Services

Merlin Open Systems offers a variety of services, with its speciality being software development in the electronic publishing arena. Expertise has been built up in this field since 1990, delivering successful solutions to many happy customers from the UK, USA, Europe and beyond.

We also offer consultancy and computer network support to UK customers, particularly in the East Midlands region.

Software Development

We have a wide range of skills available in-house to design and develop applications and solutions to solve our clients' needs. Our solutions are designed to work across multiple platforms (Windows, Unix and Macintosh) where necessary, using industry-standard software development environments and tool kits. Please ask us if we can develop a solution to fit your requirements.

Merlin Open Systems is a premium member of the Adobe Solutions Network and a developer of sophisticated leading-edge Adobe Acrobat plug-ins.

Our main software development skills are:

• Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader plug-ins
• Stand-alone PDF processing software
• Interfaces via SDKs to Adobe products (Acrobat Capture, Acrobat Reader, etc.)
• Installers (Windows and Macintosh)
• Web scripting (ASP, CGI, shell, Perl)
• ActiveX controls
• Batch processing software
• PostScript (e.g. printing problems, programs to use with Acrobat Distiller)

We offer development on the following platforms:

• Windows (all versions) -- C, C++, Perl, Installshield installers, ActiveX
• Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, others) -- C, C++, shell, Perl, awk etc.
• Macintosh -- in C, C++, installers

All our products and services are supplied subject to our Standard Terms and Conditions.

Consultancy and Network Support Services

Merlin Open Systems also offers computer network support and consultancy services, which it has been supplying to UK customers since 1992. As experts in PostScript and PDF we can help to solve problems with these (e.g. printing and display).

For more details, please contact us with details of your requirements.