Apago PDFspy

PDFspy is the ultimate “get info” utility for your PDF documents. It can extract a comprehensive list of attributes from a PDF file into an XML-based format.

Product Information

Company: Apago
More information: on PDFspy
Trial version: PDFspy 1.0

Configurator

Beginning with PowerSWITCH a built-in configurator is available that supports Apago PDFspy 1.0.

This configurator tells PDFspy to generate a number of statistics about a PDF file and save them in an XML file, and then picks-up that XML file as metadata that gets associated with the PDF file's internal job ticket. The PDF file itself remains unchanged.

Use Apago PDFspy to detect use of Courier

Installing and licensing Apago PDFspy

To install and license Apago PDFspy for use with SWITCH, follow these steps:

• Unpack the Apago PDFspy package and put its contents in a permanent location on the system that also runs SWITCH (for example, in the folder that contains your other applications).
• License Apago PDFspy as described in its documentation, using a valid license key obtained from Apago or from an authorized reseller (Gradual Software does not sell or distribute third-party software). If you skip this step you can use Apago PDFspy in trial mode for a limited amount of time.
• Start SWITCH; in the flow element pane (NOT in the design area) right-click on the Apago PDFspy icon; in the resulting context menu select the "set path to application..." menu item; browse to the Apago PDFspy command-line application.

Examples

The following is a list of examples where Apago PDFspy is used. Click the links to view these examples in the Flow Library:

• Use Apago PDFspy to detect use of Courier