callas software announces full compliancy with Isartor test suite for PDF/A

I've mentioned this in the past but to refresh your memory callas software provides the pre-flight functionality that you find in Acrobat. Adobe licenses the callas software so they can use it in Acrobat instead of reinventing the wheel. The callas software is targeted on pre-flighting and PDF validation. Recently in response to market feedback callas updated the way its products are sold. There is now a PDF Toolbox and the PDF/A Pilot toolkit. The Isartor test suite is used to validate individual documents to insure they comply with the PDF/A standard. The PDF/A Pilot toolkit is now in full compliance with the Isartor test suite so users can programmatically test documents for PDF/A compliance as well as convert non-compliant documents to PDF/A.

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Shredding The Document: PDF Portfolios on Forbes and Washington Post

Some of our recent posts talked about PDF Portfolios as they are presented in Acrobat 9. Forbes as a couple examples of how these new portfolios are being used in the real world. Sometimes viewing real world examples makes the utility of new functionality more apparent.

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Datalogics extends distribution agreement with Adobe - Content & Data Management

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Datalogics provides Adobe PDF technologies to the development community. The Adobe PDF Library is a major component of those technologies and it provides a wide range of PDF processing and creation functionality to developers. Datalogics now expanded the capabilities they can offer developers by adding the Adobe PDF Print Engine to the products they make available to developers. The Adobe PDF Print Engine has been licensed by many of the largest and most successful print hardware device manufacturers. This is important to those that need to render a PDF for proofing, analysis, and final output that completely matches that found inside the device that will print the file.

Nature Publishes PDF With 3D Interactive Images

One of the many improvements included in the latest version of Acrobat is the ability to include 3D objects in a PDF. Nature partk of Nature Publishing Group is using this ability to make their scientific reports more useful.

This is interesting to us as well because this same functionality is in the Adobe PDF Library so customers can programatically insert 3D objects in their PDF files.

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Lori DeFurio: PDF Portfolios on the Web

The PDF Portfolio talk continues as it looks like content creators are starting to publish their information in PDF Portfolios on the web. Portfolios have a Flash component that allows for more creative and elaborate features in the way the content is presented to the user which may be attracting these content creators.

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What are PDF Portfolios?

Since I am on the topic of PDF Portfolios here is a primer on the subject that walks through what they are, how to use them, and how to create them using Acrobat. As we are focused on development tools and integration of PDF technology here it should be noted that programmatic creation and processing of PDF Portfolios is proving to be quite attractive to our customers that want to improve how they handle and maintain sets of information in their repositories.

PDF Developer Junkie: PDF Portfolios and Backward Compatibility - Part 1

Just mentioned was the change from PDF Packages to PDF Portfolios. We have been hearing a number of questions about this change and about Portfolios in general. This is the first article in a short series that discusses Portfolios and backward compatibility with Packages.



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PDF Developer Junkie: Reliable Intra-Portfolio Link Creation

In Adobe Acrobat 8 we had PDF Packages that allowed you to embed multiple objects of PDF and other file formats into a single PDF. This object type has been renamed PDF Portfolio for Acrobat 9. This is a quick little how-to on creating links inside of a PDF Portfolio.

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