Use
PageCatcher to...
PageCatcher allows you to re-use existing PDF files in any
number of ways:
- Add covers, backgrounds and templates to PDF documents
- "Fill in" a form extracted from an existing
PDF document, emitting the filled form as a stand alone
PDF document
- Put new annotations on existing PDF pages, such as
graphical logos, page numbers, or other text
- Select or reorder pages from PDF documents
- Append PDF documents and assemble document packs
- Reformat PDF documents for compact printing, 2 pages
of input to each output page (2-up), or 4-up, or more
- Add thumbnails of other documents in your PDF
- Scale, rotate and control included templates, logos
and annotations
- 'Stamp' Documents with comments such as "SAMPLE"
and "DRAFT"
How PageCatcher can be used:
Forms: For example, all US government tax
forms are available in PDF format from the Internal Revenue
Service. Use PageCatcher to extract the layout of the forms
and import the layouts into ReportLab programs that fill
in the forms automatically.
Alternatively if you want to create a new form for your
own business purposes, design the fixed elements of the
form using a visual tool such as Illustrator, export the
design to PDF, and use PageCatcher to import the form design
and use the ReportLab toolkit to
automatically fill in form entries.
Logos: Use PageCatcher to import a crisp
vector graphics corporate logo into your reports and display
the logo at any scale without loss of visual quality.
Illustrations: Use PageCatcher to import
engineering designs, cartoons, or other illustrations and
artwork into your reports.
Letterheads: Create business letter templates,
complete with carefully designed headers, footers and other
graphical features, using any tool that emits PDF files,
and use the templates in programs that automatically generate
letters, memos, or other documents.
Cover pages: Use Adobe Illustrator with
PageCatcher and the ReportLab toolkit to design a front
page for 10,000 personalized catalogues generated automatically
according to each customers interests and delivered by email.
Document Reformatting: Generate a new
version of an existing PDF document with "DRAFT"
stamped in red across each page. Generate a new version
of the document formatted with each page in miniature, leaving
space for lecture notes. Generate a "save the trees"
version of the document which places four pages of the source
document on each page of the new one. All with PageCatcher!
Pricing and availability
PageCatcher is available as part of the ReportLab Enterprise
Solutions package (click here for pricing details). PageCatcher
can also be licensed for integration into third-party products,
Please send mail to for licensing terms
and additional information.
We welcome dealer enquiries from solutions providers and
consulting firms, and offer an attractive package to help
you resell PageCatcher. Building good reporting solutions
needs knowledge of the customer's technology, business and
industry, and we know we cannot do that for everyone.
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