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2 Multi-platform technology for prepress, document conversion and manipulation Mako is a multi-platform technology for creating, interrogating, manipulating and visualizing PDF documents, offering precise control over color, fonts, images, vector content and much more. Mako is ideally suited for building custom prepress solutions, yet equally adept in interactive desktop and web applications where fast, high-quality visualization is required. 2

3 Mako provides developers with tools for: Analysis Mako s DOM (document object model) offers developers unrivalled access to the building blocks of the digital page. With Mako it s easy to report on page size and count, fonts, colorspaces, metadata, optional content, bookmarks, annotations, attachments, document structure and more. Specific APIs tuned for PDF are included, for example to quickly scan for all the font references in a document. Conversion Fast, accurate conversion between multiple PDLs (Page Description Languages). Mako s PDLagnostic architecture makes it easy to convert from one PDL to another, or even different versions of the same PDF. For example, convert a PDF 1.4 file with transparency to PDF 1.3 and Mako automatically takes care of flattening the regions of the page affected by transparency. PDF Standards Mako supports all versions of PDF 1.x and PDF 2.0, based on the ISO standards for PDF (ISO and ISO ). Mako supports specific conversions to PDF/X-1a for prepress and PDF/A-1b for long-term archiving. Support for new and updated standards such as PDF/X-4 and PDF/A-2 will be added as Mako is developed. Manipulation Working with pages or with the detailed objects that make up pages, with the Mako DOM developers can change whatever they need updating vector and bitmap graphics, editing text, creating new page objects or removing content that s no longer needed. Visualization View documents in mobile, cloud and desktop applications, tuned for the platform to deliver fast and fluid high quality visuals, with Mako TrueView. Colorspace Transformation Mako incorporates a color management engine that is used to perform all but the most trivial color conversion operations, ensuring color integrity by referencing ICC profiles embedded in the document, supplied locally or built into Mako itself. 3

4 RASTER RASTER RASTER TM Prepress for Harlequin Proprietary file formats JPEG TIFF PostScript PDF PDF 2 Mako PDF HHR RIP Direct delivery to press Mako is the ideal tool for developing custom prepress components. Passive components that examine some aspect of the document size, fonts, colors etc. to determine suitability to a specific printing process Active components that change the content on the way through splitting, combining, color converting, imposing, simplifying content complexity or adding new content such as 2D-barcodes These are all examples that Harlequin customers have used for Mako to ensure that the job is properly prepared to produce the desired output before passing it on for processing through the Harlequin RIP. PDF Analysis Simple information such as page count, page dimensions/orientation, and document metadata are easily obtained using Mako. Font scanning A dedicated Mako API to quickly return a list of fonts used in a job with a flag to indicate if the font is present in the file. Mako has APIs to perform more in-depth analysis of font usage, object by object, if required. Ink coverage Use Mako to discover the spot color channels present in the job, or perform more detailed analysis to find which spots colors are actually used and by how much. Organize pages Use Mako to create dedicated workflow components to reorder pages, split jobs into smaller files by page count or an internal marker such as a bookmark, or combine files into larger jobs. Mako ensures all of the resources needed to print the job will be present however the job is divided, joined or restructured, for example by reorganizing fonts to avoid multiple instances and by merging font subsets. Imposition The control that Mako provides over source documents makes it an ideal choice to build bespoke workflow components, for example to impose jobs booklet, n-up or ganging / nesting to make best use of the print substrate. Mako can handle PDFs created at actual size, for example a wide-format banner or 10m wallpaper roll. 4

5 Where else to use Mako? PDF Rendering With its built-in RIP, Mako can render an image of the page at a suitable resolution. Mako can flatten transparency, rendering portions of the page to a high-res bitmap to match the vector and text objects around it. Mako is an ideal tool for creating accurate previews of PDF pages in any application where this is a requirement. Cloud Mako s Linux distribution is the ideal toolbox to implement server-side processing of documents. For example, there may be a need to downsample high-res PDF to speed up display or download to a web browser. Windows 10 IoT Use Mako s features, available in the UWP distribution for Windows 10 IoT, to enable: for reporting, custom content and more Printing directly from the device Deliver documents via the web High-quality, PDF-based document generation Mobile Use Mako s features, available in the Android and ios distributions to. directly into your app (sample code provided) Build high quality, fluid PDF viewing capability Convert between PDLs, without the need to call out to a server process Use all of Mako rich APIs to manipulate document content, to customize and add value Desktop and Server Mako is the foundation of interactive desktop and automated server products for Processing PDF optimizing, adding new content, changing or updating images, text, vector content, annotations and other page and document elements Generating new PDF content from scratch or from existing content (split, combine, reorder etc.) Supporting complex workflows for example, using Mako to identify documents by content found on a page, such as name or code number. Printer Drivers Mako can create output for print workflows directly from the Mako DOM, for use in printer drivers or server-side processes that need to print. Mako will convert a PDF to a print stream that can be submitted to an output device: PCL5-e PCL6 (PCL XL) PS (PostScript) XPS These conversions are available on all platforms. Use them to print-enable apps running on mobile platforms (Android, ios) or Windows 10 IoT devices. 5

6 Document Manipulation Document Object Model or DOM to access the raw building blocks of documents Text Assembly Document Page Page Page Fonts Paths and shapes Images Links Annotations DOM DOM Optimize documents for size and complexity Redact content Fill in forms and flatten Analyze document structure Merge, Split, Extract, Rotate, Crop and Delete Pages Impose pages Extract text and edit Edit PDF style comments Edit Bookmarks Add Stamps and Watermarks Convert Color Spaces Edit Metadata Add Links Mako technology can be used to manipulate documents at an object level e.g. text, blends, color spaces, and images. Using the Document Object Model or DOM you can access the building blocks of documents in a way that works for all of the page description languages (PDLs) we support. This means you can write your document generation or manipulation code once and apply it to multiple PDLs. Document Conversion Mako excels at converting one Page Description Language (PDL) to another. Any supported input format (e.g. PDF and XPS) can be converted to any supported output format (e.g. PDF, XPS, SVG or PostScript) with extremely high fidelity. Mako is a premium solution for PDL conversion in: Desktop applications File conversion servers Mobile apps Web services Universal printer drivers Mobile print solutions (e.g. Android print services) PS PDF XPS PCL/XL Input Mako (Convert) Multi-platform document conversion technology that encapsulates 25 years of PDL knowledge Output XPS PDF PDF/A-1b (Archiving) PDF/X-1a (Prepress) PostScript Level 3.0 PCL 5e PCL 5c PCL 6 (XL) SVG (HTML5) Raster 6

7 Mako TrueView An integral part of Mako is Mako TrueView, a technology for page rendering, designed specifically to render digital pages on the new breed of high pixel density devices. It s designed to give your users the best document viewing experience no matter what operating system or device they are using. Microsoft Windows - the Mako TrueView renderer creates XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language). This is a vector application rendering format that can be hardware accelerated by the Windows and.net runtimes. Apple macos and ios - the Mako TrueView renderer creates Quartz 2D objects which is the graphics engine used by these operating systems. Google Android - the Mako TrueView renderer creates Skia 2D based objects. This is an open source rendering engine supported by Android devices. Web Browser - the Mako TrueView renderer creates Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a standard vector format supported by HTML5-compliant browsers. Mobile Viewer Mako s multilingual support Mako is the only digital document SDK that uses URW s Nimbus Sans Global Font for glyph substitution. Even when the original font is not embedded in the job and cannot be found on the system, the visual integrity of the document is preserved, at times when other PDF libraries would give up and present a NotDef character (often seen on screen or in output as square box). Hangul Syllables Hiragana Katakana Kanji Thai URW s Global Fonts are recognized as having the most complete set of glyphs, covering the world s languages. ios (Quartz 2D) CJK Unified Ideographs Android (Skia 2D Graphics Library) Latin Cyrillic NIMBUS GLOBAL FONTS Devanagari Arabic Hebrew Greek and Coptic Georgian Armenian PDF XPS Input Mako TM (TrueView ) Desktop Viewer Windows (XAML) Mac OSX (Quartz 2D) Mako: multi-platform document viewing technology Cloud Viewer Web (SVG and HTML5) Raster (Mako RIP technology) Supported Browsers (Latest Versions) Microsoft Internet Explorer Microsoft Edge Mozilla FireFox Google Chrome Apple Safari 7

8 Evaluate To discuss your project in more detail please contact us: Global Graphics Software Ltd Building 2030 Cambourne Business Park Cambourne, Cambridge CB23 6DW UK Tel: +44 (0) Global Graphics Software Inc 5996 Clark Center Avenue Sarasota, FL United States of America Tel: +1(941) Global Graphics KK 610 AIOS Nagatacho Bldg Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo Japan Tel: Mako, Mako TrueView, Harlequin and the Harlequin RIP are trademarks of Global Graphics Software Limited which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Global Graphics Software is a registered trademark of Global Graphics PLC. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand and product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. May 2018 v4 8