Mako SDK

Description

Do you need to build fast, scalable solutions for your print workflow? Then you need the Mako Core in your back pocket. Like a Swiss Army knife, Mako has many ‘blades’, each one matching a job that you need to get done. Utilizing its unique document object model, Mako’s C++ and C# APIs offer control over color, fonts, text, images, vector content, metadata and more, combining precision with performance.
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Features and benefits

Optimization

Mako’s DOM architecture automatically gives it an edge when it comes to optimizing content. When writing to PDF for example, Mako will eliminate duplicate fonts and merge font subsets, reducing file size and improving efficiency of downstream processing. Additionally, image compression and downsampling, color conversion, font embedding and more can all be controlled with simple parameters to the PDF output API. Developers can go further still to build optimization suited to specific workflows, such as streamlining for variable data applications.

Creation

Mako’s APIs are not just about converting or processing existing documents, they can also be used to create new content, from scratch or by using content from multiple sources. Generate new text or vector graphics, load or reference font resources, embed images and apply metadata, directly into the Mako DOM. Then save to the PDL of your choice, knowing that Mako will ‘do the right thing’ when generating your output, creating optimized PDF, XPS or PCL.

Cloud app development

Just like a Swiss Army knife, Mako can be used in many different situations. Its small footprint means Mako is well suited to containerization for scalable cloud implementations on Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. For example, a Mako-based component developed to run under Alpine Linux in a Docker container is ideal for building micro-services that can scale out, and scale in as the task demands, making high-speed, high-volume solutions possible.

Mobile app development

Platform-tuned rendering for iOS and Android. Since Mako takes full advantage of the hardware-accelerated rendering of these platforms, your users can enjoy a fast, fluid document viewing experience no matter which operating system or device they are using.

Desktop app development

Build Windows applications using Mako to load, visualize, edit, process and save documents. To get you started, a minimally viable product of a PDF viewer/editor (Mako PDF Editor) is available for you to build your own development on. It is a C# WPF application written to an MVVM pattern, easy to brand and extend. Use it to build a workflow component dedicated to a specific task, or a standalone application. The same approach can be applied to macOS or Linux applications too.

IoT app development

With Mako’s UWP (Universal Windows Platform) support you can build document generation or processing right into your Windows 10 IoT-based device or use the Raspbian libraries to build Mako into Raspberry Pi 4-based developments.

Printer driver development

Leverage Mako’s fast and accurate conversion in printer drivers, desktop applications or server-side processes that need to print. Convert to a print stream that can be submitted to an output device:

• PCL5-e or PCL6 (PCL XL)
• PS (PostScript)
• XPS (for Windows V4-architecture drivers)
• GDI (for Windows V3-architecture drivers)

These conversions are available on all platforms. Use them to print-enable apps running on mobile devices (Android, iOS) or Windows 10 IoT.

Consolidation

Organizations often discover that they are licensing several libraries and SDKs for processing digital documents because previous developments required a specific capability that wasn’t available in what they had already. Over time this can really add up. Now may be the right time to audit your SDK use and consolidate with Mako, which can meet your PDF requirements and those for XPS, PCL5, PCL/XL and PostScript. Use our free Switching service to help you identify the cost savings that can be made by consolidating with Mako.

Multiple platforms

Mako’s core code is built for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Windows 10 UWP and Raspberry Pi. Linux support includes Ubuntu, Mint, Centos and Alpine. Solutions developed with Mako range from fast and fluid interactive tablet apps to scalable, cloud-based systems processing hundreds of documents per hour.

Multiple PDLs

Work with these page description languages: PDF, PS, XPS and PCL. Mako enables developers to work with PDLs besides PDF. Although Mako offers a wide range of APIs that apply only to PDF, for the features that are common to all PDLs, developers can use the same APIs and techniques. For example, let’s say you need to know how many pages in a document use color. You could write such a utility and it would work with any of the supported inputs: PDF, XPS, PostScript, PCL5 or PCL/XL.

Multiple PDF ISO Standards

Mako supports all versions of PDF 1.x and PDF 2.0, based on the ISO standards for PDF (ISO 32000-1 and ISO 32000-2).

Mako will save PDFs compliant to these standards:

• PDF/X-4 (ISO 15930-7:2010) or PDF/X-1a (ISO 15930- 4:2003) for prepress
• PDF/A-1b (ISO 19005-1) or PDF/A-2b (ISO 19005-2) for long-term archiving

For example, to make sure jobs are ready to be printed without missing fonts or incorrect colors, simply save to PDF/X-4. The input doesn’t have to be PDF, it can be any of the supported PDLs.

Multi-color

Built-in color management module lets you work with industry standard ICC profiles. Mako integrates one of the most popular open-source color management libraries. As well being used by Mako for color-correct rendering, Mako offers APIs that enable developers to accurately evaluate or transform the color properties of images and other page content, or entire documents, as required.

Multiple EDS screens

 

Customizable error-diffusion screening. Produce results containing a variable number of gray levels per channel using a range of error diffusion screens, with popular algorithms such as Floyd-Steinberg. May be used for both monochrome and color rendering. Also available is Mako EDS Workbench, a Windows-based utility that enables a user to load a file (image or PDF) and experiment with these values to see their effect immediately on screen.

For more information visit https://developer.globalgraphics.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=41156609

Multiple development languages

Develop your solutions, working in C++ or C# as you prefer.

Switching Service (Free)

With over 30 years of experience supplying core components to the print industry we know that switching suppliers comes with its own challenges. We want to help you move to Mako and get the maximum benefits as quickly as possible. That’s why we have put a Switching Service in place. One of our principal software engineers will add Mako into your code, performing the same job as your existing supplier. This represents up to 20 days of a principal software engineer’s time to help you switch. Our standard contracts cover you for three years but if you move to a five year contract we include the Switching Service for free.

For more information visit: www.globalgraphics.com/mako