon). The first part is the ID of the category and the second part is the visibility factor. Possible factor values are:

 

0 - hide;

1 - show;

 

An asterisk '*' defines the level for all panels that are not explicitly mentioned in the list that follows it.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

t.StdCatVisibility

Registry Key Type:

REG_SZ

Available Values:

createPDF, pages, comments, protection, optimizePDF, PDFStandard, exportPDF, advanced.

 

Example

 

*:0|createPDF:1|comments:1 - to show only the 'Create PDF' and 'Comments' categories.

 

Category:

General

Policy Name:

Standard Tools Access

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.318 or later

Description:

A list of identifiers of standard tools with their access modes. The list is a string of elements each separated by pipe '|' character. Each element consists of two parts separated by ':' (colon). The first part is the ID of a tool and the second part is the access mode. Possible access modes are:

 

0 - read-only (note that if this option is selected then it is not possible to edit the parameters of the tool);

1 - editable;

 

An asterisk '*' defines the level for all panels that are not explicitly mentioned in the list that follows it.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

t.StdToolsAccess

Registry Key Type:

REG_SZ

Available Values:

filesToPDF, imagesToPDF, scanToPDF, textToPDF, addWatermarks, addHeaderAndFooter, addBatesNumbering, addPagesBackground, cropPages, resizePages, rotatePages, ocrPages, extractPages, splitMergePDF, extractImagesFromPDF, pdfToImages, convertToPDFA, optimizePDF, securePDF, addDigSign, certifyPDF, addTimeStamp, overlayDoc

 

Example

 

*:0|imagesToPDF:1 - to prevent changing all standard tools except the 'Create PDF from Images' tool.

 

Tip: Run PDFXTools.exe with the following command line to view the identifiers of all existing tools:

 

PDFXTools.exe /DumpTools "c:\PDFTools_Tools.txt

 

Category:

General

Policy Name:

Standard Tools Visibility

Requirements:

PDF-Tools v6.0.318 or later

Description:

A list of identifiers of standard tools with their visibility factors. The list is a string of elements each separated by a '|' character. Each element consists of two parts separated by ':' (colon). The first part is the ID of tool and the second part is the visibility factor. Possible factor values are:

 

0 - hide;

1 - show;

 

An asterisk '*' defines the level for all panels that are not explicitly mentioned in the list that follows it.

Reg Key Location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Tracker Software\PDFXTools\6.0\General

Reg Key Name:

t.StdToolsVisibility

Registry Key Type:

REG_SZ

Available Values:

filesToPDF, imagesToPDF, scanToPDF, textToPDF, addWatermarks, addHeaderAndFooter, addBatesNumbering, addPagesBackground, cropPages, resizePages, rotatePages, ocrPages, extractPages, splitMergePDF, extractImagesFromPDF, pdfToImages, convertToPDFA, optimizePDF, securePDF, addDigSign, certifyPDF, addTimeStamp, overlayDoc.

 

Example

 

*:0|imagesToPDF:1|scanToPDF:1 - to show 'Create PDF from Images' and 'Scan to PDF' tools only.