For immediate release

London and Berlin - October 20th, 2003

metaobject announces the immediate availability of version 4.3 of the
popular PDF compression tool for Mac OS X.

Version 4.3 of PdfCompress now also tackles edit-data left in PDF files
by applications such as Adobe Photoshop. Removing this data can make
files up to 10 times smaller.

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 4.3 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.