Released on: April 30, 2008, 3:36 am

Press Release Author: soft Xpansion GmbH & Co.KG

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: soft Xpansion takes into account the increasing significance
of PDF format by the further development of new products. With PDF Xpansion 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.

Press Release Body: (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.
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.

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
Functional overview:
Details about PDF Direct & QuickView 5 can be found in Internet on the product site
in the area PDF Xpansion on .
Price & availability
PDF Direct & QuickView 5 costs from €1.450,-.

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.

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

Web Site: http://www.soft-xpansion.com/index.php?p=pdftech/pdfqm

Contact Details: Address: Koenigsallee 45, Bochum
Germany

Phone Number: +49 (0)234-2984173
Email: online@soft-xpansion.com