# About the Conversion to PDF (DocuWorks PDF) Plug-in

The conversion to PDF (DocuWorks PDF) plug-in allows you to convert DocuWorks documents to PDF documents using a DocuWorks built-in function.

- The conversion process is skipped if a protected document is present in the selected DocuWorks documents and you are not authorized to print that document.
- If a document in the format other than DocuWorks document is present in the selected documents, only the DocuWorks documents are converted skipping the documents of other format. Also, if no DocuWorks document is present in the selected files, an error message is displayed, and no conversion takes place.
- The converted PDF file is created in the same folder as the original DocuWorks document. When [Show files other than DocuWorks files] is selected in [View] under [DocuWorks Desk Options] in the [Preferences] dialog box, the created PDF file is displayed on the Desk workspace.

The following information is inherited to the converted PDF file:

- Text of application page
- Text of text annotations
- Text of a received stamp annotation
- Title text of opaque link annotations
- Page headers
- Page number
- OCR result text
- Date and time annotation

The OCR result text is placed on the original image as invisible text. When you select the image with text selection mode, the OCR result text is also selected.
Note
The following restrictions apply:

- Up to 1,000 files can be changed at a time.
- Annotations such as text annotations are embedded as body text on a PDF document after the conversion without retaining the annotation format.
- If the document is saved while its annotations are hidden, no annotations are transferred onto a PDF document during the conversion.
- Text positioning may not be accurately converted onto a PDF document.
- When converting a DocuWorks document into a PDF document, any parts of the OCR-processed text that do not fit on the paper size of the PDF document may be cut off, and not fully converted onto the PDF document.
- When converting the OCR-processed DocuWorks document that has been rotated, text positioning may not be accurately transferred into the PDF document.
- If the OCR-processing fails to obtain the text positioning information of certain text, then this particular OCR result text appears at the top left of the PDF document page.
- When you use the conversion to PDF (DocuWorks PDF) plug-in, items located on the [Page Settings] tab in the [DocuWorks PDF Properties] dialog box, such as [Save File Settings], [Setting When File Already Exists], [Output Folder Setting], are disabled.
  To show the [DocuWorks PDF Properties] dialog box, try the following procedure:
  1. Select [Tool Settings] from the [Tool] menu.
  2. Right-click the plug-in button allocated in the toolbar or the task toolbar.
  3. Select [Settings] from the shortcut menu.
  4. Click [Properties] in the [Conversion to PDF Settings] dialog box.
  5. Select the settings name on the [Creator Settings] tab in the [DocuWorks PDF Creator Document Properties] dialog box, and click [Edit].
- When converting a DocuWorks document to a PDF document using [Conversion to PDF (DocuWorks PDF)], the attribute values (Title, Author, Subtitle, Keyword) of the converted PDF document inherit the attribute values set in the DocuWorks document before conversion. The settings for [Document Information] in the [Conversion to PDF (DocuWorks PDF)] print settings will be ignored.