Eight years ago, soft Xpansion developed its first PDF software product. It made it possible to create PDF documents with any application by printing on a virtual PDF printer.

Since then, the PDF format has become more advanced, offering new capabilities and becoming a de facto standard for electronic documents. Our PDF Xpansion technology has kept pace with the state of the art every step of the way, with 6 generations of our proprietary PDF engine, two dozen PDF applications published around the world, and awards and recognitions from leading professional magazines.

PDF Xpansion technology is employed in many products produced by our clients, like those of the renowned EMC Corporation.

soft Xpansion is a member of the PDF/A Competence Center, a cooperative initiative of several leading international enterprises and experts in the field of PDF technology.

Today PDF Xpansion is an effective and reliable technology for both end-users and enterprises working with PDF documents. 4 categories of PDF products powered by this technology satisfy all the needs of creators and consumers of PDF documents:

Perfect PDF 6 family - for home and small-business use

PDF Render Center - for enterprises with high-volume document traffic

PDF Xpansion SDK - for effective, high-performance development

PDF Freeware - for innovative customers

Perfect PDF 6 products for home and small businesses

Perfect PDF 6 products

Perfect PDF 6 Premium

Perfect PDF 6 Professional

Perfect PDF 6 Editor

Perfect PDF 6 Commentator

Perfect PDF 6 Converter

Perfect PDF 6 - Office to PDF

Perfect PDF 6 is a suite of products devoted to creating, editing and managing PDF documents for home and small to mid-sized business users.

Perfect PDF 6 Premium unlocks the full power of Perfect PDF 6, enabling professional users to create PDF documents from many other document formats and allowing them to edit and save PDF documents of any complexity.

We offer solutions for the novice user as well—simplified and less expensive than the premium edition, you won’t have to pay for features that you never use, as in larger programs.
An example of the range and flexibility of this family: Word to PDF. Do you work with MS Word? Have you assembled an archive of documents in the Word format? But you need them as PDFs? Word to PDF quickly and easily converts any MS Word document into a high-quality PDF.

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Perfect PDF 6 Premium

Perfect PDF 5 Editor enables you to edit existing PDF files, create and fill forms, and save PDF documents. You can even edit PDF/A files.

PDF Render Center for high-volume document traffic

PDF Render Center enables you to convert documents in batches and manipulate PDF files. It can be easily integrated into document management systems. This solution is ideal for your business, eliminating manual paperwork and automating the management of thousands of documents.

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You'll process more documents more efficiently and reduce or eliminate hard-copy storage and filing costs.

PDF Render Center transforms electronic documents and data sources into business-ready PDF documents suitable for processing by back-end systems, including your database, workflow, and document or content management systems. You'll convert, deliver and store previously unstructured content in a systematic manner, according to your predefined business rules, policies, and procedures.

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PDF Xpansion SDK - for effective, high performance development

Since version 3.0, the PDF Xpansion technology has been available to software developers (consumer software developers and corporate workflow systems developers) as an independent product (PDF SDK).

The current version of the PDF Xpansion technology corresponds to Adobe® PDF specification 1.7 and can accomplish almost any PDF-related task, including converting to and from many other formats.

Quick, compact, powerful. Simply effective!

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These aren’t just our opinions – it’s the reality of the PDF Xpansion technology. The PDF Xpansion SDK is designed to be well balanced and efficient and we’ve taken special concerns like file size and speed into consideration and worked to optimize them.

Evaluate the quality and the size of PDF files—just download our free Perfect PDF Master, which uses an actual PDF library. For viewing PDF documents and evaluating their quality and speed, download our free Perfect PDF Reader.

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Print to Document SDK

What does the PDF SDK offer developers and administrators? The programming interface is well structured and optimized to make it easy to use. The API structure corresponds to the core PDF document's organization yet it hides complicated connections and inessential details so that you can focus on the task at hand. Simple does not have to mean primitive; review the full list of functions included in PDF SDK and see for yourself.

PDF Xpansion technology is constantly developing through our work on different projects and products based on the PDF SDK. Such experience allows us to adapt the programming interface quickly, ensuring comfortable integration with any application. Our partners and clients play a large role in this process - their experience in working with the PDF SDK, their questions and suggestions, are all crucial factors in the future development of our PDF Xpansion technology. We are always open for constructive discussions with potential partners.

PDF Freeware - for innovative consumers

Our freeware products are helpful for anybody who works with PDF documents – anyone who must read them, sign them, or fill in forms. You can use them in the office or at home.

Perfect PDF Master - installs a virtual PDF printer so that you can print to PDF from any application, creating a high-quality PDF document. The conversion is quick and the user can set basic properties and options for the PDF (like title, author and keywords) and protect it with an optional password. You can also embed the fonts used in the PDF if they are not standard. You can determine image quality, directly affecting the size of the PDF.

In some cases, the ability to save the document in PDF/A format is a must. PDF/A is an ISO Standard for using the PDF format for the long-term archiving of electronic documents (ISO 19005-1).

Perfect PDF Reader - an alternative PDF viewer. Allows quick and handy viewing of PDF documents; has a modern user interface like MS Office 2007. Perfect PDF Reader also enables you to fill forms and save them in PDF files. You can digitally sign PDF files using certificates from a SmartCard or from files (PFX, PVK). Perfect PDF Reader also allows you to export plain text from PDFs and to save PDF pages as bitmap images (BMP, PNG, JPG, etc.).

Perfect DocuReader - the name says it all. This program is a perfect alternative to CHM-viewers if your product includes documentation in the PDF format. It contains only one exe-file. It doesn't require installation nor does it require any additional software besides basic system components. Thus, it can be easily distributed and used for reading any PDF documentation on any computer or device running Windows (Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, 2008 and 2003 Server).

soft Xpansion Competence Center

You’ll find both basic and professional articles about selected PDF themes in our soft Xpansion Competence Center.

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