How to disable HTTP stream

Disabling the HTTP stream can greatly improve the conversion speeds for documents that link to a lot of external resources (for example images and CSS files from old newsletter emails).

A grey image placeholder will be displayed in the place of the external image.

To disable the HTTP stream navigate to Settings > PDF settings in your Seascape database and open the settings configuration document you are using for PDF conversions:

Now change the Enable HTTP Stream option to No and save your settings:

If you don't want to completely disable the HTTP stream it is also possible to set a timeout by setting the HTTP timeout option on the General tab to desired number of seconds (greater than zero).