Osaka, Japan, December 2, 2004 - Recosoft Corporation the developer of cross platform Macintosh and Windows file format conversion solutions and PDF document conversion tools has started shipping PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition.

PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition represents a major upgrade to PDF2Office v1.1 the PDF document conversion tool for the Macintosh platform.

In addition to the more than 150 features and enhancements made, PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition provides seamless integration with Microsoft Word X/2004 - allowing PDF documents to be opened directly within Microsoft Word X/2004.

PDF2Office v2.0 recreates the original construction and layout of the document - forming paragraphs; applying styles; regrouping independent graphic elements; extracting images; creating tables; and processing headers/footers, endnotes/footnotes and columns/sections, all automatically - without any manual intervention

PDF2Office v2.0 enables you to recover the data stored in PDF documents - making them available for use by anyone. Since PDF2Office is a standalone product, it is not necessary to acquire and install additional PDF editing software and tools resulting in huge cost savings in both time and expense.

Key New Features

• Open PDF documents directly in Microsoft^® Word
  You can now open PDF documents directly in Microsoft^® Word using the Open command.
  
  
• Acrobat 6-generated PDF document support
  Added support for Acrobat 6-specific PDF documents and data (PDF v1.5 specification).
  
  
• Layout Reconstruction
  Dramatically enhanced conversion and layout reconstruction of complexly formatted PDF documents to various word processing formats.
  
  
• Conversion of Graphics to Native type
  Graphics are now converted to the native type(s) of each word processor format (Microsoft^® Word, RTF, AppleWorks, etc.), allowing all graphics to be fully editable using the native drawing tools of each particular word processor.
  
  
• Retain layout/Process form mode
  The Retain layout/Process form mode reconstructs a PDF document page by page, maintaining an almost exact replica of the original layout. This feature is useful when trying to edit PDF documents that are forms-oriented or when you want to retain a high quality layout of the original PDF document.
  
  
• Image resolution and Compression support
  You can now specify the resolution and compression settings when converting each page as an image or when extracting images from PDF documents.
  
  
• File Size Reduction
  When files are converted to either Microsoft^® Word or RTF formats, a 20 to 70% reduction in file size is achieved for documents containing many images.
  
  

Customers who have purchased PDF2Office v1.1 on/after October 21, 2004 are entitled to a free upgrade to PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition.

PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition is available immediately in the following configurations -

PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition	US$129.00
PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition Upgrade License	US$59.00
PDF2Office v2.0 Professional Edition Education License	US$89.00