FyTek's PDF Meld Options Generator

Inches Centimeters Millimeters Points (1/72 of an inch)
Unit of measurement for items such as page size and margins.

Sets the document title.

Sets the document subject.

Sets the document keywords.

Sets the document author.

Sets the document creator.

Sets the document producer.

Sets the document creation date. Provide a date in the format shown or use the word "today" to use the current system date/time. For example, to set to January 15th, 2009 at 4:15:30 PM, enter 20090115161530.

Sets the document modification date. Provide a date in the format shown or use the word "today" to use the current system date/time. For example, to set to January 15th, 2009 at 4:15:30 PM, enter 20090115161530.

Hide Toolbar
Hides the tool bar in the PDF viewer when the output PDF is opened.

Hide Menubar
Hides the menu bar in the PDF viewer when the output PDF is opened.

Hide Window Interface
Hides the window interface elements in the PDF viewer when the output PDF is opened.

The zoom factor to open the document at. Type in a number or FITPAGE or FITWIDTH.
Enter 100 for 100 percent.
FITPAGE = open the document sized so the entire page fits in the window.
FITWIDTH = open the document sized so the width of the page fits in the window.

Force
Turns off the prompt to overwrite the output file if it already exists.

Open
Automatically opens Acrobat and loads the newly created PDF.

Print
Automatically prints the newly created PDF to the default printer.

Print Dialog
Brings up the Acrobat print dialog box and allows printer selection. This only works when the user has Acrobat or Reader associated with PDFs on their machine.

(ex. "Accounting Printer" "HP LaserJet 5" "lpt1:")
Used to print the PDF to the specified printer. There is no print dialog box in this case. This option takes three parameters: printer, device and port. You may pass in just the printer and leave device and port blank to use the default settings for the printer. For example:
"Accounting Printer" "HP LaserJet 5" "lpt1:"
or
"Shipping Printer"

You may also use the printer port as the first parameter and leave the last two off if you are using a network printer or don't know the printer name. For example:
"\\server\printer"

Printer List
Used to generate a list of printers available on the system. This can be used to verify what printers the program finds and what they are called. The list generated is tab separated and includes the printer name, device name and port. Use any of the printer names in the file with the "Printer" option. This option is only available under Windows systems. Use this option by itself as the program will exit after generating the list.

(ex. 2)
Number of copies to print when using the "Print" or "Printer" commands. Default is 1.

None App Default
Works with Acrobat or Reader 7.0 or higher.
None = the print dialog should reflect no page scaling.
AppDefault = applications should use the current print scaling.

Simplex Duplex Flip Short Edge Duplex Flip Long Edge
Works with Acrobat or Reader 8.0 or higher.
Simplex = Print single-sided
DuplexFlipShortEdge = Duplex and flip on the short edge of the sheet
DuplexFlipLongEdge = Duplex and flip on the long edge of the sheet

Pick Paper Tray
Works with Acrobat or Reader 8.0 or higher. Specifies the PDF page size is used to select the input paper tray. This setting influences only the preset values used to populate the print dialog presented by a PDF viewer application. If used, the check box in the print dialog associated with input paper tray is checked.

(ex. 1,5,20,28)
Works with Acrobat or Reader 8.0 or higher. The page numbers used to initialize the print dialog box when the file is printed. The first page of the PDF file is denoted by 1. Each pair consists of the first and last pages in the sub-range. Must have an even number of entries.

2 3 4 5
Works with Acrobat or Reader 8.0 or higher. The number of copies to be printed when the print dialog is opened for this file. Supported values are the integers 2 through 5.

Mail
Opens the user's e-mail program to a composition window with the newly created PDF attached. May not work with all e-mail programs.

Mail MAPI
Sends the email via MAPI without a composition window. The user may still receive a dialog box asking if it's OK to send the message on their behalf.

(ex. mail.mydomain.com)
The SMTP server to use for sending the mail. Used to send the PDF via SMTP rather than interactively. For example, mail.mydomain.com. Must also supply the Mail From and Mail To options. The Mail From must be a valid email account on the SMTP server.

(ex. somename@mycompany.com)
The from address for the email. Must be an address in the form of somename@mycompany.com. (SMTP only)

(ex. somename@mycompany.com)
The from address to show for the email. The default is the FROM address. (SMTP only)

(ex. somename@mycompany.com)
The reply to address for the email. Must be an address in the form of somename@mycompany.com. The default is the FROM address. (SMTP only)

(ex. name@somecompany.com)
The address(es) to send the email to. Must be an address in the form of name@somecompany.com. Separate multiple addresses with a comma. May also specify a file containing a list of addresses. Each address must be on a separate line by itself. Pass in the name of the file preceeded by an ampersand. For example, @addr.txt. (SMTP only)

(ex. name@somecompany.com)
The to address to show for the email. The default is the TO address(es). (SMTP only)

(ex. name@somecompany.com)
The address(es) to CC (carbon-copy) the email to. Must be an address in the form of name@somecompany.com. Separate multiple addresses with a comma. May also specify a file containing a list of addresses. Each address must be on a separate line by itself. Pass in the name of the file preceeded by an ampersand. For example, @addr.txt. (SMTP only)

(ex. name@somecompany.com)
The CC address to show for the email. The default is the CC address(es). (SMTP only)

(ex. name@somecompany.com)
The address(es) to BCC (blind carbon-copy) the email to. Must be an address in the form of name@somecompany.com. Separate multiple addresses with a comma. May also specify a file containing a list of addresses. Each address must be on a separate line by itself. Pass in the name of the file preceeded by an ampersand. For example, @addr.txt. (SMTP only)

High Low
The message priority. Leave this option off for normal priority. (SMTP only)

(ex. Here's your PDF)
The subject of the email.

The body text of the email. This may also be a file name. If so, the contents of the file will be used as the body. Use a \n for a new line when the body is entered using this option. You may also send HTML formatted body text. Put the <HTML> tag as the first line of the body text and it will be sent as HTML rather than plain text. Avoid using references to other local files in the HTML body, such as images, as they will not be sent with the message. You may use images with a web location as the source however.

(ex. test.xls,test.doc)
A comma separated list of file names to include with the mailing. The path must be fully qualified for each file.

(ex. mail.log)
The name of a log file to use for date/time emails were sent as well as any errors. This is optional. (SMTP only)

(ex. mail.dbg)
The path and name of a file to use for debugging purposes. The data (email message) that is sent to the SMTP server will be logged here. (SMTP only)

(ex. 1-5,10,12)
A range of pages to pull from the input PDF. Use a comma separated list with no spaces before or after the comma. A dash may be used to separate a range of numbers. For example, 2,7,14-20,35. Use negative numbers to refer to the position from the end of the page set. For example, -1 for the last page or -3 for the third to the last page. You may also use the words "odd" or "even" to pull all the odd or even pages. The odd and even options may be combined with page numbers as well, as in "1,even,-1,-2". Use "oddrange" or evenrange" along with a page range to only pull odd or even pages within that range. To pull pages 15 to the last page of a document you can use "15--1". May also specify a file name containing the list in place of the list.

Exclude Pages
Specifies the values entered for "Pages" are the pages to exclude rather than include.

(ex. 1-5,7,15,6)
Specifies a new page ordering for the resulting PDF. Only use one input PDF with this option. A dash may be used to separate a range of numbers. For example, -pageord 1-5,7,15,6. You may also use "reverse" to reverse the page order from the input PDF.

Burst Pages
Creates one new PDF for each page in the input PDF. The output file specified on the command line must be a directory name and not a file name. The output files will have the suffix _# appended to the name where # is the page number. The page number will be prefixed with 0's if necessary so all PDFs will be the same length for the name. For example, if the input file is called mypdf.pdf containing 145 pages then the output directory will contain mypdf_001.pdf, mypdf_002.pdf and so on through mypdf_145.pdf. Only use one input file with this option.

Extract Images
Exports images from the PDF. In this case, specify a directory as the output file. This option may not be able to extract all images depending on how they are stored in the PDF. The exported images will be JPEG, TIFF or U3D format based on they are stored in the PDF.

The distance to move the contents of each page to the right when positive or left when negative. The number is in units of 1/72 of an inch or the unit setting. May not work on all PDFs. Only use one input file with this option.

The distance to move the contents of each page down when positive or up when negative. The number is in units of 1/72 of an inch or the unit setting. May not work on all PDFs. Only use one input file with this option.

The scaling factor percent to apply to each page. The default is 100 or no scaling. A value of 50 will scale the contents to 50% of their original size. May not work on all PDFs. Only use one input file with this option.

Center
Used along with the Scale, Angle or Clip options. Specifies that the page contents should remain centered on the page. When scaling less than 100%, the page contents will generally migrate towards the lower left corner without this option and without Right/Left or Up/Down Shift. This option overrides any Right/Left or Up/Down Shift value. May not work on all PDFs.

(ex. 234,324,144,144)
Used to set up a clipping rectangle on the page. Only the contents which fall inside the rectangle are rendered. The values are specified in points (1/72 of an inch) or the unit setting. The ordering of the values is x,y,w,h. The x,y position 0,0 is the bottom left corner of the page. Values for w and h set the width (to the right of x) and the height (above y). For example, set to 234, 324, 144, 144 to display only the middle 2 inches of an 8.5 by 11 page. Only use one input file with this option.

90 Degrees 180 Degrees 270 Degrees 0 Degrees ABS 90 Degrees ABS 180 Degrees ABS 270 Degrees ABS
The angle to rotate the pages when opening in the viewer. This value is added to any existing rotation. For the ABS entries, the current rotation is ignored and replaced with this value instead.

Portrait Landscape Portrait (270 degrees) Landscape (270 degrees)
This will apply a rotation of 90 degrees to any pages that are opposite of what you set Orientation to. For example, if you use Portrait then any pages that are landscape will be rotated (if not already) to portrait. The contents will remain landscape or portrait but the page itself will be rotated in the viewer. The 270 option will set the rotation to 270 degrees rather than 90 degrees for those pages that require rotation.

The angle to rotate the page contents. Valid range is from 0 to 360. This differs from Rotate in that the page width and legth do not change, however the contents rotate about the bottom left corner.
Use Center to rotate about the center of the page. Or, use the Right/Left and/or Up/Down Shift options to put the contents (or portion you want) into view. For example, using 180 on a page 8.5 inches by 11 inches will require setting Right/Left Shift to 612 (8.5 * 72 = 612) and Up/Down Shift to -792 to view the contents. Only use one input file with this option.

(ex. 8.5,11)
The page size in inches or units. Specify the width and height separated by a comma.

Down Down (Larger) Up Up/Down
For use with the "Page Size" option. Use "Down" to scale larger pages down to fit within the new page size. Either the original width or height must be larger than the new page size to scale down. Use "Up" to scale smaller pages up to fit within the new page size. Both the original width and height must be smaller than the new page size to scale up. Use "Up/Down" to do both types of scaling. The "Down Larger" option scales to the larger of the x or y ratios. The default is to scale larger pages down by the smaller of the ratios.

Autoclip
Used along with the "Page Size" option. This option will clip the edges of the page for those pages that are smaller than the output page size. For example, if an input page size is 4x6 and the new size is 6x8 and there is no scaling, this option will clip one inch on the top, bottom, left and right. The page size doesn't change but only the 4x6 area of the page shows in the middle of the new 6x8 page.

All pages Even pages only Odd pages only
Select to add page numbers. Default position is bottom left corner.

Page Number Reset
Resets the current page number to 1 on each PDF. In addition, the total number of pages changes for each PDF appended to be the number of pages in that PDF rather than the total pages in the output.

The amount of space from the left edge of the page for the page number in points (1/72 of an inch) or the unit setting above.

The amount of space from the bottom edge of the page for the page number in points (1/72 of an inch) or the unit setting above.

Left Center Right
The setting made with "Left Margin" is used as padding on the left or right rather than an absolute position when this is used.

Pagetop
Place the page numbers at the top of the page rather than the bottom (and bottom margin above is considered a top margin).

(ex. 10)
Point size of the font for the page number. Default is 10.

Courier Helvetica Times-Roman Courier-Bold Helvetica-Bold Times-Bold Courier-Oblique Helvetica-Oblique Times-Italic Courier-BoldOblique Helvetica-BoldOblique Times-BoldItalic
Select the font to use for the page number. Helvetica is the default when not specified.

The color for the page number string. Default is black text.

The color for the background of the page number string. Default is no background.

(ex. Page %1 of %2)
Format string for the page number. Use %1 for the current page and %2 for the total number of pages. See the documentation for Bates numbering and other formatting options.

Page Number Rotate
Page numbers, by default, are rotated to match the current page's rotation angle. This setting turns off that processing meaning page numbers may display on any edge depending on the current page's rotation.

Page Number Outsize
Places added items such as page numbers and rectangles outside of any page scale or sizing specified. By default, these added items will scale or adjust with page size or scaling operations.

(ex. my text string)
A text string to color or highlight in the PDF. Use along with "Color" to set the color for the text or highlighting. Or, use with "String Change" to change the text. Text in a PDF is not necessarily contiguous so this option may not work on your PDF or on all occurrences. Text that is an image or part of an image will not be affected.

Use an asterisk (the * character) in the string to match any number of characters. Only use one asterisk. For example, to highlight a passage starting with "Run the setup program" and ending with "then reboot." use "Run the setup program*then reboot." as the string. All of the text in the section will be highlighted. Note that you may not span pages however. If a passage does span a page or more, break up the command and re-run PDF Meld several times, once for each page using an appropriate string value. To match on an asterisk and not use as a wildcard, use a backslash, the \ character, in front of the asterisk.

(ex. my text1|my text2)
A list of text strings to color or highlight in the PDF. Separate each entry with a pipe (the vertical bar or | symbol). Use along with "Color" to set the color for the text or highlighting. Text in a PDF is not necessarily contiguous so this method may not work on your PDF or on all occurrences. Text that is an image or part of an image will not be affected.

Case-Sensitive
Used to specify the string search is case-sensitive. By default the search is case-insensitive.

Match Whole Word Only
Used to specify the string search should match on the whole word only. For example, if "light" is used it will match "light" by itself or in words like "highlight". This option attempts to prevent that and only matches when the word "light" is not preceeded or followed by another letter. This may not always work depending on how the input PDF is structured.

(ex. \xE4)
Use along with "Match Whole Word Only" to specify other characters that should be included as part of a word. This is a regular expression so you could use "\xE4" to include the character ä. You may pass multiple characters like "[\xE4\xFC]" - any string that is a valid regular expression may be used.

Highlight Highlight with rounded ends Outline Underline Cross-out
The text itself is colored by default. This option is used to highlight or underline the text instead. Text in a PDF is not necessarily contiguous so this option may not work on your PDF or on all occurrences.

The color for the text or highlight. The text color is set to black after the text is colored so only use in cases where the text is black to start with (this applies only when not using "Color Mode").

A second for the text. This is used to create a gradient effect going from "Color" to "Color 2". Use "Color Mode" Highlight in this case.

(ex. .2,.1,.8,.7)
An array of 4 numbers used to express the starting and ending coordinates for the gradient shade. Use "Color" along with "Color 2" and "Color Mode" Highlight for a gradient shade. The default value is "0,0,1,0". This creates a shading pattern going from left to right. Use "0,0,0,1" for a shading pattern that goes from top to bottom, which works best with "Color Mode" Highlight with rounded ends. Other values, like ".2,.1,.8,.7" will give other effects.

(ex. http://www.mysite.com)
Converts the text matched from "String" to a URL link. Pass in the URL to use. Use a * in the URL to have it replaced by the value matched from "String". For example, use "www.*.com" to match all text in the document starting with "www." and ending with ".com". You can set to "http://*" and the link will use whatever text the "String" option matched. Text in a PDF is not necessarily contiguous so this option may not work on your PDF or on all occurrences.

(ex. new text)
Replacement text for text specified with "String". Note the alignment of text will likely change on lines where the text is replaced. You may not get the correct characters if the PDF doesn't contain them due to font subsetting. In some PDFs, only a subset of the font is embedded meaning the PDF doesn't have enough information to properly show the added character(s). The characters will show only if a base font is used or the font was embedded in its entirety.

(ex. 2,7,14-20,35)
A range of pages to apply any the "String" modifications on. Use a comma separated list with no spaces before or after the comma. A dash may be used to separate a range of numbers. For example, 2,7,14-20,35. May also specify a file name containing the list in place of the list.

Overlay Reverse Overlay
Overlay = File 1 above is the background and File 2 will be placed over top.
Reverse Overlay = File 2 above is the background and File 1 will be placed over top.

Repeat All Pages Repeat Last Page Only
Repeat All Pages = Repeat the background as many times as necessary for all the pages of the PDF placed on top.
Repeat Last Page Only = Repeat only the last page of the background as many times as necessary for all the pages of the PDF placed on top.

Requires Acrobat or Reader 5.0 or higher to view the transparency. You likely don't need to use this option if you are only trying to overlay text on a background PDF. Note this applies not only to overlays, but you can use this when adding page numbers or text. The opacity value is from 0 to 100. The higher the number, the less of the background shows through.

Autorotate
Used to compensenate for page rotation during the overlay process. Use this option when the result of your overlay is one of the PDFs comes out sideways or upside down. This is due to the way the PDF was created and, even though it appears right side up in the viewer, actually has its contents and page rotated. This option will attempt to correct that issue.

Used to denote the first (or second when Reverse Overlay is used) PDF as a separate layer. Supply a name for the background that the user will see in the viewer. Users can selectively turn the background on or off. Requires Acrobat or Reader 6.0 or higher to use. Users of earlier versions of Acrobat or Reader will not be able to turn off the background.

(ex. 2)
Split the original PDF into multiple PDFs based on the bookmark level specified. The topmost level is 1, the next level down is 2 and so on. Pass a 0 to split at all levels. The output PDFs are named after the bookmark text. The output file specified on the command line must be a directory name and not a file name.

File to use for bookmark structure. This is a plain text file, not a PDF. See the Bookmarks section in the documentation for layout details.

No Bookmarks
Turns off pulling of bookmarks from source PDFs.

Keep Bookmarks
Retains the bookmark structure from appended PDFs without adding the file name as an upper level. By default, each appended PDF will have a bookmark named as the file name or title.

File Title
Use with Keep Bookmarks. Creates a bookmark for any file being merged that does not have a bookmark structure. Select "File" to use the PDF file name for the bookmark description or "Title" to use the title from the PDF.

Use Title
Use the title of each document as the bookmark (when not using Keep Bookmarks). One bookmark is created for each document in this case. The file name is used if the document title is not set.

All Fields Non-Blank Fields
Creates an FDF file used to store data for populating a PDF containing fillable fields.
All Fields = All fields, even blank, are exported.
Non-Blank Fields = Only non-blank fields are exported.
In this case, use a file with a .fdf extension rather than .pdf for the output. Edit the FDF file with the data you want to show up in the PDF. Open the FDF file in Reader. Or use the Data Field Import area after you export and update the data for the fields to load into the input PDF.

Set to an FDF or XFDF file you want to use with a PDF containing the corresponding form fields. It's not necessary to have every field in the FDF file. Those not in the file will retain their current setting. The output PDF will contain the modified field values.

Read-Only
Mark all the form fields in the output PDF as read-only.

Flatten Flatten except signatures Flatten & remove borders
Flattens the fields in the PDF. This removes the fields and replaces the field with its text value. The effect is the PDF now contains a standard text string where the field was originally.
Flatten except signatures = Any signature fields are not removed. This leaves the signature boxes alone for signing later.
Flatten & remove borders = Flatten and remove any drawing around the field, such as a rectangle.

Optimize
Optimize the output PDF for fast web viewing. Note this typically increases the size of the output by a few hundred bytes. The PDF is optimized for viewing on the web as opposed to shrinking the physical size. As a rough guide, you should only optimize a PDF that will be viewed on the web when it contains more than 10 pages and its size is bigger than a megabyte.

Specify a list of owner passwords (no particular order) for any encrypted input PDFs. Separate the list with a comma (be careful not to leave a space before or after the comma). Place an '@' in front of the value if it is instead a file containing a list of passwords (one password per line).

128-bit Encryption
Recommended unless you need to be compatible with older version of Adobe Reader (4.x).

No Metadata Encrytion
When used with 128-bit encryption this option keeps the document metadata unencrypted in the output PDF. This allows other applications to read the metadata while the rest of the PDF is encrypted.

The owner password. You'll need this if you want to remove restrictions later.

Set a password here and provide to the end user. The PDF will not open without this password (or the owner password). Leave this blank to allow anyone to open but restictions will still be in effect if an owner password is specified above.

No Print
Disables printing of the document (even low resolution).

No Change
Disables changes to the document.

No Copy
Disables copying of text and/or graphics from the document.

No Annotation Changes
Disables add/change of form fields or annotations.

No Fill-in
Disables fill in interactive fields when no annotation is used.

No Extract
(128-bit only) Disables extraction of information in support of accessibility to disabled users or for other purposes.

No Assembly
(128-bit only) Disables assembly (insert, rotate, delete pages or create bookmarks) when "no change" is used.

No Digital Printing
(128-bit only) Disables printing at digital quality - can only print low resolution.

No Rights
Turns off all rights (default is all are granted). Setting of options above such as "no print" or "no copy" turns those rights on rather than off.