Jaws PDF Links With Variable Print Software

Global Graphics has broadened its relationship with Morisawa in a new agreement to license its PDF conversion technology for the latest release of Morisawa's Variable Print (MVP) version 2.0.

Global Graphics has broadened its relationship with Morisawa in a new agreement to license its PDF conversion technology for the latest release of Morisawa's Variable Print (MVP) version 2.0.

Morisawa, the Japanese font and layout software specialist, has used Global Graphics' Harlequin RIP for 10 years in digital front-end systems to drive high-resolution devices.

MVP is Morisawa's auto page layout and imposition package that uses Japanese fonts and combines variable data from a database for the production of personalised documents, such as bank or insurance statements or direct mail promotions.

Following an extensive evaluation period, Morisawa chose to base a new feature in MVP on Global Graphics' Jaws PDF Library software development kit (SDK), which provides the ability to convert PostScript files into the Portable Document Format (PDF) and vice versa, said Global Graphics.

During Morisawa's trials the conversion speed and overall performance of Global Graphics' SDK, including its ability to handle Japanese fonts, outperformed competing products.

Global Graphics were rated highly by Morisawa's development team for the level of local technical support they provided from its Japanese office.

According to Global Graphics, the significance of MVP version 2.0 lies in the fact that in Japan, application software offering support for variable data printing is rare.

Morisawa needed very robust components on which to base its new feature - the files that Global Graphics' technology converts into PDF from PostScript are used to output the file in PPML (Personalised Print Markup Language), the standard developed by the Committee for Graphic Arts Technology Standards (CGATS).

The PDF file converted using Global Graphics' technology can be outputted in PPML because the file format allows electronic publishing software to use PDF files as containers for the information needed to produce variable data print jobs.

Yoshiyuki Hagiwara, Global Graphics KK's representative director, said: "Morisawa is a loyal and valued customer.

We are extremely pleased that they have further endorsed our substantial expertise in page description languages in extending their business relationship with us.

They join a growing number of customers in Japan, such as Fuji Xerox and Justsystem, for whom this particular expertise is a major factor in their selection of technology partner.".

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