Crawford Technologies provides a cost-effective host-based software product that allow organizations to combine their AFP printing applications with the advantages of distributed network architectures and the Internet. PRO AFP to PDF interprets AFP print streams and resources and transforms them into PDF for use with browsers such as Adobe's Acrobat© Reader.
PRO AFP to PDF provides superior font management. PRO AFP to PDF has the flexibility to map fonts to either standard PostScript/PDF Type 1 fonts or embedded Type 1 fonts for a clean look. Custom fonts are automatically converted to PDF fonts.
PRO AFP to PDF uses PDF overlays to emulate pre-printed form stock. This makes the creation of watermarks easy, allowing the full power of PDF to be utilized within legacy applications. This approach can be used to add full color graphics, web site links, java scripts and much more.PRO AFP to PDF uses object-to-object AFP to PDF transformation rather than object-to-bitmap transforms. This approach produces a PDF file optimized (including compression of all resources) for printing.
With PRO AFP to PDF any data in the print file can be used in Bookmarks and automatically organized into multiple levels for easy navigation. Index rules can be set up allowing indexing on multiple criteria.
PRO AFP to PDF supports standard PDF document security. This allows users limit the access to the PDF files created by PRO AFP to PDF by encrypting them with a password. PRO AFP to PDF can also control the access to certain features of the PDF file such as printing or editing.
PRO AFP to PDF can be used by Web-based applications to convert AFP to PDF files dynamically at retrieval time. The high-speed transformation performance of PRO AFP to PDF permits this dynamic conversion. This form of Web implementation saves significant data storage costs and costly batch transformation processing time.