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As the essential companion and preferred solution for PDF integration in Director, INM Impressario offers advanced levels of creativity, efficiency and control over PDFs.*
Create new PDF documents at runtime based on template PDFs with defined regions:
- Create personalized proposals, product data sheets, custom presentations.
- Print any content from Director with the fonts, styles and layouts you choose.
- PDF Creation based on templates created in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe LiveCyle Designer.
- Repeating and Sliding regions allow for dynamic content that can span across multiple pages.
- Headers and footers can be applied to all pages.
- Automatic updating of page numbers.
Tailor existing PDFs to your user's needs and preferences:
- Replace images within an existing PDF document, such as a corporate logo.
- Add or delete pages, or merge PDFs to assemble a custom PDF based on user choices.
- Dynamically fill PDF form fields with text from Director.
- Add bookmarks to a PDF at runtime.
Apply Director's inks, transparency and animation, open multiple PDFs, choose from a variety of toolbar styles, add your own graphical interface buttons, add automatic scrollbars and bookmarks:
- Seamless integration of PDF documents into your multimedia publication. No external windows. PDF sprites can be placed anywhere on Director's stage, even behind other graphic objects.
- Variety of toolbar styles available (toolbar is not required).
- Create a unique look and feel with your own graphical interface buttons.
- The PDF standard preserves your original page layouts and fonts - In-line graphics, text wrapping, multiple columns, etc. are now easy to achieve.
- Supports inks, transparency and animation - Standard Director sprite properties can be applied to your Impressario sprites.
- Multiple PDF documents can be open on stage at the same time.
- Default or custom display options - Start Page, Zoom, Scroll H, and Scroll V can be customized within Director, or inherited from the PDF document's default settings.
No scripting knowledge required, WYSIWYG authoring, pre-scripted behaviors, basic and advanced functions are possible, very quick to understand:
- WYSIWYG authoring - PDF document page is displayed in sprite at authoring time, for accurate placement on Director's stage. Thumbnails of document appear in Director cast member.
- Optional customizable toolbars - Allow you to implement standard PDF interaction with drag and drop ease.
- Pre-scripted behaviors -Create your own graphical buttons for PDF interaction with no Lingo scripting required.
- Automatic bookmarks component (cast) - Implement bookmarks tab effortlessly.
- PDF documents open instantly.
- Quick navigation between document pages.
- Hyperlinks - supports both internal document links and links between PDF documents.
- Find and highlight multiple search terms in different highlight colors.
- Auto-downloading of PDF documents located at URLs.
- Hands-on First Steps tutorial - Walks you through the basic procedures to insert and customize the display of PDF documents.
- Integrated Help system - Assists you during authoring.
- Open-source samples - Provide you with reusable code for specific applications.
- INM Impressario Basics presentation - A Flash movie to give new users a quick overview.
- FREE Tools - Use INM Impressario to its fullest capacity with this powerful tool set; includes Flash toolbar source files.
Self-contained - no other application required. 100% identical functionality on Windows and Mac. Shockwave deployment.
- INM Impressario is completely self-contained - Requires no additional software on the end-user's machine (no need to distribute Adobe Reader with your project).
- Cross-platform - 100% identical behavior on Windows and Mac OS X - develop once, run anywhere.
- Shockwave (Internet) deployment on all platforms.
- Precise printing of documents on any platform.
- Proven, reliable technology - INM Impressario uses the Adobe® PDF Library to display and interact with documents. Your documents look and behave identically for all end-users.
- Section 508 Accessibility - Ability to make accessibility-compliant projects, when used with corresponding Director MX accessibility features.
Full scripting API. Dynamically set and retrieve PDF form data. Trap and handle events. Search across multiple PDF documents using the INM Searchable Library Toolkit.
- Full scripting API - Lets you script advanced PDF interaction.
- PDF forms - Single-line and multi-line text fields, check boxes and radio buttons; form controls can be filled manually by the end-user, or set and retrieved through Director code.
- Hyperlinks - Impressario supports both internal document links and links between PDF documents; even links to PDFs located at URLs.
- Trap and handle events, such as mouseOver, mouseLeave, hyperlinkClick, pageChanged, etc. to allow fine control over navigation and form filling.
- Opens password-protected documents, providing security against unauthorized viewing, and printing.
- Search across multiple PDF documents - With INM VizionDB and the FREE Searchable Library Toolkit, you can search across an entire library of PDF documents (both content and document metadata) and support powerful search options, such as boolean expressions, wildcards, proximity of terms and relevancy ranking.
What's new in version 3.0.1
*Includes the Adobe PDF Library® |
