Es posible que en ocasiones una organización prefiera poder centralizar las capacidades de creación de documentos en PDF de todos sus empleados. Esta posibilidad será una realidad con el Acrobat Elements Server presentado por Adobe y que permitirá a los responsables IT de una determinada compañía la flexibilidad de ofrecer la generación de PDF vía escritorio o servidor.
Con el Adobe Acrobat Elements Server es posible disponer de diferentes capacidades con respecto a la creación de archivos PDF a través de toda la organización sin necesidad de ningún software cliente en los PC.
La herramienta permite, a través de diversas interfícies, la conversión a PDF de los formatos más habituales permitiendo al mismo tiempo la integración con sistemas más complejos de creación de documentos y de workflow existentes en los sistemas de Gestión Documental.
La centralización que procura el sistema permite especificaciones particulares para detrerminados empleados o departamentos. Por ejemplo, el departamento de contabilidad puede necesitar de elementos de encriptación, mientras que el de marketing y comunicación requiera de PDF adaptados para su envío directo a la imprenta.
Los responsables de Adobe han anunciado la disponibilidad del Acrobat Elements Server para finales de Noviembre únicamente en su versión en inglés, a un precio a partir de 28 $ por usuario para 1000 licencias o de 22.500 $ por servidor.
Para más información sigue nota de prensa en inglés:
Adobe Introduces Acrobat Elements Server for Enterprise-wide PDF Creation
New Software Joins Acrobat Elements Desktop to Provide Affordable
Adobe PDF Creation Capabilities
SAN JOSE, Calif.Nov. 17, 2003 Adobe Systems Incorporated today introduced Adobe
Acrobat Elements Server, new software that provides customers greater
control over the deployment and maintenance of Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF) generation across the enterprise. The product joins the
company’s comprehensive line of Adobe PDF creation applications, including
Acrobat Elements 6.0 desktop software. Now, organizations have the
flexibility to offer PDF generation via the desktop or server, based on
specific IT and document process needs.
Using Acrobat Elements Server, IT managers can centrally deploy PDF creation
capabilities across a company without the need to manage additional client
software on the desktop. Through a selection of user interfaces — the Web
for uploading documents, email aliases for sending attachments, or watched
folders for drag-and-drop submissions — the product enables Adobe PDF
conversion from a variety of common file types. Using the Web services API,
Acrobat Elements Server also can be integrated into more complex document
creation and assembly workflows driven by enterprise content management
systems.
«Enterprise document automation requires document services, such as document generation, to be centrally managed, yet easily accessed by end users and
customized by IT managers and enterprise systems,» said Tim Hickernell, vice
president, META Group. «Server-based document creation decreases deployment
and support costs and optimizes document generation performance.»
Regardless of deployment method, Acrobat Elements Server provides IT
administrators the flexibility and power to control the nature of PDF files
generated by certain departments, or the entire company, to ensure they meet
specific document generation requirements. For example, a finance department
may need 128-bit encryption placed on all PDF files or a marketing
communications workgroup might require press-ready PDF documents. In each
case, Acrobat Elements Server can be configured to automatically deliver the
desired result and help maximize productivity.
«Wharton faculty, students and staff rely on Adobe PDF for sharing information across the enterprise,» said Kendall Whitehouse, director of Advanced Technology Development for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, which enrolls thousands and employs hundreds across 11 academic departments and 17 research centers. «For a global organization, with faculty and students frequently studying and working across the continent and around the globe, the flexibility of offering server-based PDF creation via the Web from anywhere, at any time and on any computer will be invaluable.»
Acrobat Elements Server supports Adobe PDF conversion from numerous desktop
file types, including Microsoft(R) Word, Excel and PowerPoint(R), Corel(R) WordPerfect(R), Adobe Photoshop(R) and many popular image formats. Like the entire Acrobat 6.0 family, Acrobat Elements Server generates high-quality Adobe PDF files based on the latest version of the PDF specification.
After an Adobe PDF file is generated by Acrobat Elements Server and returned to the requestor, it can be more securely and reliably distributed to colleagues, partners and customers across the extended enterprise. To view and print PDF files created by the product, users can employ free Adobe Reader software. The company has distributed over half-a-billion copies of Adobe Reader since its 1993 introduction.
Pricing and Availability
Acrobat Elements Server for Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows 2000 Server
(SP4), and Windows XP Professional (SP1) is available through Adobe’s Open
Options licensing programs, and will be sold on a per-user and per-server
basis. Pricing begins at US$28 per user for a 1,000 user license or at
US$22,500 per server. Acrobat Elements Server will be available in English
only and is expected to ship by the end of November 2003.