For immediate release

Berlin and London – February 12th 2004

metaobject releases version 1.2 of BookLightning, the lightweight
imposition program for booklets and simple magazines

Version 1.2 features support for most encrypted files using an updated
EGOS engine, as well as some fixes relating to direct print and better
compatibility with some PDF files. It retains the lightning fast
processing times introduced with the 1.1 version.

BookLightning is a fully native Cocoa application and requires a duplex
printer for direct print support.

For more information, downloads and purchasing, see our Products page
at:

(http://www.metaobject.com/Products.html#BookLightning)

or contact

marcel@metaobject.com
Berlin: +49 / 171 958 6433
London: +44 / 7792 757917

About metaobject

With offices in near Berlin’s Olympic Stadium and London’s Royal
Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, metaobject creates publishing
software solutions and technologies that help you perform like a
champion. The PressObjects toolbox, which includes Postscript and PDF
interpreters as well as a wide variety of user-extensible processing
tools, is the basis for tools such as PdfCompress, the widely copied
PDF and Postscript viewer PostView or the TextLightning PDF to RTF text
extractor. The MetaAd(tm) content adaptation system captures and
models design IDeAs for effective brand- and design-management over
intra- and extranets.