Generating a high volume of PDF-based reports and documentation quickly gets an automated solution with AppendPDF Pro—and you can automatically add cover pages, tables of contents, page numbers, disclaimers and personalized content.

Designed for on-demand and high-volume publishing, document personalization, document merging and report-assembly implementations utilizing PDF files, AppendPDF Pro lets you customize your process and is engineered for entirely unattended operation.

Industries that have used AppendPDF Pro to speed up and automate their processes include insurance companies, financial services companies, entertainment companies, and any organization that needs to assemble documentation—such as policies and procedures manuals, board of directors books, personalized marketing materials, standard operating procedures, etc.—on demand.

If your organization doesn’t need automated customized content added to existing PDFs, consider AppendPDF instead.

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Features

AppendPDF Pro Publishing Features

  • Provides automated Table of Contents generation, complete with bookmarks and hyperlinks
  • Adds personalized cover pages
  • Applies customized barcodes, page numbers, watermarks, logos, headers and footers
  • Full output customization via plain text or XML parameter files
  • A DTD is provided for validation of XML parameter files

Assembly Features

  • Assembles PDF files with enterprise-class reliability and speed
  • Combines complete files or selected page ranges
  • Includes bookmarks from the original files
  • Sets file open, display and initial page options
  • Includes new document information, including title, subject, keywords, date or other metadata, in PDF Document Information fields.
  • Applies Adobe Acrobat standard 40-bit or 128-bit file encryption with a user-specific password to control who may view, print, or modify the document
  • Linearize PDF files for Fast Web View
  • Optimize to reduce file size
  • Supports PDF documents which also contain embedded files

Stamping & Watermarking

  • Apply copyright notices, disclaimers or other text in your choice of font, point size and color
  • Place multi-line stamps, specify lines, line-breaks, precise location and rotate text stamps to any angle
  • Stamp JPEG, TIFF or PDF files; resize, scale and position them precisely
  • Specify transparency level for stamped text or images
  • Automatic placement based on page size
  • Automatic placement based on page diagonals; for example, top-left to bottom-right
  • Stamp invisible text on documents (invisible text can be indexed by search engines)
  • Automatic placement of start, stop and check characters in Code 128 barcodes (Code 128 character set B is included).
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New Features

Publishing Features

  • Provides automated Table of Contents generation, complete with bookmarks and hyperlinks
  • Adds personalized cover pages
  • Applies customized barcodes, page numbers, watermarks, logos, headers and footers
  • Full output customization via plain text or XML parameter files
  • A DTD is provided for validation of XML parameter files

Assembly Features

  • Assembles PDF files with enterprise-class reliability and speed
  • Combines complete files or selected page ranges
  • Includes bookmarks from the original files
  • Sets file open, display and initial page options
  • Includes new document information, including title, subject, keywords, date or other metadata, in PDF Document Information fields.
  • Applies Adobe Acrobat standard 40-bit or 128-bit file encryption with a user-specific password to control who may view, print, or modify the document
  • Linearize PDF files for Fast Web View
  • Optimize to reduce file size
  • Supports PDF documents which also contain embedded files

Stamping & Watermarking

  • Apply copyright notices, disclaimers or other text in your choice of font, point size and color
  • Place multi-line stamps, specify lines, line-breaks, precise location and rotate text stamps to any angle
  • Stamp JPEG, TIFF or PDF files; resize, scale and position them precisely
  • Specify transparency level for stamped text or images
  • Automatic placement based on page size
  • Automatic placement based on page diagonals; for example, top-left to bottom-right
  • Stamp invisible text on documents (invisible text can be indexed by search engines)
  • Automatic placement of start, stop and check characters in Code 128 barcodes (Code 128 character set B is included).
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PDF Portfolios

AppendPDF Pro PDF Portfolios

AppendPDF Pro now allows you to create PDF Portfolios.  Instead of reassembling the PDF document by appending pages together; a PDF Portfolio inserts the documents without altering the content of the original component files.  This allows any file type, even files which are encrypted or digitally signed, to be added to the PDF Portfolio without first converting to PDF or changing the encryption on the documents or breaking the digital signatures.

Digitally Signed Files

Files containing digital signatures can be inserted into a PDF Portfolio without breaking or altering the digital signature in any way.

Encrypted Files

Files can be encrypted using different combinations of owner passwords, user passwords and permissions.

Non-PDF Files

A PDF Portfolio supports non-PDF file types for example; Microsoft Office documents including Word, Excel and Powerpoint, TIFF image files, Photoshop files, Video files, XML Based XFA files, etc.

PDF Portfolios are also called Portable Collections or Document Collections and are part of the International Standards Organization standard for PDF; ISO-32000.

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Tech Specs

Easy Integration with AppendPDF Pro

  • No limit on concurrent users or connections
  • No limit on the number of documents processed
  • No limit on threads – run as many instances as you want
  • Supports PDF 1.0 and higher
  • Call from any programming or scripting language including (but not limited to) Perl, PHP, Java, C++, ASP & .Net, Visual Basic, Cold Fusion and Lotus Notes
  • May be integrated with other Appligent server products as part of a complete PDF workflow or DOCCM solution.

Supported Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows
Windows 7 and higher (32 or 64 bit)

Linux (RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, etc.)
Kernel 2.6  64 bit

IBM AIX
5.2 & above on Power

Oracle (Sun) Solaris
10 and above on SPARC  

Apple Mac OS X
10.5 & above on Intel x86

Minimum free memory available to run the application : 512 MBytes

Basic Operation

A text or XML parameter file is passed to AppendPDF Pro containing the instructions AppendPDF Pro uses to assemble the new PDF document. See the Introduction to AppendPDF Pro for more information.

Automation

Dynamically generate parameter files from Perl, Java, PHP, VBScript, or any shell script. AppendPDF can also be scripted for multistage processing or deployed with our other products as part of a complete PDF workflow solution.

Documentation

See the User Guide for complete documentation.

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Feature AppendPDF Pro AppendPDF AppendPDF DE
Combine PDF files Yes Yes Yes
Automate document production Yes Yes No
Dynamically create customized Documents for Web delivery Yes Yes No
Dynamically create customized cover pages Yes No No
Create a customized TOC Yes No Yes
Specify template PDF for the TOC Yes No Yes
Specify exact position of TOC entries on the page Yes No Yes
Specify header height to where the TOC begins Yes No Yes
Specify the footer height from the bottom of the TOC Yes No Yes
Specify the left and right margins for the TOC Yes No Yes
Specify the width of the column for TOC page numbers Yes No Yes
Specify a leader character for the TOC entries Yes No Yes
Choose font, size and color for TOC entries Yes No Yes
Choose line spacing for TOC entries Yes No Yes
Choose space between TOC entries Yes No Yes
Stamp TOC page numbers Yes No Yes
Stamp page numbers on the output PDF Yes No Yes
Stamp bates numbers on the output PDF Yes No Yes
Stamp text anywhere on the output PDF Yes No Yes
Support for Unicode stamps Yes No Yes
Stamp Barcodes Yes No Yes
Stamp images anywhere in the output PDF Yes No Yes
Merge by page range Yes Yes Yes
Merge selected pages Yes Yes Yes
Encrypt the output PDF Yes Yes Yes
Save output PDF for “Fast Web View” Yes Yes Yes
Specify Document Information, Custom Fields and Keywords Yes Yes Yes
Specify how output PDF opens and what the User sees Yes Yes Yes
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How to Buy AppendPDF Pro

AppendPDF Pro starts at $2,995.00 (USD) for a single server with up to 4 cores. Contact us for more information.

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