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What's new in PDF/Mergician Professional V4.0?

• Ease of Use - The user interface has been overhauled such that frequently used tasks are easier to find and use. Settings are clearly separated in tabs. Often used expression are just 2 clicks away with the new Common Expression Bar.  A new crumbbar has been added that shows your current position in the merge project. It provides fast and easy access to parent, child and sibling nodes. A new Gallery has been introduced to group styles & validators.
• Page styles - Add common elements such as watermarks, page numbers to pages using page styles.
• Format specifications - Custom formatting is now specified once and used many times. This makes your merge projects easier to comprehend and maintain.
•  Bookmarks - Add bookmarks to your output (PDF) document.
• IIS 7 - PDF/Mergician WebService now integrates automatically in IIS 7. No need to configure anything!
• Windows 7 - PDF/Mergician is now supports the latest Windows version

PDF/Mergician Professional features

Easy editing

• Visually bind fields to data  
• Visually edit tables   
• Rich WYSIWYG design and test environment  
• Syntax highlighting and auto-complete  
• Edit PDF templates from within PDF/Mergician   
• Update expressions upon node renaming   
• Preview project before actual merge  

PDF form creation

• Create PDF from any Windows application  
• Create text fields  
• Create checkbox fields  
• Create button fields  
• Create signature fields   
• Add PDF actions to fields
• Create barcodes

PDF form filling

• Fill PDF forms
• Fill PDF forms on Windows Mobile
• Locally save filled out PDF forms  

Data sources

• Microsoft SQL server   
• Microsoft Access  
• Microsoft Excel / CSV  
• XML (use XPath expressions)   
• Oracle    
• MySQL   
• FDF / XFDF   
• Any ODBC data source   
• Any OLE DB data source   
• Filesystem   

Output document structure

• Generate single or multiple output documents  
• Use template pages from existing PDF documents  
• Use paragraphs that are laid out on as many pages as needed   
• Use entire PDF template documents  
• Repeat pages according to available data  
• Repeat paragraphs according to available data   
• Combine template pages and paragraphs in any order   
• Use front and back covers  
• Create booklets   
• Create N-up pages   
• Apply master-details relations, e.g. to fill order items   
• Layout print labels   
• Preserve document level JavaScripts    

Paragraphs

• Create paragraphs using plain text   
• Create paragraphs using XHTML   
• Create paragraphs using regions on a PDF page   
• Create tables, rows and cells   
• Repeat rows and/or cells according to available data   

International

• Full Unicode support  
• Bi-directional text support  

Collect filled-out PDF forms

• Create and distribute pre-filled PDF forms   
• Collect filled-out PDF forms   
• Execute actions after receiving filled-out PDF forms (more)    
• Encapsulate an entire workflow in a single merge project   

Barcodes

• Code 39 (3 of 9)  
• Code 2 of 5 interleaved  
• Code 128  
• PDF 417  

Field formatting

• Apply mathematical operations, e.g. currency conversions  
• Advanced string, number and date formatting   
• Visual Basic expressions for custom formatting  

Field, paragraph and page appearance

• Use cascading styles   
• Inherit appearance from parent nodes   
• Border, background, font  
• Individual border sides   
• Colors in RGB, CMYK, GrayScale  
• Text alignment, justification  
• Margins and paddings   

Validations

• Client side validation (in PDF form)   
• Server side validation   
• Required fields   
• Numeric fields   
• Validate based on data source   

Merge project parameters

• Use parameters to create reusable merge projects   
• Self-documenting parameters   
• Define an input mask per parameter   

Merge control flow

• Repeat parts of your merge-project   
• Conditionally execute parts of your merge-project   
• Execute sub-projects   
• Convert any part of your merge project to a subproject   

Export methods

• Save to disk  
• Send as email attachment  
• Print / Fax  
• Send to web browser   
• Create PPML print job   
• Save to database   
• Send to multiple destinations   

Digital certificates

• Sign merged documents   
• Preserve existing signatures   
• Create self signed certificates   

PDF actions

• Submit form data   
• Submit entire PDF document   
• Reset form data   
• Open URL   
• Execute JavaScript   

Commands

• Update your database   
• Use updated data for further processing   
• Send an email   
• Write to a text file   
• Write to PDF/Mergician log   
• Start another merge project   
• Start a windows application   

Deployment scenarios

• Run interactively  
• Run unattended, e.g. as part of a nightly batch   
• Run as a web service, e.g. to download an invoice   
• Protected merge project with password   

Debugger

• Integrated debugger   
• View & verify external resources of a project   
• Test submit of filled out form to form receiver in debugger   
• Inspect settings during merge process   
• Single stepping through nodes   
• Set breakpoints at nodes   

Technical specifications

• PDF 1.2 - 1.7 (Adobe Acrobat 3.0 - 9.0)  
• Adobe Designer 7, 8 & 9 forms (static only)  
• TrueType, OpenType and Adobe fonts (Full unicode)