Mapsoft Blogs

DiamondTouch Table and Adobe Acrobat Integration The worlds first multi-user touch table and a plug-in developed by Mapsoft running under Adobe Acrobat.  Contact: Michael Peters mpeters@mapsoft.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpmapsoft/ https://www.mapsoft.com

Developing User Interfaces for Adobe Products Choices when developing extensions and plug-ins for Adobe Creative Cloud and Document Cloud products Most of Adobes Products has either come from other companies that have merged with Adobe Systems or have been in development for a considerable length of time. There is more than one way of creating extensions for most of Adobes products and especially the variation in developing graphical user interfaces.  Adobe Illustrator, for example requires the use of HTML and JavaScript for its user interfaces. Adobe Acrobat supports native user interfaces on both Windows and Mac platforms although until recent versions that used to have its own user interface technology called ADM (Adobe Dialog Manager). The same technology was also used in Adobe Illustrator, however over the last few versions of the products this technology has been removed. For Adobe Acrobat there is an example plug-in using wxWidgets ( https://www.wxwidgets.org/ ) an open source

SMART integration with Adobe Illustrator using an Adobe Illustrator Plug-in Enhance design & product review meetings by using SMART visual collaboration solutions with the popular vector graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. Technologies Used SMART White Board Adobe Illustrator Adobe Illustrator SDK Contact Information Michael Peters https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpmapsoft/ mpeters@mapsoft.com https://www.mapsoft.com

How Portable is PDF? Although PDF is an ISO standard and there are various other standards such as PDF/A and PDF/X that is supposed to improve its portability it can be made into a completely unportable format in a number of ways. Some of this unportability is imposed by Adobe themselves deliberately to keep some control over the format and the functionality of their products that work with the PDF format and some by 3rd parties. The question is how close is PDF to being truly portable across all devices and is this portability becoming better or worse over time. A definition of PDF This paragraph in the PDF 1.7 and ISO standard document is largely unchanged from early versions of the PDF specification and summarises the "ideal" for PDF: The goal of PDF is to enable users to exchange and view electronic documents easily and reliably, independent of the environment in which they were created or the environment in which they are viewed or printed. At the core of PDF is

Automated Card Production Keeps Hallmark as the King of Cards A customised software solution from specialists Mapsoft results in a more streamlined and efficient production process for Hallmark, saving time, money and resources. Hallmark, the UK’s leading greetings card publisher, has introduced a customised software solution which has automated the card design process - increasing efficiency, saving time and money, and streamlining the annual production of 2.2 billion cards.   The solution has been custom-designed by software specialists Mapsoft to automate the process of composing individual design layouts for around 8,000 card designs onto the card template before printing begins. Card Create is a PDF, server-based solution which has replaced Hallmark’s previous paper-based, manual system enabling Hallmark to automate the process of inserting barcodes and pricing onto individual card templates. Hallmark has deployed the solution at its Hamble