Apago Ships PDF Appraiser, Industry-First Tool for Creating and Validating PDF/A Documents; Apago Also Offers Free PDF/A Validation.ALPHARETTA, Ga. -- Apago Inc., a software developer for the graphic arts graphic arts: see aquatint; drawing; drypoint; engraving; etching; illustration; linoleum block printing; lithography; mezzotint; niello; pastel; poster; silk-screen printing; silhouette; silverpoint; sketch; stencil; woodcut and wood engraving. and document management industries, today released PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. Appraiser A person selected or appointed by a competent authority or an interested party to evaluate the financial worth of property. Appraisers are frequently appointed in probate and condemnation proceedings and are also used by banks and real estate concerns to determine the market , the first application of its kind to support both validation and automatic correction of documents in accordance with PDF/A PDF/A Portable Document Format Archive , the new international standard for long-term archiving of digital documents. PDF/A is the much-anticipated standard for long-term archiving of digital documents, and it is expected to become the preferred archival method for governments and industry segments, including corporations, legal, libraries, regulated industries, and others. Apago is leading the way for the rapid adoption of the new standard by offering PDF/A validation capabilities at no cost. "Widespread adoption of new standards is impossible until there are reliable, low-cost, easy-to-use tools. We are pleased to release PDF Appraiser, the first application for PDF/A verification and correction, which will simplify the process of long-term archiving of documents across many industries," states Dwight Kelly, president of Apago Inc. "The free version of PDF Appraiser enables users to check documents for PDF/A compliance, while the full version adds the ability to automatically correct problems and to access more technically detailed reports. As with all Apago's products, we designed PDF Appraiser so that users don't have to be PDF experts to create PDF/A-compliant files." Documents are the cornerstone of many businesses; and today, digital documents are rapidly replacing paper ones. PDF/A, approved by ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. (International Organization for Standardization International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Organization for determining standards in most technical and nontechnical fields. Founded in Geneva in 1947, its membership includes more than 100 countries. ), is a standard that specifies requirements for archiving and preserving digital documents in the Portable Document Format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. (PDF). PDF/A addresses the growing need to electronically archive documents in a way that will ensure both the preservation of their contents over an extended period of time and that those documents can be retrieved and rendered with consistent and predictable results in the future. PDF Appraiser's elegant user interface makes it easy for beginner, intermediate, and advanced users to verify, interpret, and correct problems. If a file fails verification, PDF Appraiser generates a report outlining what problems must be corrected. With Auto-Fixer, an automatic repair feature, the application can quickly fix most problems in order to obtain a document that is compliant with PDF/A. If the file cannot be automatically repaired, PDF Appraiser lists the problems with its customizable reports, allowing the user to fix and recheck the file for PDF/A compliance. Apago's Chief Innovation Officer, Leonard Rosenthol, has participated in the development of PDF/A since the initial exploratory meetings about the standard. "Other PDF/A validation tools perform incomplete validation or only implement a draft of the PDF/A specification, but PDF Appraiser ensures that a document is fully compliant with the published PDF/A standard. Appraiser utilities a revolutionary new method for analyzing PDF files at the deepest levels and for creating customizable reports that are easy to understand by our users," says Rosenthol. The full version of PDF Appraiser for Windows is shipping now. The free version is limited to PDF/A verification and simple reporting. For access to the full features of the application, users can purchase a license for $349. A Server version for Windows is available for $999. Server and API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. versions will also be available in Q3 2006 for Mac OS X, Solaris, and Linux. For more information, visit http://www.apagoinc.com/pdfappraiser or call Apago at 770-619-1884. About Apago Inc. Founded in 1991, Apago Inc. (http://www.apago.com) is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation that develops and markets software for the graphic arts and document management industries. The company licenses its technologies to industry leaders, including Agfa, Dupont, Enovation (Fuji), OneVision, Pindar, and Dainippon Screen, and counts Time Inc., Scene7, MOD-PAC Corp., The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, and The New Yorker among its retail customers. Apago is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia Alpharetta is a city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States. As of 2006 census estimates, the city had a total population of 43,424[1]. Selected for its location next to a spring, it began as a campground, and was originally known as , just north of Atlanta. PDF Appraiser is a trademark of Apago Inc. All other trademarks are acknowledged and remain the property of their respective owners. |
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