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                                 PDF Compressor 

                    Copyright 2000-2020 Compressor Software
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                           * IMPORTANT INFORMATION *

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CONTENTS
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* About PDF Compressor
* Installing PDF Compressor
* Customer Services & Technical Support
* Purchasing/Registering PDF Compressor
* License, Warranty, Copyright and Trademarks

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About PDF Compressor
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PDF Compressor for Windows (former Advanced PDF Compressor), 
from Compressor Software (former WinSoftMagic), is the #1 tool to compress and 
resize PDF files. Get your PDF's ready for publishing or storing.

Excellent for storing documents, PDF format has become the de-facto standard 
for documents in the world. Very often PDF files contain large size scans and 
other graphics. The most of these PDF files are poorly and inefficiently encoded 
that results in large file size. Containing the most powerful and flexible 
PDF compression engine, specially optimized for higher image quality, 
PDF Compressor allows you to considerably reduce the file size of PDF documents. 

This allows you to:

* make your existing document files smaller - to save the storage space;
  considerably decrease up/download times for Web published files.

* store documents acquired from a scanner or from other sources
  taking considerably less space and increasing up/download speeds.

The key features of PDF Compressor are:

(*) PDF Compression Engine implements the most advanced PDF/image compression algorithms (including JPEG2000 and JBIG) to create resulting PDF files with the highest quality/file size ratio.

(*) Command-line mode for automation and/or scheduling your PDF compression tasks. Use it on a server as well as on PCs. 

(*) Profiles considerably improve the processing of multiple PDFs the same way. A  profile contains the set of compression options. You can create, save, and apply named profiles.

(*) Batch compressing mode lets you easily process multiple PDF documents. You can set renaming and other options to process a selected group of PDF files. 

(*) Visual graphics to preview compression results let you see the resulting file size and its changes depending on set compression options. 

(*) Easy to use and highly customizable user interface. 
"Under the hood" of very simple and clean user's interface is hidden a very complex compression engine.


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INSTALLING PDF Compressor
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Requirements: 
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Windows 2000 or higher version.
When installed it occupies about 10 Mbytes of disk space.  

Installing:
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The installation is quite simple - unzip apdfcompr.zip, just run 
the apdfcompr.exe and follow the directions given in the screen. 
The automatic installation procedure will copy all the necessary 
files to the specified directory and create a shortcut for the 
program. After installing, PDFC can be launched from the "Start" 
menu.

Upgrading:
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To upgrade your version to the latest version of PDFC, just install 
the latest version to the folder, which contains a previous version 
of PDFC.

Uninstalling:
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You can uninstall the program from the Control Panel  Add/Remove 
Applications window.  Open the Control Panel from the "Start" menu,
double click Add/Remove Programs, and double click on the "PDF Compressor" 
entry in the dialog box.


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CUSTOMER SERVICES & TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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Compressor Software provides its registered software customers 
with free technical support. We also provide limited technical support
to persons evaluating our products.

We do, however, strongly encourage people to purchase a license.
Software development and support is very expensive and we need your 
help if we are to continue to provide quality programs at affordable 
prices. If you haven't already, please take a few moments to register.
This will assure you of eligibility for technical support, product 
update notification, special discounts, new product announcements, etc.

Technical support, updates, product information and evaluation
copies of all our products are available from the following on-line
services:

Internet E-Mail:
    support@compressor.software

World Wide Web:
    https://compressor.software/


Additional services (for businesses): 
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We are able to create a derivative software product, based on PDF Compressor, 
that covers your particular needs in PDF/image processing.
Quickly, rates are reasonable. Contact us at info@compressor.software

Also, the implementation of some special functions for your hardware,
or customizing the existing PDFC's functions can be made as a result of
OEM sales agreement.


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PURCHASING/REGISTERING PDF Compressor
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We allow you to use the FREE version of PDF Compressor for non-business or 
evaluation purposes only. This version places on compressed documents the 
special watermark, and has a reduced functionality. You can use it as long 
as you wish. This allows you to try out all the features to confirm that they 
work to your satisfaction. Purchase of the license (registration) is required 
to get the completely functional version of PDF Compressor.

Benefits for registered users are:

* Free technical support
* Free minor upgrades and large discounts on major upgrades and other
  high quality products of Compressor Software
* Notification on new releases

We sell two types of licenses:
*	Enterprise Edition
Grants your company/organization the right to use PDF Compressor on one server and/or using this SOFTWARE by up to 100 users within your company / organization. Each additional ENTERPRISE EDITION LICENSE purchased adds the same number of servers and users to allowed limits.
The current price for Enterprise Edition License is $495.-

*	Standard Edition
Allows the use of PDF Compressor for one or specified number of users. Each license limits the number of users that may use the SOFTWARE: if this is a single user license, the licensed (registered) SOFTWARE may be used by one person on one computer at one time. If this is a multi-user license, you may make, install, and use additional copies of the SOFTWARE up to the number defined by the license purchased.

The current pricing structure for Standard Edition Licenses:
Number of users		Price per user, US$
1 (Single)              $49.-
2 - 4                   $45.-
5+                      $39.-
Note: temporary offers or discounts may be available.

Ways to start registering:

1. Run PDFC. Click on the "Help" item in the main menu, then click on
   the "Purchase a license" item and follow the instructions.

2. Go to the "Order" page on our Web site:  
   http://www.winsoftmagic.com/order.html
   

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LICENSE, WARRANTY, COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS
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Your use of PDF Compressor (PDFC) is governed by a License 
which appears before you install PDFC, contains in the user manual and 
in license.txt file. 

PDF Compressor and WinSoftMagic are trademarks of Compressor Software. 
All other brand names are trademarks of their respective owners.

This software and all accompanying documentation are protected by
both United States and International Copyright laws and treaties.

Copyright 2000-2020 Compressor Software
All rights reserved.


Distribution:
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This software may be freely distributed, provided that:

1. Such distribution only includes the original archive supplied 
by Compressor Software, taken directly from our web site:

		https://compressor.software/

You may not alter, delete, or add any files in the distribution archive.

2. The distribution does not include a registration information.
In particular, you may not distribute a registered version of PDFC.

If you publish magazines, news, books, shareware, freeware or demo CD-ROMs 
or you are Internet software repository, you are welcome to distribute our
software provided that you will follow these rules. Please distribute only 
the MOST RECENT versions of our software.


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Thank you for your support!
Compressor Software

