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JRA Software, Publisher
PDFMetamaker Product Architecture
PDFMetamaker 2.0 is a web server development toolkit that requires Microsoft IIS. It runs on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP servers.
It is an ASP application that uses XML template (schema) files for field and layout definition, and which can be further customized to perform database lookups.
The interface of PDFMetamaker is developed with Javascript. The Javascript toolbar for PDFMetamaker shares much of the same code with the Javascript toolbar for SearchPDF.
Metadata that is entered in PDFMetamaker is written directly into PDF files on the web server, whenever a user commits new entries from the web browser interface. Temporary data files are not used. This is accomplished using a COM component licensed from pdf-tools.com.
PDFMetamaker requires no special client software. The only software required is a web browser with the Acrobat Reader installed as a plugin (not as a helper application). Most users connected to the web are already set up this way.
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