Web Page Conversion options in Acrobat

The Web Page Conversion Settings dialog box is available only from within Acrobat. The Settings button in the Create PDF From Web Page dialog box opens the Web Page Conversion Settings.

Note: The options available in the Web Page Conversion Settings are different from those available in the Web Capture Preferences. Together, these settings apply to both the web conversion and web capture processes.

General tab

File Type Settings: Specifies the file type to be downloaded. If you select HTML or Plain Text as the file type, click Settings to select the font properties and other display characteristics.
Create Bookmarks: Creates a tagged bookmark for each converted web page using the page’s title (HTML Title element) as the bookmark name. If the page has no title, the URL is used as the bookmark name.
Create PDF Tags: Stores a structure in the PDF that corresponds to the HTML structure of the web pages and lets you create tagged bookmarks for paragraphs, list elements, and other items that use HTML elements.
Place Headers & Footers On New Pages: Places a header and footer on every page. Headers show the web page’s title; footers show the page’s URL, the page number in the downloaded set, and the date and time of the download.
Save Refresh Commands: Saves a list of all URLs and remembers how they were downloaded in the PDF for refreshing (updating) purposes. Must be selected before you can update a PDF-converted website.

Page Layout tab

The upper portion of this tab shows options similar to those on a Page Setup or Print dialog box, specifying a selection of page sizes and options for width, height, margin measurements, and page orientation. The right side of the tab area shows a Sample Page that adjusts when you change the measurements or orientation options.

The Scaling portion of the tab area shows these options:

Scale Wide Contents To Fit Page (Windows)/Scale Contents To Fit Page (Mac OS): Rescales a page’s contents, if necessary, to fit the width of the page. If this option is not selected, the paper size adjusts to fit the page’s contents if necessary.
Switch To Landscape If Scaled Smaller Than: Changes the page orientation to landscape if the new version of a page is less than 70% of the original size. Available only if you selected portrait orientation.

HTML Conversion Settings

This dialog box opens when you select HTML on the General tab of the Web Page Conversion Settings dialog box, and then click the Settings button.

General tab

Default Colors: Sets the default colors for text, page backgrounds, web links, and text that replace unavailable images. Click the color button to open a palette, and select the color. To use these colors on all pages, select Force These Settings For All Pages.
Background Options: Specifies whether to display colors and tiled images in page backgrounds and colors in table cells. If options are deselected, converted web pages may look different than they do in a web browser, but may be easier to read when printed.
Wrap Lines Inside PREs Longer Than: Wraps preformatted (HTML) lines of text. When selected, this option changes the line breaks so that the text fits on the PDF pages. Select this setting if an HTML file has unreasonably long lines of preformatted text.
Multimedia: Determines whether to reference multimedia (such as SWF files) by URL, disable multimedia capture, or embed multimedia files when possible.
Convert Images: Includes images in the conversion to PDF. If you do not select this option, an image is indicated by a colored border (and possibly text, if specified by the page’s design).
Underline Links: Underlines textual web links on the pages.

Fonts And Encoding tab

Default: Under Input Encoding, sets the input encoding of a file’s text from a menu of operating systems and alphabets.
Always: Ignores any encoding that is specified in the HTML source file and uses the selection shown in the Default option.
When Page Doesn’t Specify Encoding: Uses the selection shown in the Default option only if the HTML source file does not specify a type of encoding.
Language Specific Font Settings: Use these settings to change the fonts used to display body text, headings, and preformatted text. Click Change, select new fonts from the menus, and click OK.
Font Size: Sets the font sizes used for body text, headings, and preformatted text.
Embed Platform Fonts When Possible: Stores the fonts used on the pages in the PDF so that the text always appears in the original fonts. Note that embedding fonts increases the size of the file.

Plain Text Conversion Settings

General tab

Color swatches: Swatches indicate the colors selected for text and background. Colors can be changed by clicking the swatch and selecting a new color in the color picker that opens.
Wrap Lines At Margin: Inserts a soft return when the text reaches the edge of the text area on the page.
Reflow Text: (Available only when Wrap Lines At Margin is selected.) Makes text more accessible for users with special needs.
Limit Lines Per Page: Sets the maximum number of lines that can appear on a single page, based on the entry in Max Lines.

Fonts And Encoding tab

Default: Under Input Encoding, sets the input encoding of a file’s text.
Language Specific Font Settings: Use these settings to change the fonts used to display body text, headings, and preformatted text. Click Change, select new fonts from the menus, and click OK.
Font Size: Sets the font sizes used for body text, headings, and preformatted text.
Embed Platform Fonts When Possible: Stores the fonts used on the pages in the PDF so that the text always appears in the original fonts. Note that embedding fonts increases the size of the file.