Take control of PDFs with ARTS PDF Aerialist. This Plug-in enables the user to take Acrobat to the next level with its advanced tools for splitting, merging, stamping, bookmarks, hyperlinks, and process automation. Suitable for government agencies and industries — including legal, finance, pharmaceutical, IT, and publishing — ARTS PDF Aerialist helps users efficiently prepare electronic documents for exchange, archives, submission, and publishing.

ARTS PDF Aerialist has advanced converting, merging, and splitting features. Split by anything — pages, page ranges, bookmarks, and page marks, while retaining cross-document linking. Convert and merge different file types, such as DOC, PDF, XLS, EPS, and so on, in one step.

Features:

• advanced headers, footers, watermarks, and bates numbering;

• insert permanent text, numbers, and images anywhere on the page, including behind and in front of existing page content;

• generate bookmarks based on headings and font styles;

• check and report on bookmarks and links across pages, between documents, and to web pages;

• batch process and sequence tasks when using Acrobat 5 or 6 Professional version;

• combine splitting, merging, stamping, bookmarking, linking, and other tasks into one sequence; and

• batch process large PDF collections.

Take control of PDFs with ARTS PDF Aerialist. This Plug-in enables the user to take Acrobat to the next level with its advanced tools for splitting, merging, stamping, bookmarks, hyperlinks, and process automation. Suitable for government agencies and industries — including legal, finance, pharmaceutical, IT, and publishing — ARTS PDF Aerialist helps users efficiently prepare electronic documents for exchange, archives, submission, and publishing.

ARTS PDF Aerialist has advanced converting, merging, and splitting features. Split by anything — pages, page ranges, bookmarks, and page marks, while retaining cross-document linking. Convert and merge different file types, such as DOC, PDF, XLS, EPS, and so on, in one step.

Features:

• advanced headers, footers, watermarks, and bates numbering;

• insert permanent text, numbers, and images anywhere on the page, including behind and in front of existing page content;

• generate bookmarks based on headings and font styles;

• check and report on bookmarks and links across pages, between documents, and to web pages;

• batch process and sequence tasks when using Acrobat 5 or 6 Professional version;

• combine splitting, merging, stamping, bookmarking, linking, and other tasks into one sequence; and

• batch process large PDF collections.

General requirements
• Adobe® Acrobat® 5, 6, 7 or 8 compatible. Aerialist Pro is only compatible with Acrobat® 9 on Windows. Layer features are only supported in Acrobat 6/7/8/9.
• Microsoft Office file conversion requires Adobe® Acrobat® 6 or later.
• 64MB of RAM (128MB recommended).
• 50MB of available hard-disk space.
• Monitor capable of 1024x768 display resolution.

Crackerjack is the award-winning plug-in for precision print production. ARTS PDF Crackerjack 5.1 enables you to take Adobe Acrobat to the next level with its advanced print tools. Automate your workflow, verify certified PDFs, print accurate color separations, convert to spot color, perform impositions, preview and control your output. Make your workflow more efficient and profitable.

ARTS PDF Print Suite enables creative, print, and publishing professionals to automate PDF workflows with a range of industry-standard tools for PDF-based color production printing, color separation, preflighting, auto-correction, and imposition. ARTS PDF Print Suite comes in Lite, Plus, and Pro versions.

The Lite version of ARTS PDF Print Suite combines ARTS PDF Crackerjack, ARTS PDF ImageWorks, and ARTS PDF Stamper. The Plus version adds Enfocus's PitStop Professional, while the Pro version also includes Quite Imposing Plus, creating a range of cost-effective packages for all PDF print and publishing professionals.

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Manufacturer: ARTS PDF, Inc.

ARTS PDF Stamper is a flexible stamping tool for Acrobat. Apply any combination of text, image, and PDF stamps to one or more PDFs. The new ARTS PDF Stamper 3.0 features a major user interface redesign, support for PDF stamps, additional dynamic text options, and the ability to preview stamps prior to applying.

Create the precise stamp with options such as overlay/underlay, rotation, position, opacity, color, and font. ARTS PDF Stamper can be used to do most typical stamp jobs.

For example:

• add text stamps such as approved, draft, and internal use only;

• add page numbers to a header and footer;

• add bates numbering;

• add vector-based PDF stamps;

• underlay text or images to add a watermark; and

• overlay images to replace old images or logos.

Features:

• preview stamps in the preview pane or on a temporary PDF;

• stamp PDFs with other PDFs;

• for more complicated stamping jobs, apply multiple stamps simultaneously;

• save stamp profiles for reuse; and

• process multiple PDFs quickly and easily;

• tightly integrated with Acrobat as a Plug-in;

• seamlessly integrates with Acrobat's batch-processing engine;

• stamp and undo with the click of a button;

• import and export stamp profiles;

• extended support for multiple image types in Acrobat 6.0;

• stamp GIF, TIFF, JPG, BMP, EPS, RLE, PNG, or PCX into a PDF;

• extended support for stamp actions in Acrobat 6.0;

• faster performance;

• user interface redesign makes it the simplest and most powerful tool for PDF stamping in Acrobat;

• enhanced features for bates numbering;

• extended preview functionality, preview combinations of stamps and profiles;

• navigate through pages in the preview pane to proof stamp designs;

• copy and share stamps between profiles; and

• integrates with ARTS PDF Tools (sold separately), enabling the user to create a custom stamping toolbar and tool buttons.

Image Stamp Types:

• create stamps with JPG, BMP and TIFF images; and

• define the size of the image stamp.

PDF Stamp Types:

• create PDF stamps by selecting a specific page of a PDF document; and

• define the size of the PDF stamp.

Text Stamp Types:

• text stamps can span multiple lines, and can have the leading specified;

• choice of using single, 1-1/2 spacing, or double line spacing to display text in the text stamp;

• solid, outline, and invisible text;

• apply an underline style;

• use any of the Base 14 Fonts or system fonts;

• more flexibility with page numbering including support for roman numerals;

• ability to place a border or outline around text;

• use the dynamic text option to insert commonly used information such as page numbers, total pages, batch page number, batch total pages, bates number, bates total pages, file name, file path, date, time, day, month, year, hour, minute, second, title, subject, author, and keywords; and

• apply bates numbering with the option to set a fixed length and starting number.

General Features (can be applied to all text, image, and PDF stamps):

• set the angle at which the stamp appears;

• apply a border around a stamp and specify its color, width, and line style;

• create customized color or use a predefined color for borders and text;

• specify the location of the stamp horizontally and vertically, and for precise placement use millimeters, centimeters, or inches;

• make text, images, or PDF stamps appear on top or underneath the existing page content;

• apply opacity for watermark effects;

• apply an action to stamps such as URL links, go to page, go to remote page, and open file, with support for relative address paths in open file action type; and

• apply the stamp to pages using the predefined options, or specify the exact page ranges to use.

Manufacturer: ARTS PDF, Inc.

Variform PDF significantly extends the usability of Acrobat forms.

Until now, a significant barrier to using Acrobat forms is its focus on web-server applications; too many Acrobat users, such forms projects are beyond their reach, underfunded, or organizationally difficult to implement.

There are millions of private databases on desktop computers as spreadsheets, PC databases, and custom queries of mainframe data, all capable of producing the data in a delimited text file. Variform PDF enables the user to merge these data files into Acrobat forms, and print the results or save them to file (PostScript or PDF via Acrobat Distiller). By allowing the selection of any system font when merging field data, Variform PDF can maintain corporate identity standards making it great for a myriad of mail-merge, forms-filling, and other variable-data applications.

No need to edit every form field in the PDF to change fonts. Variform PDF's font-selection capability lets the user select any font on the system and assign it to form fields. Selected fonts will be used when Variform PDF merges the data. There is even an option to embed the fonts in the document for reuse the next time the form is merged.

Manufacturer: ARTS PDF, Inc.

Make personalized PDFs a breeze to create. Select from virtually any data source then merge to a PDF form. Output to new PDFs or directly to print, or even merge images to make customization more distinctive.

Features:

• use data from any Windows ODBC database, Adobe FDF/XFDF files, or delimited text files;

• output to any installed Windows printer or merge directly to new PDFs;

• support for merging images;

• option to flatten pages after merging;

• enhanced Variform hot folders for automation;

• and built-in IAC allows programmatic control of Variform Pro.

Manufacturer: ARTS PDF, Inc.

ARTS Split & Merge is an Acrobat Plug-in for splitting and merging batches of PDFs.

The split functionality enables the user to split one or more PDFs based on page groups, page ranges, bookmarks, and page marks. The merge functionality enables the user to quickly sort and then combine a collection of PDFs.

Features:

• new to v2.2, when splitting and retaining bookmarks and or links, documents will split over ten times faster than ever before;

• new to v 2.1, manage page marks with import and export features;

• split into n pages, into files containing n pages per file;

• split by page marks, visually highlight sections of a PDF to split;

• split by page ranges, pages, or odd/even pages;

• split based on bookmark hierarchy;

• merge large document collections together;

• batch process, use Split command to process large PDF collections;

• retain links, update links, bookmarks and destinations between split PDFs;

• v2.2 will split ten times faster when retaining bookmarks and links;

• merge from control file for more advanced assembly;

• save and reuse jobs;

• enter the page range of each file added and append multiple jobs within the one control file;

• convert and combine from different file types, such as DOC, XLS, EPS, PDF, and so on in one step, no need to convert to PDF first;

• split option to update title using output file name will use the target file name (without the .PDF extension) as the document information title; and

• additional options to merge only odd pages, even pages, last page, or first page and to enter the page numbers in a text box (e.g., 1,2,5-10,100).

Split PDFs into a set of PDFs with each containing a specific number of pages. For example, choosing to split a 30-page PDF into five-page PDFs will produce six PDFs.

Use the page marks toolbar buttons to visually highlight sections of a PDF to split. Use them to name the files to be split and to add document information to them, including title, subject, author, and keywords.

Use the bookmark hierarchy and bookmark levels to determine how to split PDFs. This can be particularly useful when bookmarks are based on the sections and structure of PDFs. When splitting, ARTS Split & Merge uses the bookmark text to form the file names of the resulting PDFs.

Benefits:

• ARTS Split & Merge Lite enables the user to split PDFs based on first-level bookmarks.

• ARTS Split & Merge Plus enables the user to split PDFs based on any range of bookmark levels. For example, to create a separate PDF based on sections, and if the chapters and headings are all level 2 and 3 bookmarks, setting the levels as 2 to 3 would generate the correct splitting process.

Combine the use of parameters in the split by page range feature to perform splitting processes.

Benefits:

• split individual pages into new file(s);

• split page ranges into new file(s);

• combine pages and pages ranges;

• separate page ranges into separate output files;

• extract unwanted pages;

• use overlapping page ranges to create multiple files;

• split into odd and even pages; or

• reverse page order.

By combining page numbers with simple parameters (commas, dashes, semicolons, odd, and even), specify which pages should be merged together to form a new PDF, and which pages should be split separately to form another PDF.

A common problem when splitting PDFs is that most of the connections between the links and their end points are broken as they are no longer located in the same PDF or because the pages have been rearranged. The advanced update navigation elements feature updates all these links in bookmarks, links, and destinations, ensuring all links are maintained.

Merge large PDF collections together using the properties of the files to be merged. It's easy to order files prior to adding them to the merge list — making it much easier to manage when trying to merge a large number of PDFs. Once PDFs are added to the merge list, edit the order and page ranges to be included in the merge. Supports an unlimited number of files per process.

Use the split command to process batches of PDFs. Acrobat comes with its own batch-processing tool that enables the user to set up simple processes by combining a series of commands. ARTS Split & Merge adds the split command, allowing the user to combine these with Acrobat's built-in commands to process large batches of PDFs.

A range of file-naming conventions includes the addition of a base file name, as well as a range of suffixes that can be added, including: number, padded number starting at, page range (pxx-pyy), letter, or nothing (used in splitting by bookmarks or page marks).

Manufacturer: ARTS PDF, Inc.

Bluebeam PDF Revu CAD Edition was designed to make your life easier with one-button PDF creation from within AutoCAD, SolidWorks and MS Office. The focus of this software lies within large-format drawings making it easy to convert drawings of any size while maintaining quality and saving time. When using Bluebeam you will soon come to realize the ease of use and functionality provided with our software. We specialize in PDF creation, conversion speed, batch capabilities and our extensive list of PDF markup and editing tools to make sure you have all the necessities to get your job done efficiently and effectively.

Bluebeam PDF Revu Standard Edition is the ideal PDF solution for firms that need a smart, simple and affordable solution to create, view, markup, and edit PDF files.

FullSWITCH is ideally placed to help you reclaim your time to be creative and help your customers. It is a robust automation product that is easy to install and use. Like the entry-level LightSWITCH product, FullSWITCH offers file reception through FTP and email, sorting of files based on file type and naming conventions and automatic email notifications to customers.

LightSwitch automates repetitive tasks associated with receiving and sorting files. It automatically downloads files from one or more FTP servers, receives them as email attachments or handles hot folders. In a very flexible way files can then be sorted into different folders so that they are ready for processing.

PowerSWITCH is the workhorse of the SWITCH product family. Using its comprehensive scripting and metadata tools you can build a smarter and more advanced workflow that integrates seamlessly with third-party technology. The workgroup client bundled with PowerSWITCH allows your team members to submit and track jobs from their own workstation.

Gemini quickly converts text & images in PDF documents into other formats. Whether you wish to post a user manual on the internet, an article from a newspaper, a financial report or entire book, Gemini saves you time and effort.

Impress is a Plug-in for use with Adobe Acrobat that will mark the pages of a PDF with various kinds of impressions, such as watermarks, date and/or time stamps, page numbers, and so on.

The following options are available:

• text for marking the specified pages of the document. The text specified will appear on the relevant pages within the PDF. Within the text, enter special fields relating to page numbering and date/time stamps. These fields will be replaced with their specific values when the PDF is impressed. These fields can be date and time stamps, page numbering, page counts, and page ranges.

• alignment controls the alignment used for the impression. Alignment options are left, center, and right.

• name provides the name of this impression. To reuse an existing impression (either one created previously, or one of the samples supplied with Impress), make the selection from the dropdown list associated with this field.

• position controls the horizontal and vertical positioning of the impression within a page, and its angle.

• layer controls whether the text appears in the foreground or background of the specified page(s).

• font provides control of the settings to be used for the impression.

• color sets the color of the impression either with preset colors, or as RGB or CMYK.

• page range specifies the pages to mark with this impression.

• page spread specifies the page spread, of pages lying within the specified page range, to be marked with the impression. These can be odd and even pages, odd pages only, or even pages only.

Manufacturer: Mapsoft Computer Services Limited

Impress Pro is a Plug-in for use with Adobe Acrobat that will mark the pages of a PDF with various kinds of impressions, such as watermarks, date and/or time stamps, page numbers, and so on.

Impress Pro (as compared to Impress), can process batches of PDFs and set multiple impressions at the same time. In addition, security, open defaults, and document information can be set.

The following options are available:

• text for marking the specified pages of the document. The text specified will appear on the relevant pages within the PDF. Within the text, enter special fields relating to page numbering and date/time stamps. These fields will be replaced with their specific values when the PDF is impressed. These fields can be date and time stamps, page numbering, page counts, and page ranges.

• alignment controls the alignment used for the impression. Alignment options are left, center, and right.

• name provides the name of this impression. To reuse an existing impression (either one created previously, or one of the samples supplied with Impress), make the selection from the dropdown list associated with this field.

• position controls the horizontal and vertical positioning of the impression within a page, and its angle.

• layer controls whether the text appears in the foreground or background of the specified page(s).

• font provides control of the settings to be used for the impression.

• color sets the color of the impression either with preset colors or as RGB or CMYK.

• page range specifies the pages to mark with this impression.

• page spread specifies the page spread, of pages lying within the specified page range, to be marked with the impression. These can be odd and even pages, odd pages only, or even pages only.

Manufacturer: Mapsoft Computer Services Limited

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Bundle includes Sonar Bookends InDex Pro, Sonar Bookends InXref, Sonar Bookends InFnote, Sonar Bookends InSeq, and Sonar Bookends Activate (a $1175 value).

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Manufacturer: Virginia Systems, Inc.

inpO2 is a powerful and scalable PDF imposition software, built right into the familiar environment of Acrobat 8/9. inpO2 provides all the functions and features for contemporary printers deploying end-to-end PDF workflows.