Printing PDF Documents with Optimized Performance

When Print Original Size is selected, and PDF documents with annotations are printed, the annotations are embedded in the downloaded PDF document as native PDF annotations that reduces the time taken to print documents, especially large documents.

When you print PDF documents with annotations, the annotations are embedded in the downloaded PDF document as native PDF annotations that reduces the time taken to print documents, especially large documents.

This process currently applies to printing PDF documents when 'Print Original Size' is selected in the print settings. If this option is not selected or the printed document contains other file formats, the print process completely flattens the content of each page.

The time it takes to prepare a PDF with annotations for print by using the optimized print depends on the total number of annotations. In most cases, you need to have several hundreds of annotations in a single document before the time difference becomes noticeable.

With the optimized print, any annotations created in IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual are embedded into the document as native PDF annotations. Therefore, they are recognized as active annotations when the PDF is viewed by tools that support editing of PDF documents. Later, if this document is viewed by IBM Daeja ViewONE Virtual, any annotations are treated as static content where loading a document with pre-applied native annotations cannot be edited. To prevent document or annotation modification appropriate security would need to be, set through a tool that supports editing or through some PDF printers.

  1. Sticky Notes :

    Sticky Note annotations appear on top of other annotations regardless of z-order.

  2. Line Width:

    The maximum line width of native annotations is 12pt and that is limited for print output.

  3. Image Stamps:

    Image stamp annotations appear underneath any other annotation types regardless of the z-order. This is because they added to the content of the PDF and not as separate native PDF annotations.

Some of the cases where optimized PDF print does not occur :

  1. PDF documents with digital signatures.
  2. PDF documents with password encryption and edit protection.
  3. PDF Documents with any ruler or angle annotations.

For the cases where optimized printing fails, by default printing falls back to render-based printing, and a warning message is generated.