AppendPDF
Generate High Volumes of PDF Documents
Speed Up and Automate Document Production Processes
If you need to generate a high volume of PDF-based reports and documentation, AppendPDF does it easily and quickly. Used for archiving, litigation support, web presentment, and a host of other applications, our high-performance solution delivers assembled documents on demand.
Industries that have used AppendPDF to speed up and automate their processes include real estate operations, insurance companies, financial services companies, entertainment companies, and any organization that needs to assemble documentation—such as policies, standard operating procedures, etc.—on demand.
For automated table of contents, personalization, stamping, and more, see AppendPDF Pro.
Use in conjunction with FDFMerge or FDFMerge Lite to create packages of content combined with flattened PDF forms.
Features
Assembly Features of AppendPDF
- 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 and in XML via the eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP).
- 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
- Linearizes PDF files for Fast Web View
- Optimize to reduce file size
Tech Specs
Easy Integration with AppendPDF
- 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 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 containing the instructions AppendPDF uses to assemble the new PDF document. See the Introduction to AppendPDF for more information. A DTD is provided for validation of XML parameter files.
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.
Compare
| 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 |
Try & Buy
How to Buy AppendPDF
AppendPDF starts at $995.00 (USD) for a single server with up to 4 cores. Contact us for more information.