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Jaws PDF Editor an application for the business and small or home office user to edit and mark-up Portable Document Format (PDF) files can be used as a stand-alone tool or as a companion to Jaws PDF Creator, Global Graphics' PDF creation package. It offers users the capability to view, search, manipulate, comment on, mark-up and print PDF documents with a reduced user learning curve.

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PDF is a standard, compact file format that maintains all the fonts, formatting, and graphics integrity of any computer generated document, regardless of the original application it was prepared with e.g.: Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. PDF files are ideal for document exchange and archiving, can be shared, distributed, viewed, edited, manipulated, published onto web sites and CD-ROMs, and printed on any printer. As a result the PDF is quickly being adopted as the internal and external standard file format within business, education and government. Using Jaws PDF Editor a wide variety of PDF documents can be compiled including:

Financial reports: text and figures can be extracted from various Excel, PowerPoint and Word documents into one PDF document for distribution. This is suitable for sales reports, financial summaries, budget summaries etc.

Manuals: Text and pages from multiple PDF documents can be searched, extracted and compiled into single manuals and reports for digital distribution and publishing. Excellent for large print on demand jobs with frequent updates such as training manuals.

Marketing material: brochures, advertisements, newsletters, datasheets etc can be circulated in a secure PDF format for review and edit comments prior to finalisation and printing.

Editing features:

In addition to standard viewing and print options, Jaws PDF Editor allows editing features including:

Viewing & navigation: view 40-bit encrypted PDF files and navigation via bookmarks, page list, thumbnails or links

Mark-up tools: highlight, strikethrough and underline text with associated pop-up comment windows and add `sticky notes'

Search: by word or phrase

Select text and copy into other application

Page manipulation tools: include insert, delete, reorder, extract pages plus page auto-rotation so portrait and landscape pages print in the correct orientation.landscape pages print in the correct orientation.

Jaws PDF Editor 1.0 is compatible with PDF 1.3 files and Windows NT Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems. PDF 1,4 (128-bit encryption, fast web view (linearization)) and Windows 98 compatibility will be available in the next version of the soft-ware available this year and at only a nominal upgrade cost. Features such as the ability to add PDF forms and signatures are also be available

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