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PDF Publishing For eSubmissions

With eSubmissions now a reality for the Life Sciences industry, it is imperative that you prepare PDF documents in accordance with regulatory requirements before you start compiling your electronic submission. If you wait to address non-compliance issues until just before the submission-assembly process, you could delay your submission and miss deadlines. Publishing your submission ready and agency-compliant PDF requires attention to detail and expediency to meet your company’s submission milestones. a-Pulse helps you address PDF-Publishing challenges in a simple and streamlined manner. With a-Pulse, you correct PDF-publishing items before compilation to minimize submission delays.

What Can a-Pulse Do For You?

Unlike any other offering or approach, a-Pulse is not just a “tool-box” but a solution that automates the process of bookmarking, hypertext linking, and verification for compliance of your submission content. Automated features in a-Pulse help ensure that your PDF documents are agency compliant and ready for submission within your tight timeframe. a-Pulse (Automated PDF Utilities for Life Sciences) is a set of Adobe® Acrobat® plug-ins which focus on providing an advanced level of publishing automation combined with intuitive maintenance and task management functions for preparing your eSubmission content. Developed specifically for the Life Sciences industry, a-Pulse provides PDF publishing functionalities and navigational tools not available in Acrobat®, making the PDF publishing process easier, quicker, more accurate, and reliable.

Why Use a-Pulse?

a-Pulse not only automates the publishing, QC and management of your source content,but it also helps streamline the eSubmission compilation process, allowing you to focus on building and viewing your eSubmission structure, rather than spending valuable time manually fixing broken links and missing bookmarks. a-Pulse eliminates many of the manual processes associated with standard Adobe® offerings while providing the flexibility and intelligence to manage the entire publishing process.

a-Pulse User Benefits

  • Automated functions for consistency and error reduction
  • Batch processing for increased efficiency
  • Increased quality of document preparation
  • Compliant with agency requirements and industry standards
  • Intuitive and easy to use for immediate return on investment

a-Pulse In-Depth

Specifically designed to help authors, publishers and submission compilers/assemblers reduce the time taken during the PDF publishing process, a-Pulse is the only solution that will meet all of your publishing requirements. a-Pulse also has navigational tools for reviewers that facilitate the process of working with multiple documents. Below are some of the features that accommodate the different job roles:

  • Fixing links and bookmarks is as easy as Find & Replace; this feature quickly and accurately incorporates your changes, such as file name or folder name changes , without the need to export the details first.
  • Process and manage your source documents in a batch process as opposed to one document at a time.
  • Identify and fix all documents with PDF security settingswithout the need to open the documents.
  • Automate the process of splitting and merging documents regardless of heading level.
  • Automate the creation of bookmarks using the TOC - including heading level selection.
  • Automate configuration of bookmarks and hyperlinks to default to inherit zoom.
  • View all document information, such as bookmark by font name, type, embedded font, size, page, etc., in a single window.
  • Benefit from on-screen recognition of errors, issue fixing and quality control across all of your documents while capturing valuable document information.
  • Receive comprehensive summary reports with detailed compliance-related statistics on PDF files.



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