About Us
Datalogics was founded in 1967 in Chicago. We started early in the "document technology" business, developing one of the first computerized typesetting systems, and building editing workstations and software to drive them (ask us what "working under DURESS" really means).
In the early 80's we participated in the ISO committee to standardize SGML, the forerunner of XML and HTML, and applied this knowledge in developing our DL Pager and DL Composer publishing systems.
Since 1993 we've been working with Adobe, acting as the key channel for several of their PDF toolkits including the Adobe PDF Library, Adobe Normalizer, Adobe PDF Print Engine, and PDF JobReady.
Today our business focuses on providing these technologies to software developers and enabling them to bring their products to market faster and with superior PDF capabilities. From our downtown offices in the West Loop, we support hundreds of customers worldwide who are using our technology in diverse mission-critical applications.
Over the past forty years, technology has changed dramatically, but our core values haven't: we remain deeply committed to supporting our customers and staying technically-focused to provide them the best possible products and services.
Timeline
| 1967 | Datalogics founded as a general programming consulting company. |
| 1972 | Forerunner to DL Pager, named PHRED, released. |
| 1983 | WriterStation SGML editor released. |
| 1991 | First version of DL Composer released. |
| 1993 | Datalogics is purchased by Frame Technology Corporation of San Jose, California and operated first as a wholly owned subsidiary, then as the Advanced Products Division of Frame. |
| 1995 | Datalogics again changes ownership as part of the Adobe Systems Inc. acquisition of Frame. |
| 1996 | Adobe Ventures invests in Datalogics, re-incorporation under its original name occurs, and the new Datalogics emerges as a privately held, independent entity. |
| 1997 | FrameLink integration between Adobe FrameMaker and Documentum released. |
| 1998 | DL Formatter variable data solution released; DL Pager released for Windows NT. |
| 1999 | DL provides Adobe PDF Library on IBM MVS and AS/400 platforms. |
| 2001 | NexPress selects Datalogics as supplier of variable data software for their new NexPress 2100 digital press. |
| 2003 | Datalogics releases the DL-100 and DL-1000 variable data composition tools for Adobe Acrobat. |
| 2004 | Adobe selects Datalogics to distribute and support PDF JobReady (formerly PDF Transit). DL sells the assets and technologies of the DL Formatter business to Printable Technologies Inc. |
| 2008 | DL releases Datalogics Enhancements (DLE) to the PDF Library which includes .NET and Java interfaces. DL becomes key channel for the Adobe PDF Print Engine. |
| 2009 | Datalogics becomes key channel for the Adobe InDesign Server. |