PDFlib Personalization Server在突破PDF文档静态成果的基础上进一步强化了PDF的概念。为了能更容易、更快速的打印可变数据,PDFlib引入了一个概念------"块是PDF的一个新特性"。根据引入的"PDFlib Blocks"概念,PDFlib为PDF文档个人服务所引起的有负面作用问题提供了一个解决方案。
Feature |
PDF form fields |
PDFlib Blocks |
design objective |
designed for interactive use |
designed for automated filling |
typographic features (beyond choice of font and font size) |
- |
kerning, word and character spacing, underline, overline, strikeout |
font control |
font embedding |
font embedding and subsetting, encoding |
merged result is integral part of PDF page description |
no |
yes |
users can edit merged field contents |
yes |
no |
extensible set of properties |
|
yes (custom block properties) |
color support |
RGB |
grayscale, RGB, CMYK, spot color, Lab |
PDF/X compatible |
no |
yes (both template with blocks and merged results) |
graphics and text properties can be overridden upon filling |
no |
yes |