PDF Enhancer 3.5 Upgrade Announced; Slated for Summer Release

June 9, 2009—Newly rearchitectured, PDF Enhancer 3.5 is a faster and more robust application for individual or batch processing of PDF files. Used by publishers of all sizes to produce a wide range of PDF files, from brochures to electronic editions of magazines and newspapers, this invaluable production tool creates the highest-quality, smallest size, and most reliable PDF documents possible for specific output purposes. In addition to greater power for PDF-based workflows, the upgrade improves font handling and color management, supporting more device link profiles and color patterns. PDF Enhancer 3.5 is slated to be available this summer. Pricing has not been finalized.

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MacFormat gives PDF Shrink 4 star rating.

Here are some excerpts from Ian Osborne's review of PDF Shrink 4.5

"The easy way to optimise your PDFs…"

"Dropping a folder full of PDFs onto the default email droplet(in PDF Shrink) shrank a text-only ebook from 4MB to 1.8MB, with a visuals-heavy leaflet going from 2.4MB to 224kb. Using the default print droplet, the book reached 2MB, while the leaflet remained at 2.4MB. The quality of the PDFs was perfectly satisfactory."

Read the full review on TechRadar or in Mac Format Issue 207

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Greeting Card Pioneer Taps Apago for High-Volume Automation Tools

Alpharetta, GA—March 10, 2009—Apago Inc., a software technology company that provides innovative solutions to transform digital documents, today announces that Hallmark Cards Inc. selected Apago to provide technology and consulting services to facilitate the company’s migration to a PDF workflow. Each year, Hallmark produces and distributes 19,000 new and redesigned greeting cards and related products. The company turned to Apago to switch from legacy standards to PDF and to automate several steps in its high-volume production workflow, which processes as many as 2,500 files daily.

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PDF Shrink 4.5 now optimizes PDF for iPhone, iPod touch.

San Francisco, CA—January 6, 2009—Apago Inc., today announces the availability of PDF Shrink 4.5, which now optimizes PDFs for viewing on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices. PDF Shrink is a Mac OS X utility that can reduce most PDF files—including those created by Mac OS X iLife and iWork applications, Adobe Creative Suite, and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint—by as much as 90% of their original size. The latest update enables Mac users to shrink PDFs, making the entire file—including images—viewable on Apple’s popular handheld devices.

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Yell Adworks Expands Use of Apago’s PSServices

Atlanta, GA—October 24, 2008—Apago Inc., a software technology company that provides innovative solutions to transform digital documents, today announces a large sale of its PSServices software to Yell Adworks, a leader in multimedia advertising to the classified directories marketplace with operations in the UK, the United States, Spain, the Philippines, India and Latin America. With more than 300 licenses of PSServices, a component-based PostScript and PDF interpreter, already integrated throughout Yell Adworks’ operations, the company has purchased an additional 21 licenses of Apago’s technology to support its expanded production facilities, which process thousands of advertisements daily.

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Apago Releases PDF Shrink 4.2 at Macworld Expo; Free Update Supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Adobe Acrobat 8

San Francisco, CA—January 15, 2008—Apago Inc. today announces the release of PDF Shrink 4.2, a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files. PDF Shrink optimizes the content and structure of PDF documents, making them easier to use in email attachments, on the Web, for on-screen reading, for document archiving, and more. Free to registered users of PDF Shrink 4, this update adds the ability to process entire folders of PDF files and improves compatibility with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Adobe Acrobat 8. Apago will demonstrate PDF Shrink and its professional companion product, PDF Enhancer, at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, January 15–18, 2008, at booth #W-4336.

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10 Tips to Improve Color Management

The primary goal of color management is to reproduce consistent, predictable, and repeatable color across a range of devices, such as scanners, digital cameras, monitors, printers, offset presses, and corresponding media. The idea is simple in theory but much more complex in practice. In your quest for perfect color management, consider these 10 tips.

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PDF/A and Archiving: I've heard about PDF. What's PDF/A?

Digital, PDF documents are rapidly replacing paper ones, as many government and private industries will attest. But digital documents have become saddled with technical challenges that make it difficult for the files to remain readable, renderable, and accessible over the long term. The new PDF/A standard was created to solve this problem. Learn more about PDF/A.

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