Adobe PDF Plug-in

InfoLinker was borne out of the Defense Industry's need for portable electronic documents. Developed originally for the United States Post Office in the form of a stand-alone product called AnyMedia, when Adobe Acrobat's PDF document format became an industry standard AnyMedia was form-fitted as a plug-in to that product with the unique cross-referencing navigation features intact.

InfoLinker is sold by ISPA Inc., DocMaestro Products Division. It provides custom annotation (bookmarks and links) within a PDF, across PDFs and to external references as required based on relevant textual references in the PDF. It does this using a "hotspot" engine that is driven by a customer-generated script (generated using notepad) that distinguishes important document content from other text and creates a relationship that ultimately leads to links from the source references and bookmarks corresponding to their destinations.

The scripts that give InfoLinker it's unparalleled capabilities are called rules. This portable and reusable language can be easily applied to volumes of documents with similar layout architecture and can add this invaluable navigability to documents in minutes where it might normally take days, or even weeks to implement. To see it in action is impressive! Mark Scott is the preminent InfoLinker Rule-writer and Rule-writing Trainer.

Customers that own InfoLinker or have used InfoLinker services include: The Boeing Company, Eli Lilly Corporation, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Pratt & Whitney, Defense Automated Printing, The U.S. Army, LOGSA Redstone Arsenal, L3 Communications, The Texas Bar, Raytheon, McDonnell Douglas, Sikorsky Helicopters, Lockheed Martin and countless city and county governments.

Rules

Infolinker scripting, or "rule-writing" requires some applied logic and a small set of AWK-based (IEEE standard) syntax elements. It bears a slight similarity to a programming language, but can be learned in a few days. Once a rule has been established for a given PDF, that text file can be copied and stored and becomes a "template". Then, with only slight modifications (usually just page number references) templates can be applyed to other documents, or future revisions of the original document. The results, even in very large documents, appear in seconds. Applying rules and templates to PDF documents is very straight-forward and does not require a complete understanding of the rule scripts.

Having worked with the product since its inception, and trained in rule-writing and PDF publishing since 1995, Mark Scott Consulting is very likely the most knowledgeable InfoLinker expert in the world.

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