CORDA’s server-based Highwire 7 not only produces PDF documents that look good when printed, but also reformats documents that were designed for the Web so they fit within the confines of the printed page.

Now you can integrate PDF document generation into the exact same design that you use for your dynamic Web pages, making it easy to combine the HTML and PDF creation processes. There is no further need for the non-descript “printable page” anymore. With built-in support for scheduled document generation tasks, Highwire may soon become the answer for all of your enterprise PDF needs.

• Unlimited drill-down so you can gain insight into the root causes behind a certain metric
• Use Web-page design software for report construction
• Reports can include tables, graphs, images and maps from Web pages
• Eliminate “click here for printable version” from your Web pages
• Email to any recipient, even if their email software does not support HTML
• HTML links are still clickable
• Generate PDF snapshot of dynamically built Web pages
• Create encrypted and locked or password-protected PDF documents so only the intended recipient can view the document
• Mandated legal disclosures or disclaimers are securely incorporated into the headers or footers on each page of electronic and printed documents

Highwire is also the only enterprise ready, server-based utility to provide HTML/XHTML-to-PDF, meaning that it is the only utility that can provide on-demand conversion without requiring an end-user to have an expensive desktop application.

Most server-based PDF generation tools require users to translate Web pages into proprietary formats that are difficult to use because they cannot be viewed in any browser or desktop application. Porting page designs into these proprietary formats, like XSL-FO, requires learning time-consuming and frustrating applications that often produce documents that don’t look nearly as impressive as their Web counterparts. And, of course, every time the Web pages are modified, the XSL-FO PDF format needs to be modified as well.

Highwire is light-years ahead of currently existing utilities for HTML/XHTML-to-PDF conversion, even desktop products like Adobe DistillerTM. Other utilities simply “print” the same view in your Web browser to a PDF document, meaning they don’t take into consideration the fact that the Web and the printed page are two entirely different medias. Page breaks may occur at inconvenient places. Table headers aren’t repeated at the top of each page, even if a table spans many pages. Worst of all, information may be cut off because tables and images are wider than the page.

Finally, Highwire utilizes the same proven server software as PopChart® and OptiMapTM, allowing you to generate PDF reports that mix text and tables with high-quality, vector-based graphs and maps.

HighWire 7 Product Features

• Real time, on-demand, PDF documents from XHTML or well-formed HTML
• Easily handles Web components like cascading style sheets and nested tables
• Simple table support that automatically carries over table headings on multi-page tables
• Can create encrypted, locked and/or password-protected PDF documents
• Manual or auto bookmarking
• Creates formattable page headers, footers and page numbers
• Automatically adjusts paper orientation and size to accommodate wide documents
• Preservation of HTML hyperlinks in the PDF document
• Suitable for high-traffic production environments
• Available in either single-threaded or multi-threaded versions
• 100% Java, runs on any platform