PDF Research Adobe Acrobat Plug-Ins... PDFMaker Exchange Color Separations Capture Plug-in

Exchange Plug-ins... There exist a large number of software manufacturers who specialize in the development of plug-ins for extending the capabilities of Adobe Acrobat Exchange. The product links are connected to each manufacturer's website for the latest information. New plug-ins are developed constantly and can be found at the PDFZone ToolBox website (although no listing is complete) or you can access Seybold Seminar's Developer's List which has links to the manufacturer's websites. Listing here does not imply any direct endorsement of the product. Adobe Systems, Inc. - Capture Plug-in, PDFMaker, Forms Author Plug-in, Export PS, Super Crop Aladdin - Ghostscript Ambia - Aerial, Compose, Re:mark BCL Computers - Redwing, Forte DigiDox - DigiDox Dozen, QuickLinx, Relay EnFocus - Pitstop, Checkup FileOpen - FileOpen PDF HAHT Alliance Partners - HAHTsite Enterprise Solution Module (ESM) Iceni Technology - Genus HTML INFOCON AMERICA - InfoLink, EasyView Integrated Information Solutions, Ltd. - MultiLinker ISPA - InfoLinker, LinkManager, LibraryManager MicroType - VisiLink Round Table Solutions - PDFWorkshop, RTSImport, RTSThumbOpt, RTSDuplex, RTSJoust, RTSPaperless Office Adobe Systems, Inc. The best thing about Adobe plug-ins are that they are free. Capture Plug-in The Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Import and Scan plug-ins can be used within Acrobat Exchange(R) to create PDF Image Only documents (which contain only a bitmapped picture of the original document). The Acrobat Capture(R) plug-in converts PDF Image Only documents to PDF Normal documents that are significantly smaller and contain text that can be indexed, searched, and copied. PDFMaker Plug-in for Word (Office '97 on Windows) This plug-in is for making PDF files directly from Microsoft Word. See the description from the above link on this site. Forms Author Plug-in See the description from the above link on this site. Super Crop The Super Crop plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Exchange 3.0 or later enables you to: crop the current page or all pages to a specified region; crop the current page or all pages to the bounding box of the page; revert to the last saved version of a PDF. Export PS The Export PS 1.3 plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Exchange 3.01 or later enables you to: export a single page of a PDF file to EPS format export a PDF file to a PostScript language file For both EPS and PostScript exporting, you can specify ASCII or binary output Level 1 or Level 2 PostScript whether to embed or exclude font information whether to include or exclude halftone screens whether to include or exclude RGB and Lab images Aladdin Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides: An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language, with the ability to convert PostScript language files to many raster formats, view them on displays, and print them on printers that don't have PostScript language capability built in; An interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files, with the same abilities; The ability to convert PostScript language files to PDF (with some limitations) and vice versa; A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive operations in the PostScript language. ISPA, Inc. InfoLinker (Windows) $1,895 It automatically adds hyperlinks to Portable Document Format (PDF) documents based on a set of user-defined rules. InfoLinker is the plug-in that adds intelligence to PDF, making it IPDF (Indexed PDF). Generates hyperlinks automatically using a rule-based engine. Rule templates speed the process Makes updating documents easy. The rules used to hyperlink the original document can be reused to create links for revisions Provides high-speed information access through improved document maneuverability Creates internal document links and bookmarks, as well as external links to other documents or applications Requires no additional new investment in hardware or software. InfoLinker is purchased for only those people linking documents. Users view linked documents from their PCs without add-ons. InfoLinker software is only required for the individual responsible for writing the rules. Others can view linked documents simply by using Adobe's free Reader. Link Manager (Windows) $89 Plug-in for easily modifying links in Portable Document Format (PDF) files. It is particularly useful for managing documents that include manual links. It allows the user to selectively modify link annotations or delete specific links, notes, and threads. Link Manager also lets the user change the color of hyperlinks. Use of simple dialog boxes makes this plug-in easy to use. Library Manager (Windows) $179 If using DOS file names is becoming unmanageable, it may be time for Library Manager. This software tool allows you to retrieve Adobe Acrobat PDF files using descriptive listings--instead of hard-to-decipher DOS file names. The descriptive name can include up to 60 characters. A search on just part of the name will yield a listing of matching documents. Documents can be easily retrieved from CD, network, or other storage media. Alias path names and volume labels are used for variable pathing to repositories such as CD jukeboxes, disk arrays, and networks. Ambia Aerial - (Windows) $45 Navigation tools for Adobe Acrobat: Index Manager finds important terms fast. Quick Tags catalogs your favorite pages across several PDF documents Paper Clips earmark document pages for quick reference. Print View prints selected page areas. Copy Table to Clipboard copies tabular data into spreadsheets. PDF to RTF Converter extracts text and graphics for use with other software. Compose - (Windows) $495 Streamlines document production tasks. Tools include: Bookmarks by Example automatically creates bookmarks from chapter and section headings. Batch Meister processes collections of documents in batch. TOC Builder constructs linked tables of contents for individual or collections of PDF files. Page Linker automatically links tables of contents and index pages. Copy Link copies hypertext links throughout a document (like "next page", "previous page", "table of contents", etc.). Auditor checks for broken links and bookmarks and fixes them right on the spot. Chain Linker automatically links together all instances of a word or text string. Document Composer quickly assembles composite documents. Document Repaginator adds pagination, headers, and footers to documents. InfoFill populates the General Information Fields in a group of PDF documents. Re:mark - (Windows) $89 Markup capabilities: Type text right on the document page. Draw ink anywhere on the page using any mouse or pointing device. Highlight important passages in color. Stamp document status directly on the page. Attach any picture, spreadsheet, bitmap or file to the document. Record voice annotations right in the document. Strike out text that should be removed. Annotate documents with pop-up comments. Call out text and reviewer comments with circle, line, and square symbols. Review capabilities: Locate and access annotations in a flash. Sort annotations by author, date, type, or page number. Import and export annotations with other document files. Filter annotations by author and type. Security capabilities: Set reading, writing, deletion and printing options for annotations. BCL Computers FORTE A pioneering application which will allow seamless (drag & drop) import of PDF data into almost any Windows application. REDWING The desktop version of PDmorF, a text and table PDF document extractor, for Acrobat Exchange. Available now from Emerge PDFZoneTM. Digital Applications, Inc. Digital Applications, Inc. is a software company specializing in cross platform plugins for Adobe Acrobat. Redax for Text™ Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat that lets you redact any text in any PDF document DateD™ Plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat that dynamically adds a date time stamp to any PDF File. TimedOut™ Plug-ins for adobe Acrobat that let you set an experiation date on any PDF document AppendPDF™ A UNIX applicationthat lets you create one PDF file from a list of several PDF files. DigitDox DigiDozen - (Windows) $159 Twelve specific tools for editing Acrobat documents: DigiDox QuickTOC ™ : Create hypertext links and bookmarks for every entry in a PDF document table of contents. DigiDox RelayLE ™ : Lift suspect text from a PDF document page and edit it for full-text search retrieval. DigiDox MultiDest ™ : Set multiple destinations for a single hypertext link and view destinations from a scrollable window. DigiTools ™ : Make customized annotations (highlight, erase, underline, strike through, and add custom notes) to PDF document elements. DigiDox StoreFile ™ : Embed a source file in each page of a PDF document and launch the file in its creation application. DigiDox PageMark ™ : Place a yellow tag at the top of frequently accessed PDF document pages to allow for easy retrieval. DigiDox Print Odd/Even ™ : Print odd and even numbered pages of a PDF document in separate passes to allow for two-sided printing. DigiDox PI-Man ™ (Plug-In Manager): Manage and view information about all plug-ins loaded on a system for use with Acrobat. DigiDox DropLinx ™ : Automatically remove some or all links from a PDF document while keeping corresponding bookmarks intact. DigiDox BackTrak ™ : Maintain a listing of all documents, pages, and views visited during an Acrobat session. DigiDox SnapZoom ™ : Temporarily and conveniently double the magnification view of a PDF document. DigiDox MakeRoom ™ : Compress six icons on the standard Acrobat toolbar into two to display additional toolbar icons. Relay - (Windows) $895 Combined with Acrobat Capture, Relay offers a simple and easy-to-use imaging solution that enables you to convert a collection of scanned documents into Adobe ® Portable Document Format (PDF) and post document data to a database. The Components: Relay Search ™ : An intuitive search utility that allows you to quickly retrieve and view electronic documents that look just like paper originals. Relay Processor ™ : An efficient processing tool for relaying the key attributes of a document to a database for future retrieval. Relay Administrator ™ : An easy-to-use utility for defining a workgroup's document filing system. QuickLinx - (Windows) $459 Automatically draw hypertext links around tables of contents, index entries, figures or illustrations, article threads, and internal page references Create Acrobat bookmarks as part of link processing Make multiple page references to a single document link available from a scrolling window (using the included QuickPage ™ plug-in) Locate document keywords such as "Go to page..." and set cross-reference links Process various page numbering schemes including Roman, sectional numeric, and arbitrary letter and number combinations Set appearance options and default destination views for all link entries Process special table characters including leader dots, compound page numbers, list separators, and page ranges EnFocus Pitstop (Mac and Windows) $795 With PitStop you can click-and-drag to move or resize an object, open a text line to correct a misspelling, or use the color mixer to apply a new color. Then you can save your changes into the original PDF document. You can edit individual text lines preserving their alignment (left, right, centered or justified). You can modify line art, including clipping masks, by dragging the path nodes or the Bezier control points. PitStop offers all standard editing features, such as copy and paste and multi-level undo. You can edit in preview mode or in wireframe mode. This combines the benefits of full WYSIWYG with the fine selection capabilities of a wireframe display. A powerful floating inspector displays all attributes of the selected object. The inspector automatically adapts to the object type. PitStop can modify all basic object attributes, including: Position, size, rotation angle. Fill/stroke mode, stroke width, line cap, line join, miter limit, dash pattern. Point size, character and word spacing. Font family and style (restricted to fonts that already occur on the page). Color (new colors restricted to color spaces DeviceRGB and DeviceCMYK). Attributes in the extended graphic state cannot be modified, but they are fully preserved (i.e. untouched) across a PitStop edit session. Extended graphic state attributes include overprint, screening attributes and transfer curves, among others. Check-up (Mac and Windows) $95 Generates a preflight report with details on colors, fonts and images used in the PDF document being verified, and a list of specific problems and areas of concern. FileOpen Systems FileOpen PDF adds security options to Acrobat Exchange's existing security options. It solves the problem of document pass-along after the document has been distributed. "You can choose to have FileOpen build you an installer. This installer will bundle together the FileOpen client, the permissions data, and the main menu for your documents. The resulting install.exe (or whatever you want to name it) file is what you distribute to your users. Your users double-click on the .exe file, their permissions data is invisibly logged in their machine's registry, and the PDF document is seamlessly launched in Adobe Acrobat. Then the installer file deletes itself." HAHT Alliance Partners The HAHTsite Enterprise Solution Module (ESM) for Adobe Acrobat (available as a free download) provides developers with a rich set of tools for creating and deploying dynamic, data-driven PDF forms. Using HAHTsite and the ESM for Acrobat, Exchange users can streamline business processes by replacing paper forms with interactive e-forms that interface directly with business applications and databases. Iceni Technology Ltd. The Genus HTML Plug-In for Acrobat Exchange converts PDF's to HTML format for re-use on the World Wide Web, as well as supplying picture links for images included in the document. If used with Genus Photo plug-in, the combined effect is an HTML file with text and images taken from the original PDF. Demo versions of the software are available for immediate download. INFOCON AMERICA InfoLink Publishing Enhancement Software™ converts, enhances, edits, indexes, pre-flights, archives, and secures electronic publications for sale and distribution. EasyView™ Software and EasyView Extreme™ Electronic Viewing Software makes enhanced electronic viewing easy for any Windows, Macintosh or Unix Computers. Tremendous pricing discounts on high volume purchases of Acrobat Exchange. Integrated Information Solutions, Ltd. MultiLinker (Windows and Mac) $295 MultiLinker is a Word template containing macros that process your Word documents. It works off both heading styles and destinations that you can define yourself. It offers you great control over what is linked and what appears in the left hand margin of PDF. Automated processing and preparation of the masters in Microsoft Word Automated insertion of hyperlinks Automated checking and analysis of masters Easy editing and updating of the masters Easy customisation to the style of your documents Batch processing for large quantities of documents Automated conversion into Adobe Acrobat (PDF) or HTML for distribution Conversion of existing linked HTML documents into Adobe Acrobat (PDF). You can: link to abbreviations and defined terms link from table of contents to sections link to the start of other documents link to destinations within the documents control the colour of your links A free demo version is now available from the manufacturer. It is only available for Word 97 (Windows). MicroType VisLinks Automatically create boxes around FrameMaker-generated Links in Acrobat (platform-independent). When FrameMaker creates Acrobat links it also sets their properties--rectangle location and dimensions, border style (none) and border color (invisible). You have no control over these settings. To change them, you have to enter Acrobat Exchange, select each link and set its properties, one link at a time. With VisLinks, you can globally control these settings: border line width, line style (continuous/dash) and line colour. You can also specify the automatic adjustment of link rectangles in all four directions - and all rectangles will be expanded/reduced accordingly. VisLinks enables you to have visible link rectangles in your PDF files--either for interim diagnostic/QA versions or in the distribution PDFs. Other FrameMaker-to-Acrobat timesaving utilities offered by MicroType include: PDFmarker (which enables the use of regular FrameMaker markers to specify PDF features) and ParaNumOut (to remove automatic numbering from Acrobat bookmarks). All utilities can work together. Round Table Solutions PDFWorkshop PDFWorkshop is designed to collect the DocumentInfo (Title, Subject, Author,Keywords), pages, page mode selected for display and so on. This excellent pdf management program also allows you to perform operations in a batch mode, such as printing, merging, and updating the document info. NOW $100 US RTSImport RTS Import automates the conversion of your images (bmp, gif, dcx, pcx and tif) to PDF by allowing you to batch process your images. It is perfectly suited to institutions that require large amounts of images to be converted and managed in PDF, and don't want to spend hours doing it. NOW $100 US RTSThumbOpt RTSThumbOpt allows you to create thumbnails and optimise PDFs from command line. Download RTSThumbOpt for Adobe Acrobat Exchange. NOW - $25 US RTSDuplex RTSDuplex is aimed at those who must print out PDFs as a permanent reference but wish to save paper. RTSDuplex allows the printing of odd and even pages independently on a non-duplexing printer. Save a tree today! NOW - $25 US RTSJoust RTSJoust is a streamlining plug-in for Adobe Acrobat Exchange providing three powerful functions, including Send Mail, Save and Edit. The current version of RTSJoust is 1.5 and an evaluation edition may be downloaded free of charge. RTSJoust makes editing, annotating and sending a web-based PDF (Portable Document Format) documents a simple, one-click process. NOW $25 US . RTSPaperless Office Development is underway for a "paperless office" based document management system. This product uses Adobe 's Acrobat Capture and PDF for the storage of documents. Beta-testing will commence during July. More information will be posted on this product as it becomes available. Return to PDF Research Companion home page. a production of Performance Graphics ©1998 The Miller De Wulf Corporation