Real Digital Signatures on Android with qPDF Notes 2.2

True Digital Signatures with qPDF Notes

True Digital Signatures with qPDF Notes

Atlanta – April 12, 2012 – Android device users finally have the ability to validate and apply true digital signatures to PDF documents with the new 2.2 release of qPDF Notes, Qoppa Software’s PDF Android app. Also in this release are improved editing of annotations properties, and additional user interface improvements.

qPDF Notes 2.2 is the only Android PDF tool with the ability to apply true digital signatures directly from an Android device. The app allows the user to choose which digital signing certification to use: create self signed certificates, or import digital certificates issued by a certificate authority such as Verisign or Thawte. Digital certificates are PKCS files with a .p12 or .pfx filename extension.

qPDF Notes also enables the digital signature’s appearance to be fully customized by adding a handwritten signature (through a finger gesture) and by overlaying an image such as a company logo.

“Qoppa’s suite of tools to validate and apply electronic signatures on PDF documents is now extended to mobile devices. Our users have been signing documents on Windows, Mac and Linux with our desktop tool PDF Studio for years. They can now sign PDF documents on the go with qPDF Notes.“ says Qoppa President Gerald Holmann.

Qoppa Software also makes these new features available in the latest version of qPDF Toolkit for Android developers to integrate PDF features into their own apps.

qPDF Notes works on all Android phones and tablets 2.1 and higher including: Asus Transformer Prime, Acer Picasso, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy Note, Motorola XOOM, Toshiba, Lenovo Thinkpad, Kindle Fire, Nook, and devices with custom ROMs. qPDF Notes is also available on Blackberry Playbook 2.

About Qoppa Software:
Qoppa Software specializes in the development of high-end libraries and applications to work with PDF documents. Qoppa Software offers a suite of highly portable products that cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document work flows, including end-user, server and PDF library products. Qoppa’s products are carefully designed and developed on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology to provide the highest level of performance and reliability.
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Spring release of Java PDF components and libraries by Qoppa Software adds creation of linearized PDF documents, user interface and API enhancements

Atlanta, GA March 19 2012 – Qoppa Software’s new spring release of Java PDF components and libraries delivers API improvements for easier integration into Java and web applications, along with UI improvements to make the PDF components easier for users to work with.

Key among the features delivered this spring is the ability for Qoppa’s library jPDFProcess to create linearized PDF documents. Linearization allows fast viewing of even large PDF documents over the web because pages of linearized documents are made accessible without the need for downloading the entire file.

With the new release, programmers gain further control when integrating the PDF libraries into applications. The revised API now supports adding PDF content to a specific layer, creating rotated rubber stamps, and adds a convenience method to overlay a watermark on top of PDF documents when viewing and printing. Moreover, Qoppa’s team has made licensing easier by simplifying the process of requesting, validating and setting license keys.

This release also adds many improvements to Qoppa’s visual PDF components such as a new invert colors mode and enhancements around interactive PDF forms, including support for Submit and Reset buttons and even better editing of interactive form fields data.

Gerald Holmann, President, says “Qoppa’s spring release of our Java PDF library products is all about continuing to deliver easy to use, powerful PDF products. Our PDF technology makes it easy for developers to confidently PDF-enable their own applications, while remaining focused on their business logic.”

For additional details, change logs are published on Qoppa’s Knowledge Base:

Full Change Log for Java PDF Library 2012-03 Release
Full Change Log for Java PDF Component 2012-03 Release

ABOUT QOPPA SOFTWARE

Qoppa Software specializes in the development of high-end libraries and applications to work with PDF documents. Qoppa Software offers a suite of cross platform products that cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document work flows, including end-user, server and PDF library products. Qoppa’s products are carefully designed and developed on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology to provide the highest level of performance and reliability.

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Qoppa Software announces qPDF Notes 2.1 release

Qoppa Software's Android PDF Solutions

qPDF Notes 2.1 is packed with enhancements:

  • Support for new Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
  • Multi-language support now includes Italian, French, and Spanish
  • Major user interface improvements for annotation editing and more toolbar customization capabilities
  • New overlay scrollbar for fast navigation through large documents
  • Support for Submit and Reset button actions in interactive PDF forms
  • Performance improvements in PDF rendering
  • Multiple forms of in-app assistance from Qoppa include Help, Tutorials, Tips, and even email to Qoppa from within the app

“It’s exciting to be defining our products on Android, a platform where user interactions and processes are still evolving.  This release is all about user interface improvements and making it easier for our customers to contact us.  We rely heavily on our customers’ feedback to enhance our products.“ says Qoppa President Gerald Holmann.

Qoppa Software has also made the new features available in the latest version of both qPDF Viewer, our Android PDF Viewer app, and qPDF Toolkit, our PDF SDK for Android developers.

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Qoppa Software Announces qPDF Notes™ Bundling by Samsung Italy

Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces a recent bundling agreement with Samsung Italy.  Samsung Italy will include Qoppa’s qPDF Notes™, a PDF markup and form filling app, on their new Galaxy Note device.  Samsung’s Galaxy Note is the new phone-tablet device from Samsung which offers a large screen and powerful performance while maintaining smartphone portability.

Samsung Press Event

Samsung Press Event

With Qoppa’s qPDF Notes, a user-friendly PDF app on Android, Galaxy Note users can annotate PDF documents with sticky notes, text notes, highlights or free-form drawings.   Interactive PDF forms can be filled and saved.  qPDF Notes can access, save, and send PDFs via email, Dropbox, Bluetooth or SD cards.

“PDF documents are the perfect fit for taking notes on tablets and portable devices, because PDF is the de facto electronic collaboration format.  Annotations are an integral part of the PDF document specification.  They are saved as part of the document and are viewable in any PDF viewer.“, says Gerald Holmann, president of Qoppa Software. “We are proud that Samsung Italy elected to bundle qPDF Notes after a thorough evaluation of competitive products. We have perfected our PDF technology over the last 10 years and believe that our app is the most solid and comprehensive PDF app on Android today. “

Galaxy Note users in Italy may download qPDF Notes for free from the Samsung app store.

Qoppa email android@qoppa.com or call +1 (404) 685-8733.

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Qoppa Software Announces PDF Studio 7, Cross-platform PDF editor, with Content Editing and Enhanced User Interface

December 20, 2011 – Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces a major new release of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use, cross-platform PDF editor.  PDF Studio 7 augments the collaboration power of PDF with new content editing capabilities, enhanced user interface, new PDF viewing options and additional PDF functionality.

“This release takes PDF Studio to the next level!  PDF Studio 7 is a full featured PDF editor, comparable to the best editors on the market but at less than a third of the price.  When you consider that PDF Studio is also cross-platform, this makes it the best choice for enterprise deployments.” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa Software President.

PDF Studio 7 Pro lets users edit the content and manipulate the objects in a PDF document.  Users can make small modifications such as correcting typos and misspellings, changing font properties or rearranging images before final publishing.  The new Edit Content tool works with single or multiple objects, including text, images, or path objects.

Redaction, removing text from a PDF document and replacing its location with a black rectangle, is a newly available function in PDF Studio 7.  Redaction is relied on by professionals in many industries to protect confidential information within PDF documents.

PDF Studio 7 offers an improved user interface.  Users can now choose their favorite Look And Feel for the application and customize the toolbars to suit the way they work.  Professionals who need to examine small details in a PDF document will be glad for the new Loupe Tool and the ability to do a side by side comparison of two versions of a PDF with the sophisticated “double loupe tool”.

Users working on small screens, in a dark room, on an airplane, or at night, will love the new PDF Studio 7 function to invert colors when rendering a PDF document.  For typical documents, the display will change from “Black on White” to “White on Black”.

Responding to user needs, Qoppa has added the ability to email PDF documents directly from the tool.  Users may collaborate electronically and efficiently by easily sending individual PDF documents from within PDF Studio.  Those enrolled in online fax services (such as myfax.com or efax.com) will now be able to fax directly from the tool.

Conversion to PDF from Word files, image files, and text files can be done individually or in a batch.  Word to PDF conversion was enhanced in this release to include support for the latest Word format (.doc or .docx).

For more information about PDF Studio (PDF Editor for Mac, Windows, Linux) visit http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio or call +1 (404) 685-8733.

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Qoppa Software Enhances Image Rendering in Version 2 of Their Android PDF Apps

Qoppa Software's Android PDF SolutionsNovember 17, 2011 – Continuing the tradition of delivering quality PDF software on every platform, Qoppa Software releases version 2 of qPDF Viewer™, free Android PDF app; and qPDF Notes™, powerful Android PDF viewing, markup and form filling app.  Qoppa’s PDF apps now support rendering more image formats, including JPEG 2000, JPEG CMYK, and JPEGs with special color spaces.  Both apps run on every Android version from 2.1+, 3.0, and beyond.

New in version 2:

  • Rendering more image formats, including JPEG 2000, JPEG CMYK, and JPEGS with special color spaces
  • Greatly improved text search speeds and added result highlighting
  • User toolbar customization: selecting desired buttons, preferred button size and button location
  • Enhanced form filling, supporting special form field formats and accompanying keyboards

Support for more image formats and interactive forms processing are the key new features.  Toolbar customization is now available in both apps.  This is especially helpful for qPDF Notes users, who can arrange their most used tools and annotations for quick access.

Both apps can access PDF documents in and out of the device via email, Dropbox, and Bluetooth.  They offer a rich user interface for easy viewing and navigation of documents with multi-touch zoom and double tap to automatically fit the PDF to the screen width, which is useful on tablets.

Qoppa Software is in the process of establishing partnerships with device manufacturers interested in bundling qPDF Notes to offer a first-in-class PDF viewing and markup experience to their customers.

“Demand for PDF functionality for Android apps is evident, as we verified during our participation at AnDevCon last week.” says Gerald Holmann, President of Qoppa Software.  “Android is mobile, PDF is portable, and Qoppa brings them together, continuing our tradition of high quality PDF solutions on every platform.”

Qoppa also licenses qPDF Toolkit™, Android PDF SDK, for developers to integrate PDF capability into their Android apps.  Built on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology, qPDF Toolkit™ enables app developers to easily integrate reliable PDF manipulation capabilities into their own apps.

To begin direct conversations with Qoppa about these products, email android@qoppa.com or call +1 (404) 685-8733.

Install qPDF Notes from Google Play

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jWordConvert 2.0 converts all Word file formats to PDF in Java

October 25, 2011 – Qoppa Software, a leading provider of PDF solutions, is pleased to announce jWordConvert™ 2.0, the new release of their Microsoft® Word® to PDF document conversion software. In addition to supporting MS Word 97-2003 files (.doc), jWordConvert now supports converting MS Word 2007-10 files (.docx files) to PDF.

“Based on customer demand, we added support for the latest Microsoft Word format in our java conversion library, jWordConvert. Since Word 2007 format is so different from the previous format, we developed a whole new rendering engine. jWordConvert can now process any Word file whether its format is .doc or .docx. Customer feedback indicates that jWordConvert is outstanding in its reliability and ease of deployment. Qoppa will also incorporate these conversion capabilities into our desktop editor PDF Studio, and PDF Automation Server our workflow solution.” says Gerald Holmann, President of Qoppa Software.

jWordConvert is a Java library for integration by developers into their Java applications on the server or client side. The library runs on all platforms including Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris and Mac, is self-contained and requires no third party software. jWordConvert can read and render Word files natively to convert to PDF, to convert to images, or to print the documents automatically. Resulting PDF documents can be protected with permissions and passwords for added security. The new version 2.0 also adds the ability to convert and merge multiple Word files into a single PDF document in one step.

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software specializes in the development of multi-platform high-end libraries and applications to work with PDF documents. Qoppa Software offers a suite of products that cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document workflows, including end-user, server and PDF library products. Qoppa’s products are carefully designed and developed to provide the highest level of performance and reliability.

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Summer release of Java PDF components and libraries adds loupe tool in web components and gives developers more control

Qoppa Software, a leading provider of portable PDF solutions, reveals the summer release of their newly enhanced PDF libraries and components.

Key among the features delivered this summer is the loupe tool for both of Qoppa’s visual components to be used in Java and web applications. jPDFViewer is Qoppa’s Java component to render PDF documents. Qoppa’s jPDFNotes is a standalone Java component to display, mark up and sign PDF documents. The loupe tool enables users to inspect small details on a PDF document by magnifying chosen areas in a page within a floating window. This tool will be useful in a number of industries, such as printing, graphics, electronics, and biology.

Programmers gain further control over the user interface when integrating the PDF components into applications. The revised API allows them to customize context menus within the different sections of the components (such as Content, Signature, Thumbnails, and Comments panes).

The release also includes improvements for convenience of the user such as the new “Open Link” and “Create Link” capabilities, font auto-sizing for interactive form fields and comprehensive support for actions within bookmarks, links, and buttons.

Gerald Holmann, President, says “Qoppa’s summer release of our PDF library products shows the results of our 10 year commitment to developing high quality PDF technology. At the same time, we are preparing to demonstrate our solutions at our first major tradeshows in San Francisco at JavaOne and later at AnDevCon. I’m looking forward to personally meeting with customers and partners at the shows and gathering feedback from java developers. The needs of our customers have always been primary factors in our strategic product development decisions.”

For additional details, change logs are published on Qoppa’s Knowledge Base:

Full Change Log for Java Component 2011-07 Release

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Qoppa Software Exhibits at JavaOne 2011

Qoppa Software is making final preparations to exhibit at JavaOne 2011 in San Francisco October 2-6.   Qoppa selected JavaOne as its first major exhibition because the 10 year old software company chooses to deliver only 100% Java code to its worldwide customer base that crosses industry boundaries.  This year’s introduction of the 100% Android Java product line underscores that commitment to delivering portable PDF code.

Qoppa’s booth (#5107) will offer live demonstrations of the PDF manipulation capabilities it delivers in class libraries, web components, desktop applications, information flow servers, and mobile devices.  Java developers will be able to directly discuss potential development and deployment scenarios with Gerald Holmann, president and founder of Qoppa Software.

“Friends of Qoppa” (existing and potential customers and partners) may claim one of Qoppa’s Discover Passes to Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne.  This pass will authorize Qoppa’s friend to access the Exhibition Halls at both events, and to participate in these activities:

  • Keynote sessions
  • Executive Solutions sessions
  • “It’s a Wrap!” final party

Qoppa Software’s booth #5107 is located in the Java Exhibition Hall (Continental Ballroom at the Hilton Hotel).

To schedule a meeting time with Qoppa’s president Gerald Holmann or to claim a friend pass to the events, email us at javaone2011@qoppa.com.

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Qoppa Software to Exhibit at AnDevCon

Qoppa Software friends can receive an extra $200 discount
when registering for AnDevCon II!

Qoppa Software announces plans to exhibit at AnDevCon II, The Android Developer Conference, in November, 2011 in San Francisco, CA. This conference is 100% focused on development topics for Android developers and software engineers.

Qoppa Software will be showing our qPDF Toolkit™ for Android, a general purpose Android SDK to work with PDF documents in a number of ways, including creation, modification, rendering and more. Software producers will be able to leverage Qoppa’s PDF expertise to include PDF functionality into their own Android applications. The SDK is written 100% in Android Java, so it can run on any Android device and does not require any server software or connection.

Qoppa Software currently markets two products for Android that incorporate the technology and functionality found in the qPDF Toolkit.

qPDF Notes™ is an Android app to view and markup PDF documents and to fill PDF forms on tablets.  This product is receiving increasing interest from Android users by making it possible to work with PDF documents “on the go”. qPDF Viewer™ is a free PDF viewer for Android that is quickly gaining followers as the viewer of choice for its ease of use, performance and reliability.

Those who are interested in learning more about the products, or in previewing the software in their daily workflow are invited to send an email to android@qoppa.com. For those registering to attend AnDevCon II, being a friend of Qoppa Software will provide an additional $200 discount.

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