Impressario 2.0 Xtra for Macromedia Director offers a flotilla of new features that, among other things, allows for the production of custom PDFs from a Director movie at runtime, which sounds complicated, but the possibilities are interesting. Imagine an end-user of your interactive production being able to tailor or create a new PDF document based on their profiles and choices (e.g. personalized product catalog from a marketing piece, a proposal based on how, test or score card).

"A key advantage Impressario users report, is that by using PDFs in their Director projects, they free up authoring time by delegating the task of content development to the content creators (marketing managers, trainers, etc.),” says Paul-Oros Catalin, project manager, Integration New Media. “Content creators benefit as well, as they control and change the content themselves at their own pace, with their favorite tools, and can deliver new PDFs right up until the last moment."