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Yell Adworks Expands Use of Apagos PSServices
Monday 27. October 2008 - RIP Software Streamlines Conversions of Thousands of Advertisements
Apago Inc., a software technology company that provides innovative solutions to transform digital documents, today announces a large sale of its PSServices software to Yell Adworks, a leader in multimedia advertising to the classified directories marketplace with operations in the UK, the United States, Spain, the Philippines, India and Latin America. With more than 300 licenses of PSServices, a component-based PostScript and PDF interpreter, already integrated throughout Yell Adworks operations, the company has purchased an additional 21 licenses of Apagos technology to support its expanded production facilities, which process thousands of advertisements daily.
Yell Adworks is one of the worlds most sophisticated providers of multimedia advertising services. The company uses PSServices to convert advertisements to optimized PostScript, PDF, and raster file formats such as JPEG and TIFF. Yell Adworks selected Apagos technology for several reasons, including PSServices unique set of features, its reliability at handling the volume of advertisements that Yell Adworks processes, and Apagos ability to respond immediately to the companys evolving production requirements. For example, the Apago team worked with Yell Adworks developers to create a series of custom PostScript conversions that automatically colorize Yellowbook ads. Yell Adworks also converts PostScript to PostScript, which is used both to hide custom code and to extract text from the ads for search engine results.
PSServices can convert among the most common document formats used in the printing industry – PostScript, PDF, and image formats. The tool can be easily embedded into most workflows, with capabilities that are similar to Adobes PDF Engine and Acrobat Distiller products. Other licensees of PSServices include Adobe/Scene7, FujiFilm Graphic Systems, The New Yorker, and Time Inc. PSServices is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris operating systems