Apagos new Pheon conversion software for Mac OS X lowers price barrier for digital ad delivery and cross-media publishing software

Apago's new Pheon software for Mac OS X provides advertisers, prepress professionals and publishers with a cost effective tool for preparing high quality files for digital advertising delivery and cross-media publishing.

Alpharetta, GA (PRWEB) July 26, 2003 -- Apago's new Pheon software for Mac OS X provides advertisers, prepress professionals and publishers with a cost effective tool for preparing high quality files for digital advertising delivery and cross-media publishing.

Pheon software from Apago, a leading developer of workflow software for the prepress and printing industries, is priced at only $999 -- a fraction of other competing file conversion packages. Pheon users can create highly efficient target files in a wide range of formats, enabling users to convert files for one or more applications -- from ad delivery and proofing to e-mail and web distribution. Pheon users can convert from TIFF/IT, Creo Brisque, copydot, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF formats to PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, EPS, DCS, JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats either on a file by file basis or using Pheons Batch Processing capabilities.

Pheon offers Mac OS X users several unique features, including a full-featured image viewer with separation preview and an eyedropper tool; the ability to set the trim and bleed boxes required in PDF/X files; image scaling, rotation and cropping; and color conversions using industry-standard ICC profiles.

Production-Ready Prepress Files
Our goal is to help advertisers and prepress professionals create the most efficient files for publication and make them production ready before theyre submitted," said Dwight Kelly, President of Apago. In addition, Pheon can be used to repurpose and optimize files for cross-media publishing including electronic books and Internet e-mail and web distribution."

PDF/X is rapidly replacing TIFF/IT-P1 as the preferred format for digital advertising. Pheon helps advertisers and prepress houses that have been creating CT/LW files in either TIFF/IT or Creo Brisque formats to migrate to PDF/X. Pheon's PDF CT/LW files are compact, display efficiently in Adobe Acrobat software and process quickly in most workflow and RIP software," Kelly explained.

Two unique capabilities of Pheon are the ability to accurately set the bleed, trim and art boxes in a PDF/X file and the option to crop the CT/LW data to the bleed box. PDF/X requires bleed and trim boxes; however, no other conversion tool allows a user to create valid boxes. Frequently used publication specifications can be saved in a library.

Availability
Apago Pheon software is available immediately and can be purchased from the Apago on-line store at www.apago.com. The company also sells its products and technology through distributors, dealers and OEMs.

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About Apago
Founded in 1991, Apago is a privately held corporation that develops and markets software primarily for the graphic arts, prepress and printing industries. The company has licensed its PostScript, PDF and raster imaging technologies to industry leading companies including DuPont (NYSE: DD), Creo (NASDAQ: CREO; TSE: CRE), Fuji, and Dainippon Screen, among many others, and counts AOL Time Warner, R.R. Donnelley, Vertis, Brown Printing, Pindar, CMP Media, Ogilvy & Mather, and Saatchi & Saatchi Rowland, among its many retail customers. Apago supports ANSI and ISO standards including TIFF/IT and PDF/X. The company is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA, just north of Atlanta.

More information about Apago is available at www.apago.com.

Apago and Pheon are trademarks of Apago, Inc. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe, Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are acknowledged and remain the property of their respective owners.

Contacts:
John Hebert/Hebert Communications
617-232-1161
john@hebertcomms.com

Dwight Kelly/Apago, Inc.
770-619-1884
dkelly@apago.com