PDFreactor General FAQs

The following FAQs will answer common questions in terms of PDFreactor usage and integration.

1. General

1.1 What is PDFreactor?

1.2 What is the advantage of PDFreactor?

1.3 How does PDFreactor work?

1.4 Who typically uses PDFreactor?

1.5 Is PDFreactor a desktop application for end-users to create PDFs from any kind of documents?

1.6 Is PDFreactor a replacement for Adobe Acrobat or similar desktop software tools?

2. Integration

2.1 What is the typical integration scenario for PDFreactor?

2.2 How is PDFreactor integrated?

2.3 What is simplest way to integrate PDFreactor using the Java API?

2.4 Can I run PDFreactor on a system without a graphical environment such as X11 oder Xfvb?

2.5 Which modes of input does PDFreactor accept?

2.6 How can I render large documents when using the .NET or PHP API?

2.7 Can PDFreactor access documents form servers that require POST-data or cookies?

2.8 Why is a SAXParseException thrown, when rendering HTML documents exported from Microsoft Word?

2.9 Why does the PDFreactor webservice not run properly on my Debian server?

2.10 How do I set the license key in my PDFreactor application?

3. PDF Output

3.1 How can I place a page break?

3.2 How can I avoid a page Break?

3.3 How can I place a footer?

3.4 How can I number my pages?

3.5 PDFreactor doesn't create tagged PDFs in evaluation mode. Is this a limitation of the eval version?

4. Miscellaneous

4.1 What is the PDFreactor GUI Demo application for?

4.2 Does PDFreactor support printing of any legacy HTML pages?

4.3 Does PDFreactor process any page which is viewable in a browser?

4.4 Which PDF version does PDFreactor support?

4.5 Does CSS support pagination respectively paged media?

4.6 Does PDFreactor support XHTML forms?

4.7 Which HTML versions are supported?

4.8 Which CSS versions are supported?

4.9 Which fonts are supported?

5. Licensing

5.1 Do I need a license for my test and development environment?

5.2 We have different machines/servers with various CPUs/Cores. Do we need the appropriate number of PDFreactor CPU License Packs for each machine/server or just one license with the cumulative number of CPUs?