F reeF low Process Man ager Ope rator and Ad ministrator Guide2-38Workflow BuilderConfiguring Convert settingsGeneral tab: Process Manager automates the processing of PDFdocuments. The Convert process step enables Microsoft WordMicrosoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Publisher, AdobeInDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, JPG, JPEG, BMP,TIFF, TIFF-IT, TIF, PS, VPC, QXD, QXP, RDO, and EPSdocument types to be converted to a PDF document forsubmission to Process Manager workflows.You can select from various job options to generate optimal PDFsfor Microsoft Office (including Microsoft Office 2007) or PS files.The job options include the basic Adobe Acrobat Distiller set withthe addition of various Xerox-specific job options, includingDocuColor iGen3. You can also create custom job options inAdobe Acrobat Distiller for use in Process Manager.The default job option that displays in Process Manager isselected in Adobe Acrobat Distiller.The [Flatten submitted PDF files for printing] option allows youto re-process PDF files with known printing problems. “Flattening”converts a PDF file to PostScript, and then converts it back to aPDF file. This feature may result in a loss of features and imagedegradation, including:• Flattening of transparency.• Loss of some interactive features such as thumbnails,bookmarks, article threads, logical structure and trappinginformation.• Loss of functionality of other interactive features such asforms, hyperlinks, JavaScript.• Loss of some annotations such as comments, embedded files,embedded media such as video/audio, and references toexternal files or media.Limitations for Flatten This feature potentially requires a largeamount of disk space for creating both the intermediate PostScriptand the flattened PDF file.The conversion will fail if the disk spaceis insufficient.
