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FinerEdge Publisher enables the automated creation of highly targeted, customized, and personalized documents.

Using our Automated Publishing Process, you can improve your existing static publishing processes and on-demand produce documents whose content and layout vary based upon the input data such as:
  • 100% compliant business documents (e.g., mortgage loan documents, human resource policies, etc.)
  • Large-scale detailed catalogs, web-generated custom catalogs, or personalized mini-catalogs
  • Large-scale custom manuals, dynamic custom manuals or dynamic troubleshooting guides
  • Custom legal contracts and sales proposals
Case Studies

Steiner Case Study (Show Details)
Steiner AG automated the production of customized, up-to-date product catalogs to provide their customers with exactly the product information they need 75% more efficiently than before. Now Steiner can instantly produce customized product catalogs on-the-fly with the push of a single button.

Anliker Case Study (Show Details)
Anliker AG completely automated the generation of their product catalogs with FinerEdge Publisher. Because of virtually limitless automation and flexible processing capabilities, Anliker was able to realize an efficiency increase of over 400% while reducing errors typically seen during manual formatting while providing a high quality and dynamic catalog to their customer.

Fortura Case Study (Show Details)
Fortura AG replaced their legacy publishing system with FinerEdge Publisher which allowed for a much faster turnaround by producing high-quality catalogs and customized on-demand publications that are now controlled directly by their sales staff and driven by customer need. In addition, Fortura has decreased their costs by 30% while improving quality and reducing publication errors.
Benefits
  • Assists in automating and significantly streamlining workflow processes associated with business document production to reduce development & operational costs, enable content & database information reuse, improve accuracy & ensures compliance, provide complete localization output, and increase the reliability & quality of information

  • Direct integration with enterprise applications using common application interfaces

  • Designed for high-performance and scalability, yet with a very small application footprint

  • Server-side multi-threaded publishing with integration of business processes, data, and content

  • Client-side publishing with many types of viewers including WPF, DirectX, GDI+, and more

  • Simultaneously utilize multiple data sources such as ADO, OLEDB, ODBC, XML, HTML, and more

  • Generate multi-channel output to PDF, PostScript, XPS, viewing with WPF, DirectX, and more

Recent Updates

FinerEdge Publisher 3.7 November 07, 2011 Show Details
  • Addition of the FPService service library that allows for the creation of documents from web service consumers. The FPService service library can be hosted from any host provider.

  • Addition of the FPServicesApp service application that utilizes the new FPServices service library. The FPServicesApp service application is meant to be hosted by IIS.

  • Implemention of SVG attribute parameters that adheres to the W3C recommendation.

  • Addition of the SVG tag that enhances SVG image generation with SVG attribute parameters, DPI changes, and image size updates.

  • Addition of new CONTENT tag to host inline content such as SVG fragments. Populates simple strings to more involved data structures.

  • Enhanced the PLOT tag to support DPI changes (for higher quality images) consistent with other uses of DPI (e.g., CHART and SVG tags).

  • Updated absolute positioned elements to handle the transparent background color and image transparent areas.

  • Updated absolute positioned elements to handle percentage values for left, top, right, and bottom style properties.
FinerEdge Publisher 3.6 July 25, 2011 Show Details
  • Enhanced Import facility handles full html files with xml-stylesheet and link tag stylesheet specifications (in addition to HTML fragments). This allows for direct HTML to PDF translation using FinerEdge Publisher's rendering engine to handle page-break scenarios to produce professional-looking output documents.

  • STYLE tag support for href attribute that optionally refers to external css file or uri.

  • Addition of page-break-before and page-break-after styles with optional height condition.

  • Addition of rowspan style that compliments colspan style.

  • Addition of prescale max-fill style value, which can be used with Scalable Vector Graphics gradients as an example.

  • Font names can be specified directly in documents in addition to being registerd in the catalog.

  • Enhanced markup editor auto-completion for all tags, attributes, and styles.
FinerEdge Publisher 3.5 June 01, 2011 Show Details
  • Introduction of the multi-threaded server managed assembly FPServerNet. FPServerNet provides an alternative interface to the existing COM-based FPServer component for multi-threaded, server-side document generation.

  • Creation of ADO provider type for the query provider type container.

  • Introduction of the FPTestBench application for FPServerNet and FPServer multi-threaded document generation. FPTestBench allows multiple test bench profiles to be created, stored, and tested with various types of outputs.

View all FinerEdge Publisher Updates (since 3.0)