Mindfire has deep experience developing InDesign and Acrobat plug-ins on both Windows and Mac OS X. We describe some of these Acrobat and InDesign plug-in development project experiences below, and will be glad to share our expertise in detail with you.
Editing and Placement Plugins (Adobe InDesign and InCopy)
Developer of most cost & time efficient workflow products for NewsPaper/Magazine Enterprises
Industry:
Publishing Business Domain Products
Technologies:
PostgreSQL DB, gSOAP, WxWidgets, Adobe InDesign/InCopy CS2, COM, Mac OSX and Windows XP
These are crucial components of a n-tier architecture based Client-Server Enterprise Product. Essentially, these plug-ins work with InDesign documents in InDesign & InCopy, and communicate via gSOAP-based implementation with a Server to position articles and feedback output information. These plug-ins also carry out bi-directional communication to/fro with a WxWidgets-based client application.
Web-based Content Browser/Updater InCopy Plugin
Solution Provider for Cross-media publishing, News management and Editorial sharing systems
Industry:
Publishing Business Domain Products
Technologies:
Adobe InCopy, XML-RPC, C++, Visual C++, CodeWarrior, MacOSX, WinXP, Perforce
This is an Adobe InCopy plug-in for updating files on the Server-side via XMLRPC (using xmlrpc-c). This involved working with Tags, XMP information handling etc. This plugin formed the basis of a Web-based Content Update Software.
File format conversion to .DXF or .DWG
Well known Architectural Design software provider
Industry:
Architectural Design
Technologies:
C++, Acrobat API, MacOS X API
An Acrobat plug-in which allows architects and designers to download and save drawing in .DXF or .DWG format from Architectural Design Manual. We re-developed the plug-in with feature enhancements and bug fixes. The plug-in needed Acrobat 4/5 compatibility, and run native on MacOS X. Another requirement was to Reader-enable the plugin to work in Acrobat Reader.
