Preferences
The Preferences dialog offers level-of-detail settings for customizing power-tool results, lets you specify how to highlight problems when generating a report, and provides an editor for creating and adjusting output conditions (OutputIntents).
General
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- Here you can choose whether or not to automatically optimise your PDF files when they are being processed.
- You can limit the maximum number of results to show per page or per document.
- The level of detail when displaying results can be customized.
- You can choose whether or not to check for updates.
- You can also empty the font cache and reset all warnings within pdfToolbox.
OutputIntents
Here you can create, edit or export OutputIntents (output conditions) as well as extracting ICC profiles.
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Highlighting
This tab lets you specify the color and style for highlighted objects within a PDF document or the transparent masks in a PDF mask report.
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Server
This tab lets you configure the settings for the server version of pdfToolobx. These server settings will only be applied when a server is started from pdfToolbox Desktop, they will not affect the settings of an already running server.
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