With the opening of the new Appligent Online Store; Appligent has released two more free products; APSaveAs and APConductor.
APSaveAs is a tool for cleaning up PDF files. Its primary function is to perform a garbage collected save on a PDF file. In addition, it will also correct many types of malformed and corrupt PDF files.
APConductor is a stand alone SOAP server. It can be used with Appligent applications; in addition, it can also we used to turn any CLI based application into a SOAP web service.
The two other free tools available are APStripFiles and APGetPageCount.
APStripFiles will remove embedded file from a PDF document. Embedded files within PDF documents can contain Viruses or other malicious code. APStripFiles can be used stand alone or in conjunction with an email server to remove embedded file from PDF file which are attached to incoming email.
APGetPageCount returns the number of pages with a PDF document. It can also be used to get the total page count in all PDF files within a directory.
Also available on the Appligent web site is the Java source code for the APFDFGenerator; an FDF generator makes it easier for Java programmers to dynamically create FDF files.