Review of PDF enhancements Presented By David Webb James Dustin Trapeze User Forum 2014

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Topics Topics: The PDF journey so far Opening Speed Comparisons Compaction – How it can help with file sizes Continued Development PDF Validation Our Quest for a PDF toolkit

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 The PDF Journey Where we started: PDF becomes the recognized standard for Archiving Tiff File Viewing and Editing tool World class building/planning application processing tool

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 The PDF Journey Trapeze Components: Main Objectives of the Project: Trapeze – The main engine Rasterizer – The Convertor Speed of Opening File Sizes Reliability

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Our Quest for a Toolkit The search was on A senior developer was employed to undertake the Project After a vigorous interview process Onstream appointed James Dustin as the Senior Developer for the PDF project. James has been developing software for over 15 years and has worked with a wide range of systems and computer languages. He was previously a Product Architect for a system used by large multinational companies.

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 The PDF Journey Objectives to Focus on Speed Reliability when opening PDFs Large file sizes

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 The PDF Journey PDF Toolkits Were Reviewed Adobe Foxit A range of Open Source products

PDF Toolkits were reviewed – PDFTron was Selected Deutsche Bank PriceWaterhouse Coopers - US Siemens AG Medical Solutions Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. Autodesk Vodafone Group NEC Solutions Chevron Corporation [Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 The PDF Journey

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Opening Speed Comparisons Speed of Opening The results have been very promising The toolkit was implemented with the intention of improving the opening times

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Opening Speed Comparisons TPZ 9.14TPZ Opening - 1st Page58 seconds14.62 sec Opening - All pages5 minutes2minutes TPZ Beta - Draw on 4 sec 10 sec Demo

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Opening Speed Comparisons 21 pages 30mb file Contains image and vector PDF A problem file sent to us by a customer. Trapeze 9.14 using the old Rasterizer Trapeze 9.4??? beta version undergoing testing Demonstration

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Compaction for file size reductions Compaction – Helping to reduce file size Compaction: The coding of data to save storage space or transmission time. Although data is already coded in digital form for computer processing, it can often be coded more efficiently, using fewer bits. (Google) Removing unwanted data that can sometimes remain in a PDF, makes better use of the existing code. Demo

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Increasing PDF Support Demo PDF handling added to Trapeze Desktop Trapeze PDF Functionality

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Increasing PDF Support Demo XPDF added as a Rasterizer to display PDF pages Trapeze PDF Functionality PDF Rasterizer Display

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Increasing PDF Support Demo A ‘Plugin’ module was added to provide an interface to PDF functionality to Trapeze Trapeze PDF Plugin PDFTron Library All PDF Handling

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Continued development Speed Specialist PDF Software Draw Mode – Only draw the parts that fit on the screen Works with multiple CPUs

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Continued development Reliability when Opening Documents Problem: Very Broad Specification and Standard Specialist PDF Software

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Continued development File Size Compaction Vector drawings rather than images Keep as much of the document in its original format

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Continued development Other PDF features being Considered Hyperlinks PDF Forms Portfolio PDFs (PDF Packages)

[Content Subject] Trapeze User Forum 2014 Validation Are all PDF documents valid? Watch a folder for incoming PDF files Validate against the PDF/A specification Generate a report on any found problems

Trapeze User Forum 2014 Summary We are making good gains as shown today We continue developing to reach the Toolkits full potential We will continue to work with our customers to improve the Product

Trapeze User Forum 2014 Summary Questions????