Nuance Introduces PDF Edit! in Japan, Teams with SOURCENEXT for Broad Retail and eCommerce Distribution Throughout Japan.TOKYO & BURLINGTON, Mass. -- PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. Edit! to be the Flagship Product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. for SOURCENEXT's Market-leading Ikinari PDF Family, Available in Over 10,000 Retail Outlets as the First True Alternative to Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) in Japan Nuance Communications Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company. Their current worldwide headquarters is in Burlington, Massachusetts in the United States. Nuance provides speech and imaging solutions and is mainly known for its speech recognition and speech synthesis software that , Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN NUAN New User Action Notation (modeling language) ), a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced the immediate availability of PDF Edit!, a complete PDF creation and editing application designed specifically for the Japanese market. Nuance also announced that SOURCENEXT, a leading software developer and distributor within Japan, has licensed PDF Edit! and will distribute the product as the flagship of its Ikinari PDF product family. SOURCENEXT has over 400 software titles, which are sold in over 10,000 retail outlets and significant eCommerce sites in Japan. The Ikinari PDF product family has seen record sales in the last two years, with 600,000 units sold in Japan. "SOURCENEXT is one of the truly remarkable technology companies in Japan, with their Ikinari PDF family outselling even Adobe Acrobat in units within the Japanese retail market," said John Shagoury, president, Productivity Applications Division, Nuance. "We developed PDF Edit! specifically for retail, government and corporate users within Japan, and believe that SOURCENEXT is a unique partner that will maximize the growing opportunity for affordable PDF solutions PDF Solutions (NASDAQ: PDFS) is a developer for process-design integration technologies for integrated circuits (ICs). They have especially specialized in deep sub-micrometre designs. in Japan." Nuance's PDF Edit! is available only in Japan, and represents the first true alternative to Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) for the Japanese market. The product provides everything needed to view, create, print and edit PDF files, with a cost that makes it an affordable solution for every business desktop. Key features include: --Industry-Standard PDF Creates 100% industry-standard PDF files that can be read, printed, or processed by popular PDF viewer programs - such as ScanSoft(R) PaperPort(R) Professional and Adobe(R) Reader(R). Supports PDF v1.3, v1.4, and the latest v1.5; also supports PDF XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. tags. --High Quality PDF Creates the highest quality PDF files from nearly all Microsoft(R) Windows(R) applications, retaining the precise layout of the original document. --Superior Creation Speed Produces PDF files up to 3 times faster than the leading PDF creation application. --Optimized, Small File Sizes Creates highly optimized PDF files that are dramatically smaller than the original document. Supports industry-standard compression options, including loss-less, JPG See JPEG. jpg - JPEG 2000 and enables optimization for the Web. --Passwords and Security Secure PDF files by requiring others to know a password in order to view or print a document. 40-bit and 128-bit encryption can also be applied to a PDF file with the user able to control whether the document can be viewed, printed, edited, copied or annotated. --Automatic PDF-to-e-Mail Choose to have PDF files automatically added as an attachment to an e-mail message simplifying the sharing of documents over the Internet. --Watermarks and Stamps Apply watermarks and stamps to your documents from a pre-made library or create your own. Custom watermarks can be applied from other PDF files or created from within the PDF Create! Assistant. --Short-cuts and Application Integration Create PDF files from practically every PC application through a printer interface or by using the right-mouse shortcut (1) In Windows, a shortcut is an icon that points to a program or data file. Shortcuts can be placed on the desktop or stored in other folders, and double clicking a shortcut is the same as double clicking the original file. when clicking on any file in Windows Explorer See Explorer. . Nuance has also integrated toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the icons for PDF Create! within a number of popular applications, including Microsoft(R) Word, PowerPoint(R) and Outlook(R). --Advanced Font Embedding Including fonts in a document in order to be able to render a particular typeface in a computer that does not have the same font installed. Fonts can be embedded in documents such as Acrobat PDF files (see Acrobat) as well as in Web pages (see Microsoft font embedding and TrueDoc). , Graphics and Page Size Controls Supports font embedding for all standard and non-standard fonts, shading and transparency conversions. Select the graphics resolution and control PDF page size and orientation. Supports the creation of custom page sizes and automatically scales in inches, millimeters and points. --International Language Support Supports international double-byte character sets enabling creation of PDF documents using nearly any Latin, Cyrillic or Asian character set. --Does Not Require Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) Create and view PDF files without the need for any additional software. PDF Editing Features --Design and Publish Fillable PDF Forms The amazing FormTyper feature automatically discovers form fields and check-boxes, adding standard PDF form elements to your form without changing the original. You can also manually add form elements, including buttons, checkboxes, digital signature fields and more. Full attribute settings are also supported. --Reorder, Cut, Copy and Paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. Pages PDF page thumbnails and assembly tools allow you to easily manipulate pages in a PDF document to rearrange, add or delete pages with drag & drop ease. --Copy Text, Graphics and more into Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. Have you ever wanted to use a chart or graphic in a PDF within a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation? Now you can with PDF Converter Professional - just select the area to copy, then paste into Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , PowerPoint and more. --Select, Edit, Cut, Copy and Paste Text within PDF Documents Text tools provide an easy way to add, delete, move or modify text within a PDF file. Change colors, fonts, or point sizes with only a few mouse clicks. --Select, Resize Verb 1. resize - change the size of; make the size more appropriate size - make to a size; bring to a suitable size rescale - establish on a new scale , Cut and Paste To move an object from one location to another. When the operation is complete, there is nothing left in the original location. It may refer to relocating files from one folder to another or to relocating selected text or images from one document to another. Images Easily add, delete, move, reshape or resize images, including individual graphical elements in pie and bar charts without having to manipulate the entire graphic. --Add Comments and Markup Documents Streamline group collaboration See collaborative software. using sticky notes and highlighting tools that allow you to emphasize text or certain portions of documents during the creation or review process. --Add and Edit Bookmarks and Hyperlinks Add bookmarks and hyperlinks to your documents to quickly find a place in a document or embed a link to important information eliminating wasted time spent searching for information. --Attach Application Files, Audio and Video Files Make your PDF files more complete and dynamic by adding application, audio or video files. --Search for Text or Files Use a key word or phrase to find documents on your workstation or network quickly and efficiently. About SOURCENEXT SOURCENEXT, the No.1 PC Software unit sales unit sales Sales measured in terms of physical units rather than dollars. Unit sales data are often used by financial analysts when evaluating the health of a company. share holder in Japan for the last 3 years has a proud history of producing a variety of successful software products since its foundation in 1996. It provides over 400 PC software titles from anti-virus, system utilities, document management to edutainment and games. SOURCENEXT has expanded the number of distribution channels to over 30,000 stores through bookstores, convenience stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. , supermarkets, and so on. As a software republisher, it has made many successful alliances with foreign partners including Sun Microsystems, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , and Buena Vista Games. For more information, please contact at pr@sourcenext.com or visit http://www.sourcenext.com/en Nuance Communications, Inc. Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance's proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit nuance.com. Nuance, the Nuance logo, ScanSoft, and PaperPort, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other company names or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The statements in this press release that relate to future plans, events or performance are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with market trends, competitive factors, and other risks identified in Nuance's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements that speak only as of the date hereof. |
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