| Attributes |
| Name | Required | Request-time | Type | Description |
| authorName | false | true | java.lang.String | Author's name to be included to the document properties list |
| pageFormat | false | true | java.lang.String | Predefined document size values like "A4", "LETTER" |
| fileName | false | true | java.lang.String | Desired pdf file name to appear in "Save as..." dialog (note: not all browsers interpret it correctly); useful in combination with inline="false" attribute value |
| pageInsets | false | true | java.lang.String | ",,,," coma-separated integer sizes in specified units ("mm" or "points") |
| pageOrientation | false | true | java.lang.String | "landscape" or "portrait" |
| screenWidth | true | true | int | see PD4ML.setHtmlWidth() |
| adjustScreenWidth | false | true | boolean | sets htmlWidth to the most right margin of the HTML content. Since 3.0.2. See PD4ML.adjustHtmlWidth() |
| pdfa | false | true | boolean | "true" or "false"; see PD4ML.generatePdfa(boolean) |
| inline | false | true | boolean | should the file be shown in the browser window ("true") or offered to be saved to disk ("false") |
| encoding | false | true | java.lang.String | No Description |
| url | false | true | java.lang.String | external URL to be converted to PDF. If the attribute is set, than the HTML/JSP content between and tags is ignored and the given URL is used as PDF source. The URL should be in full form http://server/path/to/file.jsp or in reduced /path/to/file.jsp (in the last case current server address and port are used). Relative paths are not accepted. |
| forward | false | true | java.lang.String | URL of PD4ForwarderServlet to delegate PDF transport function to. The forwarding is used to prevent IllegalStateException in some of servlet runtime and UI framework environments. The servlet should have an access to the JSP session context. Be carefull with big HTML sources: if "url" attribute is not given, they remain in a session context until the session expired |
| http | false | true | java.lang.String | "noheader" disables HTTP header data output |
| useAFM | false | true | boolean | Available since version 1.1.0. DEPRECATED (always "true"). If set to true, it forces PD4ML to use Adobe font glyph widths instead of the font metrics provided by Java graphical environment. Usually resulting PDF is rendered more accurate. |
| debug | false | true | boolean | Available since version 1.2.0. If set to true, it forces PD4ML to output absolute paths to images being loaded in order to determine base url or resource referencing problems. |
| enable | false | true | boolean | Available since version 2.1.4. If set to true (default), converts nested HTML to PDF. Otherwise outputs HTML "as is" |
| outline | false | true | java.lang.String | Available since version 1.2.0. Enables generation of PDF bookmarks (aka outlines). There are 3 supported values: "anchors" - generates bookmarks from named anchors, "headings" - converts headings h1-h6 structure to bookmarks tree, "none" - does not generate bookmarks |
| fitPageVertically | false | true | java.lang.String | Available since version 3.0.4 Forces PD4ML to downscale entire HTML layout to fit a single PDF page vertically |
| generatePdfForms | false | true | boolean | Available since version 3.2.3. Enables/disables convertion of HTML forms to PDF forms (Acroforms) |
| outputRange | false | true | String | Available since version 3.5.5. |
| outputFormat | false | true | String | Available since version 3.5.5. |
| generateHyperlinks | false | true | boolean | Available since version 1.2.0. Enables/disables convertion of HTML hyperlinks to PDF hyperlinks. Supports references to external as well as to internal resources |
| multicolumn | false | true | boolean | Available since version 3.2.4. Forces PD4ML to output multicolumn PDF document. Examples: "2,10mm" (2 columns, 10mm gap), "3,25pt" (3 columns, 25pt gap) |