These are news stories from 1999. See also current stories. and stories from 2000, 1998 or 1997.

13 November 1999 - Quite Direct is bigger and better

Quite Direct is our online store, where you can buy licenses for selected Quite products - instantly. We are pleased to announce that we have added Quite Imposing and Quite Imposing Plus to the products available for instant purchase. Just download the software and you can buy a license with your credit card. Limited offer! If you buy from our store you just get a license to use the software. But if you buy Quite Imposing or Quite Imposing Plus from any e-commerce site before 31 December 1999, just send an e-mail to help@quite.com with your serial number and postal address, and we will send a printed manual for your reference. (Manuals also downloadable. Offer includes existing customers of e-commerce. Does not include customers who purchased hard-copy. Limit one per customer. No charge for standard postage or air mail.)

27 August 1999 - Now you can automate Box Of Tricks!

Quite software are pleased to announce an alliance with leading plug-in developer callas software which brings automation facilities to Quite's products for the first time.

pdfToolbox is a collection of valuable tools from callas, and includes pdfBatchProcess Pro, an automation plug-in for Acrobat 3.0 or 4.0, which works with "watched folders". pdfBatchProcess Pro can automate selected plug-ins, and Quite A Box Of Tricks is the one of the first plug-ins to support automation in pdfBatchProcess Pro.

If a customer has both of these products installed, it is easy to process a folder full of files, converting colours, shrinking, thickening hairlines, even optimizing for the Web. Almost all of Quite A Box Of Trick's tools can now be automated.

An evaluation copy of pdfBatchProcess Pro can now be downloaded from callas (remember, it is part of the pdfToolBox suite). And you can download a preview of the new Quite A Box Of Tricks from our preview web page.You can check out the automation facilities even in demo mode, and licensed users of both products can perform full automation now. Comments on this preview version are welcome. We expect it to be released towards the end of September, 1999.

Aandi Inston, founder of Quite Software, is pleased. “Our customers are delighted with Quite A Box Of Tricks, but the most common request is for some degree of automation. This has given us an opportunity to exploit the automation facilities in a mature product, delivering what our users need in a timely fashion.”

This is the second project from the alliance with callas. Quite Software have also produced a special limited version of Quite A Box Of Tricks called "RGBGone", for sale only with the callas pdfOutputPro product, which prints separations from PDF files. For more details on our joint ventures, please refer to this press release (PDF, 1 page, 28 KB).

14 July 1999 - Register your Quite products on-line

Save yourself time and energy when you buy our products - register on-line. We have a special registration form, which saves filling in any paperwork. Here are four great reasons to register:

1. We can let you know when upgrades or fixes become available
2. You will be entitled to tech support
3. We can help you if you lose your serial number or private code in the future
4. We never sell or give away your personal details - we'll only use them to contact you about Quite products.

3 July 1999 - See you at Total Publishing 99!

Olympia, London UK, Wed 7th & Thu 8th July 1999. Stand S15, Software Solutions Village

Quite Software invites you to the British publishing event of the year! Total Publishing '99 gathers together all aspects of the publishing industry. Over 200 suppliers of publishing products and services spiced with a comprehensive programme of seminars, workshops and celebrity interviews are available to you over 2 fun days.

Come and see the latest innovations in the publishing industry and meet the people behind them. There'll be plenty of opportunites to source new suppliers or just come to chat about the latest industry trends. Take advantage of the rare opportunity to meet companies from all aspects of the publishing industry, all under one roof; Adobe Systems (demonstrating their latest product InDesign); Enfocus, Agfa Monotype, Quark, MacUser and many, many more.

And of course, Quite Software will be there. As developers of software designed to solve many of your PDF problems, there'll be plenty to chat about when you visit us. See you there!

15 June 1999 - Quite Imposing wins "Hot Product 99" award

Electronic Publishing is "the only monthly digital prepress and electronic publishing magazine dedicated to the Business Leaders Who Buy Techology." In the June, 1999, issue Electronic Publishing pick Hot Products for 1999. Of the 12 products, only five are software, and our own Quite Imposing is one of the winners. "It's a flexible and powerful imposition product for the money. I find myself using it repeatedly," writes contributing editor and prepress consultant Sterling Ledet. Quite founder Aandi Inston said, "We are very proud to have been chosen for this award, and to find ourselves rubbing shoulders with products from companies like Adobe, Epson and Kodak. Quite Imposing is not a product overburdened with fancy graphics or design, but we feel this justifies our policy of concentrating on products that are highly usable, and which just get on and do the job. Since the start of this month, there have been over 1,000 downloads of our Acrobat plug-ins from our web site alone, showing that many share our opinion." The full awards story is available as a PDF file from Electronic Publishing on the web (look for the June, 1999 issue).

2 June 1999 - Free upgrades, free trial!

Quite Software is pleased as punch to announce that we have released version 1.2 of Quite Imposing Plus, Quite Imposing and Quite A Box Of Tricks for Macintosh and Windows.

Good news if you already purchased a plug-in! If you purchased the product the upgrade is free. Just download it and start using the new version. For changes see the updated on-line guide or refer to the upgrade pages (Imposing, Box Of Tricks) for details.

Good news if you didn't! You can try all of our products for free during the month of June, also including PSAlter. We call this our Loony June Offer.

Note: new version only available for download at present. Hard-copy will be available mid-June.

10 May 1999 - Trial plug-ins for Acrobat 4 now available

All three of our plug-ins (Quite Imposing, Quite Imposing Plus and Quite A Box Of Tricks) now have trial versions available on our preview page. In addition to full support for Acrobat 4, these trial versions also include some new features based on user feedback. These plug-ins remain fully compatible with Acrobat 3, and will replace the current versions. Upgrades to this version will be free for all registered users.

Try them now! For more details refer to our Acrobat 4 page.

29 Apr 1999 - Quite Direct is open for business!

Quite Direct is our new online store, where you can buy licenses for selected Quite products - instantly. Initially, only Quite A Box Of Tricks will be available, but we will expand the range of products in future. We've started with Box Of Tricks, because the order forms we see often include notes like "urgent - needed to complete a job now!". We hope this will help our customers use our products even more effectively. The store is operated in association with Worldpay, specialists in secure electronic commerce.

6 Apr 1999 - We are ready for Acrobat 4.0!

New versions of all our Acrobat plug-ins will be available for full compatibility with the new Acrobat 4.0 product. These will be downloadable as a free update by all our customers. Visit our Acrobat 4.0 pages for full information.

The new plug-ins are already available in a beta (pre-release) form, and work with Acrobat 3.0 as well. You can download them from our preview pages.

5 Apr 1999 - Adobe Magazine likes Quite Imposing

Adobe Magazine is Adobe's prestigious quarterly magazine for their customers. In the Spring 1999 (North American) issue, a review of Quite Imposing appears. Quite Imposing finds favour for its ease of use and for the quality of the documentation. But don't take our word for it! If you don't receive a copy of the magazine, take a look at the full article in the online archive. There is a separate PDF containing all the reviews.

30 Mar 1999 - Aandi Inston makes guest appearances

	Quite founder Aandi Inston is turning up all over the web these days.
	PDFZone.COM, "the online hub to all things PDF" features an expanded transcript of Aandi's presentation at Seybold Seminars, in Boston, 3 March 1999 - the sequel to the prize winning presentation in San Francisco. In it, Inston takes an insider's look at Acrobat 4 - the opportunities and perils that await a third party developer, and the sort of third party add-ons that might be appearing.
	PlanetPDF is another web site packed with information about PDF. It is in Australia, but you can be there in seconds. Aandi has a regular column, Ask Aandi, where he turns Agony Aunt (or is it Uncle?) to answer some of the vexing PDF problems that people are having these days.
	The Adobe web forums are another place Inston is frequently to be found, in discussions on a wide variety of Adobe products, especially Acrobat. These User To User forums are a great place to share experiences and ask questions of other users. In recognition contribution Aandi makes to the forum, he was the first to be named "featured host".

16 Feb 1999 - Acrobat 4.0 is announced

Today, Adobe announced Acrobat 4.0 will be available in the first quarter of this year.

Quite Software is pleased to announce that updated versions of all of our plug-ins will be available within 30 days of the availability of Acrobat 4.0. We also expect to be able to enhance our products to make use of the new features of Acrobat 4.0. From our press release: "Acrobat 4.0 opens exciting opportunities for us to improve our products to meet customer needs," says Quite's Managing Director, Aandi Inston. "Features like larger pages, built-in ICC profiles, and support for pre-separated PDF files, help to address the concerns of users reaching the limits of the Acrobat 3.0 products, and we are ready to extend our products to take these features beyond Acrobat's own support."

More details are available in our press release (PDF, 2 pages, 32K).

6 Jan 1999 - Quite Imposing is Adobe's "plug-in of the month"

Adobe, creators of Adobe Acrobat, sell our plug-ins online through their Plug In Source. Quite Software are proud that Quite Imposing has been picked as Plug-in of the month for January 1999 - only the third plug-in to be selected, and the first Acrobat plug-in. Adobe say: "Why do we like it? Quite Imposing fills a critical "gap" in the computer-to-press PDF workflow. And, it does it in a very user-friendly way. Although Quite Imposing (and Quite Imposing Plus) are tools designed for the professional, they are so easy to use that even novices can impose PDF files. And, both products come with enough advice and helpful hints for the new user that you'll not fall into the trap of doing things wrong (and adding to the cost of the print job!)." See: our plug-in of the month page at Adobe; current and past plug-ins of the month; the Plug-in source home page; Quite Imposing purchase page at Adobe; our own pages on Quite Imposing.

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