Conversion Profiles offer definable configuration, including Font Embed, Compatibility, Compression, Security, and Watermark. Here are the five predefined profiles by default:

  • Factory Default

  • Draft Only

  • Company Confidential

  • Publishing Quality

  • My Stamp

You can also create new profiles or edit the settings of an existing profile.


A. A list of 5 default profiles and those you have created B. Conversion settings…

To modify an existing Conversion Profile

  1. Start Right PDF Converter and click on Conversion Settings…  to the right of the conversion profile menu.

  2. In the Convert Setting dialog box, the existing profiles are displayed in the panel to the left.

  3. As needed, make changes to the existing predefined profiles:

  • To create a new profile, select a profile, right-click anywhere on the profile panel and select New. In the New Setting dialog box, type a name in the New setting name box and then click OK.

  • To delete a profile, select one, right-click anywhere on the profile panel and select Delete. Click OK.

  • To rename a profile, you can either double-click one or select one, right-click anywhere on the profile panel and select Rename.

Conversion settings

  • Compatibility controls. It decides the PDF version of result PDFs. Right PDF Converter 6.0 supports PDF version 1.3 to 1.7, 2.0, and PDF/A. You might have to change the compatibility level of a PDF file to match the version of your client or colleague’s PDF application.

Right PDF Converter 6.0 supports creating PDF 2.0 documents that can be opened, viewed, and modified in Right PDF Editor 6.0.  Generally speaking, we recommend always using the most recent version (in this case, PDF 2.0); however, if the document would be widely distributed, consider using PDF 1.5 to ensure that all recipients can view and print your document.

  • Font Embed controls. Specify which fonts to embed and whether to embed font subset in the PDF. Choose a standard control from the Font Embed drop-down menu: Embed Non-Standard Fonts, Embed All Fonts, or Do Not Embed Fonts. To see the settings of each standard control, click the Advanced… button to the right of the Font Embed drop-down menu to open the Embed Font Controls dialog box and select the following options as needed:

    • Embed All Used Fonts. Select to embed all fonts used in the file. To embed only certain fonts, deselect this option and move the fonts from the Available Fonts list to the Always Embed Fonts box.

    • Always Embed Fonts. Specify only certain fonts to embed. This option is available only when Embed All Used Fonts is deselected. Select fonts from the list of Available Fonts and move them to the Always Embed Fonts settings box using the button. 

    • Embed Font Subset. Embed only characters whose usage is less than a certain percentage in the document. For example, if you set the threshold at 90%, and there are less than 90% of the characters used, then the program will embed only those characters used in the document. Otherwise, the whole font is embedded.

    • Never Embed Fonts. You can put the fonts you don’t want to embed into this list.

    • Click   button to remove fonts from the Always Embed Fonts and Never Embed Fonts lists.

  • Compression controls. Apply compression to color, grayscale, and monochrome images. You can select a compression level to reduce the file size or use your own compression settings. Select a compression level from the Compression drop-down menu: Lossless (level 100), High Quality (level 75), Medium Quality (level 50), Low Quality (level 25), Image Place Holder (level 5), or No Image (level 0). To view and edit compression settings of each predefined conversion control, click the Advanced… button to open the Compression Controls dialog box:

From the List of Compression Controls to the left, select a compression control and view or edit the settings to the right if needed:

    • Use Auto Settings (Recommended). Select a compression percentage using the slider. The compression applies to text, line arts, and images in your documents. The smaller the file, the lower the quality.

    • Use Custom Settings. Define compression, resampling, and resolution settings for color, grayscale, and monochrome images to get better balance between file size and image quality.

      • Compress Using. Apply compression to color, grayscale, and monochrome images using a specific format. The options are: JPEG2000, JPEG and ZIP for color and grayscale images, and three for monochrome images that are ZIP, CCITT Group, and Run Length. The CCITT (International Coordinating Committee for Telephony and Telegraphy) compression method works best for black-and-white images made by paint programs and 1-bit scanned images. The Run Length produces the best results for images containing large areas of solid white or black.

      • Quality. There are five predefined image quality options to choose from for color and grayscale images: High, Medium-High, Medium, Medium-Low, and Low. 

      • Resolution. Specify a resolution for downsampling or subsampling.

      • Resample. It changes the pixel dimensions for the images. DownSample decreases the number of pixels in the image by combining pixels in a sample area of the image to make one larger pixel. SubSample replaces an entire area with the pixel selected from that sample area at the specified resolution.

  • Security controls. Choose a security method to protect your output PDF documents. Select a security control from the Security drop-down menu: No Printing, No Copying, No Annotating, No Modifying, Form Fill-in Only, Comments/Form Fill-in Only, or Low Resolution Print Only. You can then click Advanced… to view or edit security settings of the security control you choose. See Securing PDFs with passwords for details.

In the Security Controls dialog box, select an encryption level from the Encryption Strength drop-down menu and specify the type of encryption used to secure the output PDF documents. Click OK and confirm passwords:

    • Require password to open the document. A correct open password is required to open the output PDF document. Only the people who have the correct open password can open and view the PDF file.

    • Use a password to restrict printing, editing and modifying security settings of the document. Select to restrict certain functions, such as printing, copying or extracting content, annotating, editing, modifying, and more. However, this password does not restrict opening the PDF. Only the people who have the correct permissions password can change the restriction settings.

  • Watermark controls. Select the type of watermark to use according to your requirement and set its properties and position as needed. See Add watermarks to PDFs for details. Select a watermark control from the Watermark drop-down menu and then click Advanced… to view or edit settings of the selected type of watermark. In the Watermark Controls dialog box, select the following options and you can see the preview (C) on the right:

    • Watermark Type. Choose a watermark type that consists of text, an image or composite, or a combination of existing watermarks. If you select text, enter the text to appear and adjust text properties such as font, size, color, style and angle. If you select Image/PDF, click Browse and choose an image or a PDF file to be used as a watermark. If you select Composite, you will create a new watermark using the existing ones. In the Composite Properties section, select watermarks from the list of existing watermarks (A) and click Add to add them to the list of displayed watermarks above (B).

Note: secured PDF files cannot be used as watermarks.

To Edit Profile Setting

  1. Start Right PDF Converter and click on Conversion Settings… at the bottom of the window.

  2. Select a profile and change its settings if needed.

  3. To apply MS Word conversion settings and/or Document settings to your generated PDFs, select their respective or both checkboxes, and then click the Edit buttons next to them to configure settings. You can also check Make Searchable (Run OCR) to make the text searchable in the output PDF files.

  4. Change Word, Document and/or OCR settings following on-screen instructions. Click OK.

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