These are news stories from 1998. See also current stories. and stories from 2000, 1999 or 1997.
30 Dec 1998 - update to PSAlter released
PSAlter 1.52 is a new release, containing mainly corrections for problems discovered over the last year. Registered users of PSAlter can download the new installer. Please have your serial number ready, as this area is protected. Alternatively, contact us if you would prefer to receive the update on disks.
30 Dec 1998 - minor update to Quite Imposing released
Since their release, Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus have proven to be very reliable. A few new issues have been discovered, though, and the new version 1.0e fixes all known problems. It's available now for download. Users of 1.0, 1.0a or 1.0b may wish to check this list of problems to decide if they will benefit from this version. Registered users preferring disks or e-mail should contact us directly.
One problem with earlier versions can produce incorrect output, so we recommend upgrading to the latest version as a precaution, even though less than 1% of users have reported any difficulty.
25 Nov 1998 - Quite wins Best Presenter award in Seybold session
The Seybold Seminars are a twice annual meeting of the pre-press world.
In San Francisco in 1998, Quite founder Aandi Inston gave a seven minute talk in the major seminar called "PDF Day", a special segment Seven Minutes With A PDF Developer. There were 18 developers in all, each with seven minutes. Aandi's talk won the audience-voted Best Presenter award for the Seven Minutes segment. The prize is: ten minutes and the opening slot next time (Boston in 99)!
We have made available the slides and transcript. Seybold have a full list of winners in various categories.
28 Aug 1998 - Preview our latest software for free
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Quite Software are pleased to announce that their latest plug-in is being made available for a limited free preview. This is beta software, and is not yet finished, but we would like your opinions on this now. Quite A Box Of Tricks is a plug-in for Acrobat Exchange on Windows 95/NT and PowerMac. Features include shrinking PDF documents by subsampling and recompressing images; converting RGB colours to CMYK, all colours to greyscale, or all text to black; scaling, mirroring, or rotating a PDF file by any angle; making form fields a part of the file; and a tool to get detailed information on the images and text in a PDF file. For a limited period, this can be downloaded from our preview page. This version is time limited, and cannot be used after its expiry date. |
26 Aug 1998 - Quite Imposing features in new training CDROM
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The latest addition to Digital Media's acclaimed series of training CDROMS in their DeskTop Interactive Learning series is Adobe Acrobat and PDF Workflow. We are pleased that Digital Media have chosen to devote an entire course segment to Imposing PDF files, with our own Quite Imposing Plus. At Quite, we consider it ideal for pre-press and other users starting out with Acrobat and PDF, or already working in the field but wanting a thorough grounding in the tools, options, and good working practices available. The training CDROM is available in North America direct from Digital Media (1-800-355-6429) for only $99.95. Gary Cosimini, Business Development Manager at Adobe Systems Inc. wrote: "At long last, an interactive tutorial for prepress PDF users. Uncomplicated and as easy to use as Acrobat. Thanks, Digital Media!" |
21 Aug 1998 - New resellers in UK, Eire, France, Sweden
We have recently added Alta Technology (UK and Eire), Quartet Systems (France) and Q-Bit Data (Sweden) to our growing list of partners reselling Quite Imposing around the world. See our list of resellers for more details.
31 July 1998 - now Adobe sell our plug-ins with hard copy too
Many people have purchased Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus electronically from Adobe's Plug-in source (see below). Following the success of this project, Adobe now offer these plug-ins in hard copy format, with disks and manuals. This is currently available in North America only. See www.pluginsource.com or call 1-800-685-3547 now!
15 June 1998 - Adobe sell our plug-ins online
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We are very pleased to announce that Adobe Systems are now selling our Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus electronically to customers in the USA and Canada. You can now download, purchase and use the plug-ins immediately. Quite Software founder Aandi Inston said, "Adobe's Plug-in Source at www.pluginsource.com is a presigious source of many of the top plug-ins for Acrobat and other products, and we are delighted to have this vote of confidence in our products. Adobe are the first to offer Quite Imposing plug-ins for instant download and purchase, and we believe this will be very convenient for our customers, since after trying the downloadable demo, they often want to get to work right away." |
26 Apr 1998 - minor update to Quite Imposing released
Since their release, Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus have proven to be very reliable. A few issues have been reported, though, and the new version 1.0a fixes all known problems. It's available now for download. Users of 1.0 may wish to check this list of problems to decide if they will benefit from this version. Registered users preferring disks or e-mail should contact us directly.
21 Mar 1998 - Added an "FAQ" for Quite Imposing
FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions, and are a great Internet tradition. We have added our own FAQ page for Quite Imposing, and it can be found from our Quite Imposing page. We found great interest in Quite Imposing at the Seybold conference in New York last week, and we've included some of the questions we heard there!
12 Mar 1998 - More resellers for Quite Imposing, PSAlter
The list of resellers around the world carrying our products is expanding fast! Recent additions include Emerge in the USA (Quite Imposing), New Media Tools and Impressed in Germany (Quite Imposing), täyttöpää oy in Finland (Quite Imposing and PSAlter), and XCite (Quite Imposing) in the Netherlands. There will be more soon!
25 Feb 1998 - Quite Imposing is shipping!
The first copies of our unique Acrobat plug-ins Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus were shipped today. It will take the rest of our web site a few days to catch up with this. Until then you can continue to download beta 5b, which is identical in all but name to the version 1.0 we are shipping.
30 Jan 1998 - Early birds can license final Quite Imposing
Quite Imposing continues to attract high levels of interest, with over 1,100 downloads from at least 33 countries. On 29 January. we posted the final time-limited beta, which can be instantly upgraded to a permanent license - join our early bird purchasers now! If you haven't tried Quite Imposing or Quite Imposing Plus yet, now is the time. Until the end of February you can run a fully functioning version and use it for final work. Once March arrives, you'll still be able to try everything in the plug-ins, but the demonstration versions will mark all impositions with an X.
16 Jan 1998 - Quite Imposing makes MacWeek
Quite Imposing, our forthcoming plug-in for Acrobat Exchange on Macintosh and Windows garners a mention in the important US magazine MacWeek. The full story is in their online issue of 15 January. Quite Imposing is expected to ship in February, 1998 and an updated free beta version can be downloaded which will run until the end of February.
1 Jan 1998 - Visit us at MacWorld San Francisco
Happy new year from all at Quite Software!
Aandi Inston from Quite Software will be at the huge MacWorld Expo, at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, between 6 and 9 January 1998. He'll be giving the first public demonstrations of Quite Imposing, the new plug-in for Acrobat Exchange on Power Macintosh (also available for Windows). Visit stand 4180 (North Hall) - the Extensions Hot Spot Pavilion.
Our newly appointed US resellers, The World-Wide Power Company are sponsoring the Pavilion, and will be on hand to take advance orders at a special show price.
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