Bochum, Germany, November 20, 2014 -- Soft Xpansion has unveiled the new versions of its flagship PDF and print output solutions: Perfect PDF 9 Premium and Perfect PDF & Print 9. Both products are available for download (choice for English, French, Italian and German language in both programs).

Perfect PDF 9 Premium is a complete solution for the creation, conversion, editing, commenting, encryption and digital signing of PDF, PDF/A and XPS files. The product suite Perfect PDF & Print 9 comes with Perfect PDF 9 Premium and additionally includes a separate application to professionally design print output on paper - Perfect Print 9. This program standardizes and unifies the content design from different source applications (for example word processing, graphical software or CAD solutions) in one single printing project. In this project, potential limitations of the source applications´ printing capabilities are eliminated. Perfect Print 9 works with print templates, which help to modify ready-to-print content so that it fits on stationery, is displayed consistently with an additional logo, and enables its users to place multiple pages on a single sheet of paper - just to mention some examples for the large scope that is available.

One of the central new features is the OCR module: it recognizes text in scanned documents, enables users to search through this text and export it into a separate file. Secondly, not only PDF/A-1 files, but also the creation of PDF/A-2 and of PDF/A-3 files is possible. Thus, the scope of PDF/A files created with Perfect PDF is much wider: PDF/A-2 allows transparencies (for example highlighting or special presentations) or JPG2000 as lossless compression format (for photos and other image elements). Moreover, with PDF/A-2, PDF/A files may be embedded into other PDF/A files. Last but not least, layers are allowed, which is for example useful in PDF files that are based on CAD software applications. PDF/A-3 enables the user to embed any file type into PDF/A, not only PDF/A itself. As a result, even the source file may be embedded into PDF/A-3. For example, electronic invoice data in XML format plus its "archive version", a PDF version of the invoice document, may be collected in one single PDF/A file.

PRICES
The recommended retail prices of the programs (including VAT) are EUR 99,99 for Perfect PDF & Print 9 and EUR 79,99 for Perfect PDF 9 Premium. For upgrades from previous versions, lower prices apply: users save up to 50 percent on the recommended retail prices, depending on the version they currently use.

THE NEW FEATURES IN DETAIL
• OCR module: recognizes text in scanned documents, searches through this text and exports it into a text file
• PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3: saves PDF/A files not only as PDF/A-1, but also in these two additional PDF/A standards
• Genuine 64-bit version: makes use of the full RAM resources available on the PC, which means that a limitation to a maximum of 2 GB that the 32 version can handle no longer applies. Advantages: the program is faster, especially if large PDF files are used and if rendering of high amounts of image data is necessary
• Splits multi-page PDF files into separate PDFs
• The import from form fields based on Microsoft Office 2010 and 2013 files now includes content controls
• Improved PDF engine
• Optimizing and revision of the PDF editor and of other functionality

TRIAL VERSION
Trial versions are available on the Soft Xpansion product pages on the web. These versions are complete as far as the functionality is concerned. However, they place a watermark ("Soft Xpansion") on all pages that are displayed, created or edited with the programs.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Windows 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, Windows Server 2008 / 2003 (x86 and x64 platforms supported); Hardware: Windows compatible PC, 60 MB HDD; Microsoft Office integration: Microsoft Office 2013 / 2010 / 2007 / 2003 (x86 and x64); Internet Explorer integration: Internet Explorer 7 to 11; Firefox integration: Firefox 3 to 33; OpenOffice.org, version 3 or higher; Internet access or e-mail address (required for product activation)

ABOUT SOFT XPANSION:
Soft Xpansion is a globally active, international team of software writers, developers, screen designers, engineers and product managers. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Bochum, Germany. Its product range includes solutions (standard software, developer libraries, software development kits, individual programming and freeware) in the core areas PDF Technology and Document Management. In the past 19 years, more than 200 software products have been published in more than 200 different editions. Localized versions of Soft Xpansion products are sold in Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, the USA, the Benelux countries, the Ukraine, Spain, Russia, Portugal, Australia and Turkey. More information on the company is available at http://www.soft-xpansion.com. Soft Xpansion is a full member of the PDF Association, http://www.pdfa.org.

Contact:
Frank Dueckers
Soft Xpansion GmbH & Co. KG
Koenigsallee 45
D-44789 Bochum, Germany
Tel: +49 234 298 41 73
Fax: +49 234 298 41 72
[email protected]
http://www.soft-xpansion.com