This week in PDF has seen major updates to a toolset for managing regulated documents in the pharmaceutical industry and an advanced PDF library for PDF creation, content extraction, editing, viewing and printing.
First up, Image Solutions, Inc. (ISI) has announced the release of ISIToolBox version 6.0. The new version incorporates the sophisticated tools found in popular document publishing solution Compose. As Compose is being sunset, customers will be migrated to ISIToolBox Standard Edition. ISIToolBox 6.0 provides a set of 50 Adobe Acrobat PDF plug-ins designed to allow companies to work efficiently with PDF documents. The newest version of the product allows users to automatically bookmark documents, simply create thousands of hyperlinks or automate the creation of Tables of Contents based on bookmark information or PDF document structure. To find out more, check out the official vendor web site.
In other news, PDFTron Systems Inc. has released a new major version of its PDF library. PDFNet SDK 4.0 adds full support for Java, giving developers equal access the to the product's functionality, which is also available for use with .NET, C and C++. The new version of the library also includes full support for transparency. This enables developers to process complex documents created using high-end graphics applications such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, for example. Other update perks are fast, high-quality text extraction, text highlighting and search capabilities. A full list of the new features and functionality available in version 4.0 of PDFNet SDK can be found on PDFTron's web site.
OK, so you want to stamp your document. Maybe you need to give reviewers some advice about the document's status or sensitivity. This tip from author Ted Padova demonstrates how to add stamps with the Stamp Tool along with related comments.
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