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Automatically convert PDF to RTF, without zoning. Drake, a Plug-in for Acrobat, is an application that automatically converts PDFs into RTF documents using the Microsoft Word drawing features.Drake 4.0 is designed to reproduce PDFs in the editable RTF environment. The structure of the RTF outputs will match the PDFs original structures so that the information will be accurately presented.Raster graphics and lines (horizontal and vertical) in the PDF can be extracted and placed accurately in the RTF output document. Vector graphics are not supported.Easy-to-use interface with no more zoning. Converting PDF pages to RTF pages is as easy as printing the pages from Acrobat.Requires Acrobat 4.0 (Drake 4.0 will not work with the free Acrobat Reader), and any word processor.Manufacturer: BCL Technologies
The batch-process version of Drake employs directory and folder protocols to streamline the process of converting multiple files. Rather than opening a single production file at a time to be repurposed, users select all of the files they wish to convert and place them in a specified directory. Then, once users open Acrobat and choose the appropriate option from the plug-ins menu, they can specify the directory to be processed.Manufacturer: BCL Technologies
The Flattener Acrobat Plus-in enables the user to dramatically reduce the size of certain PDFs by flattening active parts within the document, such as navigation buttons and forms. It is also possible to remove extraneous markup from a document, or for example, to flatten form data into the main document content making the completed form viewable across many platforms.Manage multiple documents in one batch operation by using Flattener in conjunction with Mapsoft’s unique macro builder tool, Automator (sold separately).Manufacturer: Mapsoft Computer Services Limited
FlightCheck Designer (formerly FlightCheck Collect) is a stand-alone application that assists designers as well as service providers in preflighting all major desktop-publishing files.In addition to OS X compatibility, the new features of FlightCheck Designer include: support for OpenType, TrueType, and Adobe Type 1 fonts; expanded support for a variety of native applications, including Microsoft Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint; the ability to open and verify multiple documents in a single session; and sort lists of colors, fonts, images, and so on with a simple click of the file header.FlightCheck Designer’s simple interface will assist designers in checking digital documents for over 150 potential problems. Obeying FlightCheck Designer’s user-definable preferences (called ground controls) the product finds problems with colors, fonts, and images which are the main focus for designers. FlightCheck Designer has the same powerful collection features as the award-winning preflighting application, FlightCheck.Features:• enhanced speed;• Ghent PDF Workgroup rules added to PDF FlightPlan;• Pass4Press PDF specification check added to PDF FlightPlan; and• German, Dutch, and French language options in one package.Supported files and versions:• QuarkXPress: v. 3.1 - 6.0• PageMaker: v.4.2 - 7.0• Photoshop: v.4.0 - 9.0 (CS2)• Illustrator: v6.0 - 12.0 (CS2)• FrameMaker: v5.5 - 6.0• InDesign: v. 1.0 - 4.0 (CS2)• Acrobat: v. 3.0 - 7.0 (PDF v1.6)• Microsoft Word: v 2000 - 2002• Microsoft Publisher: v. 2000 - 2002• Microsoft PowerPoint: v1997 - 2002• FreeHand: v7.0 - 11.0 (MX)• Corel Draw: v8.0 - 9.0• PostScript Levels I, II, and III.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Markzware Software
FlightCheck is the revolutionary stand-alone application that scans documents using a simple drag-and-drop approach to warn of over 150 potential problems, easily and automatically.FlightCheck scans native document files, even without the application that created it, to eliminate using the eyeball method to check documents. FlightCheck verifies all the documents' elements such as colors, fonts, and images and ensures they are valid. After verification, FlightCheck reports a host of possible problems such as missing images or fonts — even fonts in EPSF files.FlightCheck watches for problems such as unused spot colors that may result in printing additional plates, fonts that have been stylized from a style menu, image boxes that have a background color of None, RGB, TIFF, and JPG compressed images, and so on. These problems could result in poor printing or worse yet, stop the print job. After the user is ensured all is well, FlightCheck collects all related files into a single job, including images and both screen and printer fonts, and puts them into a special FlightCheck-approved folder.FlightCheck 5.7 new enhancements are: • Brand new Ground Control for detecting embedded fonts in native files; • Improved accuracy for reading Illustrator CS EPS files; • Improved support for fonts activated through Extensis Suitcase; • Detection of PANTONE colorized text for both InDesign and QuarkXPress; • Detection of boxes with a 'Content Of None' in QuarkXPress;Features:• Carbon support for Macintosh OS X, including Tiger 10.4;• PDF FlightPlans include PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3;• special PDF object model;• cross-platform ground controls;• supports OpenType fonts;• preflight support for Microsoft Word v4, 5, 6, 8 (Office 2000), and 9 (Office 2001) for both Mac and Windows files;• enhanced speed;• Ghent PDF Workgroup rules added to PDF FlightPlan;• Pass4Press PDF specification check added to PDF FlightPlan;• German, Dutch, and French language options in one package;• 70 new views which are essentially the same as the ground controls for colors, fonts, and images (these enable the user to get, for example, a specific list of just TIFF images or TrueType fonts, and zeroing in on (or printing) user-definable specific data;• four new ground controls for detecting the presence of application-generated clipping paths, ICC Profile usage, PostScript color-space management and ink density (highest pixel value in rasterized TIFF or EPS images); and• a next problem button has been added to the problems layout (locate the next occurrence of any problems based on the currently selected criteria, and skip pages that do not have any related problems).Macintosh Supported Applications and Versions:Supported files and versions:• QuarkXPress: v. 3.1 - 6.0• PageMaker: v.4.2 - 7.0• Photoshop: v.4.0 - 9.0 (CS2)• Illustrator: v6.0 - 12.0 (CS2)• FrameMaker: v5.5 - 6.0• InDesign: v. 1.0 - 4.0 (CS2)• Acrobat: v. 3.0 - 7.0 (PDF v1.6)• Microsoft Word: v 2000 - 2002• Microsoft Publisher: v. 2000 - 2002• Microsoft PowerPoint: v1997 - 2002• FreeHand: v7.0 - 11.0 (MX)• Corel Draw: v8.0 - 9.0• PostScript Levels I, II, and III.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Markzware Software
With Freebird, accurately convert PDF archives into TIFF, JPG, and BMP. Freebird supports output resolutions up to 600 DPI, giving very high-clarity output.Freebird has support for color output, support for multiple output formats (TIFF, JPG, and BMP), and support for multiple output files.A multipage TIFF viewer is provided to view the multiple-page TIFF output file (included in Windows 95/98 copy). When converting PDF to graphics, Freebird will use the free space on the hard drive for memory swapping.Features:• convert PDF files to TIFF, JPG, or BMP files;• convert a multiple-page PDF to one multiple-page file (TIFF only), and to multiple files (all formats);• supports color outputs (16 color, 256 color, TrueColor) and black-and-white output;• output resolutions range from 100 to 600 DPI, enables user to print out complex technical drawings or flowcharts in high clarity (for BMP and JPG, the output file size is limited to 10 MB per file, there is no limit for TIFF.);• supported compression methods for TIFF output are Huffman's, Group 3, Group 4, and PackBits; and• does not support Batch Process.Manufacturer: BCL Technologies
The batch version of Freebird, Freebird Watcher, utilizes directory and folder protocols to streamline the process of converting multiple files. Rather than opening a single production file to be repurposed, users select all of the files they wish to convert and place them in a target directory folder. Then, once users have opened Acrobat and chosen the appropriate option from the plug-ins menu, they can specify the entire target directory for repurposing.Manufacturer: BCL Technologies
Gemini quickly converts any size PDF into other formats enabling the user to reuse the content in other ways. Whether to post a user manual on the internet, an article from a newspaper, reformat a financial report, or rework an entire book, Gemini saves time and effort.The product includes a stand-alone application and, for Windows users, a Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat. Using the stand-alone application Acrobat is not needed but, for Acrobat owners, all of Gemini's extraction facilities are available from Acrobat's main menu. The Macintosh version is available as a stand-alone application only.Gemini exports the text within a PDF in a variety of formats including HTML, RTF, eBook, and Palm Doc format (for Palm based PDAs). It supports all standards of PDF plus password-protected documents (40- and 128-bit encryption — compatible with Acrobat v6.X).In addition to text formats, Gemini exports photos and graphics as JPEG, EPS, TIFF, PNG, and BMP. Export embedded images or render artwork or entire documents at a range of sizes, resolutions, and color depths. Using the powerful batch-export feature for example, it’s a simple task to generate thumbnails for each page from hundreds of documents in one operation or to convert an entire document into a multipage TIFF.Features: • convert PDF to ASCII, Open eBook, HTML, Palm Doc, or RTF (for MS Word);• convert tables into text, HTML, RTF, and SYLK (for spreadsheets);• reflow and de-hyphenation of text;• advanced character remapping for problem documents;• export images as JPEG, TIFF (multipage), PNG, BMP, or EPS with scaling;• retain clipping paths and OPI names with Photoshop-compatible EPS;• render PDF at a variety of resolutions and color depths• customize HTML headers, footers, frames, color, and navigation links;• retain page layout in ASCII, HTML, and RTF;• full support for double-byte characters and Unicode output;• preserve reading order in and across pages using article threads;• preserve hypertext links in HTML, eBook, and RTF;• batch conversion;• automatic recognition of tables created in tagged PDFs; and• conversion of Hebrew documents into logical and visual HTML.Gemini is able to retain the layout of PDF pages in nearly all of its supported output formats. Whether simple text, RTF, or HTML output, Gemini will use whatever techniques are available in that format to mimic the layout of the original pages. Gemini includes a brand new system for retaining layout using style sheets in HTML.Gemini outputs text in a way that makes it easy to edit. Add site-specific information or alter words or phrases in the text, and find the output clean and easy to understand. The more advanced HTML output formats will even create a separate CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file. Edit this file to quickly alter the look and feel of the entire document.When documents are already marked up for reading with article threads, Gemini will output them on an article-by-article basis so there is no need to spend time splitting up pages of text. It quickly and accurately combines fragments of articles split across pages, reflowing the text complete with any images and tables as a single entity. Gemini will also produce a list of hyperlinks taking the reader to each article in turn. Gemini also includes the tools needed to add article threads.When outputting HTML, Gemini will preserve hypertext links from the original PDF. These can be links to pages, to other documents, or to URLs. If the document has bookmarks, Gemini can output them as hyperlinks. In HTML, it can present the bookmarks side by side with the pages using frames for easier navigation. If the document has no bookmarks, Gemini will create a set of bookmarks by looking at titles and headings throughout the document — a real timesaver when converting long documents.Gemini is fully able to support documents containing double-byte fonts and will output Unicode equivalents of character codes whenever it is required. The Windows version also offers a host of output text encodings such as Shift-JIS and Big-5 in addition to the standard and UTF-8 encodings supported by the Macintosh version.Sophisticated image-scaling features enable the user to specify minimum and maximum sizes for image output. This is an asset when converting documents for internet usage where large images mean slow downloads. Instead of the user having to make these adjustments, Gemini takes care of it all.Images can be output as Photoshop-compatible EPS together with any clipping that was applied in the PDF. The output is fully compatible with Photoshop, QuarkXPress, and Adobe InDesign, and, by including complex clipping paths, save time and effort in re-masking. EPS is also the best way to ensure maximum color fidelity when transferring images into other applications.If PDFs contain OPI information, Gemini can export the images with their original names — the names used for the image files at the time the PDF was created. Optionally interrogate individual images by right-clicking the mouse button while over an image.Entire PDFs can be rendered into multipage TIFFs. This is a variant of TIFF that can contain multiple images in a single file and is widely used as a format for fax machines. Gemini can render pages as bitmaps, dithered-bitmaps, grayscale, RGB, or CMYK images at a range of resolutions from 72 to 1200 DPI.Some PDFs are constructed with bad font encodings which means no software will be able to export the contents correctly. Gemini offers a powerful and flexible solution to this problem with its new character-map facility. Using the character map (not available on Macintosh), remap characters from a selection of text in the document to any other Unicode character. Browse all the character shapes stored by a font within the document and change any or all of the mappings with ease. All re-mappings are remembered so that in the next instance the user wants to extract from the document, or another like it, time will not be spent making tedious, manual corrections. Get useful content from documents that previously could not be exported.Since Gemini is now both a Plug-in (Windows only) and a stand-alone application, it merges all the functionality of previous versions of Gemini and Gemini Solo into one product.Manufacturer: Iceni Technology Ltd.
ImagePlacer is a very powerful Acrobat Plug-in that enables the user to stamp a graphical image onto specified pages within a PDF. The graphic can be stamped as an overlay or as a watermark. Overlays appear in the foreground of the appropriate page; watermarks appear in the background of the appropriate page behind any existing text. Images stamped as an overlay can also be transparent. This means that the text beneath the graphic can still be visible. Optionally save a named configuration and use it again and again, either with ImagePlacer, or with Mapsoft’s unique automation tool, Automator (sold separately). Automator enables the user to apply saved ImagePlacer configurations to stamp a chosen graphic onto multiple files in one operation. Automator can also implement ImagePlacer in combination with other Mapsoft publishing tools to create a sequence of actions that can be applied to single or multiple documents. Each tool can be added to this sequence more than once, and each time it is used it can have different settings.Once an imported graphic has been stamped into a file that graphic will be permanently embedded within that file once that file is saved. Prior to saving a file, the user may optionally choose Acrobat’s revert function to revert to the last-saved version of that file.Manufacturer: Mapsoft Computer Services Limited
Impose PDF pages from within an Acrobat document into two-up, four-up, or eight-up flats all from a simple-to-use visual interface. Imposer Pro provides full control over creep, bleed, and crossover traps and offers binding types for saddle stitch, perfect bound, stacked, and none, as well as five imposition types including standard, work and turn, work and tumble, split web, and sheet wise. Whether a brochure or a book, Imposer Pro offers a seamless, easy-to-use solution for every PDF workflow. Features:• three sheet types: two-up, four-up, and eight-up;• five imposition types: standard, work and turn, work and tumble, split web, and sheet wise;• accommodates saddle stitched, perfect bound, spiral bound, comb bound, three-hole punched, and single cut sheets• will flip and move pages within a printer flat;• enables the user to specify the number of pages in a signature;• control plate margins, horizontal, vertical and spread gaps, bleeds, crossover trapping, and creep;• start an imposition at any page in the document;• save frequently used settings as reusable imposition styles;• export imposition styles to share them with other users;• preview any printer flat; and• display page boundaries, bleeds, and page numbers in previews as necessary.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Quark Inc.
Imposer Pro: Next Generartion is a feature-packed set of prepress tools for QuarkXPress(R) 7 and Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 7, the industry's most-popular publishing applications. The intuitive Quark Print Collection user interface allows the user to impose native QuarkXPress layouts or PDFs quickly and simply. Extensive pagination options and advanced control over settings such as bleed and creep provide flexibility and ensure quality. Preview impositions on screen before printing to verify accuracy and prevent wasted media. Maximize efficiency by saving frequently used imposition settings to use again or share with others.Imposer Pro: Next Generartion also includes XTensions module software for QuarkXPress 7 to create custom printer marks such as registration targets, color bars, text slugs, and even logos. These marks can be applied to individual items or entire pages.Imposer Pro: Next Generartion is the ideal choice for publishing imposed documents, whether a publisher looking for an in-house solution to produce booklets and other multi-page jobs or a professional printer looking for a simple and flexible solution for imposition needs. Quark Print Collection offers an unmatched balance of power and value — an advanced feature set at one low price.Quark Imposer for QuarkXPress 7 and Adobe Acrobat 7 and 8 Features:• impose QuarkXPress layouts or PDFs;• support for QuarkXPress 7 and Adobe Acrobat 7 and 8 with common feature set and interface;• choose from two-up, four-up, six-up, or eight-up imposition sheet types.• choose from standard, work and turn, work and tumble, split web, and sheet wise imposition types;• choose from none, saddle-stitched, perfect-bound, and stacked binding types;• pages are rearranged automatically;• control plate margins, gaps, bleeds, crossover, and creep.• save and share frequently used settings as re-usable imposition styles;• preview imposed pages prior to output;• display page boundaries, bleeds, and page numbers in previews;• tile large pages across multiple sheets;• use Quark MarkIt registration styles (QuarkXPress only); and• print using standard QuarkXPress and Adobe Acrobat controls.Quark MarkIt for QuarkXPress 7 Features:• create custom registration styles for use on imposed pages or standard single-page output;• easily position press marks such as trim lines, registration targets, and color or grayscale bars by simply dragging them into a proxy of the active layout;• customize registration styles by adding items such as a logo, a new registration mark, or even a color or grayscale bar created in any graphics program and saved as an EPS file; and• add text slugs with job information to registration styles.Quark Item Marks for QuarkXPress 7 Features:• add press marks to individual items or pages;• control the placement of press marks (including registration targets, color bars, and text slugs) and dimension arrows for crop, bleed, and safety areas;• automatically position guides for crop, bleed, and safety areas; and• specify an existing layer or create a layer where all marks will be placed.* Previously known as Quark Print Collection.Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Quark Inc.
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
For detailed bundled-product descriptions, refer to each individual product.Bundle includes Sonar Bookends InDex /InTOC, Sonar Bookends InXref, Sonar Bookends InFnote, Sonar Bookends InSeq, and Sonar Bookends Activate (a $975 value).Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Virginia Systems, Inc.
For detailed bundled-product descriptions, refer to each individual product.Bundle includes Sonar Bookends InDex Pro, Sonar Bookends InXref, Sonar Bookends InFnote, Sonar Bookends InSeq, and Sonar Bookends Activate (a $1175 value).Click the Resources tab above for related articles and other information on this topic.Manufacturer: Virginia Systems, Inc.
Use the InfoSetter Acrobat Plug-in to set document information pertaining to PDFs. Many word processing packages used to generate PDFs do not automatically provide this information. Set or change the standard PDF document information fields listed below (i.e., title, subject, author, keyword, index, and base URL).Manage multiple documents in one batch operation by using InfoSetter in conjunction with Mapsoft’s unique macro builder tool, Automator (sold separately).Manufacturer: Mapsoft Computer Services Limited
Enfocus Instant PDF 3 removes the uncertainty and technical complexity from the PDF-creation process. No other application so intuitively and reliably creates Certified PDFs that comply with your print or advertisement vendors’ specifications.Instant PDF uses Enfocus PDF Queues to guide the entire PDF-creation process, and these queues published on CertifiedPDF.net by printers, publishers, industry associations, and Enfocus can be directly imported from within Instant PDF. The built-in synchronization feature with CertifiedPDF.net guarantees imported PDF Queues remain up to date, ensuring ongoing consistency with your printer’s, publisher’s, or industry association’s specifications.Once imported, PDF Queues become accessible through the Save as Certified.PDF functionality from within industry-leading page-layout and PDF tools such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Acrobat, and through the PDF Services feature in the Mac OS X print panel. Creative professionals remain productive in their familiar environment without having to worry about print styles, PDF export, and other PDF-creation settings. Designers are free to design without agonizing over the technical aspects of PDF creation.Instant PDF 3 provides a comprehensive in-application help system. This help system contains a complete description of possible errors and warnings that appear during preflight and assists the document creator in solving them.Instant PDF closes the communication gap between the creative and production process, providing document creators and receivers the ability to achieve consistent PDF output and quality control with award-winning Certified PDF technology.Features:• guides the entire PDF-creation process, avoiding agonizing over the technical aspects of PDF creation;• consistent Save as Certified PDF integration with InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Acrobat minimizes the need for learning a new application;• preflight PDF files exported directly from Mac OS X;• in-application support clearly explains errors and fixes; and• automatically corrects errors during preflight.Manufacturer: Enfocus Software
Jade extracts text, tabular data, and graphics from PDFs and enables the user to open the extracted content in Microsoft Word, Excel, database applications, XML templates, or any other applications.With Jade, the user can create extraction zones directly on the pages of a PDF. The content within the zones is then extracted out of the PDF for use in other applications (word processors, databases, XML pages, spreadsheets, and others).Specifically indicate how each zone will treat the content. Optionally preserve the line breaks in a paragraph, or to flow the paragraph. Jade will auto-detect graphics and tables when zones are created around them. Choose to extract the zones individually or all at once. If extracted all at once, all the zoned contents will be extracted and saved as a separate file.Once created, the zones become integral parts of the PDF. Save the PDF to preserve the zones.Jade is a Plug-in for Acrobat and does not support the free Acrobat Reader.Manufacturer: BCL Technologies
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