Adobe Development & Acrobat Plug-ins
Automate repetitive work in Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop. Commission a custom plug-in, script or integration, or choose an Acrobat plug-in ready to use.
Trusted since 1991 by
Hallmark Cards
8,000 designs × 200 variations: data entry cut from five stages to one.
Read case study →Network Rail
WONView: route-specific, per-driver safety books generated automatically each week.
Read case study →SMART Technologies
Custom Illustrator plugin: SMART Board hand gestures driving Illustrator natively.
Read case study →
Choose the Right Solution for Your Work
Custom Adobe Development
Automate a production task, connect Adobe applications to your business systems, or update an existing plug-in. Tell us what needs to work differently.
Ready-made Acrobat Plug-ins
Create bookmarks and tables of contents, apply stamps and process documents in batches. Find a tool for your task, check compatibility and try it before buying.
Acrobat Development · Illustrator Development · InDesign Development · Photoshop Development
Acrobat Plug-ins for Everyday Production
Choose by the task you need to complete. Product pages include pricing, trials and system requirements.
Bookmarker
Create and manage PDF bookmarks for reports, manuals and document sets.
TOCBuilder
Turn PDF bookmarks into a printable, linked table of contents.
Impress Pro
Apply text stamps, page numbers and watermarks with batch processing.
Why Trust Us
We've been doing this since before most PDF companies existed.
In Business Since 1991
Over three decades of continuous operation. We were building Acrobat plugins when PDF was still new. That depth of experience means fewer surprises and faster solutions for you.
Trusted by Household Names
Adobe, Siemens, Hewlett Packard, Lloyd's of London, Foster + Partners, Network Rail, SMART Technologies, and ExxonMobil are among the organisations that rely on our software. See our clients →
"Mapsoft had the experience and expertise to create a solution tailor-made to meet our specific business needs."
Vanessa Redshaw, Hallmark
Desktop PDF Processing
Our Acrobat plug-ins process PDF documents on your own machine. All installers are digitally signed so you know the software is authentic.
Try Before You Buy
Evaluate a plug-in before purchasing. Check its product page for trial terms and supported Acrobat versions. Download now →
Real Human Support
When you contact us, you talk to the people who built the software — not a helpdesk script. Questions get answered, problems get solved. Get in touch →
No Subscription Lock-In
Buy a perpetual licence and own it outright. No recurring fees, no forced upgrades. Optional upgrade pricing when new versions ship, on your schedule. See licence options →
Case Studies
Real projects, real results.
Hallmark Cards
The problem: A paper-based system required the same data to be entered up to five times per card design across 8,000 designs with up to 200 variations each.
What we built: Card Create, a PDF server solution that collates data once and automatically inserts barcodes, pricing, and content into every variation.
The result: Data entry went from five stages to one. Errors dropped dramatically. Designers went back to designing.
"Card Create has now become a standard and indeed essential element of the card production process."
Vanessa Redshaw, Digital Technology Manager, Hallmark
Network Rail
The problem: Train drivers operating at 125 mph had to search through a thick national document covering every mile of track in the UK to find safety information for their specific route.
What we built: WONView, an Adobe Acrobat-based system that automatically extracts route-specific information from Weekly Operating Notices and generates compact, per-driver books.
The result: Drivers receive only the safety information relevant to their route. Distribution is automated weekly. Documents are password-protected and print exactly to railway standards.
"When you're driving a train at 125 miles per hour, the last thing you want to do is hunt through a big thick book covering the whole country."
Originally published by the Adobe Solutions Network
SMART Technologies
The problem: SMART wanted users to be able to annotate designs in Adobe Illustrator using the same natural hand gestures they used on SMART whiteboards — but Illustrator had no support for this.
What we built: A custom Illustrator plugin that added annotation tools and translated SMART whiteboard hand gestures into Illustrator actions.
The result: Users could annotate, navigate, and interact with Illustrator documents using familiar touch gestures directly from a SMART Board.
Don't Take Our Word for It
Here's what our customers actually experienced.
"What used to take two weeks of manually creating links now takes two minutes."
Mark V.
Oregon
"The software repaid its costs through time saved in a matter of days."
Steve Foxall
Qioptiq Ltd.
"Saved me hours — actually, days worth of work. Impressive professionalism."
Terri Haskas
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics
"User friendly, efficient, and will save days of work on our projects."
Willem Goovaerts
Industrial Pharmacist
"The improvements I requested were included in an elegant update within a couple of weeks. That kind of responsiveness is rare."
Steve Ramos
IT Director, Solano County Office of Education
"$199 well spent — it performs exactly as promised."
Rhonda Frank
Contract Project Manager/Paralegal, QD Consultation Group
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