For immediate release

Berlin, Germany - February 27th, 2003

metaobject announces the immediate availability of version 4.0 of the
popular PDF compression tool for Mac OS X.

Version 4.0 adds image downsampling, the feature most requested by our
customers. We took a little extra time to ensure best quality results and
the ease of use users have come to expect from metaobject.

PdfCompress has received rave reviews from users and a 4.7 star rating (of
5 possible) from pdfworker, better than any other PDF compression utility.
PdfCompress still costs just US $25 per copy to license, and version 4.0 is
a free upgrade for existing users of previous versions.

PdfCompress is a fully native Cocoa application, not just a Cocoa wrapper
around legacy libraries.

For more information, downloads and purchasing, see our Products page at:

(http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html#PdfCompress)

or contact

Marcel Weiher
marcel@metaobject.com
+ 49 / 171 / 958 6433

About metaobject

Located in view of Berlin's Olympic Stadium, metaobject creates publishing
software solutions and technologies that help you perform like a champion.
The PressObjects toolbox, which includes Postscript and PDF interpreters as
well as a wide variety of user-extensible processing tools, is the basis
for tools such as PdfCompress or the TextLightning PDF to RTF text
extractor. The MetaAd(tm) content adaptation system captures and models
design IDeAs for effective brand- and design-management over intra- and
extranets.

Marcel Weiher Metaobject Software Technologies
marcel@metaobject.com www.metaobject.com
Metaprogramming for the Graphic Arts. HOM, IDEAs, MetaAd etc.