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Documentation for the supported user properties of the PdfEmitter #1653

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# Eclipse BIRT
Introduction to use the specialist user properties of the PdfEmitter.

## Reason
The PdfEmitter provides a set of specialist user properties to optimize the excel output according of the reporting based requirements.

Each of the user properties starts with the master prefix "PdfEmitter".


### User properties of the PdfEmitter

The following list get an overview of all supported user properties, the content and the definition of use.

**PdfEmitter.PrependDocumentList**

Content pdf documents which shall be added at the beginning of the produced pdf document,
the value must include the full filename in kind of javascript or list like [PDF1,PDF2,PDF...,PDFn]
Location report
Data type string
Values file name with full path or list of file names
Default empty (null)

**PdfEmitter.AppendDocumentList**

Content pdf documents which shall be added at the end of the produced pdf document,
the value must include the full filename in kind of javascript or list like [PDF1,PDF2,PDF...,PDFn]
Location report
Data type string
Values file name with full path or list of file names
Default empty (null)

**PdfEmitter.Version**

Content define the version of the created pdf document
Location report
Data type string
Values version number: 1.3 - 1.7
Default 1.5

**PdfEmitter.Conformance**

Content define the pdf conformance of the created pdf document, e.g. PDF.A1A
Location report
Data type string
Values conformance values: PDF.Standard, PDF.X1A2001, PDF.X32002, PDF.A1A, PDF.A1B
Default PDF.Standard
Reference see PdfEmitter.IccColorType, PdfEmitter.IccProfileFile, PdfEmitter.PDFA.AddDocumentTitle, PdfEmitter.PDFA.FallbackFont

**PdfEmitter.IccColorType**

Content define the icc color type of the pdf/a document
Location report
Data type string
Values RGB, icc color profile type
CMYK, icc color profile type
Default RGB (sRGB IEC61966-2.1)

**PdfEmitter.IccProfileFile**

Content define the icc color file
Location report
Data type string
Values file name with full path or list of file names
Default empty (null)

**PdfEmitter.PDFA.FallbackFont**

Content fall back font to create the pdf/a document correctly,
this font will be used if a report font isn't embeddable to the pdf document
Location report
Data type boolean
Values true, add the pdf title
false, avoid the pdf title
Default false

**PdfEmitter.PDFA.AddDocumentTitle**

Content add the report title as pdf title,
with the activated title setting the pdf document is not full pdf/a conform due to a openPDF-topic
Location report
Data type boolean
Values true, add the pdf title
false, avoid the pdf title
Default false