Dynamically generate personalized and interactive documents portfolios
The Adobe® LiveCycle® Output ES2 module is ideally suited to support on-demand document generation in enterprise environments. Included is Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2, an intuitive graphical design tool that makes it easy to create, manage, and deploy document templates without deep technical knowledge. Use Output ES2 to dynamically generate correspondence, confirmations, shipping labels, and other personalized customer and business communications.
HOW IT WORKS
LiveCycle Output ES2 streamlines the generation of dynamic electronic and print documents for on-demand or light batch requirements.
Key capabilities
Use a flexible framework for personalized document generation
With the Adobe® LiveCycle® Output ES2 module, you can merge XML data from back-end systems to generate dynamic, personalized documents - such as statements, correspondence, confirmations, bids, shipping labels, and more - in PDF, PostScript®, PCL, or label formats. Generate single documents from specific templates, a group of documents from one template, or a document package that uses a variety of different templates. You can also apply consistent pagination, indexing, resizing, headers/footers, and tables of contents across all documents in a package. And if you're using LiveCycle Output ES2 in conjunction with Adobe LiveCycle Forms ES2, you can include interactive forms as part of the PDF document package.
Streamline template development
Included with LiveCycle Output ES2 is Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2, a precision and intuitive layout tool you can use to create templates that dynamically lay out based on the XML data. The dynamic layout helps ensure that documents accommodate the volume of merged data by including or excluding design elements, growing to create space for data, and paginating automatically. You can also take advantage of fragments, which are collections of fields, objects, and scripts packaged together in a reusable component (for example, address blocks or financial information sections). Fragments make it easy to quickly create new documents using prebuilt fragments and to automatically update changes to documents that leverage global fragments.
Close the communication loop with interactive documents
New with LiveCycle Output ES2 is the ability to create Adobe Flash® technology-based interactive documents called PDF Portfolios. With PDF Portfolios, you can assemble documents, drawings, e-mail, spreadsheets, data, and rich media - including video, audio, 3D, and maps - in a single, compressed PDF Portfolio. And you can do it on the server, integrated with content management systems. To see an interactive PDF Portfolio in action, check out our iStatement solution.
Create end-to-end document generation solutions
LiveCycle Output ES2 comes with Adobe LiveCycle Workbench ES2, an EclipseT based IDE that allows developers, designers, and business analysts to work together collaboratively. You can also use Output ES2 alongside other LiveCycle ES2 modules for extended functionality and organizationwide security policies. For example, use Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES2 to encrypt and control access to documents or monitor documents outside the firewall with the use of audit trails. Or use Adobe LiveCycle Digital Signatures ES2 to publish "certified" documents that prove authenticity for recipients. You can extend the return on investment (ROI) of legacy Adobe document output applications by using the Central Migration Bridge, which allows existing Adobe Central Pro Output Server data transformations and Adobe Output Designer template renders to be integrated within the Adobe LiveCycle ES2 (ES2) platform.
