A Word Processor for your PDFs
Infix lets you edit the text in your PDFs in the same way as a word processor - offering search & replace, spell checking, professional reflow and justification. It also offers most of the features you would expect from a PDF editor such as object manipulation, document construction, security and more.
New for version 4
PDF form-filling
Use Infix to fill-out forms that you would otherwise have to print out and post!
Take the hassle out of form-filling
Infix Form filler enables you to quickly and easily fill-in basic PDF forms such as job applications, planning proposals or insurance claims forms.
Normally simple PDF versions of paper documents, these forms have to be printed out and filled in by hand. Using Infix you can do all the work electronically saving time, allowing you to erase mistakes and then send the finished form to anyone with a PDF reader.
Using Infix Form Filler makes it easy to deal with these electronic forms.
How does it work?
A plain PDF (one that has no interactive form elements) is normally very difficult to fill-in electronically since the PDF gives no clue as to what is a form-field and what's static text.
Using the new Text Plus tool you can add new text to a PDF without disturbing any of the existing text. On it's own this would be useful. However, the Text Plus tool also looks at the layout of the page to determine the size and shape of the text box that should be added.
The upshot of this is that all you have to do is click on the form-field you wish to fill-in and Infix will create a new text just the right size. It will even recognise check-boxes and allow you to toggle them.
Convert to PDF
Print your documents via the Infix PDF Printer to convert them into PDF ready for editing in Infix.
Convert any document type to PDF
All flavours of Infix version 4 include the Infix PDF Printer driver. Once installed, this gives you an additional printer which will convert any document into a new PDF and open it up in Infix ready for editing. You can print from any of your existing applications using the new printer driver and convert any size of document in a PDF. The printer driver is compatible with all versions of Windows from Windows XP onwards - including Windows 7.
Translate using CAT tools
Export entire documents to XML, leaving a PDF skeleton. Then import translated XML back in-place.
Translate PDFs using your existing CAT tools
Most professional translators will be familiar with the concept of document skeletons - exporting the contents of a document to leave a skeleton upon which the translated elements can be re-hung.
A skeleton ensures that the original layout and structure of a document remain in-tact. It also gives translators the option to use their preferred CAT tools for the job together with their valuable translation memories.
Available for other document types, this facility has never before existed for PDF, until now.
How Does It Work?
Infix Pro exports the document to simple XML. During the export all paragraphs are tagged both in the PDF and the XML. This tagging forms an association which allows the translated XML to be re-imported back into the correct place.
During import the software assists with the task of font-substitution when existing fonts do not contain the required characters for the translated text.
It also offers automatic text fitting to ensure new text is seamlessly adjusted to fit the space occupied by the original language text.
The XML exported is deliberately basic, limited to paragraphs, font changes, bold and italic. This should be compatible with most CAT tools and included in the install are some compatibility files for Trados and Across TM kindly generated by one of our beta-testers.
Support for 20+ languages
Hyphenation and spell checking support for more than 20 languages.
Now in three flavours
Since people want different things from a PDF editor, we have created three different editions of Infix.
Form Filler
A free version for filling out PDF-based forms that you would otherwise have to print-out and fill-in by hand.
Standard
Full text editing and graphics manipulation plus OCR corrections and the ability to convert any document to a PDF.
Professional
Advanced editing with new XML-based import/export for automated document translation plus search and replace across batches of documents.
