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PDF, or portable document format, opens in the Adobe Reader. The PDF export filter has a number of useful properties that allow you to control your output. You can set the properties either in code using the PDFExport object after adding reference to the following assembly in your project, or by selecting the object in the toolbox and adding it to the component tray below the Form which automatically adds this assembly to the project:

GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Pdf.v8.dll

With the PDF export filter, you can use such features as Font Linking, Custom Font Factory and end-user defined characters (EUDC).

PDF Export Properties

PDF (Portable Document Format)

Usage:

• Create printable reports whose formats do not change from machine to machine.
• Open in Adobe Reader.

Does not support:

• All controls are supported.
• Dash and dot border patterns appear to look longer in the PDF output than in the ActiveReports Window Forms Viewer.

PDF/A Support Limitations

• The NeverEmbedFonts property is ignored, so all fonts of a report are embedded into the PDF document.
• The Security.Encrypt property is ignored and the PDF export behaves as if this property is always set to False.
• The OnlyForPrint property is ignored and the PDF export behaves as if this property is always set to False.
• Transparent images lose their transparency when exported to PDF/A-1.
• External hyperlinks are exported as plain text.

Options and Security

When you expand the Options or Security properties in the Properties window, the following sub properties are revealed.

PDF Options Properties

PDF Security Properties

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