PDF Render Center (PDF Server) enables you to convert documents with batch jobs and to process PDF files. It can also be easily integrated into existing document management systems. PDF Render Center is perfect for small and midsize businesses that want to minimize the use of paper documents while automatically managing thousands of documents. It allows more efficient processing of a greater number of documents while reducing or even eliminating the costs of copying and archiving.

PDF Render Center (PDF RC) converts all your mission-critical documents, as well as data from electronic sources, into PDF documents and/or images. The newly created PDFs are then available on the back-end and can be administered in your database as well as in document management and content management systems. The files can be systematically organized, archived, password-protected and transmitted with PDF RC. In addition, you can define and optimize an enterprise-wide document workflow.

PDFs created with PDF Render Center can be edited with Perfect PDF 6 Premium.


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1. PDF Render Center converts:
   1. All data formats that can be printed from any software Installation of this software on a server is required
   2. Text files (ANSI and Unicode), RTF files (rich text format)
   3. HTML files or Web sites
   4. Raster images (JPEG, TIFF, etc.)
   5. PDF documents or pages
   6. MS Office files incl. import of MS Office metadata, such as links, table of contents (TOC), form fields and control elements, as well as comments, from Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents
2. PDF Render Center exports files as: PDF, PDF/A, text (ANSI or Unicode), or images (JPEG, TIFF, etc.), incl. multi page TIFF files
3. PDF Render Center offers several communication possibilities between the end-user and PDF RC in a network (Internet Explorer, Outlook, etc.). All versions are based on standard software
4. There are many methods for exporting documents from PDF RC to end-users: copy to a folder, send as an attachment, etc.
5. Flexible and transparent licensing and pricing models mean you pay only for the functionality you need.

You’ll find the complete list of supported PDF properties in the Guide to PDF Xpansion SDK.

If you have purchased PDF Render Center, soft Xpansion will create the required PDF RC server configuration for you or support you if you prefer to configure it yourself – at no additional charge.


The standard methods of data flow control do not usually permit PDF RC to integrate with document management systems (DMS). They are not always applicable or effective when using PDF Render Center within DMS solutions. PDF RC thus offers alternative interfaces supporting integration with various server software.

The most flexible in terms of capabilities is the COM interface. PDF RC provides this interface for transferring original files for processing as well as for process completion, notification, and transmission of processed documents (usually as PDFs).

More common but less flexible is a PDF RC interface based on Web services. Web services come with the PDF RC distribution kit and provide any software running on any platform with a way to communicate with PDF RC and to transmit documents to it for processing and conversion.

You’ll find more information about using these interfaces in "PDF Render Center - Integration with DMS", which you can download from the yellow box on the right.