| Feature | ePDF/GhostScript | OpenOffice PDF Export |
| User definable document informations | yes (in ePDF during printing) | yes (in source document settings) |
| bookmarks | yes | no |
| encryption | yes | no |
| distiller pre-setups | ebook, screen, printer, prepress, default | screen, printer, prepress |
| distiller profile management | yes | no |
| customizable resolutions | yes | no |
| web and size optimized PDFs | yes | no |
| customizable font embedding | yes | no |
| embedding of PS fonts | yes | yes |
| embedding of TrueType fonts | no | yes |
| customizable PDF startup options: | ||
| PDF zoom, fullscreen etc. | yes | no |
| PDF start page | yes | no |
| support of watermarks | yes | no |
| additional notes: | - needs installation of EMX, GostScript, PS printer driver, and ePDF itself | + automatically installed with OpenOffice |
| + universal solution, works with all applications which are able to print | - works from OpenOffice only | |
| + PDFs
displayable with Acrobat 3 (if PDF level = 1.2) |
- PDFs
only displayable in Acrobat 4 and higher (because of hard coded PDF level 1.4) |
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| + page display of PDFs very fast (up to 20x faster than OO distilled PDFs) |
- page display of distilled PDFs inAcrobat Reader very slow | |