Qoppa Software attends EDUCAUSE 2013 in Atlanta

Qoppa Software is exhibiting at this year’s EDUCAUSE® Southeast Regional Conference from May 29 to May 31 2013 in Atlanta (our hometown!).

Qoppa’s display will offer live demonstrations of PDF Studio, our powerful PDF software, an affordable alternative to Adobe® Acrobat® for schools and universities.

PDF Studio, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, puts state of the art PDF technology within reach of all schools, small and big, and allows efficient paperless collaboration for everybody on campus: students, faculty and staff.

Higher education IT professionals, teaching professionals, and decision makers are invited to come and learn more about our PDF software and discuss deployment scenarios with Gerald Holmann, president and founder of Qoppa Software.

Spring release of Java PDF libraries adds new PDF editing component, JavaScript, time-stamping of digital signatures

Atlanta, GA April 11 2013 – Qoppa Software’s new spring release of Java PDF components and libraries delivers a new PDF editing and redacting component as well as support for JavaScript and time-stamping of digital signatures.

Qoppa Software is pleased to announce jPDFEditor, its new PDF editing component, which supports all the rendering, annotating and form filling features found in Qoppa’s other PDF components, plus more powerful editing features:

Content Editing: the content editing tool allows users to modify the content of PDF documents:
- Copy, delete, edit, move text
- Copy, delete, move, resize images
- Copy, delete, edit, move, resize shapes, and paths
- Work with single or multiple text, image, or path objects
Redaction: the redaction feature lets users permanently remove sensitive information from PDF documents:
- Add redaction annotations to cover an area on a page. The area can contain any PDF objects such as text, image, or shape objects.
- “Burn” the redaction annotations to remove the underlying content that intersects with the area redacted.
Access to jPDFProcess API: jPDFEditor comes packaged with Qoppa’s jPDFProcess library, providing access to a rich API to further manipulate PDF documents programmatically.

“We expect our new PDF component, jPDFEditor, to be of great interest to document management professionals wishing to PDF-enable their DMS, ECM, and BPM systems. Developers and integrators can now deploy a powerful PDF editor in their own java and web applications and be reassured that they have the most advanced Java PDF technology and user interface available on the market.” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa Software President.

The new release also adds JavaScript support to Qoppa’s Swing PDF rendering components jPDFViewer and jPDFNotes, making it easier to fill interactive forms with features such as:

Form field calculations to automatically compute the value of given fields from other fields.
Form field validation to prevent invalid data entry and ensure that all required fields are filled in.
Form field formatting to facilitate the capture of special fields such as dates, social security numbers, postal codes, phone numbers, etc.

Time-stamping of digital signatures was added to fulfill the needs of Qoppa’s customers as many security standards now require this added level of security to encrypt administrative and legal documents. With the new 2013R1 release, it is possible to apply and verify PDF Digital signatures with Server timestamps authenticated by a trusted, independent authority. Time stamps are essentially encapsulated in another certificate signed by the authority which contains both the customer’s and the time-stamp server’s signatures.

The new release adds many other improvements and internal fixes. For more details, please visit the links below:

ABOUT QOPPA SOFTWARE

About Qoppa Software:
Qoppa Software specializes in Java PDF library products – pure Java as well as Android Java – for developers to integrate into their own Java or web applications. Qoppa Software also offers a fully-featured PDF end-user application, a PDF server, and Android PDF apps developed on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology.

Qoppa Software announces PDF Studio 8 with JavaScript, OCR and enhanced text selection

: PDF Studio 8

December 20, 2012 – Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces a major new release of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use, cross-platform PDF desktop tool. PDF Studio 8 adds javascript support in PDF forms, faster rendering, improved text selection, and user interface improvements.

“PDF Studio 8 greatly refines the user experience when working with all features of our advanced PDF application: when rendering PDF documents, when reviewing and marking up documents with annotations, and when filling interactive PDF forms. Our goal at Qoppa is to continue to offer the best deal on PDF software: ahead of the competition when it comes to features, 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.

Fields formatted in JavaScript

JavaScript Support: Filling interactive PDF forms in PDF Studio 8 has become even easier with JavaScript support which adds:
+ Form field calculations to automatically compute the value of given fields from other fields.
+ Form field validation to prevent invalid data entry and ensure that all required fields are filled in.
+ Form field formatting to facilitate the capture of special fields such as dates, social security numbers, postal codes, phone numbers, etc…

OCR for Windows, Mac and Linux: PDF Studio 8 offers a new OCR function allowing to create searchable PDFs from scanned documents. OCR which stands for Optical Character Recognition can be applied to existing PDF documents or at the time of scanning to convert paper documents directly into searchable PDFs. The text added can be searched, edited or marked up with highlights, underline, cross-out or caret annotations. The OCR function is available to Windows, Mac OSX and Linux users. Supported languages are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.

Cursor-based text selection with column detection

Text Selection: PDF Studio 8’s new text model delivers major enhancements in the way text is extracted, selected, and marked up in the application:

Text extraction and selection now support column detection in documents with multi-column page layout such as articles, magazines, and other publications.
The new cursor-based selection and highlight tool follows the natural order of text within pages and handle selection across columns. An alternate rectangular selection mode is also available as a fall back to when selecting non-consecutive text on a page.

Nimbus look and feel

Improved User Interface: PDF Studio 8 offers new graphical skin options to choose from when customizing the appearance of the application, including the Substance and the Nimbus look and feel. Professionals in the print, graphics, and construction industry will also enjoy the new Pan and Zoom tool which allows zooming inside high-resolution documents and moving around a page while keeping a view of the overall page on screen.

Rendering Speed: Qoppa has implemented a new tile based rendering approach which greatly improves the user experience when working with graphically intensive PDF documents and delivers:

Huge performance increases when rendering documents and drawing annotations.
Better responsiveness when scrolling, navigating, and zooming in PDF documents.

Responding to user needs, Qoppa Software has added many other significant enhancements to PDF Studio 8, including the ability to remove watermarks, headers and footers; an advanced undo function; a window cascade / tile function; and the option to save a PDF document as linearized for fast viewing over the web.

About Qoppa Software:
Qoppa Software specializes in Java PDF library products – pure Java as well as Android Java – for developers to integrate into their own applications. Qoppa Software also offers advanced PDF end-user and server applications and tools developed on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology.

Full Change Log for PDF Studio 8

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qPDF Notes 3.0 Introductory Tour Video Published

Qoppa Software published an introductory tour of qPDF Notes 3.0, our powerful, easy to use, PDF annotating and form filling app for Android phones and tablets.

This video covers major capabilities and features in qPDF Notes 3.0.

Get qPDF Notes – All-in-one Android PDF – from Google Play Install

Get qPDF Viewer – Free Android PDF Reader – from Google Play Install

Qoppa Software makes the PDF technology found in its apps available in an Android PDF SDK for Android developers to integrate into their own apps.

New v3.0 Android qPDF apps deliver text reflow, javascript and whole new look!

ATLANTA – November 1st, 2012 – Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF solutions, is proud to announce release 3.0 of its Android PDF apps, qPDF Notes – PDF Reader and Annotating App and qPDF Viewer – Free PDF Reader. This release includes major new features including a text reflow mode, support for Javascript in interactive forms, and a whole new look.

Use text reflow for a great reading experience

Text Reflow Mode: The text reflow feature allows for more effective reading of ebooks, magazines, and articles while on the go. Text reflow shows a text-only view of a PDF document and automatically reflows the content to fit the screen width as users zoom in and out. Font size can be increased or decreased according to reading preferences. This view provides an exceptional reading experience on smaller Android phones and tablets by eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling.

Javascript Support: The added support for Javascript in version 3.0 greatly improves user experience when filling interactive PDF forms by implementing:

form field calculations to automatically compute the value of given fields from other fields.
form field validation to prevent users from entering invalid data and ensuring that all required data is filled in.
form field formatting to facilitate the capture of special format fields such as dates, social security, phone numbers, etc…

A New Look: The user interface was reinvented to accommodate the many functions offered in the app and give users quick and easy access to core features. The Action bar was changed to add the following menus:

“File” menu to open, save, or send/share files.
“View” menu to change to text reflow mode, go to the outline / bookmarks / comments pane, go to page, zoom, and lock the navigation overlay.
“Document” menu to add new pages, flatten annotations and fields, or go to the fast form fill view.

In addition, all colors and icons were redesigned for a streamlined, sleek new look consistent with the overall Android Holo style.

Add Image

Add Images: Version 3.0 adds the ability to easily add images / pictures as annotations onto PDF documents or add them to interactive PDF form image fields. Images can come from the device, cloud services or directly from the camera, simplifying the daily routine of professionals such as home inspectors or insurance agents when creating inspection reports.

To celebrate qPDF Notes’ new release, the app is offered at 50% discount through December. Users who are currently evaluating qPDF Notes Demo are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to upgrade to qPDF Notes Full Version.

Qoppa Software makes the PDF technology found in its apps available in an Android PDF SDK for Android developers to integrate into their own apps.

Qoppa’s Android products are available for all Android phones and tablets 2.1 or higher including: Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy S2 and S3, Asus Transformer Prime, Acer Iconia, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1, Motorola XOOM, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, Blackberry Playbook and devices with custom ROMs.

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.

Get qPDF Notes – All-in-one Android PDF – from Google Play Install

Get qPDF Viewer – Free Android PDF Reader – from Google Play Install

A whole new look for qPDF Notes 3.0 (see before and after pictures).

Full Change Log for qPDF Notes 3.0

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Developer Newsletter – October 2012

Hello Developers!

Many of you have asked to be notified about new releases of our java libraries, so we’re starting this newsletter to inform you of what’s new here at Qoppa and when new product versions are available. We hope you enjoy our newsletter!

New Version of Java PDF Libraries & Components

: A Java PDF Library for Any Process

In this newly improved version of our Java PDF library products, we enhanced our libraries with a powerful new algorithm for text extraction as well as improved rendering capability for very large CCITT fax images. Our Java PDF visual components benefit from a new tile-based rendering approach that allows for out of thread rendering, improving user interface responsiveness and memory usage. Contact us to upgrade to the new version!

Did you know about our new Android SDK?

Qoppa PDF Toolkit for Android Developers qPDF Toolkit is Qoppa’s new Android Java SDK that allows developers to quickly add PDF functionality to Android apps. Following our established tradition of 100% self-sustaining, portable PDF solutions, we developed this toolkit completely in Android, so it can run on any Android device and be easily integrated into any standard Android app. qPDF Toolkit Release History.

Watch our new video

We’ve published a video introduction to our products and components – a library for every PDF processing need.
Whatever your PDF needs are today or in the future, we probably have a solution for you: creation, manipulation, conversion, high-fidelity rendering, data extraction….

And our JavaOne 2012 Winner is…

Dr. Barry Burd was the grand prize winner in Qoppa Software’s JavaOne prize drawing for a Nexus 7 Android Tablet. Congratulations! Qoppa’s booth at JavaOne 2012 offered live demonstrations of our PDF library, desktop and server products. Gerald Holmann, Qoppa’s founder was glad to meet many java developers including some of our existing customers!

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qPDF Viewer ranked in the Top 10 Free Android Office Apps!

qPDF Viewer, Qoppa’s free PDF reader app, was ranked in the Top 10 Free Android Office Apps by Datamation, a top source for news about enterprise IT and technology.

“While you could install Adobe Acrobat Reader, Qoppa is far faster. Unlike several other available .pdf readers, it is also ad-free.” Datamation Ranking of Free Android Apps for Productivity.

Visit Qoppa Software at JavaOne 2012 and win a Nexus7!

Qoppa Software President, Gerald Holmann and Marketing Director, Susan Sims, are currently at JavaOne 2012, meeting and talking with java developers, integrators, and device manufacturers about Qoppa’s line of PDF library products for Java and Android.

Qoppa’s booth (#5506) at JavaOne offers live demonstrations of the PDF rendering and manipulation capabilities it delivers in its Java PDF library products, PDF visual components, Android PDF toolkit, PDF desktop application and PDF workflow server.

Java developers are able to directly discuss potential development and deployment scenarios with Gerald Holmann, president and founder of Qoppa Software.

In addition to learning about our products, visitors to Qoppa’s booth will be entered to win a Nexus7 Android tablet (8Gb). Chances are excellent, much higher than winning the lottery, so make sure to stop by!

“Friends of Qoppa” (existing and potential customers and partners) may claim a free Discover Passes to JavaOne, Oracle OpenWorld, and Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange by emailing us.

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Now that we are home from JavaOne 2012, Gerald and Susan want to thank each of our customers and our many new friends for visiting with us at our booth.

Congratulations to our prize drawing winner – Dr. Barry Burd of Drew University!

Qoppa’s PDF reader app for Android hits 100,000 downloads!

Qoppa Software is happy to announce that qPDF Viewer – its PDF reader app for Android – has reached the milestone of 100,000 downloads on Google Play this week!

“We’re glad that so many Android users have elected qPDF Viewer as their favorite app to read PDF documents on Android phones and tablets. But this is only the beginning! We’re in the process of finalizing a major release of our app with many exciting new features that we expect will please our users even more!” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa Software’s president.

qPDF Viewer is a free, high-fidelity rendering PDF app that offers sophisticated reading and navigation capabilities such as:

Marking preferred passages with personal bookmarks inside a PDF document.
Easily navigating through PDFs using the documents’ table of contents, hyperlinks or added comments / annotations.
Efficiently searching text through PDF documents using the advanced search feature.

qPDF Viewer – Qoppa’s FREE PDF reader app– is available for all Android phones and tablets 2.1 or above* as well as the Blackberry Playbook, in the following languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish. It can be installed from the following markets:

Google Play – Download

Amazon Appstore – Download

BlackBerry PlayBook – Download

For those who need to do more with PDFs, qPDF Notes – Qoppa’s app to annotate PDF documents and fill interactive forms, is offered at an unbeatable price of $4.99:

Google Play – Download

Amazon Appstore – Download

BlackBerry PlayBook – Download

* Phone and tablets supported include: Nexus 7, Samsung Galaxy S2 and Galaxy S3, Asus Transformer Prime, Acer Iconia, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy Note, Motorola XOOM, Lenovo Thinkpad, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, Sony Xperia, devices with custom ROMs.

Qoppa Software’s fall release of Java PDF libraries and components improves PDF text extraction and rendering performance

Atlanta – September 12 2012 – Qoppa Software, a leading provider of PDF solutions, releases newly improved versions of all of their Java PDF library products.

Qoppa’s Java PDF class libraries are enhanced with a new powerful algorithm for text extraction.

“The order and organization of text objects in a PDF document do not necessarily correspond to the logical reading order. We have developed a new text extraction algorithm which detects the natural flow of even structured PDF documents such as research or newspaper articles. We’re very happy with the results when compared with other PDF tools.” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa President.

The new release also adds enhanced memory management so the PDF libraries can handle rendering and printing of very large CCITT fax images (200Mb and above).

In this fall release, Qoppa’s Java PDF visual components benefit from a new tile-based rendering approach which splits each page of a PDF document into multiple tiles that can be rendered and cached independently. This new strategy enables implementing out of thread rendering and improving image caching and memory usage, which makes it easier to work with intensive PDF documents in 3 areas:

Faster rendering
Smoother drawing of annotations
Better GUI responsiveness

Also new in this release is Qoppa’s pan and zoom tool which will allow users to zoom in and out of high-resolution pages and move around a page (“pan”) while also displaying a larger view of a page. This new tool should greatly benefit professionals working in the media, print, and graphics industries.

Thanks to the revision of Qoppa’s text extraction algorithm, text selection and highlight is also greatly improved in the visual components. Now cursor based, it follows the logical reading order of structured documents and allows marking up text across columns.

“The new release brings our Java PDF rendering components to a whole new level, delivering one of the best user experiences available on the market when it comes to viewing, marking up and scrolling through PDF documents.” – Gerald Holmann, Qoppa President

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

Full Change Log for Java PDF Library 2012-09 Release

Full Change Log for Java PDF Component 2012-09 Release

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