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 Plus, and Pro versions.

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.

ARTS Split Pro is an industrial-strength, stand-alone for splitting PDFs. It features a set of tools that allow users to perform intelligent splitting based on page content and watched folders, and is built on an engine that has the power to process more than 2000 pages per minute.

By selecting areas on a page, or specifying particular text and applying a particular command to that text or area, coordinate files can be created in Acrobat to split PDFs based on the text on the pages. ARTS Split Pro can split PDFs using several methods:

• bookmarks;

• control file;

• control file — full path;

• coordinate file, using ARTS Split Pro Assistant and Adobe Acrobat;

• file size; and

• single pages.

split by bookmarks enables the user to split a PDF based on the bookmarks it contains. Each page that is book marked becomes the start of a new fragment, and the title of the bookmark is used to name the fragment. The subsequent pages without bookmarks that follow each split are added to the fragment until the next page that contains a bookmark appears; at which time the next fragment is created. The level of bookmarks to use can also be defined with the top-level bookmarks being level one.

split by control file (control file by definition is a file used by ARTS Split Pro to control the splitting process), enables the user to predefine the page ranges and file names for the resulting fragments, the smaller PDFs produced by the splitting process.

A text file listing the page range and final output name for each fragment is used, and when split by control file is executed, the file is split and each fragment is given a file name from the control file and placed in the specified folder.

Choosing split by control file — full path splits a file based on the settings the user specifies in the control file, with each fragment being stored in the directory indicated by the full path in the control file.

split by file size enables the user to split a PDF based on the user's desired file size of each fragment. Specify the size of the PDF fragments and ARTS Split Pro will split the PDFs to the closest possible size as measured in kilobytes.

Use ARTS Split Pro Assistant to create coordinate files for intelligent, page-content-based splitting. Coordinate files can be used to make ARTS Split Pro splits based on the text on the pages of a PDF.

Some simple examples include:

• split when an invoice ID or other unique identifier on the page changes;

• split when specific text — such as page number or chapter heading — appears on a particular page, and use this text to name the resulting split file;

• split when a text string appears on two pages in a row, then split the file and make the file name this repeating string; or

• split when a text string appears on two pages in a row.

Additionally, using watched-folder mechanisms or manually, the full range of commands available for use with coordinate files allow the user to:

• split based on changing page content;

• split if specified text is found on page;

• split if specified text is found within a rectangle;

• new COM methods: SplitByBookmarks, SplitByControlFile, SplitByCoordFile, SplitByFileSize, and SplitIntoSinglePages;

• GUI options include logging enabled, silent mode, and overwrite mode;

• additional rectangle commands for coordinate files;

• view commands feature for ARTS Split Pro Assistant;

• extract text from a PDF to a text file;

• fill the document summary from the text on the page; or

• use text from the PDF as the fragment's file name.

Use watched folders to automate splitting. ARTS Split Pro's watched folders allow an automated splitting process to be created and can be accessible from a desktop or across an entire network. The user specifies the folders to watch and any PDFs placed in these designated folders will be processed according to the user's specified settings.

The watched-folders function can also be used in conjunction with control files and coordinate files, allowing a fully automated, intelligent, server-side splitting solution.

ARTS Split Pro can be directed from the command line also. The command line calls can be used to run a splitting process and can be integrated into a user's PDF applications.

Manufacturer: ARTS PDF, Inc.

Bluebeam PDF Revu CAD Edition installs toolbar buttons in AutoCAD, Revit, SolidWorks and MS Office for one-button PDF creation and batch options. The Bluebeam PDF printer converts all other CAD and Windows files to 10 file formats. Bluebeam's specialized technology automatically reads your drawing's orientation, scale, line weights, merged lines, plot style table, and page size, so there is no need to adjust settings for perfect PDF conversion from AutoCAD, Revit or SolidWorks. This full-featured professional version also converts your CAD and Windows files to DWF, TIF, JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, PSD, EMF, WMF, and PCL and includes PDF editing, markup, redlining and takeoff tools.

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

Regardless of the experience level of people working on a given project, reliable inter-company file exchange starts with the communication about PDF quality specifications. CertifiedPDF.net facilitates that communication, enabling document receivers (printers and publishers) to publish their PDF specifications, PDF Queues and related documentation for easy distribution to document creators (designers). These specifications and PDF Queues are then used within the Enfocus products to create PDF files that comply with the quality requirements for output. Document creators and receivers can all use the resource section on CertifiedPDF.net to gain valuable information on PDF quality management.

Professional digital delivery solution for FTP and local destinations

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

Suite includes: Impress, MaskIt, BookMarker, AcroBatch, ContentScaler, DocuMerger, DogEars, Flattener, ImagePlacer, InfoSetter, Automator, OpenOptions, SecuritySetter, PDFSplitter, ThumbNails, TOCBuilder, PageManager and MediaSizer. Please see individual products for details.

Manufacturer: Mapsoft Computer Services Limited

MaskIt masks page areas of PDFs so that anything that would normally display or print in that area will no longer appear. However additional items that might be added to the PDF later, such as text output from Impress and Impress Pro (both sold separately), will display.

MaskIt can create masks that remove information from either inside a defined area, such as a graphic or logo, or outside an area (e.g., remove headers and footers from a page but leave everything else on the page intact).

Features:

• mask areas internally or externally to a defined area;

• mask across multiple pages;

• mask odd and even pages;

• define distribution to page ranges;

• save masks for future use; and

• easily define masks using the mask tool.

Manufacturer: Mapsoft Computer Services Limited

AUTOMATE PDF WORKFLOW WITH POWERFUL BATCH PROCESSING:
preflight, route according to preflight results, export as images, split, reduce size

The Ultimate PDF Repurposing & Workflow Automation Tool - Now Even Better!

Manufacturer: Apago