Adobe Central Server

Adobe® Central Pro Output Server allows organizations to create personalized, customer-facing documents from any data source. Output Server dynamically generates electronic documents such as purchase orders, invoices, statements, and checks for delivery via Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), the Web, e-mail, fax, or print. With Central Pro Output Server, businesses can provide their customers or partners with a more personalized user experience, upsell new products and services, and target advertising to specific customers more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before.

How It Works


Data from legacy, line-of-business, ERP, or CRM applications is merged with an electronic document template using a powerful processing engine. Output Server supports many aspects of document output from high-volume distributed printing to Adobe PDF generation for Web delivery, and offers multiple language and platform support.  

Central Pro Output Server Highlights

  • Works with Adobe Output Designer, an easy-to-use design tool that creates sophisticated document templates
  • Enables you to create intelligent documents, personalized for your end users  
  • Generates dynamic output that grows or shrinks as necessary to accommodate the amount of data  
  • Supports multiple platforms, including Microsoft® Windows NT® and Windows® 2000, HP-UX, Sun™ Solaris™, IBM OS/400, IBM System i, Linux®, and others  
  • Supports a wide variety of input formats, including XML, plain text, legacy, and DAT  
  • Supports printer features such as duplexing, tray selection, flash RAM, and hard disks  
  • Reduces network traffic because Output Server data stream contains data elements only  
  • Provides faster print drivers than operating system print drivers  
  • Supports multiple languages and currencies  
  • Supports fax and e-mail delivery of documents  
  • Performs data stream calculations