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ARTS PDF Variform Lite
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Welcome to personalized printing with Adobe ® Acrobat ® forms and ARTS PDF
Variform Lite™ from ARTS PDF™.
ARTS PDF Variform Lite extends Acrobat forms and overcomes several restrictions that
limit their usability.
With Acrobat versions to date, the rendering of text fields has been limited to a small set
of fonts (Courier, Times, Helvetica, Symbol, and Zapf Dingbats). This effectively
eliminates the use of Acrobat forms for a number of popular appearance-critical
applications, such as, mail merge, invitations, certificates, etc, or where organization-
identity fonts are required.
But perhaps a greater restriction is that Acrobat forms were designed for web server-
based applications. So for anyone to consider an Acrobat forms application, this
immediately brings to mind a significant “forms project” and trying to enlist the help of IT
or MIS department. Such prospects are either beyond the reach of most individuals,
difficult to implement given organizational constraints, beyond available budgets, or
achievable in the next decade.
ARTS PDF believes that there are literally millions of private databases. These exist in
the form of word processing documents, spreadsheet files, PC databases, and even
custom query results from large databases. These all share the common trait that they
can be represented in a simple delimited text file on a personal computer.
Adobe’s Acrobat forms plug-in allows virtually any PDF document created from virtually
any desktop application to be turned into a variable data form. But please remember
that the term “form” is used in the general sense. It can include multi-line blocks of text.
The definition is only restricted by our imaginations.
Combining the freedom of independent Acrobat forms design and ARTS PDF Variform
Lite’s local access means that general usage of Acrobat forms can be extended to
individuals, small or home offices, small businesses, self-employed professionals,
branch offices, corporate departments, membership organizations, etc.
of fonts (Courier, Times, Helvetica, Symbol, and Zapf Dingbats). This effectively
eliminates the use of Acrobat forms for a number of popular appearance-critical
applications, such as, mail merge, invitations, certificates, etc, or where organization-
identity fonts are required.
But perhaps a greater restriction is that Acrobat forms were designed for web server-
based applications. So for anyone to consider an Acrobat forms application, this
immediately brings to mind a significant “forms project” and trying to enlist the help of IT
or MIS department. Such prospects are either beyond the reach of most individuals,
difficult to implement given organizational constraints, beyond available budgets, or
achievable in the next decade.
ARTS PDF believes that there are literally millions of private databases. These exist in
the form of word processing documents, spreadsheet files, PC databases, and even
custom query results from large databases. These all share the common trait that they
can be represented in a simple delimited text file on a personal computer.
Adobe’s Acrobat forms plug-in allows virtually any PDF document created from virtually
any desktop application to be turned into a variable data form. But please remember
that the term “form” is used in the general sense. It can include multi-line blocks of text.
The definition is only restricted by our imaginations.
Combining the freedom of independent Acrobat forms design and ARTS PDF Variform
Lite’s local access means that general usage of Acrobat forms can be extended to
individuals, small or home offices, small businesses, self-employed professionals,
branch offices, corporate departments, membership organizations, etc.
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