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| Design professional-looking documents quickly |
Adobe® Output Designer software is an
easy-to-use design tool that lets you create electronic document
templates for use with Adobe solutions for document generation.
Why Adobe Output Designer? |
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Simplify document design with the easy-to-use WYSIWYG authoring tool |
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Precisely design exact replicas of paper documents |
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Create personalized, data-driven documents |
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Make formatting and layout changes without programming |
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Product overview
Adobe® Output Designer is a WYSIWYG design tool
that allows you to create electronic document templates for use with
Adobe solutions for document generation. Using Output Designer, you can
create electronic documents that exactly replicate existing paper
documents — even the most complex — quickly and easily.
How it works
Output Designer is a full program. As such, the
document template takes shape on the screen as it is drawn. All the
features, such as text, fields, lines, boxes, and logos, and their
attributes, such as fonts and shading, appear onscreen as they will
when printed. User-defined grids enable the precise placement of
graphics and text. Output Designer allows you to preview the
presentation of your data to ensure that it is properly merged within
the document template.
Output Designer supports dynamic subforms,
allowing the look and feel of the document to be dynamically controlled
by the data. As a result, organizations can incorporate personalized
messaging into customer documents to upsell additional products and
services — all for a fraction of the printing and mailing costs
typically associated with targeted marketing programs.
The design tool also allows you to create
sophisticated, professional-looking customer documents quickly and
easily while providing optimal flexibility in deploying these
documents. Electronic document templates produced using Output Designer
are for multiplatform use. Also, the Output Designer process produces
printer macros that are used to significantly improve printing
throughput. A single document design can be used with multiple printer
types (for example, Adobe PostScript®, PCL5, PCL-XL, Adobe PDF, etc.),
and in each case, printer language-specific macros are generated for
optimum productivity.
With Output Designer's easy-to-use interface,
formatting attributes on the document template are set using pop-up
windows and drawing toolbars. They are easily moved, changed, added, or
deleted using a mouse. No programming is required to make formatting or
layout changes. As a result, budgets can be more profitably directed at
maintaining the corporation's data rather than at designing and
maintaining documents.
Page sizes, font types, line spacing,
justification, shading, logos, and bar codes are all specified within
the template itself, which is independent of the application sending
the data. Because formatting is stored in the template created by
Output Designer and not in the application, only the data is
transmitted across the network. The background graphics and text are
transmitted to the printer only once. With no graphics being
transmitted, this results in a significant reduction in network traffic
and an increase in printer speed. |
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Adobe Output Designer highlights |
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Supports dynamic subforms, allowing data-driven document construction that can be personalized to individual customers |
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Includes full font support, as
well as support for shaded text, rotated text, variable leading,
embedded logos, watermarks, and color |
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Supports most popular graphics formats including PCX, TIFF, WMF, PostScript, BMP, and JPG |
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Supports
most common bar code formats, including UPC-A, 2 of 5, 3 of 9, Code
128, Codebar, EAN 8 and 13, and U.S. and Australian postal |
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Supports multiple languages, including DBCS languages |
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Available for Microsoft® Windows NT®, Windows® 2000, and Windows XP |
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