For immediate release

Berlin, Germany - September 1st, 2002

metaobject announces the immediate availability of PdfCompress 1.0, the
compression tool for Quartz PDF files.

PdfCompress applies JPEG compression to photographic images contained in
PDF files. This dramatically reduces the size of PDF files produced by Mac
OS X that contain images by up to a factor of 10 without visibly altering
image quality.

PdfCompress can be run from the Finder's Contextual menu or by dragging and
dropping items onto the application's icon, and features a settable
compression strength.

PdfCompress has been updated for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and costs US $25
per seat to license. When unlicensed, PdfCompress replaces some images
instead of compressing them. Time-limited demo-licenses are also available.

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.