Establishing Settings

Introduction

The following topics explain how to establish settings in APSplit DE. Settings that you establish take effect immediately and apply to all subsequent split operations until you change them again.

Entering an Input File Password

If a file that you are splitting is secured, you must supply its Owner password, also known as the Master password or Permissions password, to open it for splitting. (The User password, also called the Open password, does not work with APSplit DE.)

To enter an Owner password:

  1. Click the Settings button on the Single File or Multiple Files tab. The Settings dialog box is displayed.

  2. Type the password in the Owner Password to Open File field.

    Note: All secured files that are split at the same time must have the same Owner password. If you want to split files that have different Owner passwords, group the files by password and perform a separate split operation for each group.

  3. If you wish, change additional settings on the Settings dialog box.

  4. Click the Close button to save the Owner password and any other changes you made. The next time you perform a split operation, the password will be applied to all secured input files.

Changing Save Options

APSplit DE’s default save behavior is to:

  • Exclude from the output any page annotations (also called comments) in the input files. Annotations include notes, text, audio, stamps, form fields (Widgets), files, pencil marks, rectangles, ellipses, lines, highlights, cross outs (strikethroughs), and underlines.
  • Save the split output results as nonlinearized for typical, nonweb use. (When a file is linearized for web delivery, individual pages can be rendered before the entire document has downloaded. This enables users to start reading the document sooner.)

To change one or both of the save options:

  1. Click the Settings button on the Single File or Multiple Files tab. The Settings dialog box is displayed.

  2. Change one or both of the Save Options:

    • If you want page annotations from the input files to be included in the output, check the Retain Page Annotations box. To exclude page annotations from the output, uncheck this box.

    • If you want the output files to be linearized, check the Save Linearized for Fast Web View box. To save the output normally, uncheck this box.

      Note: Linearization only works with multipage files. Attempting to linearize a one-page file will result in a larger file with no increase in web service efficiency.

  3. If you wish, change additional settings on the Settings dialog box.

  4. Click the Close button to save the Save Options and any other changes you made. The next time you perform a split operation, the new save options will be applied to the output files.

Working with Logging Options (progress and error messages)

By default, all progress and error messages that APSplit DE generates are saved in a log file. This file, called APSplitDE_log.txt, is stored in the directory where APSplit DE is installed. The logging options enable you to view the log file from within APSplit DE, and to change its name and location.

To view the log file:

  1. Click the Settings button on the Single File or Multiple Files tab. The Settings dialog box is displayed.

  2. Click the Show Log File button. The current log file is displayed.

To change the log file path name:

  1. Click the Settings button on the Single File or Multiple Files tab. The Settings dialog box is displayed.

  2. Under Logging Options, click the Browse button next to Log File Path, select or enter the name of the file you want to use for logging, and then click Save. Be sure to include a .txt at the end of the file name

  3. If you wish, change additional settings on the Settings dialog box.

  4. Click the Close button to save the new log file specification and any other changes you made. The next time you perform a split operation, progress and error messages will be written to the log file you specified.