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Stone Design & Frank Siegert
Announce PStill

For Mac OS X Server

Albuquerque, June 11 1999 - Veteran OpenStep and Macintosh developers, Stone Design and Frank M. Siegert of Area 51, today announced availability of PStill - a powerful yet easy to use PostScript to PDF conversion application. PStill can convert EPS and PS files by dropping on files or folder of files. Download. See Screenshot

PStill Features include:

Conversion Features:
- Drag and drop conversion: files or folders
- Converts EPS (even with Preview) to PDF
- Converts PS to PDF easily
- Preserves the layout as best as possible
- Converts graphics color model automatically to CMYK
- Automatically sizes EPS files
- Handles font subsetting - embeds just glyphs used to save space
- Recycles images - same image even if scaled/rotated output only once
- Accepts Type 1 and Type 3 fonts
- Outputs full or subsetted Type 1 in PDF results
- Embeds unincludable fonts automatically as paths or bitmaps
- Skips totally empty pages in PDF output
- Proven and reliable conversion engine

Customizations:
- Control dots per inch: 72-600
- Set page size to A2-A5, letter, legal or custom
- Reverse page ordering
- Compress output with patent free compression
- Map transfer functions from PS
- Arbitrary float precision to 8 digits
- Control minimum linewidth to prevent burnout
- Rotate output 90, 180, and 270 degrees
- Write text as paths (optional)

Application Features:
- Choose folder where output is produced by default
- Log window with verbose logging of conversion process
- Job Control - stop one or all conversion jobs
- Drag out converted files - all jobs are available for dragging
- Font Management - automatically imports and reads your PS fonts
- Drag on new fonts from non-standard locations
- Choose to automatically convert dragged on EPS/PS files


Introductory price for PStill is $99 - this can be ordered directly from the
secure Stone Order form or through the application itself. Longtime NeXTSTEP users of the original PStill can upgrade for $33 - send your original license number to info@stone.com for verification. Price includes free upgrades (via download) of all 1.x releases.


    Stone Design Corp. in Albuquerque, New Mexico was formed in 1984 and was the first developer to ship a product on NeXT Hardware in 1989 with the release of TextArt. Since then, Stone Design has been a leader in innovative shrinkwrap software in the NEXTSTEP/OpenStep/Mac OS X Server marketplace. Create(TM) - the high end drawing and web page making package - is Mac Server's and Apple Yellowbox's first application. Frank M. Siegert is a long time PostScript[(tm)wizard and independent consultant. PStill is also available for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep and other platforms, see http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html All other names are trademarked by their respective companies.


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