New PDF Studio 11 with Spell Check, Non-Latin OCR Languages, Output Preview, & Enhanced Print Dialog

Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces version 11 of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use PDF editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PDF Studio 11 adds a number of new features including Spell Check, Non-Latin OCR Languages, Output Preview, & Enhanced Print Dialog

By popular request, PDF Studio now comes with a Spell Checker. Spell check highlights misspelled words when creating text annotations, typing annotation comments, and filling interactive form fields. Users are able to set various options including highlight color, ignore all caps or numbers, and add/edit custom words to the dictionary. PDF Studio 11 offers 9 different languages options and even support spell checking more than one language at the same time! Languages supported are Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish.

PDF Studio 11 also introduces a brand new OCR engine that now supports non-Latin and CJK languages. A total of 46 new OCR languages are now available such as Chinese (simplified & traditional), Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, and many more. In addition to the new languages, PDF Studio also has the ability to select 2 languages at once to use when OCRing documents containing multiple languages on each page.

Professionals in the printing industry will enjoy the new Output Preview including overprint simulation. Output preview is used to simulate how the document will look once printed using different color profiles such as CMYK, RGB, and grey. Overprint simulates how overlapping colors will look when mixed on the page. The new dialog can easily switch between print simulation and display and the background color of the document can also be changed to simulate printing on different colored paper.

PDF Studio 11 comes with a New Enhanced Print Dialog with new features including Print Preview, Print to file, and booklet printing. Print Preview allows users to see what the document look like prior to being printed and adjustments can be made in real time if necessary. Print to file creates a .prn file instead of printing directly to the printer. Useful if you need to send the document to a printing press that only prints on a specific printer. Booklet printing turns a multi-page document into a folded booklet.

PDF Studio 11 also adds additional improvements including a Welcome Screen, new rubber stamps (dynamic, preview, predefined and PDF stamps), quick text search (in addition to advanced search), major memory & performance enhancements, font improvements, and many more…

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software produces cross-platform PDF software for end-users and developers. Our PDF tools and libraries cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document workflows. Qoppa Software was founded in 2002 and is located in Atlanta, GA.

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PDF Automation Server v2016R1 Released with New RESTful API and Improved PDF Processing

Atlanta, GA – June 3 2016
Qoppa Software, a leading provider of PDF solutions, is pleased to announce the release of PDF Automation Server v2016R1, the latest version of Qoppa Software’s flagship PDF processing server.

The new version of PDF Automation Server delivers PDF functionality through a REST API for integration of PDF processing into third party workflow systems and custom applications. By packaging all of Qoppa’s PDF processing functions into a RESTful server, Qoppa makes it possible for its customers to integrate PDF functions into any of its enterprise applications seamlessly. Try PDF Rest API

Additionally, Qoppa continues to improve on the workflow module of PDF Automation Server by adding a custom PDF scripting module, which opens up a full API to work with PDF documents. The custom scripting module allows workflows to be more flexible and to use external services as part of the processing of PDF documents.

As more and more companies and industries are replacing paper with PDF documents, and implementing document driven processes automatically across the enterprise, Qoppa PDF Automation Server has become an essential tool in IT infrastructure.

Full Release Notes for PDF Automation Server v2016R1

About Qoppa’s PDF Automation Server:

Qoppa’s PDF Automation Server (PAS) is a standalone server application to automate PDF workflows. Based on Qoppa’s proprietary PDF technology, it automates the receiving, processing, and routing of files on Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX), and any other Java enabled platform. PAS accepts incoming files of multiple types from local and network folders, email, or ftp servers. Based on preset criteria, PAS then performs a wide range of manipulations, including assembly, conversion, printing, stamping, digital signing, security management, preflight checking, and more. Once changed, both the original files and the output files can be routed to a range of destinations.

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software specializes in the development of high-end Java 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.

Nouveau PDF Studio 11 avec: vérification orthographique, reconnaissance optique de caractères non-latins (OCR), Aperçu de la sortie et boite de dialogue d’impression améliorée

Qoppa Software, un des principaux vendeurs de logiciels PDF, a sorti la 11ème version de PDF Studio, son éditeur PDF performant et facile à utiliser, compatible avec Windows, Mac OS X et Linux. De nouvelles fonctionnalités ont été ajoutées à cette 11ème version, y compris la vérification orthographique, la reconnaissance optique de caractères non latins, l’aperçu de surimpression, et une nouvelle boite de dialogue d’impression.

A la demande générale, PDF Studio est maintenant doté d’un correcteur d’ orthographe . Ce correcteur d’orthographe souligne les mots mal orthographiés lors de l’écriture d’un texte ou de commentaires, ou lors du remplissage des champs. Les utilisateurs peuvent modifier différents paramètres, y compris la couleur de surlignage, ignorer tous les nom communs et les numéros, et ajouter/éditer des mots personnalisés dans le dictionnaire. PDF Studio 11 offre un choix de 9 langues différentes et continue à assurer une vérification orthographique lorsque plusieurs langues sont utilisées! Les langues qui bénéficient d’un correcteur orthographique sont l’arabe, le néerlandais, l’anglais, le français, l’allemand, l’italien, le polonais, le russe, et l’espagnol.

PDF Studio 11 contient également un tout nouveau moteur de reconnaissance optique de caractères (OCR) qui peut désormais s’appliquer aux langues non latines et au CJK (chinois, japonais, coréen). Un total de 46 nouvelles langues compatibles avec la reconnaissance optique de caractères sont maintenant disponibles, comme le chinois (simplifié et traditionnel), le japonais, l’hindi, l’arabe, et beaucoup d’autres. En plus des nouvelles langues, PDF Studio peut sélectionner 2 langues à utiliser en même temps pour les documents contenant plusieurs langues sur chaque page.

Les professionnels de l’industrie graphique pourront apprécier le nouvel aperçu de sortie, qui inclut une simulation de surimpression. L’aperçu de la sortie simule l’aspect qu’aura le document une fois imprimé, en utilisant différents profils couleurs, comme la quadrichromie CMJN (cyan, magenta, jaune, noir), le modèle RGB, et le gris. La surimpression simule l’aspect qu’auront les couleurs superposées, une fois mélangées. La couleur de fond d’un document peut également être changée pour simuler une impression sur différentes couleurs de papier.

PDF Studio 11 contient une nouvelle boite de dialogue d’impression avec de nouvelles fonctionnalités, comme l’aperçu avant impression, impression vers fichier et l’impression de brochures. L’aperçu avant impression permet aux utilisateurs de voir à quoi ressemble le document avant d’être imprimé et des ajustements peuvent être effectués en temps réel si nécessaire. L’impression vers fichier crée un fichier .prn au lieu d’imprimer directement vers l’imprimante, ce qui est utile si vous devez envoyer le document vers une imprimante spécifique qui n’est pas installée sur votre machine. La fonction brochure transforme un document multi-pages en un livret plié pour l’impression.

About Running Qoppa’s PDF Viewing Component jPDFViewer in Applets

If you are running jPDFViewer, Qoppa’s PDF viewing component, in an applet inside the browser, you may have heard that some browsers are discontinuing support for Java applets. Specifically, some browsers are discontinuing support for the NPAPI plugin interface, which is what the Java applet container uses to run inside the browser. This means that you will not be able to run jPDFViewer in this manner on browsers that are making this change.

We have come up with a few alternatives to continue to use our PDF technology within your web application:

Run jPDFViewer inside a Webstart application.
Webstart application are very similar to applets, they can be launched from a browser, and can connect back to your server to retrieve PDF documents. However, they do not run inside the browser, they run in a separate window. We have a sample of jPDFViewer running in this way in our website, from the jPDFViewer home page (Click on the link called “Webstart Demo”).

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Convert your applet from HTML to Webstart jnlp easily (without changing your applet code)

Convert PDF to HTML5 for viewing
We have also developed and released a new product called jPDFWeb, which converts PDF documents to HTML5 and can then serve them to the browser directly. Converting to HTML5 means that the browser is displaying the PDF content directly, so there is no need for a plugin and therefore there is no plugins needed at all. The HTML5 content can be displayed inside the browser as part of your web application and is supported by all browsers, including in mobile devices.

jPDFWeb runs on the server, typically a J2EE server, and can convert and serve single PDF pages or entire PDF documents, so you can choose how to display the PDF documents on the browser. The HTML5 content produced by jPDFWeb uses vector graphics (it is not an image converter), so the quality of your content remains nearly the same as when viewing PDF documents directly and text content remains searchable.

Visit jPDFWeb Home Page to find links to live demos, documentation and to download an evaluation version.

Server-Side Solution
We have released a new version of our server product, PDF Automation Server, that can convert PDF documents to HTML5 and serve them directly to the browser. The advantages of the server product over jPDFWeb is that it does not require a J2EE container and it provides management and logging, for easier deployment.

Visit PDF Automation Server Home Page to find links to documentation and to download an evaluation version.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about jPDFViewer and any of these new products.

jWordConvert adds font embedding when converting Word to PDF

Qoppa Software, a leading provider of Java PDF solutions, is pleased to announce jWordConvert™ v2016R1, the new version of their Microsoft® Word® to PDF conversion library written in Java. This release of jWordConvert includes a lot of font handling enhancements.

“We hope our customers will be happy with the new option to embed fonts when converting Word documents to PDF. Font embedding guarantees fidelity when rendering PDF documents across operating systems and platforms. To minimize the size of the output PDFs, fonts are automatically subsetted to only include the characters present in the document. Another feature added this version, is a better handling of non-Latin characters, including CJK and symbol fonts. ” says Gerald Holmann, President of Qoppa Software.

The new Word to PDF conversion capabilities will be incorporated into Qoppa’s desktop PDF editing application, PDF Studio, and Qoppa’s workflow PDF solution, PDF Automation Server in the months to come.

About jWordConvert:

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. It 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.

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.

jWordConvert v2016R1 Release Notes

Qoppa Software is exhibiting at JavaOne 2015

For the sixth year in a row, Qoppa Software will be exhibiting at JavaOne in San Francisco, October 25-29. The theme for this year’s Oracle event “1995-2015: 20 years of Innovation” echoes Qoppa’s long-term commitment in delivering relevant PDF technology to help businesses of all size implement efficient, ingenuous document workflow processes.

Qoppa’s booth (#5007) at JavaOne will offer live demonstrations of the PDF creation, rendering and manipulation capabilities available in our Java class libraries, web components, desktop applications and information flow servers. Special focus will be given to our newly released products:

jPDFOptimizer – Java library to optimize PDF documents
jPDFWeb – Java library to convert PDF documents to HTML
jPDFPreflight – Java library for PDF/A validation & conversion

Gerald Holmann, president and founder of Qoppa Software, will be at the booth to answer any questions from Java developers, and to discuss development and deployment scenarios.

Friends of Qoppa, i.e. existing and potential customers and partners, may claim one of Qoppa’s Discover Passes, which offer access to five days of conference keynotes and the exhibition halls. More information on Discover Passes can be found on Oracle’s website.

Qoppa Software’s booth #5007 is located in the JavaOne Exhibition Hall, at the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel.

To schedule a meeting time with Qoppa’s president Gerald Holmann or to claim a Discover Pass to the events, email Leila at leila@qoppa.com.

PDF Automation Server v2015R1 Released with New PDF Optimizer Job, Improved Sign Job

Atlanta, GA June 18, 2015 – Qoppa Software, a leading provider of PDF solutions, is pleased to announce the release of PDF Automation Server v2015R1 which adds many new features, including a new PDF Optimizer job and enhancements to the existing Digital Signature job.

As more and more companies and industries are replacing paper with PDF documents, it has become more important to optimize the size of electronic files, in order to reduce storage, bandwidth and transfer time.

The new PDF Optimizer Job allows to optimize PDF documents in an automated, unattended process and offers flexible optimization options to:

Modify image resolution, compression and color spaces
Compress images with JPEG, JPEG 2000 and JBIG2
Remove unused objects
Compress data streams
Remove duplicate images and fonts
Linearize PDFs for fast web view

The new PDF Optimizer Job with flexible optimization options for reducing the size of PDF documents

The existing Digital Signature Job was enhanced to allow applying digital signatures with timestamps certified by an official time-stamp server as well as customizing signature appearance.

Settings for timestamp servers in the Sign PDF Job allowing to apply timestamped digital signatures

New Settings to customize signature appearance in the Sign PDF Job

Settings to customize signature appearance in the Sign PDF Job allowing to hide or show fields from the digital ID

The new release of PAS also incorporates all enhancements added to Qoppa’s Java PDF rendering and manipulation engine over the last year.

Full Release Notes for PDF Automation Server v2015R1

About Qoppa’s PDF Automation Server:

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software specializes in the development of high-end Java 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.

Spring release of Java PDF Toolkit and Swing PDF Component adds CMYK rendering, image processing enhancements, and PDF comparison

Atlanta, GA May 20^th 2015 – Qoppa Software’s spring release of Java® PDF library and Swing PDF component delivers improved image processing performance, rendering to custom color spaces for output preview and many annotation, redaction and form field enhancements. This release also adds a new optional PDF comparison module.

“In version 2015R1, we’ve continued to enhance and refine the interactive tools in our PDF components while adding very sophisticated image and rendering features to our PDF engine.” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa Software President.

Qoppa’s image handling framework was redesigned to process images more efficiently in both memory and CPU usage. The new code for image processing uses a lot less memory and is able to render images of any size, with speed improvements of about 20% on average, or higher in some cases. As part of this redesign, additional features were added including the ability to render in non-RGB color spaces, such as CMYK and to simulate overprint in Qoppa’s advanced PDF editing component, jPDFEditor. Output preview and overprint simulation are sophisticated techniques used by professionals in the print and pre-press industry to preview on the screen how colors will overlap and mix when printed.

CMYK Output Preview with Overprint Simulation

jPDFProcess’ Java API was enhanced to allow applying redaction annotations, a process also known as “burning redactions”. Opening up this function on the back-end, makes it possible for Qoppa’s customers to use Qoppa’s PDF library and PDF component together, within a client / server document workflow, to apply and burn redaction.

As usage of PDF documents increase in all industries, including publishing, energy, engineering and manufacturing, professionals have needs for comparing and reviewing multiple documents or multiple versions of the same document. Qoppa’s new PDF comparison module makes it easy to do just that. The Side by Side Comparison View displays two PDFs side by side in a synchronous scrolling view, allowing annotating or editing any of the two documents. The Overlay Comparison View superimposes two PDF documents and makes use of complementary colors to highlight differences between the documents. Switching back and forth between the two comparison views is done with the click of a button!

The user experience in Qoppa’s PDF Visual Components is enhanced with new, more modern icons and better interactive tools. Annotation tools were improved with multiple annotations editing, additional options for redaction and measuring annotations and a visual rotation handle for rubber stamps. Link and bookmark tools were also improved. A new date picker component was implemented, making it very convenient to fill in interactive date and time fields. New view options are available to display grid and rulers.

This release was also a good opportunity for Qoppa Software to perform some code cleanup and remove many obsolete classes and methods – that had been deprecated for more than 2 years – from the public API.

For more details about all the enhancements and fixes added in this release, please visit the links below:

Full Release Notes for Qoppa’s Java PDF Component 2015R1

Full Release Notes for Qoppa’s Java PDF Libraries 2015R1

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software specializes in Java PDF Toolkits for developers to integrate into their own Java or web applications. Qoppa Software also offers a fully-featured PDF Editor, a PDF Processing Server, and an Android PDF sdk, all developed on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology. Our PDF solutions are cross-platform and work on any operating system supporting Java, including Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix.

New PDF Studio 10 with Optimizer, Overlay Comparison, Conversion to HTML5

Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces version 10 of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use PDF editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. PDF Studio 10 adds a number of new features including PDF Optimization, Overlay Comparison, Conversion to HTML5 and Touch Mode.

The new Optimizer function provides many options for users to reduce the file size of PDF documents before sharing or publishing them. Images can be downsized and compressed, unused and duplicate objects removed, and data streams compressed. It is possible to save custom optimizer profiles and even to optimize a batch of PDF documents at once.

Architects and engineers will enjoy the new PDF Overlay Comparison view which allows visual comparison of drawings and blue prints by overlaying two documents and highlighting the differences using complementary colors. Users can switch back and forth between Overlay Comparison and Side by Side Comparison, and add annotations to both documents.

PDF Studio’s new Touch Mode will make it easier than ever to annotate and edit PDF documents using a pen, stylus or even a finger on tablets and touch enabled laptops. This is expected to be a hit with the many professionals working with PDF documents on the go who are fast adopting the new powerful tablets available on the market such as the Microsoft Surface Pro, Dell Venue, Lenovo Yoga, or Lenovo Thinkpad…

Researchers, writers and others professionals needing to publish PDF documents on the web will find it very easy to convert PDF documents to HTML5 using PDF Studio 10. Qoppa’s new proprietary PDF to HTML5 conversion engine is fast and highly accurate, as it takes advantage of the SVG format, natively supported by HTML5, and preserves vector graphics and advanced graphical features found in the original PDF.

PDF Studio 10 also adds improvements to existing features, including layers, bookmarks, annotations, form fields, and printing and scanning. The application has a sleeker look with new icons and many user interface improvements.

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software produces cross-platform PDF software for end-users and developers. Our PDF tools and libraries cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document workflows. Qoppa Software was founded in 2002 and is located in Atlanta, GA.

Full Release Notes for PDF Studio 10

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New PDF Studio 11 with Spell Check, Non-Latin OCR Languages, Output Preview, & Enhanced Print Dialog

PDF Automation Server v2016R1 Released with New RESTful API and Improved PDF Processing

Nouveau PDF Studio 11 avec: vérification orthographique, reconnaissance optique de caractères non-latins (OCR), Aperçu de la sortie et boite de dialogue d’impression améliorée

About Running Qoppa’s PDF Viewing Component jPDFViewer in Applets

jWordConvert adds font embedding when converting Word to PDF

Qoppa Software is exhibiting at JavaOne 2015

PDF Automation Server v2015R1 Released with New PDF Optimizer Job, Improved Sign Job

Spring release of Java PDF Toolkit and Swing PDF Component adds CMYK rendering, image processing enhancements, and PDF comparison

New PDF Studio 10 with Optimizer, Overlay Comparison, Conversion to HTML5

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