PRODOK Engineering

PDFfolio can be used for the development of a wide range of applications. This list shows just possible examples, but it is only your imagination which sets the limits.

Document collections

With PDFfolio, finding your way through extensive document collections becomes easy, fast and user-friendly. When setting up the information in the database, it is possible to add arbitrary additional information about the document in concern, which can be searched.

Originally intended for use with CD-ROM or DVD, it is possible to use a PDFfolio-based navigation and search system in an on-line environment. In this case, the data transfer file can be created either on-the-fly or in a batch process, representing the links to the most current documents. This data transfer file can then be loaded when the navigation system gets opened. The user would always get the most current document, without having to worry about its path… PDFfolio knows where the document is. The document collection can be of considerable size. One of the implementations manages the access to 18 000 documents with relative ease.

The following examples show the wide range of use of PDFfolio (and its predecessors).

2004 and 2005 Tax Products CD-ROM

Used by: US Internal Revenue Service, Washington DC, USA

PDFfolio was used to create a fast and easy way to find the right tax forms and documents. It contains a quick overview over all the tax products on that CD-ROM. The detail view shows the complete information about the selected product, consisting among others of the name of the document, its description, a push button to open the document, a reference to relate documents (if available), push buttons to open older versions of the document (if available on the CD-ROM), whether the form is fillable, etc.

PDFfolio is a collection of tools and methods necessary to pass data from a database into a PDF document, to display that data, and to search through that data. It acts as a catalog for information, such as for product catalogs or document collections.

PDFfolio consists of the client component, and the development components.

The development components are a database in which the relevant data is collected, and prepared that it can be introduced into the empty container document, as well as a series of help utilities for Acrobat to prepare documents.

The client component is essentially the empty container document. This document provides the user interface to the data, and contains all the logic to manage, access and display the information.