Actino Software GmbH

Actino Software GmbH’s goal is to assist businesses and institutions with the implementation and use of the PDF standard. The company has been developing and marketing applications for creating and processing PDF since the start of the PDF revolution in the early 90s. Actino Software is also a distributor and integration partner, representing the world’s leading providers of standard PDF products. This includes uses from prepress to archiving, office to web services, and documentation to software development. Their philosophy is "Keep it simple". Thanks to years of experience from countless project, and through working together with renowned partners, Actino can help in (virtually) all aspects of PDF: answering questions, communicating ideas, and recommending proven solutions. A special focus, in addition to desktop solutions for creating and processing PDF, is placed on server applications, helping with the dynamic creation, control and certification of PDF documents. Actino and PDF/A Actino Software integrates and distributes the PDF and PDF/A products of their partners callas software, Adobe, Apago, FileOpen, LuraTech, PDFlib, Quite or Global Graphics Software. Michael Karbe, Actino’s president: "PDF/A is the formal quality benchmark for archiving and office communications. The first step is to create a PDF document true to the original, where text, graphics, images and colors can be correctly reproduced in every application. Actino gets involved early in the decision process and helps with selecting the right PDF solution out of the multitudes. We don’t only consider scanned PDFs, but also interactive documents that make full use of PDF’s possibilities."