This document provides an overview of third-party (that is,
non-Adobe) plug-ins and utilities for use with Adobe Acrobat
Reader, Adobe Acrobat , and PDF files. The tables
below list third-party products and a contact for their manufacturers,
a description of each, and which operating systems each supports
(Mac OS, Windows, UNIX, or OS/2). For more detailed information
about a given product, refer to its contact. If this list
doesn't include information about a type of plug-in or utility
you need, you may find information about it on a PDF-specific
Web site, such as http://www.pdfzone.com.
Disclaimer: The information provided here has been compiled from various Web sites and Adobe sources, and is meant to be only a quick reference guide to some of the Acrobat plug-ins and utilities available. This list is not necessarily the most up-to-date resource and may contain information that is out of date or inaccurate. Adobe Technical Support does not provide support for third-party plug-ins and provides this information as a courtesy only.
While Adobe distributes Acrobat Reader and Acrobat
for viewing PDF files, the following products also enable
you to view PDF files.
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EasyView and EasyView Extreme Contact: Infocon America |
A customized version of Acrobat Reader and Acrobat , usually used by publishers. You can highlight, add notes, search, and create an electronic library that is password-protected and encrypted. |
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Ghostscript, Ghostview, and GSview Contact: Aladdin Enterprises |
Displays, prints, and rasterizes PDF files, and converts them to or from PostScript or EPS format. Provides a PostScript interpreter that can convert PostScript files to many raster formats, view them, and print them to non-PostScript printers. |
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gv Contact: |
Lets you view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on any monitor by providing a user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. |
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xpdf Contact: Derek B. Noonburg |
Lets you view PDF files on the xWindow System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. |
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PDFViewer 1.22b Contact: Detlev Droege |
Lets you view PDF files in NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. |
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PDFView 1.71 Contact: Guenther Fuerthaler |
Lets you view PDF files in NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. |
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OmniPDF 2.1.3 Contact: OmniGroup |
Lets you view PDF files in NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. |
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DropPDF 1.0 Contact: Frank M. Siegert |
Lets you view PDF files in NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. |
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Adobe Acrobat lets you edit PDF files. The following
products also let you edit PDF files.
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Action Plug-in Contact: JG Oliver Custom Software |
Allows you to assign actions to links or other annotations, including executing an external application. |
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Aerial Contact: Ambia Corporation |
Searches, catalogs, earmarks pages, prints selected page areas, copies tabular data into spreadsheets, and extracts text and graphics for use with other software. |
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Ari's Toolbox Contact: Dionis |
A set of plug-ins for Acrobat: |
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Batch-Print Contact: Addendum Software |
Selects the destination printer; lets you select the files or pages (including odd or even pages) to print or search a folder. |
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BatchPrintPDF Contact: Brook House Limithttp://www.brookhouse.co.uk/adobe/batch/ |
Prints a user-defined folder of PDF files to the default printer using current settings. |
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Bookworm Contact: Radtke Consulting |
Lets you select and search for fonts, sizes, attributes, and/or strings to be used to create bookmarks in a PDF file. |
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CheckUp Contact: EnFocus Software, Inc. |
Generates a preflight report with details on colors, fonts, and images used in a PDF file, and a list of specific problems and areas of concern. |
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Compose Contact: Ambia Corporation |
Creates bookmarks from chapter and section headings, batch-processes files, constructs linked tables of contents and index pages. |
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Crackerjack Contact: Lantana |
Lets you control fine positioning, scaling, orientation, separation, and screening. Creates PostScript files for imagesetters and other devices. Separates PDF files created with Microsoft applications such as Word, Publisher, and Excel. |
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Crackerjack Pilot Contact: Lantana |
Lets you automate Crackerjack using hot folders and saved settings for particular applications or print job classifications, or for targeting output to different devices. |
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DoubleCheck Contact: EnFocus Software, Inc. |
Preflight utility for PostScript and PDF files. |
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Date Stamp Contact: Merlin Open Systems |
Enables you to stamp files with a date and text message when they are printed from Acrobat Reader. Date Stamp works by intercepting print requests from all applications and adding a stamp if the application is Acrobat Reader. |
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DateD Contact: Digital Applications Inc. |
Dynamically adds the current date/time and a definable message to PDF files, on the first or every page. Can print to both PostScript and non-PostScript printers. |
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Enfocus Browser Contact: EnFocus Software, Inc. |
Gives you a hierarchical view of the code in a PDF file, and lets you view the PDF page description for a particular page. |
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Enfocus EyeDropper Contact: EnFocus Software, Inc. |
Lets you measure the color of a point on a page. Color information displayed includes color space, color components, and overprint setting. |
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Enfocus Guides Contact: EnFocus Software, Inc. |
Lets you overlay customizable guide sets on a page. |
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Enfocus Measure Contact: EnFocus Software, Inc. |
Enables you to measure the distance and angle between two points on a page. |
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Face It! Contact: NetFormation, Inc. |
Enables you to change button images in PDF files. Takes a PDF graphic file and merges it with an Acrobat Forms Data Format (FDF) file to create a FDF stream. When imported into a PDF document containing a button face, the FDF stream instantly changes the button to the user-specified PDF graphic. |
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IndexFixer Contact: Merlin Open Systems |
Enables Acrobat Search indexes created by Acrobat Catalog to be used with password-protected files: Files with open passwords cannot be indexed with Acrobat Catalog, so documents must be indexed before being password-protected. Once the files are indexed, a password can be added, but when a search is performed the Search plug-in will detect that the file has changed since the index was built, and will display an error message. IndexFixer will fix the index so that the Search plug-in will not think that the protected documents have changed since the index was built. |
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InfoLink Publishing Enhancement Software Contact: Infocon America |
Converts, enhances, edits, indexes, preflights, archives, and secures PDF files for electronic sale and distribution using "push" technology. |
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InfoLinker andInfoLinker Lite Contact: Alliant Techsystems, Inc |
Adds automation to the generation of hyperlinks. Hyperlinks and bookmarks are created by a set of user-defined, syntax-based rules. |
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ISIToolBox Contact: Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI) |
Collection of plug-ins (Table Copy, Text Copy, Merge PDF, and Goto Plus) that help you create hypertext links and bookmarks for PDF files. |
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LinkManager Contact: Alliant Techsystems, Inc |
Lets you modify manual or automated links by changing attributes. Also lets you delete specific links, notes, and threads. |
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Options Contact: Merlin Open Systems |
Lets you specify the open and security options and the general information fields of all the PDF files within a selected folder (including password-protected files if you have the password), as well as processing all the files in a folder. |
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P/Comp Contact: Radtke Consulting |
Builds bookmarks and links that describe the differences between two PDF files using different colors of links to highlight differences in font types, size, position, and new or missing words. |
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PDF Embedder Contact: Intense Software Inc. |
Lets you embed files within a PDF file in Acrobat (if you have the Embedder serial number). Lets you extract embedded files in Acrobat Reader or Acrobat (if you don't have the serial number). |
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PDF Imposer Contact: Computerstream Ltd. |
Imposition plug-in for Acrobat. |
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PDF Link Counter Script Contact: Digital Applications Inc. |
Lets you use a script to process any number of PDF files or folders containing PDF files onto a script icon; it will count all links and bookmarks in each file and print the results to a text file. It works with AppleScript 1.1.1 on MacOS 7.6.1 with Acrobat 2.1, and AppleScript 1.1.2 on Mac OS 8.xwith Acrobat 2.1. (It does not work with Acrobat 3.x.) |
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PDF Scantools Contact: Computerstream Ltd. |
Three tools for cleaning up scanned images: Eraser removes unwanted elements, Positioner lets you position the page, and Measure lets you specify precise measurements between two points on a page. |
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PDF Tree Application Contact: JG Oliver Custom Software |
Lets you view PDF data structures, to understand how the PDF works or to confirm the creation of custom structures. |
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pdfToolbox Contact: Callas Software |
Collection of pre-press tools: |
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PDFWorkshop Contact: Round Table Solutions |
Collects the following PDF document information into a spreadsheet for easy management of your PDFs: Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, Page count, Page display, Protection status, Creator, Producer, Date created, Optimized, File size, Last time saved, and Page Mode selected for display (page, page+thumbnails or page+bookmarks). |
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PenOp Contact: PenOp |
Lets you sign PDF files with a handwritten signature. You can specify where signatures appear on the page, the names of the signatories, and the reason for signing. Users receiving a signed document can view the signature, check that the document is the same as when it was signed, and then verify this signature against others received from the user. |
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PitStop Contact: EnFocus Software, Inc. |
Provides extra editing tools for Acrobat that enable you to change size, color, position and rotation of graphics, add new objects with a set of drawing and text tools, copy and paste objects, images and text between pages and files, edit nodes and Bezier control points in paths and masks, use system and embedded fonts when editing text, give numerical control over position and size of objects, use unlimited undo and redo, zoom in up to 1600%, edit in preview or wireframe viewing mode, and apply overprint settings to objects. |
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Preps Contact: ScenicSoft |
Imposes PostScript source files into signatures, eliminating the need for manual stripping. |
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Quite A Box of Tricks Contact: Quite Software |
Collection of utilities that enables you to shrink or compress PDF files, converting colors to CMYK or grayscale, convert all text to black, transform pages (scale, flip, or free rotate), add or remove form fields, and add detailed information on text, fonts, and images. |
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Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus Contact: Quite Software |
Lets you create booklets, N-up pages, trim and shift, shuffle pages for imposing, shuffle even/odd, reverse pages, and insert blank pages. Quite Imposing Plus also lets you step and repeat, do manual imposition, define bleeds, and stick on page numbers. |
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Re:mark |
Lets you redline, or mark up, files in a workgroup setting. You can add annotations like highlights, strike-thrus, and comments on-screen, and distribute files electronically. |
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Redax Contact: Digital Applications, Inc. |
Lets you edit files to remove sensitive or private information. |
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ReversePages Contact: Digital Applications, Inc. |
Reverses the order of all the pages in a file. |
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RTSDuplex Contact: Round Table Solutions |
Lets you print odd, even and double-sided (duplexed) copies on any printer. |
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RTSJoust Contact: Round Table Solutions |
Lets you save or e-mail the file you're viewing in Acrobat or in a Web browser. Works with any Simple MAPI compliant mailer such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus CC:Mail. |
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RTSThumbOpt Contact: Round Table Solutions |
Lets you optimize and create thumbnails from the command line (i.e., DOS prompt). |
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ShowBookmarks Contact: Digital Applications, Inc. |
Displays the bookmark pane if the PDF file contains bookmarks and the bookmarks pane is not shown. |
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Sonar Bookends Contact: Virginia Systems |
Automatically creates an index and table of contents. Lets you index words by frequency or using a word/phrase list. |
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Spiffy-Pop Contact: CONTECH Multimedia Publishing |
Lets you add pop-ups to enhance PDF files. Includes the Pop-up Acrobat plug-in and the Pop-up Reader plug-in. |
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Starter Plug-in Contact: JG Oliver Custom Software |
Lets you assign other applications or their data files (e.g., a text-editing application, a *.txt file) to a menu/toolbar item. Creates links and annotations that call the menu item using an execute action, so you can start another application by clicking a link. |
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TimedOut Contact: Digital Applications Inc. |
Lets you add additional security features. Includes two plug-ins: one for authoring and one for viewing. TimedOut Author lets the document author set an expiration date, after which the file can only be accessed with the author's password. TimedOut Viewer, which can be distributed across a network or on CD-ROM, makes PDF files remain encrypted and non-viewable if the Viewer plug-in is not present or if the expiration date is past. |
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Transverter Pro and Transverter Pro Plus Contact: TechPool Software |
Lets you rasterize, place, view, softproof, and preflight PostScript files and PDF files. Can rasterize any PostScript Level 2 file to TIFF, make a PostScript file visually editable, convert PostScript into EPS images, view EPS and multipage PostScript files on-screen, and test PostScript files. |
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TriState Contact: Digital Applications Inc. |
Replaces the three page mode buttons and the three zoom buttons in the Acrobat toolbar with single TriState buttons, to reduce the number of icons in the toolbar. |
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xToolsOne Contact: xman software |
Collection of plug-ins that can provide detailed information about each annotation in a PDF file, assign creation dates to annotations, export lists of annotations, earmark a page for reference, copy text to the clipboard in footnote format, mark a page as a home page, create links and bookmarks, put marks on a page with non-printing ink, limit your print area, provide a more powerful text selection tool, and show invisible link borders. |
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Watch-Plus Contact: Addendum Software |
Enables you to automate PDF file processing using watched folders, with additional functionality such as creating a log file, creating or deleting thumbnails, removing unused documents or pages, setting passwords, setting the document information, and setting open and window options. |
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The following products let you convert data to and from PDF.
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AppendPDF Contact: Digital Applications Inc. |
Application that lets you create one PDF file from lists of several PDF files or lists of page ranges within PDF files. |
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AppleScript for Distiller Contact: Larry Rosenstein |
AppleScript that lets you drop PostScript files on the Distiller application, asks for an output file name, and writes a new file that contains code to include the original files. This file can then be processed with Distiller, so the resulting PDF file contains all the original PostScript files. |
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Argus Server Contact: Iceni Technology |
Lets you batch-convert PDF files for indexing or archiving. Can extract text while retaining reading order, and extract images and retain page layout using HTML tables. (Does not require Acrobat.) |
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Batch PrintxTension Contact: Meadows Information Systems, Inc. |
Streamlines printing operations by letting you print groups of QuarkXPress documents automatically to any PostScript printer or output device, including Acrobat Distiller. |
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cpMasterEdit Contact: Cessna Publishing |
Lets you batch-edit PDF files in user-defined ways. |
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CRFScan Contact: Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI) |
Minimizes the time it takes to scan and index Case Record Forms, using forms recognition and bar-code recognition. Can scan to compressed TIFF format, or convert the TIFF files to PDF with required bookmarks. |
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FixFont Contact: PDFzone.COMhttp://www.pdfzone.com/products/software/tool_FixFont.html |
Lets you create a new PostScript file that can use Type 1 outline fonts from a PostScript file created by DVIPS that already has Type 3 bitmapped fonts embedded. Identifies the embedded fonts and extracts the bitmapped font code from the PostScript file. |
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FormView Contact: Page Technology Marketing, Inc. |
Reads, views, searches, and prints Hewlett-Packard PCL print files, and can convert PCL into PDF files. |
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Freebird 1.0 Contact: BCL-Computers |
Exchange plug-in that converts multi-page PDF files into multi-page TIFF files. Supports various compressions and resolutions up to 600 dpi. |
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Gemini Contact: Iceni Technology |
Converts PDF files into HTML, RTF, or plain text. Can retain page layout and extract images as Web-ready JPEG files. Automatically creates links to extracted JPEG files in converted HTML files. |
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GenText High Speed Printer Development Kits (HSPDK) Contact: GenText, Inc. |
APIs that provide developer tools to help you automate the printing process such as datastream parsers, generators, and how-to documentation. |
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Gymnast Contact: Robert Schifreen |
Converts ASCII text files to PDF. |
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HTMLDOC Contact: Mike Sweet |
Application that generates indexed HTML, PostScript, and PDF files from HTML source files. Includes a graphical interface to manage your HTML files and automatically (re)generate files for viewing and printing. |
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html2ps Contact: Jan Kärrman |
Converts HTML to PostScript. |
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Image Alchemy and Image Alchemy PS |
Converts graphic file formats, resizes images, changes the number of colors in an image, and changes an image's color space. Image Alchemy PS converts PostScript, EPS, and PDF files to raster file formats, such as TIFF and PCX, and lets you print PostScript, EPS, and PDF files on non-PostScript printers. |
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JAWS Contact: 5D |
PostScript engine for OEMs and system integrators that provides PostScript kernel technology, which each OEM incorporates into its own product. Includes support for PDF files, and special PostScript operators allow random access and rendering of PDF pages. |
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LegacyxCHANGE Contact: Solimar Systems, Inc. |
Emulation modules for the Solimar Print/Director System NT print server that let you control and direct a print environment. |
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Local Render Contact: Computerised Document Control, Ltd. (CDC) |
Converts Word 97 documents to PDF files. Converts Word Headings Levels to Acrobat Bookmarks, and converts Word Cross References, Links and Web Links to Acrobat links and Web links. |
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MadeToPrintxT Contact: Callas Software |
Lets you generate PostScript, EPS, and PDF files from within QuarkXPress, including high-resolution PDF files suitable for separations with Acrobat Distiller. |
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MAPublisher Lt Contact: Avenza Global Technologies Corp. |
Imports raw GIS data files from Mac OS, Windows, or UNIX into Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand with all attributes intact. Lets you import vector data from MapInfo, ARC/INFO, ArcView, AutoCAD and others. PDF Export feature lets you attach attribute databases to PDF graphic files. |
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Magellan 1.0 Contact: BCL-Computers |
Exchange plug-in that converts PDF to HTML. |
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Meralie Contact: Gregory Tod |
Perl5 OO library to facilitate the creation of PDF files. |
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NIKNAK Contact: 5D |
Simulates a printer (regular or desktop) so you can create PDF files from the Print command, or by dragging and dropping PostScript and EPS files. |
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PDF Draftsman Application Contact: JG Oliver Custom Software |
Application that lets you create PDF files from scratch, including graphic and text elements. |
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PDF Export Filter Contact: Quark, Inc. |
QuarkXPress 4.02 and later xTension that lets you save a page or range of pages as a PDF file. Saves the pages in PostScript format and uses Distiller to create the PDF. |
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pdfOutput Contact: Callas Software |
Acrobat plug-in that lets you output PostScript Level 1 separations to any PostScript device, including any combination of plates, scaling, paper and film size, page range, crop and registration marks, and rotation and mirror options. |
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Pcl2pdf Contact: Visual Software |
Lets you view LaserJet PCL print files using Acrobat Reader. |
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PCL2PDF Contact: Page Technology Marketing, Inc. (PageTech) |
Application included in the PCLTool SDK that includes all the functionality of the PCLPTR Batch Printing Program, plus features that take advantage of the options provided by Acrobat PDF Writer. Automatically finds PDF Writer and then reverts back to the previous printer driver after execution. Includes source code for pre-conversion indexing or other custom application requirements. |
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PDFlib Contact: Thomas Merz Consulting |
Library of C routines that let you programmatically generate PDF files. |
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PDF NAVigator Contact: xman software |
Adds navigational capabilities to PageMaker documents when they are converted to PDF. |
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pj & pjscript Contact: Nassib Nassar |
Free Java class library for parsing, manipulating, and creating PDF files. Includes pjscript, a script interpreter for creating and modifying PDF files. |
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Poor Man's Distiller Contact: Jaime A. Cruz, Jr. |
Lets you create PDF files in OS/2. |
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PreDISTILLER Contact: Gary Cosimini |
AppleScript utility for Distiller that can set a transfer function for images or embed a screen angle and frequency in a PDF file while it is being distilled. Creates a Distiller Runfile and starts Distiller to process the runfile. |
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Preflight Pro Contact: Extensis Corporation |
Includes a variety of preflight automation features including watching folders, creating PDF, running AppleScripts, and Imation OPEN support. |
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PSAssembler Contact: Toby W. Rush |
Utility for merging PostScript documents in preparation for PDF conversion. |
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PStill Contact: Frank M. Siegert |
Converts PostScript to PDF. |
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RC:Splitter Contact: Radtke Consulting |
Searches a PDF file. When the specified criteria change, creates a new PDF file with all the pages up to the changed page. Can combine the newly created PDF files into a reorganized complete document. |
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RTSImport Contact: Round Table Solutions |
Automates the conversion of image files (.bmp, .gif, .dcx, .pcx, and .tif) to PDF. |
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SearchPrint Contact: Addendum Software |
Word 97 macro that looks for Word documents in the selected directory, and prints them to the destination printer, including PDF Writer and Acrobat Distiller. |
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Sys-Print Contact: Sys-Print, Inc. |
Application that converts mainframe data to a PostScript file for printing, or a PDF file for viewing and storage. Provides automatic indexing, forms merge, font changing, and graphics. |
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TableMaster Contact: Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI) |
Creates PDF files from ASCII and RTF format files without the use of a word processor. Solves the problems encountered when converting Case Report Tabulations (CRT) produced from SAS applications. |
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TemptIn Contact: Nic Plum |
Word 6.0 template that preserves document information, generates PDF bookmarks from document headings, generates a linked table of contents, creates active links for URLs, creates links for internal cross references, creates invisible back buttons behind headings, creates notes, and lets you set file opening mode, linked text color, destination, and zoom. |
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txt2pdf Contact: ANFACE Software |
PERL5 application that converts text files to PDF. |
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WordMark Contact: Brook House Limited |
Word macro template that converts navigation features such as tables of contents and GOTOBUTTON fields to PDF bookmarks and links. |
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Data Extraction and Forms
The following products let you extract data from PDF files
and forms.
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cpInfoExtractor Contact: Cessna Publishing |
Extracts information from PDF files into CSV (comma separated values) files, which can then be imported into a database or spreadsheet. |
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ForTE Contact: BCL Computers |
Lets you import PDF data into other Windows applications using drag and drop. |
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HAHTsite Enterprise Solution Module (ESM) |
Provides a set of tools for creating and deploying PDF forms. Lets you replace paper forms with electronic forms that interface with business applications and databases. The ESM plugs directly into the HAHTsite IDE and automatically generates form-handling code, which links the Acrobat form directly to a server-side datasource. |
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Jade Contact: BCL-Computers |
Lets you extract text from PDF files in RTF (Rich Text Format). Works with both single-byte and Japanese language versions of Acrobat. |
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N/D Form Contact: Nikao Solutions, Inc. |
Lets you turn a PDF form into a database, map its fields to a database, set up automatic extraction parameters, and populate PDF forms from databases. |
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PDmorF Contact: BCL Computers |
Converts PDF text and tables, and includes a table editor for post-processing odifications. |
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PEP (Picture Extraction Plug-in) Contact: Iceni Technology |
Extracts images in TIFF, EPS, or JPEG format. |
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Redwing Contact: Datawatch Corporation |
Extracts text or tables from PDF files, which can be sent to a database or other desktop application. |
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TEP (Text Extraction Plug-in) Contact: Iceni Technology |
Extracts text from a given folder in any custom, automated format. |
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The following products help you manage your PDF files and
file security.
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Constable Server Contact: ImageNet |
Family of products including Acrobat plug-ins for enhancing digital workflows. Designed as a handling manager for files used in enterprise-to-enterprise electronic commerce. |
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DocDepot Contact: Alliant Techsystems, Inc |
Enables you to store, access, and manage electronic data, including PDF, TIFF, word processing files, spreadsheets, and CAD. Uses Web browsers to retrieve files. Lets you search using various criteria (title, identification number, etc.) |
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Excalibur RetrievalWare Contact: Excalibur Technologies Corporation |
Set of tools for building text-based knowledge retrieval documents, including text, databases, word processing files, PDF files, newsfeeds, e-mails, and images. |
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FileOpen PDF Contact: FileOpen Systems Inc. |
Manages access to PDF files, ensuring that only authorized or paying users can open secured files. |
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Fulcrum SearchServer Contact: Fulcrum Solutions |
Offers information retrieval through the FulView document viewer. |
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LibraryManager Contact: Alliant Techsystems, Inc |
Retrieves PDF files using indexed descriptive listings, so you can retrieve files by title instead of filename. Lets you create executable links between PDF files. |
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Muscat Contact: Bright Station (formerly Muscat) |
Lets you index and search data from Web sites, Intranet servers, and fileservers. Its search tool combines natural language searching with boolean and structured search techniques. |
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Name It Contact: Merlin Open Systems |
Exchange plug-in that creates links as named destinations (specific instructions for opening files to a specific page). |
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Name It Launcher Contact: Merlin Open Systems |
Can open PDF files directed at any named destination in the PDF file. The file name and destination to open can be specified using a temporary file, a connection to Name It Launcher's DDE server on Windows, or a socket which it listens to on Unixsystems. |
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PDFcontrol Contact: Computerised Document Control, Ltd. (CDC) |
Sets PDF security permissions on-the-fly to reflect the DMS User permissions, add predefined watermarks for viewing or printing, and paste database attributes directly into files. |
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PDFfusion Contact: Computerised Document Control, Ltd. (CDC) |
Publishing engine that lets you add dynamic database data directly into a PDF file. Can compile hierarchical document trees into a single document, generate a table of contents, add pre-defined cover sheets, and apply overlays with text and/or graphics to different parts of the file. |
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PDF Protector Contact: Computerstream Ltd. |
Applies and removes a permanently visible page banner as an overlay or an underlay for use as a security device. |
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PDM Contact: Radtke Consulting |
Enables you to organize a collection of PDF files for delivery or viewing. Keeps track of where PDF files are located (network drives, removable CDs). |
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Posta Contact: Tumbleweed Software Corp. |
Document delivery system that sends files of any size or type to anyone with e-mail and Web access. Lets senders determine when files were sent and received. Protects files during transmission and ensures they arrive at the proper destination. Includes several layers of security, including file encryption, password protection, secured connections, and recipient authentication. |
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Signet Contact: Ambia Corporation |
Lets you specify authorized users to read PDF files, so you can control file access, including expiration dates and circumstances. Requires Signet Authenticator plug-in to see the files. |
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SoftLock Contact: SoftLock Services, Inc. |
Plug-in that adds security features to PDF files. Calculates a unique number called a SoftLockID, which is based on the user's hard drive, then looks for the unique password for that SoftLockID and the PDF file. |
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Sonar Professional Contact: Virginia Systems |
Lets you archive, search, and annotate large bodies of text (e.g., search 12,000 pages of text per second). Search options include Boolean, proximity, wild card, phonetic, synonym, narrowing, relevancy ranking, summaries, and reports. Annotation options include sticky notes that can be attached to pages, sidetracking, hypertext linking, simple document indexing, display of word associations, block/field/subdocument support, and integration with a built-in database. |
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Virtual Bookshelf (Vbshelf) Contact: VirtualTechnologies |
Automatically organizes electronic documents and makes them accessible, regardless of location. |
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Virtual File Cabinet Contact: Infodata Systems |
Manages documents and collaborative sessions on an intranet and the Internet. |
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VisView Contact: Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI) |
Enables you to view, annotate, and print text-based data from a single application. |
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Watermark Client (includes Watermark Explorer and Watermark
Workspace) |
Enables you to capture, file, search, view, annotate, route, and manage all document types across an enterprise. Watermark Explorer lets you view and browse documents, document types (including PDF), folders, and queues stored on any Watermark service. Workspace captures, displays, indexes, prints, and routes supported document types. |
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WebSonar Contact: Virginia Systems |
Lets you publish information on the Internet or an intranet, without having to convert files into an HTML format. |
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WebSTAR Contact: Starnine Technologies, Inc. |
Search engine that can indexand search a site's text, HTML, and PDF files. |
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The following products help you create or use PDF files more
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ActiveReports Contact: Data Dynamics |
Combines Microsoft Visual Basic with advanced ActiveXDesigner Component technology to provide a report designer for Visual Basic Developers. Comes with an optional ActiveX component that lets you export data to RTF, PDF, delimited text, and spreadsheets. |
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AutoPilotxT Contact: Callas Software |
Automation tool for pre-press production for QuarkXPress environment or QPS. |
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FontIncluder & FontIncluder Pro Server Contact: Callas Software |
Embeds Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType fonts into PostScript, EPS, and DCS files. |
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IndexMaker Contact: ANFACE Software |
PERL script to make an index.html file from PDF files, HTML files, VRML files, and other files. |
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JAMBuddy Contact: Avenza Global Technologies Corp. |
Plug-in that lets you read database information embedded within a MAPublisher PDF file. |
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Mayura Draw Contact: Mayura Software |
PostScript-based vector drawing application that lets you export drawings in PDF. |
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PDF DesignxTension Contact: Techno Design |
Lets you generate automatic control codes for Acrobat (such as bookmarks) in QuarkXPress. These control codes are integrated into PostScript files, which can then be converted to PDF. |
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PDF Handshake Contact: HELIOS Software GmbH |
Provides separation printing and OPI support for PDF fles. |
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PDF Library for PERL Contact: ANFACE Software |
PERL library that lets you test if a file is a PDF file, then retrieve its number pages and PDF version. |
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PDFprint Contact: ANFACE Software |
Lets you print PDF, PostScript, or HTML files from different directories, or FTP and HTTP sites, to a printer or to the monitor, in PostScript format or in text format. |
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PostShop Contact: Vividata, Inc. |
UNIX printing application for PostScript and non-PostScript printers. |
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PSAlter Contact: Quite Software |
Lets you view and convert PostScript files in Windows. Includes debugging features that explain PostScript errors and generate preflight reports. |
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Runway SDK Contact: Iceni Technology |
Provides a fully documented API, with software libraries, that lets you create products and applications based on Iceni's Intelligent Content Extraction Engine Runway. The SDK is available in two forms: for developing Acrobat plug-ins, and for developing server-based products and applications. |
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ScanFix Contact: TMSSequoia |
Lets you edit scanned images. Can deskew, register, and remove lines from forms and documents. |
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Tailor Contact: EnFocus Software, Inc. |
Lets you manipulate and edit any object in a PostScript file. Can convert PostScript to EPS, PDF, Illustrator 3, and bitmap formats. Supports OPI, preserves embedded fonts, recognizes spot colors, supports multi-page documents, and is Luminous OPEN aware. |
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TaxView Contact: Page Technology Marketing, Inc. (PageTech) |
HP PCL LaserJet Series II-emulation application that reads, indexes, views, and prints IRS taxforms in HP PCL Level 4 format. |
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Transverter PI Contact: TechPool Software |
Suite of PostScript plug-ins and a QuarkXTension. Can rasterize PostScript to Photoshop, Debabilizer, Live Picture, and Fractal Painter. Can rasterize and import EPS, PDF, and PostScript files. |
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