WindJack Solutions, Inc.

Use Cases


We make tools that simplify difficult tasks.  Below are real business cases showing how AcroButtons and AcroDialogs are used to create Acrobat and PDF workflow solutions that save time and money, increase productivity, and make life easier for End Users.
 
AcroButtons

Increased Accuracy and Efficiency in a Document Workflow (21KB PDF)
Increased Accuracy and Efficiency in a Document Workflow (HTML)

AcroButtons and AcroDialogs are used to improve a document workflow, increase accuracy, and un-clutter forms by using dialogs to collect user information for an abstracting company serving the real estate industry.

User Interface Improvement Speeds Up Document QC tasks (17 KB PDF)
User Interface Improvement Speeds Up Document QC Tasks (HTML)

Noah Katz of Aspen Systems explains how AcroButtons can be used to perform complex operations without the end user having to go into, or even know about the Acrobat interface- one click does it all.


Using AcroButtons in a Collaborative Process (HTML)
Joel Geraci of Adobe Systems describes how he uses AcroButtons to make it easy for his customers to add review and approval stamps to PDFs.
 

 
AcroDialogs

Increased Accuracy and Efficiency in a Document Workflow (21 KB PDF)
Increased Accuracy and Efficiency in a Document Workflow (HTML)

AcroDialogs and AcroButtons are used to improve a document workflow, increase accuracy, and un-clutter forms by using dialogs to collect user information for an abstracting company serving the real estate industry.

Accessible Forms White Paper (440 KB PDF file)
Bryan Guignard, aka The PDF Expert, has authored a White paper describing a new model for accessible electronic forms using Acrobat's Dialog Object.  Bryan uses AcroDialogs to help save time and money in creating the dialogs for his accessible forms.
More information and discussion can be found at this
Adobe forums posting.

User Interface Improvements (PDF)
Shawn Altorio has created a truly innovative, hyper-interactive PDF, it's really more of a PDF application than a document.  Shawn uses AcroDialogs for adding a variety of cool features to his PDF.
Visit Shawn's site,
SSA-X2 and check out the PDF yourself!

 

 

AcroButtons/AcroDialogs Business case:
Noah Katz
Workflow Design Analyst
Adobe Certified Expert: Acrobat 4,
5, 6

Background: When buying a house or other real estate, one of the tasks required of the title company preparing the transactional paperwork package is to research the ownership history of the property. They typically subcontract this task to a specialist firm doing title searching or abstracting. These have the people who locate and print out ownership records, liens, recording documents, etc. from courthouses and other data repositories. Their document delivery package is specified based on varied requirements such as the turn-around time (due date, dependent on the closing date of the sale), depth of search, how many owners to trace back, or how many years to trace back, and many other factors.

In Maryland, one abstracting company starts with a printout of the current ownership of a property from the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation of a Real Property Data Search from an online state-operated database. This displays the address, owner, tax information, etc. They then handwrote notes and instructions on this printout, and give it to the individual abstractor to take to the courthouse. This person then uses the instructions and data on this paper to assemble the document package. The notations include instructions such as delivery schedule, depth of search, number of owners to search, etc., and metadata such as the internal company file number, client codes, etc.

In the revised workflow, the web page report is printed to PDF. Then, an AcroButton is used that creates form fields (Acrobat JavaScript doc.addField) in the designated ëemptyí spaces on the page. Some of these are formatted with simple borders and designated for notes to be entered during the records search. Most of the form fields are intended to display the instructions or reference data. After the fields are added, AcroDialogs are passed to the user to get data entry for populating those fields. The completed page is printed for distribution to the individual abstractor. Now, all the instructions have been neatly printed, ensuring greater clarity and less clutter on the page. Also, many of the field data elements are selected from drop-down ëpick-listsí allowing for greater accuracy with fewer typographical errors.

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Business case:
Aspen Systems Corporation
Noah Katz, Development Analyst
Adobe Certified Expert: Acrobat 4, 5, 6

Background: Aspen Systems is producing documents for search and review purposes in an investigation. The TIFF images, full text OCR, and field data abstracted from the documents (title, author, addressee, copyee, documenttype, date, etc.) are being loaded into a Concordance database. There is also a delivery of a subset of the documents, for use in an independent ñ even portable ñ system. These are provided in PDF format, and each DVD is indexed with Acrobat Catalog to allow searching the collections with the free Adobe Reader. Some of the fielded data is placed in the PDF Document Properties fields, both standard (Title, Author), and custom (Addressee, Copyee, DocType, DocNo, Date).

The data, from SQL database, is ëinjectedí into the PDF files with Apago PDF Enhancer as part of the enhance stage of the workflow processing. The specific data for each document is merged with an template configuration file (.PEC, an XML file specifying the settings for PDF Enhancer) already populated with the specified image compression settings and password security settings.

For quality control, random PDF files are inspected. I placed an AcroButton on those workstations to expose the 7 data fields - with 1 click and no clutter ñ to the user (available for Reader or Acrobat). In the event of exception handling for those files that failed processing through PDF Enhancer (usually timed out due to file size of thousands of Searchable Image pages), I put another button on the workstations (full Acrobat only) that prompted the user to input the data for each of those fields (and the custom fields were created by JavaScript on the fly as part of this data entry process). The user avoided going to the Adobe interface, and in fact need not know or care where the document properties were stored or accessed in a PDF file.

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Using AcroButtons in a Collaborative Process
Joel Geraci
Adobe Systems

I use AcroButtons to embed JavaScript in Adobe PDF files so that I can deliver the functionality as a toolbar button rather than putting button fields on the PDF page itself. In one application, I needed my customers to place either an "Approved" stamp or a "Reviewed" stamp on a PDF page. The stamps needed to always be placed in the bottom right corner of the page at a specific size. The "Approved" stamp needed to replace an existing "Reviewed" stamp if there was one. Creating the functionality with JavaScript was easy, giving users access to it in Acrobat was hard. I used AcroButtons to create a "Reviewed" and an "Approved" button along with code that could be embedded in any PDF. I then created a third button that would embed the other two buttons in the current PDF with a single click. I could then send the PDF to my customer and the new buttons would automatically be available when they opened my PDF.

AcroButtons made the process painless.

Before AcroButtons I added this type of functionality to PDF bookmarks. While that worked, it wasn't very intuitive for my users. Buttons are much better.
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