About CDP

CDP Communications

CDP Communications is your accessibility, automation, testing and verification experts – our software creates compliant Universal Accessible documents (PDF/UA); enables print data stream transformations; secures the archival/retrieval of print documents; and compares print data stream files, in a fraction of the time that a manual process would take.

CDP has specialized in developing software solutions for Independent Software Vendors, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Service Bureaus, and Developers since 1984 and it has continually evolved its software and added to its catalogue to support the ever-increasing demands for printing and information solutions.

Overview

CDP helps technology vendors convert their clients’ data streams into industry standards for viewing, distribution, data extraction, and printing format conversion.

CDP’s products, ADEPT UA, DocDiff, STREAMdiff, and ADEPT Suite, and Application Programming Interface(API)  are integrated as critical components of their partners’ solutions for document composition, electronic statement presentment, content management, archiving, print redistribution, and customer relationship management. Through a strategic partnership program, CDP technologies are deployed in end-to-end solutions, which address the needs of organizations in key vertical market segments including the banking, insurance, brokerage, and telecommunications industries.

History

Founded by Ted Dunlop in 1984, CDP was the first software company to release a product that could present IBM Advanced Function Presentation Data Streams and 3211/3800-1 print data streams through a Windows viewer. Known as cdpReportView, the product provided AFPDS presentation where AFP stood for Advanced Function Printing. cdpReportView used an Application Programming Interface or API to convert AFP pages into an internal Print Description Language or PDL called ADEPT and used an API to render ADEPT pages as bitmaps for presentation. CDP released these APIs during the first year that Windows 3.1 was available. Since then CDP has developed:

  • Universal Accessibility (ADEPT UA)
  • Document Flow Comparison (DocDiff)
  • Print data stream comparison (STREAMdiff)
  • PDL Transform (ADEPT Suite)
  • AFPDS and AFP-Linedata stream transforms
  • Xerox LCDS and Metacode data stream transforms
  • PostScript transforms
  • PDF transforms
  • PCL transforms
  • AFPDS rendering engines
  • Metacode rendering engines
  • PostScript rendering engines
  • PDF rendering engines
  • HTML rendering engines
  • TIFF rendering engines
  • Contextually meaningful XML rendering engines
  • Archival and Bill Presentment (Visual Knowledge Manager)

CDP has evolved the API and batch applications to be platform independent. Unlike many other print data stream developers, CDP has either developed its transform and rendering engines, or it has obtained source licenses for the third party technology that it uses.

Accessibility, Automation, Testing and Verification Tools to Meet Your Needs

Do you need to add Universal Accessibility to your enterprise transactional or legacy documents?

Do you want to automate the testing of your high volume documents?

Need to verify the content when your document layout or flow has changed?

Do you need your print streams converted to another format?

Do you need to integrate our applications into yours?