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Technology Advances In The Mobile Computing
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Problem
For the information-centric
enterprise, a major challenge has been the creation and dissemination of
documents across diverse multiple applications, business processes and
platforms.
Solution
Adobe’s Electronic Paper (ePaper) captures information from a variety
of sources, from the printed page to the Web page, and delivers it in
readily accessible digital files, enabling users to work with documents
dynamically and interactively.
What is an ePaper Document?
- Technically, it is a robust graphical information container that
enables original paper documents to appear exactly the same when viewed
on a Windows PC, a Unix workstation, Mac desktop or wireless handheld
devices such as a PDA or an eBook
Reader.
- Documents retain their visual formatting: fonts, diagrams,
illustrations, headings, subheadings, colours, footnotes and logos.
- Documents can be endowed with interactive components such as
hyperlinks within the document itself or to the Internet, or to back-end
applications for easy updating.
- All documents, even those scanned from paper originals, can be subject
to full text searches as well as searches based on indexed fields or
other metadata.
- For collaborative projects, ePaper document’s mark-up tools,
including electronic sticky notes, Highlight Text and Strikethrough
Text, and digital signature features ensures controlled document review,
as readers sign document versions for reliable authentication.
How does it work?
The creation and delivery of documents are based on the combination of
the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and the Adobe Acrobat software.
PDF file
- Is based on the Adobe imaging model.
- Ensures electronic documents can be viewed and printed, regardless of
the viewer’s hardware and software.
- Enables integrated solutions from wide range of vendors.
Adobe Acrobat® 4.0 Software
- Provides all the tools necessary for the creation and collaborative
review of PDF files in a choice of 14 languages.
- Captures the graphics, fonts, images, colour and layout of any
document and preserves them in PDF.
- Provides the electronic mark-up and security features.
- Delivers compact PDF documents to network server, posts it to a Web
site or intranet, attaches it to e-mail, or in a Lotus Notes database.
Adobe Reader Software
- Allows a recipient of ePaper documents to view, navigate and print the
document as it was created.
Benefits:
- Fast, effective communication:
People can communicate instantly
and effectively over private and public networks.
- Business processes without boundaries: Information can be
shared among office personal, clients and customers, regardless of
hardware and software.
- Faster time-to-market: The creation of rich documentation can
improve time- to-market while reducing costs.
- Improved accountability and regulatory compliance: ePaper
documents allow for tracking of changes to ensure the ability to audit
any business process.
- Reductions in cost, waste and risk: Cheaper to produce an
ePaper document than to print and send a physical one.
ePaper and eBook Readers:
eBook is an electronic book
that is used as a reading device and a method of updating or refreshing
information from other sources, for example, the Internet.
For the mobile worker, ePaper content viewed on an eBook device will,
more than likely, become the most appropriate method of distributing
electronic pages.
The advantages of an eBook Reader:
- Sleek, compact, and portable
- Takes up very little memory, for example, collections of multiple
volumes can be transferred back and forth quickly and carried anywhere
- Comprehensively searches for specific content
- Brings Web-interactivity to the reading experience
- Delivers electronic pages immediately
- Displays electronic pages one at a time on a high-resolution,
flat-panel display
- Move through pages by clicking forward and reverse buttons
- A wide range of content can appear in eBook format ranging from
newspapers to structured business documents that have been preserved
in Adobe PDF.
Mobile Applications that distributes electronic content via eBook
devices:
- Mobile Business People could read or edit research reports,
stock reports, competitive information, and industry analysis and credit
reports via a laptop computer or eBook Reader.
- Medical professionals and scientists could assemble robust
reference books, bringing together excerpts from medical text, journals
and pharmaceutical information into easily accessible compilations.
- Technical personnel could access complex technical manuals
anywhere, especially in constrained physical spaces, such as under an
aircraft or in a crawl space.
Adobe’s ePaper Toolkit includes the following solutions:
- Abode Acrobat 4.0 for universal document exchange
- Acrobat Business Tools
combines features of the Web and Acrobat
4.0.
- Adobe Paper-to-Digital
combines Adobe Acrobat Capture and Acrobat
Messenger software, enabling business to deliver electronic documents via
email, Web and fax.
- Adobe PDF Merchant™
enables businesses to sell and distribute
documents.
- Adobe Forms
creates and distributes electronic forms.
* NOTE: This page was written based on information from
www.adobe.com, dated May 2000.
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