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GroupDocs.Conversion provides PdfConvertOptions to give you control over conversion result when convert to PDF. Along with common convert options  PdfConvertOptions has the following additional options:

• setFormat specifies desired result document type. Available options are: Pdf, Epub, Xps, Tex, Ps, Pcl.
• setWidth specifies desired image width after conversion.
• setHeight specifies desired image height after conversion.
• setDpi specifies desired page DPI after conversion.
• setPassword whether set the converted document will be protected with specified password.
• setMarginTop specifies desired page top margin after conversion.
• setMarginBottom specifies desired page bottom margin after conversion.
• setMarginLeft specifies desired page left margin after conversion.
• setMarginRight specifies desired page right margin after conversion.
• setPdfOptions specifies PDF specific convert options.
• setRotate specifies page rotation. Available options are: None, On90, On180, On270.

The following code snippet shows how to convert to PDF with advanced options

const loadOptions = new groupdocs.conversion.WordProcessingLoadOptions()
loadOptions.setPassword("12345");

const converter = new groupdocs.conversion.Converter('sample.docx')
const convertOptions = new groupdocs.conversion.PdfConvertOptions();

convertOptions.setPageNumber(2);
convertOptions.setPagesCount(1);
convertOptions.setRotate(groupdocs.conversion.Rotation.On180);
convertOptions.setDpi(300);
convertOptions.setWidth(1024);
convertOptions.setHeight(768);

converter.convert("converted.pdf", convertOptions);

PdfOptions class provides specific options when converting document to different versions of PDF format.

• setPdfFormat sets pdf format of the converted document. Available options are: Default, PdfA_1A, PdfA_1B, PdfA_2A, PdfA_3A, PdfA2B, PdfA_2U, PdfA_3B, PdfA_3U, v1_3, v1_4, v1_5, v1_6, v1_7, PdfX_1A, PdfX_3.
• setRemovePdfACompliance removes Pdf-A compliance.
• setZoom specifies the zoom level in percentage.
• setLinearize linearizes PDF document for web.
• setGrayscale converts PDF file to grayscale.
• setOptimizationOptions specifies PDF optimization options.
• setFormattingOptions specifies PDF formatting options.

PdfOptimizationOptions class allows to specify options for adjusting PDF conversion process and improve its speed.

• setLinkDuplicateStreams removes link duplicate streams.
• setRemoveUnusedObjects removes unused objects.
• setCompressImages whether set to true, all images in the document are re-compressed. The amount of compression and image quality are defined by the setImageQuality.
• setImageQuality specifies value in percent where 100% is unchanged quality and image size. To decrease the image size set this property to less than 100.
• setUnembedFonts specifies make fonts not embedded.

PdfFormattingOptions class provides different options to change PDF document look.

• setCenterWindow specifies whether position of the document’s window will be centered on the screen.
• setDirection sets reading order of text: L2R (left to right) or R2L (right to left). Available options are: L2R, R2L.
• setDisplayDocTitle specifies whether document’s window title bar should display document title.
• setFitWindow specifies whether document window must be resized to fit the first displayed page.
• setHideMenuBar specifies whether menu bar should be hidden when document is active.
• setHideToolBar specifies whether toolbar should be hidden when document is active.
• setHideWindowUI specifies whether user interface elements should be hidden when document is active.
• setNonFullScreenPageMode specifies how to display the document on exiting full-screen mode. Available options are: UseNone, UseOutlines, UseThumbs, FullScreen, UseOC, UseAttachments.
• setPageLayout sets page layout which shall be used when the document is opened. Available options are: Default, SinglePage, OneColumn, TwoColumnLeft, TwoColumnRight, TwoPagesLeft, TwoPagesRight.
• setPageMode - specifying how document should be displayed when opened.