Released on: May 14, 2008, 3:51 pm

Press Release Author: soft Xpansion

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: (Bochum, 30 April 2008) – Spreading of file formats PDF
and PDF/A strongly increases during the last years, and this trend is stable. Since
today the advantages of the file format for a safe and efficient exchange of
electronic documents are universally recognized, PDF is established as a standard.
Today at the document processing one must not renounce a platform covering retention
of the representation quality and formatting of the original document, comfortable
collaboration functions as well as independence from the original program with which
the file was created.

Press Release Body: New version of PDF Direct & Quick View 5
soft Xpansion takes into account the increasing significance of PDF format by the
further development of new products. With PDF Direct & Quick View 5 the company
publishes a new version of its developer library, which was firstly offered in 2002
to the implementing of PDF format in software applications.

With PDF Direct & QuickView 5, complicated developing projects can be realized in
Visual C ++, .NET and in languages with COM support. Besides, the libraries allow a
direct production and processing (PDF Direct) as well as announcement (PDF Quick
View) of PDFs in software applications. This also concerns foreign, already created
PDF files. The users of the application need therefore no additional programs to be
able to produce, process, view and print PDF files. Both libraries offer a huge
number of powerful options for a flexible implementing of PDF format.

Version 5 offers the following new functions and improvements:

· Support of 64-bit versions of Windows
· Production of PDF pages from content objects (text, vector and grid graphics)
· Processing of the contents of PDF pages (PDF Rich Edit)
· Combining of several PDF-pages in one page
· Import of HTML files and Web pages
· Import of GDI + metafiles
· Time stamp functions (insertion and validation)
· Trust-validation of signatures
· Improved import of pictures by the site production

The conceptual specific feature of PDF Direct & QuickView 5 lies in the modular
construction of the library and in the adaptable price model linked with it:
software developers can select PDF functions, which users of their application will
need at their work with PDF files or to which they should have access. Cost-intense,
unnecessary PDF functions should not be paid for.
Functional overview:
Details about PDF Direct & QuickView 5 can be found in Internet on the product site
in the area PDF Xpansion on http://www.soft-xpansion.com.
Supported operating systems
PDF Direct and Quick View 5 can be used in applications, which run under the 32-or
64-bit versions of Windows Vista, XP (Home or Professional Edition), Server 2003 or
2000.
Price & availability
PDF Direct & QuickView 5 costs from €1.450,-.

The library is available from now on and is offered in several license models and
component parcels, which allow an adaptation to the needs of the target group and
the users of the respective purpose application. No other software components are
required except for those, which are already installed with the operating system
Windows.

The complete price list including a description of license models and component
parcels can be downloaded on www.soft-xpansion.com.
Demo-version and documentation
For a demo-version and the extensive documentation please send a short message to
sales@soft-xpansion.com.
About soft Xpansion
The company soft Xpansion is a international team of software developers, screen
designers and product managers, which has developed more than 100 software products
since its foundation in 1995. In addition to Germany, Austria and Switzerland,
product markets are situated in a large number of other countries, in which
localised product versions were published. Among them are Great Britain, France,
Italy, USA, Benelux, Ukraine, Spain, Russia, Portugal, Australia and Turkey. soft
Xpansion offers solutions (individual development and out-of-the-box products),
which are focused on the areas of PDF-technology, system utilities, document and
database management systems as well as data and application security.

Further information about the enterprise and the products you can find on
http://www.soft-xpansion.com.

Web Site: http://www.soft-xpansion.com

Contact Details: Contact
soft Xpansion GmbH & Co. KG, Frank Dueckers, Koenigsallee 45, 44789 Bochum
Tel.: +49 234 298 41 71 Fax: +49 234 298 41 72
E-mail: dueckers@soft-xpansion.com