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Appligent Offers Unicode Support For Its PDF Software Products; Supports Multi-Byte Characters Allowing Appligent to Expand to Far East Markets.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LANSDOWNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2004

Appligent, Inc. (www.appligent.com), the leading provider of server-based 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 (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. )-related software solutions, today announced that they now offer Unicode support for several of its product families, including Append/Publishing, Forms Processing and Stamping. Unicode accommodates glyphs in non-Roman languages that are represented as multi-byte characters, including Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Appligent's Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region.  customers now will be able to stamp, append To add to the end of an existing structure.  and process forms in PDF with the local language.

The Unicode Standard is the universal character-encoding scheme for written characters and text. It defines a consistent way of encoding multilingual text that enables the exchange of text data internationally and creates the foundation for global software applications. Industries that will find Unicode support in Appligent's PDF software This list of PDF software includes links to articles on computer software used to manage PDF documents. There is also Wikipedia category for individual articles. Linux/UNIX
Free and open source
  • CUPS – printing system, can export to PDF
 products to be especially valuable are financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and government. OEMs and VARs that market Appligent's products overseas will also benefit from the addition of Unicode support to Appligent's most popular product families.

Appligent's Append/Publishing Family allows users to assemble new files from collections of PDF files or split an existing file into smaller components. Products in this family include AppendPDF and AppendPDF Pro. Appligent's Forms Processing Family, which includes FDFMerge and FDFMerge Lite, combines information extracted from a database in Forms Data Format (FDF FDF Forms Data Format (Adobe Acrobat)
FDF Food and Drink Federation (UK)
FDF Fundamentally Different Factor(s)
FDF Finnish Defence Forces
FDF Flight Dynamics Facility
) with PDF to create a completed PDF form. The Stamping Family, which features Unicode support for StampPDF Batch, allows users to apply text or image data for the customization or control of documents without disturbing the original content or context.

In addition to the Append/Publishing, Forms Processing and Stamping Families, Appligent also has four other families covering the spectrum of PDF manipulation that include Security, Redaction See redact. , Utilities and Web Services.

"Adding Unicode support to our products will satisfy many of our customers and partners who require a solution for their document management workflow that is truly global," says Virginia Gavin, president of Appligent. "This is especially important for businesses working in the Pacific Rim that produce large volumes of PDF documents in the local languages."

Appligent products featuring Unicode support will be available for purchase at www.appligent.com in Q2 2004. For more information on Appligent's products or for possible discounts on multiple product purchases or OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and  agreements, please contact the Appligent's sales team at 610-284-4006 or sales@appligent.com.

About Appligent

Appligent Inc. (www.appligent.com) is the leading provider of server-based tools and plug-ins for the on-demand customization, manipulation, redaction and delivery of dynamically generated electronic documents. Appligent has a proven reputation building robust, cross platform, server-based solutions that are blazingly fast and are compliant with the most obscure and corrupt variants of the PDF standard. Based in the Philadelphia region, Appligent has provided PDF-related software applications globally since 1993. Appligent has seven families covering the spectrum of PDF manipulation: Appending/Publishing, Forms Processing, Stamping, Security, Redaction, Utilities and Web Services. The company's software applications are used in various industries, including financial services, government, insurance, banking, manufacturing, legal and pharmaceutical. Appligent is a member of the Adobe Solutions Network Adobe Solutions Network (ASN) is the official name of the end-user training, developer, and print service providers authorized by Adobe Systems, Inc. There are three basic components to the program.  and is a partner of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  and Apple.

For more information about Appligent, please contact Grace Alfredo at (610) 642-8253 or grace@gregoryfca.com.
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