For immediate release

London and Berlin - August 12th, 2003

metaobject announces the immediate availability of version 4.2 of the
popular PDF compression tool for Mac OS X.

Version 4.2 of PdfCompress makes the smallest possible text-only PDF files
by optionally allowing all embedded fonts to be removed. This version also
retains PDF meta data such as the Creator when squeezing files.

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 $27 per copy to license, and version 4.2 is
a free upgrade for existing users of previous versions.

PdfCompress is a fully native Cocoa application.

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

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

or contact

marcel@metaobject.com
Berlin: +49 / 171 958 6433
London: +44 / 7792 757917

About metaobject

With offices in near Berlin's Olympic Stadium and London's Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea, 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, the widely copied PDF and Postscript viewer PostView 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