AbbVie – PostScript to WMF
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
AbbVie, formerly a part of Abbott Laboratories, relies on software and instruments in its labs that can only generate data plots by printing. To move them into a digital format, they print ‘to file’ using a PostScript printer driver. Since 1996, they have used PDF FLY to convert the resulting PostScript files into WMF, the format
- Published in PostScript, testimonial, WMF
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Broadcom – PostScript to WMF
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
PDF FLY brings CAD drawings into Microsoft Word. Broadcom, a diversified global semiconductor leader, designs semiconductors and software that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile networks. Internally, in the writing group, Broadcom uses PDF FLY on Windows to bring PostScript electronics design diagrams from Cadence into their MS Word documentation as scaleable and editable WMF
- Published in PostScript, testimonial, WMF
ABB – PDF, EPS to WMF
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
integrated the FLY SDK into their LinkOne Publishing System to enable import of PDF and EPS graphics as Windows Metafiles. ABB LinkOne is a graphical content delivery solution that provides correct and timely part information to a large and geographically dispersed network of dealers and operators. Accuracy and reliability were of paramount importance. In addition, because
- Published in EPS, PDF, testimonial, WMF
Delta Airlines – WMF to SVG
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
META FLY Key to Successful Migration Delta Airlines migrated its technical documentation system to XML for the Web. Large numbers of technical manuals were stored in Interleaf and needed to be converted. The documents contained thousands of graphics with vector, raster and text elements. At the time, the only format which Interleaf could easily export graphics into was WMF. They
- Published in SVG, testimonial, WMF
UPS – WMF to EPS
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
United Parcel Service (UPS) has come a long way from their start in 1907 as a messenger company in the United States. Today, UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company with one of the most recognized and admired brands around the globe. To support delivery operations, UPS is continually producing ground transit maps in
- Published in EPS, testimonial, WMF
Intel – WMF to FrameMaker
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Intel, has been the world leader in silicon innovation ever since introducing the world’s first microprocessor in 1971. Technical writers at Intel produce graphics in Windows applications such as Visio and store them in the WMF file format which is incompatible with UNIX. They use META FLY to convert them to MIF, which enables them
- Published in MIF, testimonial, WMF
AutoZone – PDF to PowerPoint
Saturday, 17 March 2012
PowerPoint Graphics from PDF Reports AutoZone, the nation’s leading retailer of automotive parts and accessories, produces formatted database reports containing tables, charts and other page layout elements in the PDF format. Internal users need to receive the reports as PowerPoint slides for viewing, editing and presentation. AutoZone deployed the Metafile Server to batch convert the reports from
- Published in Microsoft Office, PDF, testimonial, WMF
TaxAct – PDF to WMF
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Taxact is a popular, free on-line tax filing system. In order to provide accurate and reliable service with tax returns, it was necessary to incorporate IRS forms and publications which were only available in the PDF format. To enable viewing, printing and light authoring of those documents as part of their Windows application, they used
- Published in PDF, testimonial, WMF
Mentor Graphics – Export to MIF
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Mentor Graphics® is a leader in electronic design automation (EDA) software. Mentor Graphics integrated export options into their FPGA/PLD Integrated Design Flow Software using the FLY SDK using the PostScript format as the basis. This added functionality gives electronics designers the option to export diagrams in MIF and other vector file formats such as WMF
- Published in MIF, PostScript, testimonial, WMF
Micron – PostScript to MIF, WMF
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Micron is an innovative global manufacturer of advanced solid state semiconductor solutions. Technical documentation work groups at Micron both in Europe and the USA use PDF FLY to move technical graphics into their FrameMaker documents as MIF. Because their specialized and proprietary engineering system can only output to PostScript, PDF FLY provides a very accurate
- Published in MIF, PDF, testimonial, WMF