Making changes on a PDF, while expedient, can be a management nightmare. Like most of the company s products, Certify PDF is an Acrobat plug-in. When used by a document creator, it runs an automatic preflight check using a profile created by the service provider and begins what the company is calling the Enfocus Certified Workflow. The preflight profile is embedded in the PDF and can be verified by the service provider. Any subsequent changes in the file, by Enfocus products or Acrobat s built-in TouchUp function, are recorded in a viewable log.
Users can view and print any previous version of the file and resolve disputes over who did what.
The edit log can also be used to make changes to the original document. The product, introduced earlier this year, will be shown in the Adobe Partner Pavilion. A key feature of Enfocus Certify PDF is saving the changes made during an editing session. You can compare two versions side by side, and you can revert the file to any earlier version. This fall OneVision launched Solico, a versatile PDF editing package.