Appligent Releases PowerAppend, PDF Creation and Customization Tool; The PDF Software Company Adds Creation to Its Popular Append/Publishing Family of Software Components.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LANSDOWNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 2004 Appligent, Inc. (www.appligent.com), the leading provider of 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 the release of PowerAppend, the company's first application to provide software developers with a single solution for both creating and customizing PDF documents. Appligent is integrating Global Graphics Jaws PDF Library along with its high performance SPDF SPDF Space Physics Data Facility (NASA) SPDF Sharp, Principal, Diffuse, Fundamental (electron orbitals) SPDF Service-based Policy Decision Function SPDF Seychelles People's Defense Force Library to create PowerAppend, which allows users to create high quality PDFs from PostScript files. Document publishers can create PDFs that accurately retain the image quality and display characteristics of the original PostScript file. PowerAppend also can customize documents and save them in either PDF or PostScript format. PowerAppend is a server-based application that provides a complete solution for electronic document generation and personalization. PowerAppend can be used to build compound documents from smaller components, or to split larger files into easier- to-manage subsets. Developers can automatically generate a new table of contents from bookmarks, or they can customize content by overlaying text or images using Appligent's stamping engine. "PowerAppend addresses our customer's needs. They have been asking for a solution for creating high quality PDF," said Mark Gavin, Chief Technology Officer at Appligent. "By licensing Global Graphics we give our developers access to proven libraries that compliment our existing tools and greatly decrease our time to market while maintaining the highest quality in the PDF we produce. Creating well-formed PDF is an enormous advantage for those customers with complex workflows because it streamlines processing downstream." PowerAppend is the first in a series of Appligent products that will incorporate PDF creation. Like all Appligent's components, PowerAppend is accessible via an XML-based SOAP interface with APConductor or the standard command line. All applications run on Windows and multiple Unix platforms, providing flexibility to organizations with heterogeneous environments. Developers can easily integrate PowerAppend with other Appligent utilities and applications, such as StampPDF Batch, FDFMerge and SecurSign to build powerful document processing Processing text documents, which includes indexing methods for text retrieval based on content. See document imaging. solutions as part of a production workflow. PowerAppend is part of Appligent's Append/Publishing Family of products. Appligent has six other families covering the spectrum of PDF manipulation that include Forms Processing, Stamping, Security, Redaction See redact. , Utilities and Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. . PowerAppend will be available for purchase at www.appligent.com in Q2 2004. For more information on PowerAppend 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 The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , 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 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , 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. About Global Graphics Software Global Graphics Software (www.globalgraphics.com) is a leading developer and supplier of sophisticated high performance RIPs, PDF document, workflow and color solutions mostly to a customer base of Original Equipment Manufacturers, system integrators and resellers. These partners include the world's leading vendors of digital pre-press systems, large-format color printers, color proofing systems, digital presses, multifunction copiers and printers for the corporate and SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. (small office, home office) markets. Jaws PDF creation tools have been developed since the format's inception in 1994. |
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