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Stone Design & Frank Siegert
Announce PStill 1.3
For Mac OS X Server
Cupertino , January 26 2000 - Veteran OpenStep and Macintosh developers, Stone Design and Frank M. Siegert of Area 51, today announced availability of PStill 1.3 - a powerful yet easy to use PostScript to PDF conversion application. PStill can convert EPS and PS files by dropping on files or folder of files. Several new features have been added to this release, including an API for developers to convert files from other applications, increased performance, and better handling of PostScript Level 2 files. Sophisticated features include watched folders, ability to print directly to PDF from any application. See Screenshot
Version 1.3 also allows conversion of any conforming PS file, even if it doesn't have the "ps" or "eps" file ending, as for example HFS files that have arbitrary names. The underlying conversion engine has new optimizations and further stability enhancements.
Watched Folders allow creation of automated workflow. Simply specify the "hot" folders in Preferences, and PStill will automatically convert all EPS and PS files dropped into any of the watched folders. Version 1.3 also features support for annotations to your PDF, for inserting messages and "redlining" documents.
A companion Print Filter Service, PStillPDFPrintFilter.service, adds a new option "Save to PDF with PStill(tm)" to the standard Print Panel's Save... panel. This allows you to create a PDF file directly from any Mac OS X Server application!
Upgrade to Version 1.3 for registered users of PStill 1.0/1.1/1.2 for Mac OS X Server is FREE - just visit our download site.
PStill Features include:
Conversion Features:
- Drag and drop conversion: files or folders
- Converts EPS (even with Preview) to PDF
- Converts PS to PDF easily
- Preserves the layout as best as possible
- Converts graphics color model automatically to CMYK
- Automatically sizes EPS files
- Handles font subsetting - embeds just glyphs used to save space
- Recycles images - same image even if scaled/rotated output only once
- Accepts Type 1 and Type 3 fonts
- Outputs full or subsetted Type 1 in PDF results
- Embeds unincludable fonts automatically as paths or bitmaps
- Skips totally empty pages in PDF output
- Proven and reliable conversion engine
- Automatically adjusts PDF to various page sizes
- Provides support for annotations
- Print to PDF directly from any Mac OS X application!
- Call PStill from other applications via API
Customizations:
- Control dots per inch: 72-600
- Set page size to A2-A5, letter, legal or custom
- Reverse page ordering
- Compress output with patent free compression
- Map transfer functions from PS
- Arbitrary float precision to 8 digits
- Control minimum linewidth to prevent burnout
- Rotate output 90, 180, and 270 degrees
- Write text as paths (optional)
Application Features:
- Watched Folders for automated PDF conversion
- Choose folder where output is produced by default
- Log window with verbose logging of conversion process
- Job Control - stop one or all conversion jobs
- Drag out converted files - all jobs are available for dragging
- Font Management - automatically imports and reads your PS fonts
- Drag on new fonts from non-standard locations
- Choose to automatically convert dragged on EPS/PS files
Introductory price for PStill is still just $99 but hurry! PStill can be ordered directly from the secure Stone Order form or through the application itself. Longtime NeXTSTEP users of the original PStill can upgrade for $33 - send your original license number to info@stone.com for verification. Price includes free upgrades (via download) of all 1.x releases.
Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/Mac OS X Server marketplace. Create(TM) - the high end drawing and web page making package - is Mac Server's and Apple Yellowbox's first application. Frank M. Siegert is a long time PostScript[(tm)wizard and independent consultant. PStill is also available for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep and other platforms, see http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html All other names are trademarked by their respective companies.
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