Acrobat Development
While Acrobat, as delivered by Adobe in their retail product, is an excellent tool as delivered there are many times when this functionality needs to be extended, modified, automated, or moved. Some examples include:
1. embedding the functionality of
Acrobat inside of another, larger, application.
2. Adding items to (or removing from) the Acrobat User Interface.
3. Automating a repetitive set of Acrobat tasks.
4. Server generation, modification, and manipulation of PDF files.
It should be noted that the first 3 of the above examples are going to require
the 'full' version of Acrobat (i.e. they will not work with the free Reader).
Since Server usage is not permitted with Adobe Acrobat the last example requires
the use of third-party tools.
The PDF Group can assist in the development of these projects in many ways
including design reviews, delivering working code snippets, or delivering
complete applications (including installers and documentation).
- Custom Bookmarks
- A custom program was developed to both merge a large number of file into a new output file along with creating a creating a bookmark for each file.
- Custom Sales Brochure on the fly
- Type in the account information, select which sections to be included, and the program will assemble, and optionally mail, a custom generated PDF file.
- Crystal Reports
- A custom program was delivered that invoked Crystal Reports to generate a report in PDF.
- MS Word
- A script was delivered that performed a mail merge to PDF and then built custom bookmarks to the created sections.
- Forms Merge
- Developed a windows service that merged daily ASCII data into a PDF form.
- Database to web
- Sample code was delivered that read PDF data from a database and streamed it out as part of a complex web page.
- Forms Management
- A program was delivered that manages the forms, and the data, needed for a California divorce.