In 1967 Datalogics was founded as a general programming consulting company, developing one of the first computerized typesetting systems, and building editing workstations and software to drive them. In the 1980s the firm participated in the ISO committee to standardize SGML, the forerunner of XML and HTML, and applied this standard in the release of DL Pager, a high-volume SGML-based batch composition system, along with WriterStation, an SGML text editor. In 1987 the firm participated in the committee to develop the SGML portion of the CALS initiative. In 1991 DL Composer, a Formatting Output Specification Instance -based batch composition system was released. Shortly after, Datalogics was acquired by Frame Technology and in 1995 Frame Technology was acquired by Adobe. In 1996 Adobe Ventures invested in Datalogics, a reincorporation under its original name as a privately held, independent entity. In 1997 FrameLink, a FrameMaker plugin which connects to a Documentumcontent management repository was released. Soon following in 1998 DL Formatter, a Variable data printing application was introduced. In 1999 Adobe selected Datalogics to distribute Adobe PDF Library. In 2004 Datalogics sold DL Formatter business to Printable Technologies Inc., and in 2010 Adobe selected Datalogics to distribute Adobe Reader Mobile SDK. Since then Datalogics has been working with Adobe, acting as a key channel for several of their PDF toolkits.
Products
Datalogics licenses and supports toolkits for working with PDF and EPUB files, and technologies for database publishing systems. These products include the following:
The Adobe PDF Library, an API for viewing, printing and manipulating PDF files
ACS Cloud Service a cloud storage service to synchronize content, bookmarks and highlights across multiple devices for Adobe Content Server
DL Pager, a batch-pagination SGML-based typesetting engine and database publishing application
DL Composer, a FOSI-based composition engine
Datalogics PDF Java Toolkit
Datalogics PDF Java Toolkit, formerly known as Adobe PDF Java Toolkit is a pure Java API developed at Adobe Systems as part of Adobe LiveCycle and available to application developers and systems integrators from Datalogics. Embed the functionality of PDF documents and forms within your own custom applications to automate business workflows.
