Aloaha PDF Suite

Your free personal digial certificate for more security on the Internet

stefan@aloaha.com — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:49:14 GMT

If it is important for you to trust the content of a received e-mail or PDF Document and if you also want to make sure that your communication partners can trust that emails and PDF Documents were really sent by you, then you should digitally sign your electronic messages and documents.

The digital signature will check the content of the e-mail/PDF documents and alterations will be noticed once the message reaches the recipient. Digital certificates furthermore allow the encryption of e-mails and PDF Documents to make sure that nobody has unauthorized access to your private communication.

Current e-mail programs offer this function while we offer the digital certificate that is needed in addition. To sign PDF Documents our Aloaha PDF Suite is the right choice. For eBook generation (certificate based encryption of PDF Documents) we offer our Aloaha PDF Crypter.

Aloaha Test Certificate:
Our Aloaha Test Certificates can be issued directly via http://certserv.aloaha.com/certsrv

Aloaha Class 1: For encryption and signing of documents
This certificate with a trust level 1 was created as an easy entry to secure electronic communication. Within only a few minutes after your application, you can improve your data security and document confidentiality. Just fill in the form below and we will supply you with a free class 1 digital certificate. Please visit http://www.aloaha.com/wi-software-en/aloaha-pki.php to apply for your personal signature and encryption certificate.

Aloaha Develops Secure DRM System for PDF Documents

stefan@aloaha.com — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:41:24 GMT

Aloaha Limited, subsidiary of Aloaha Limited and based in Pembroke, Malta launched a secure distribution and digital rights management system for Adobe PDF documents.

Called Aloaha PDF Crypter, the system is designed to enable publishers to distribute massive numbers of documents over the Internet while controlling who is authorized to open and read them, according to Stefan Engelbert, Aloaha's president and chief technology officer.

Aloaha sets the stage for the controlled distribution of millions of protected documents over the Internet allowing publishers to develop new revenue streams while guarding their copyrights and proprietary information, Stefan said.

Aloaha PDF Crypter uses the public key of the readers to encrypt the PDF in a way that only the owner of the private key can access the PDF document. No further credentials like username/password are required thus eliminating the risk to be passed on to non authorized people.

No plug-ins or other software, besides the Adobe Acrobat Reader, is needed to access the documents.

Aloaha PDF Crypter is potentially valuable to college textbook publishers, banks to be able to distribute sensible bank statements and online magazines. It gives also extra security to confidential documents such as sensitive financial, medical or strategic business information.

Visit www.aloaha.com to read about solutions to various common PDF problems.

The company is marketing the Aloaha PDF Crypter, which has been released this month, to banks and financial services companies and is actively talking to several banks.

Aloaha PDF Crypter is available for download at www.aloaha.com. The freeware version of Aloaha adds a small advert to every encrypted PDF. Pricing starts at 59USD. No per document charges or whatsoever apply!

Aloaha Product updates and PDF Saver Release

stefan@aloaha.com — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:24:39 GMT

Aloaha has recently released an update of its awarded Aloaha PDF Suite. A number of new watched folders have been included. You can now simply drop images into the "img2pdf” folder to convert them to PDF.

Other hotfolders are “tosign” for batch signatures, “splitter” to split documents into single page documents and the “commandfolder” which is a free definable watched folder.

One very innovative feature is the capability of the included PDF Editor to compress existing PDF Documents with the new JPEG2000 compression. Images can be compressed several times as small as it is possible with the old JPG compression.

The Aloaha PDF Suite can be downloaded from http://www.aloaha.com/download/aloaha_pdf.zip.
Pricing starts at 49 USD/User.

We are also proud to announce a new release of our popular PDF Saver. With the PDF Saver it is possible to save PDF forms to disk. This is not possible with the free Adobe Reader. A sample PDF Form can be downloaded from http://www.aloaha.com/download/aloaha_saver.pdf.

For developers we included the PDF Saver OCX to be used in their own applications. A source code sample is available in samples\formsaver.

Please find also attached an evaluation key which is valid for all Aloaha Products. In case you want to use it for the Aloaha PDF Suite you need to drop the key into the key subdirectory. For the PDF Saver please drop the key into the “saverkey” subdirectory.

The Aloaha PDF Saver can be downloaded from http://www.aloaha.com/download/aloaha_saver.zip.
Pricing starts at 49 USD/User.

Please contact info@aloaha.com for further information

Aloaha releases Software Package to enable qualified digital signatures

info@aloaha.com — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:32:00 GMT

22.07.2005, Pembroke – Aloaha Limited created a package to accelerate widespread acceptance of digital signatures/e-ID Cards with giving everyone an easy way to digitally sign any windows document. The package includes a PC/SC capable Smartcard Reader, a smartcard and the award winning Aloaha PDF Suite to create a digitally signed PDF Document from every windows application.

Following the introduction of electronic signature laws in most countries and the EU Regulation concerning digital signatures, EU countries are now spinning off in an electronic race to comply with the said regulation by end 2005.

The roll out of the Digital Signature Pack can be accompanied with a qualified digital certificate loaded on to the smartcard. The smartcard is re-writeable so that organizations with their own PKI infrastructure are able to write their own certificates to the card.

“Applications like the Aloaha PDF Suite help organizations to accelerate the widespread acceptance of digital signatures and the new electronic ID Cards in Europe,” said Frank Hellmann, managing director of Aloaha Limited

An evaluation version of the Aloaha PDF Suite can be downloaded from http://www.aloaha.com. Soft Certificates are supported by Aloaha so that a card reader is not required to evaluate the Aloaha PDF Suite.

About Aloaha PDF Suite
The Aloaha PDF Suite allows user to create a digitally signed PDF Document from within every windows application. The included PDF Editor is ideal for workflow environment where it is necessary to edit existing PDF documents. For example you can add annotations, Sticky Notes, multiple signatures and more without invalidating any existing signatures.

Aloaha PDF Suite supports WebDAV for strong Microsoft Exchange integration

info@aloaha.com — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:14:03 GMT

13.07.2005, Pembroke – Aloaha Limited introduced WebDAV support in its awarded Aloaha PDF Suite. Common PDF mailers use the trivial SMTP protocol to send generated PDF Files via email. Aloaha PDF Suite again shows that it is always one step ahead. Due to its support of WebDAV, MAPI and SMTP users can choose themselves which protocol to use to transmit the generated PDF Documents.

WebDAV and MAPI have one strong advantage compared to SMTP. Besides the fact that they do not allow forgery of the Mail From with MAPI and WebDAV it is guaranteed that sent documents are archived by Exchange in the Users Sent Mail Folder.

About Aloaha PDF Suite:
Aloaha PDF Suite is a very powerful PDF Suite to create, edit, digitally sign and deliver PDF Documents. Due to its unique architecture it not only supports local certificate stores but also most common card reader and E-Ids. Generated documents can be edited and digitally signed with the included PDF Editor. Multiple Signatures are also possible and fully Adobe Reader compatible. Aloaha includes also a server mode which allows to batch generate documents and digitally sign them automatically.

A fully functional evaluation version can be downloaded from:
http://www.aloaha.com/download/aloaha_pdf.zip

Aloaha PDF Suite now with Smartcard/e-ID support

info@aloaha.com — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:59:19 GMT

11/07/2005, Pembroke – Aloaha Limited/Aloaha Limited is proud to announce Smartcard and e-ID support for its awarded Aloaha PDF Suite (http://www.aloaha.com). In today’s business environment it is not enough to digitally sign documents with self signed certificates or soft certificates. In most countries it is a legal requirement to sign electronic documents with a certificate embedded in a secure smartcard. One good example is the Belgium e-ID initiative. (http://eid.belgium.be)

Aloaha Limited offers also the Aloaha Card Reader 38. For customers who are not in possession of a governmental e-ID Card Aloaha Limited can deliver empty ID Cards. The Aloaha Card Reader 38 is able to write soft certificates form your enterprise PKI to these empty Smartcards.

The Aloaha PDF Suite and Aloaha Card Reader 38 not only enable user to create, edit and digitally sign PDF Documents from any windows application. The PC/SC compatible Aloaha Card Reader 38 can be used for a broad range of security applications such as single logon or smartcard auto enrollment. Please read more on:
http://www.aloaha.com/wi-software-en/using-smartcards-in-windows.php

Prices for the Aloaha PDF Suite start at 39Euro/49USD per User. A fully functional evaluation version can be downloaded from
http://www.aloaha.com/download/aloaha_pdf.zip

Aloaha Limited
Email: info@aloaha.com
Telephone: 0049 5451/9435-22
Fax: 0049 5451/45469

Using Smartcards in Windows

info@aloaha.com — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 02:14:34 GMT

Using Smartcards in Windows Server 2000/3/XP

Nowadays everyone is concerned about network security. The concern leads to highly secured networks. But one week point is still left – your users passwords. Do you believe that everyone is only using long secure passwords with special characters etc? Well, you might have done a system policy. But are sure your users are not writing the passwords on a sticky note or somewhere else?
In the following article I would like to discuss how you could get rid of all the password problems with the introduction of smartcards. Your users would be very happy about such an introduction. Proper configured smartcards can also be used as a single logon mechanism.
All you need is a Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory Infrastructure. Below I will explain briefly how to set it up.

Installing the Enterprise CA

After you've acquired the PC/SC compatible smartcard readers such as the Aloaha Card Reader 38 and installed them on each computer, you need to prepare the smartcards. Each smartcard requires a certificate. To get that certificate on each smartcard, you need a certification authority (CA). To issue smartcard certificates, you need an Enterprise CA server. Most of the particulars for the installation of the CA are not significant when it comes to simply issuing the smartcard logon certificates. However, they may be important if you have other things planned for your CA.

If you don't already have a CA and you have no real preference on how to install it, you can follow these steps:

1. Log on as a member of the Enterprise Admins group. 2. Open the Windows Control Panel, open Add/Remove Programs, and click Add/Remove Windows Components. 3. The Certificate Services option is in the list of Windows components. Select that option and follow the wizard to install. The first thing you'll see is a warning message telling you that you cannot change your machine name or domain membership. Keep that in mind, click OK, and then click Next. 4. When the CA Type selection box appears, make sure that you're installing an Enterprise CA and then click Next. 5. In the CA Identifying Information box, enter a name for your CA and then click Next. 6. In the Certificate Database Settings dialog box, leave the default settings (unless you know that you want to change them) and click Next. You'll need the CD-ROM or installation files in a couple of seconds. 7. If you don't have Internet Information Services (IIS) installed, you'll be prompted to install IIS to get web enrollment working. If you don't plan to do any web enrollment, you can just click OK and don't worry about it. Click Finish when it's all over.

Next, you need a smartcard logon certificate template.

Creating the Template

After you have the CA installed, you need to manage it a bit. Create an MMC with the following snap-ins:

1. Active Directory Users and Computers 2. Certification Authority 3. Certificate Templates

Now that you have the console configured, click Certificate Templates and look for the Smartcard Logon certificate in the right-hand pane. Right-click the Smartcard Logon template and select Duplicate Template.

At this point, you get a Properties of New Template dialog box. (Name your template whatever you want.) Be sure to select Publish Certificate in Active Directory if the box isn't already checked.

Click the Request Handling tab and then select Signature and Smartcard Logon in the Purpose drop-down list. You want the user to be prompted to insert a smartcard during logon, so select the option Prompt the User During Enrollment.

Before you leave this dialog box, click the CSPs button near the bottom to open the CSP Selection dialog box, where you can select the appropriate cryptographic service provider (CSP). For example, I use a smartcard produced by Schlumberger, so I chose the Schlumberger CSP.

CAUTION

Some people think that they can choose pretty much anything here, but that isn't quite the case. What you select affects what the user sees on the other end. For example, if I selected the Infineon SICRYPT Base Smartcard CSP, I'd be prompted to insert my SICRYPT smartcard on the client side.

Select only the applicable CSP(s) for the smartcards you purchased. As I said earlier, this process is easier if you have only one type of smartcard and reader. If you have more than one smartcard type, you'll have to select multiple CSPs. Later in this article, you'll see how having multiple CSPs affects the user.

After clicking OK in the CSP Selection dialog box, you return to the Properties dialog box for the template you're setting up. Click the Security tab. If you want to allow all users in your Domain Users group to receive certificates during logon, you must add them to the Access Control List (ACL) for this template. Be sure to give them the rights to Read, Enroll, and Autoenroll.

Click OK. The template is ready. Now that you have the smartcard logon template duplicated, you need to issue it from the CA.

Issuing the Certificate

Issuing the certificate is a simple process: Expand the Certification Authority object in your MMC, expand your CA name, right-click Certificate Templates, click New, and then click Certificate Template to Issue. After that, you simply locate and select your newly created and configured certificate and click OK. The new certificate appears in the right-hand pane.

You're done with the Certification Authority. Now, you need to perform the final administrative step: configuring autoenrollment in Group Policy.

Configuring Autoenrollment

To deploy smartcard certificates in Windows 2000, you had to set up a smartcard enrollment station (a computer with a smartcard reader) and assign at least one person to put the certificates on the smartcards. To perform this job, the person had to physically insert the smartcard, download the certificate, maybe set the PIN, and then pull out the smartcard, repeating that process for each smartcard user. Although you may know someone who is just perfect for that job, this is a real problem for some organizations.

Although you can still set up an enrollment station and enrollment user in Windows Server 2003, you also have the option to distribute the workload of certificate deployment. This option, called autoenrollment, automates the deployment of certificates to the users' smartcards.

You can activate autoenrollment through Group Policy. Let's assume that you want to deploy smartcards to every user on your domain. Using that assumption, we'll configure the Default Domain Policy to enable autoenrollment.

Probably the quickest way to get to that Default Domain Policy is to right-click the domain object in Active Directory Users and Computers, click Properties, click Group Policy, and then click the Edit button (while the Default Domain Policy is selected). Find Autoenrollment in the right-hand pane and then click Properties.

The Autoenrollment Settings Properties dialog box appears - select both check boxes, or you are headed for disappointment.

Click OK and then close your Group Policy window. That's all for the configuration. Now you need to know what is about to happen to the users.

What the User Sees

You'll probably have to send out distribution email or some other communication to your network users, explaining the use of smartcards and describing the enrollment process. Essentially, it goes like this:

In the user's Welcome to Windows logon dialog box, the user should see the words "Insert your card or press Ctrl-Alt-Del to logon." This prompt is merely an indication that the smartcard driver and hardware were installed.

Sometime after the user logs on by the standard process of entering a username and password, a certificate icon appears in the user's system tray. The user must click the certificate icon, which opens a Certificate Enrollment dialog box. The user should click the Start button in this dialog box.

If you have multiple types of smartcards on your network and you selected multiple CSPs, users should be prompted to insert smartcards of all types (as many as you have). Each user must cancel enrollment requests for all smartcard types he doesn't have, and start enrollment only for the type of smartcard he has.

The user is then prompted to insert the smartcard and enter the PIN for the card. Most smartcards come with a default PIN, but you should remind users to change the default PIN during autoenrollment if that option is available, as it is for most smartcard readers.

NOTE

Check your smartcard manufacturer's documentation concerning PIN entry rules. If I enter the PIN incorrectly three times in a row on my smartcard, Schlumberger tells me that the card will be unusable. Now there's a failsafe for you!

After the user enters the default PIN and changes it to a new PIN, the certificate is automatically downloaded to the card. This step completes the process of distributing smartcards.

Forcing Smartcard Logons

When users have completed the process successfully, consider forcing smartcard logon by modifying the user's account properties to require smartcards for interactive logons. With this technique, you don't have to worry about someone logging onto one of your workstations without a smartcard. To configure this option, open Active Directory Users and Computers and access the user account properties. Select the option Smartcard Is Required for Interactive Logon.

If you require smartcard logon for all your network users, you can scour your domain for any remaining passwords that cannot be replaced. For example, some service accounts (those for Internet Information Server, Exchange Server, backup programs, etc.) still require passwords, so you still need a good password policy to secure those accounts. However, because you can control these passwords, they can be long, complex, and recorded on a piece of paper that's locked in a safe. Further, you can create an extremely stringent account policy to thwart any attempts to crack those passwords.

When you are done, take a few minutes to appreciate all your hard work. You've increased the security of your network and provided solid protection from password-cracking programs.

Additional Advantages

As already mentioned above you just removed the weakest point of your network. Besides that you also gave your company and users a huge added value. In most countries documents involved in electronic document exchange have to be signed digitally. Outlook together with the Aloaha Card Reader 38 now allows every user to send secure, digitally signed s/mime emails. Furthermore your users are now able to digitally sign any PDF file they created with the Aloaha PDF Suite. I am sure that based on this document you as an systems administrator can create some very strong points to get the permission to purchase some readers/smartcards.

Is Active Directory a must?

Active Directory helps to roll out such a smartcard system easily but is not needed. Instead of the Active Directory a normal Web browser could be used to roll out the certificates to any Infineon or Schlumberger Smartcard together with the Aloaha Card Reader. You can try it out:

Go to http://certserv.aloaha.com/certsrv/ and choose “Request a Certificate”. Then choose “submit an advanced certificate request”. Once you clicked “Create and submit a request to this CA” you can chose your CSP under Key Options.

Aloaha enables Terminal Server/Citrix Metaframe user to create PDF Documents

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Pembroke, 06.07.2005 – Aloaha Limited, part of Aloaha Limited today released a new build of its awarded Aloaha PDF Suite. To meet the increasing demand of Terminal Server/Citrix Metaframe user to be able to generate PDF documents Aloaha added Terminal Server support to its Aloaha PDF Suite.

About Aloaha PDF Suite
Aloaha PDF Suite is a feature rich PDF Suite which allows user to generate PDF Documents from any windows applications. PDF documents can be edited with the Aloaha PDF Editor. Some of Aloaha’s important features the ability to add multiple digital signatures to any PDF document, to add sticky Notes/Annotations and to generate fully automatic PDF Bookmarks. Aloaha is the overall winner of the Microsoft Developer2Developer Peoples Choice Award 2005.

A fully functional evaluation version of Aloaha can be downloaded from http://www.aloaha.com

Case Study: Using PDF to send an S/FAX over IP

info@aloaha.com — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:29:28 GMT

Case Study: Using PDF to send an S/FAX over IP

29.06.2005, Pembroke – Aloaha Limited, part of Aloaha Limited, released a new case study on how snail mail and FAX evolved to PDF in enterprises document exchange.

The author describes in his case study the beginning of document exchange via snail mail and the beginnings of electronic document exchange via FAX and s/Mime. He discusses why this evolution leads to new secure formats such as PDF. Furthermore he gives a brief overview about the advantages to send company correspondence as secure and/or digitally signed PDF Documents.

The study has been published on http://www.aloaha.com/wi-software-en/sfax-ip.php

Aloaha PDF Suite now with automatic bookmark creation

info@aloaha.com — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 01:09:56 GMT

Aloaha PDF Suite now with automatic bookmark creation

28.06.2005, Pembroke – Aloaha Limited, part of Aloaha Limited, today released a new Build of its awarded Aloaha PDF Suite. An intelligent content analyzer has been added. This intelligent content analyzer automatically embeds your bookmarks fully automatically.

The Aloaha PDF Suite is available for only 49USD/User on http://www.aloaha.com

A sample bookmarked document is available on: http://www.aloaha.com/wi-software-en/feature-list.php

Aloaha PDF Suite with Bookmark Editor released

info@aloaha.com — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:08:12 GMT

Aloaha PDF Suite 2.1.71 released

24.06.2005, Pembroke, Malta – Aloaha Limited, part of Aloaha Limited today released a new build of its award winning Aloaha PDF Suite. The inbuilt Aloaha PDF Editor now supports adding and editing of PDF Bookmarks. Furthermore it is possible to move pages inside the document around and add additional pages to a document.

Existing Aloaha Customer can upgrade to Aloaha PDF Suite 2.1.71 for free as usual.

Aloaha PDF Suite is a compete package of PDF Creation and Editing tools. It supports such innovative features as multiple digital signatures, embedded files, tracking images, adding of Sticky Notes and much more. With its inbuilt XP/2003 FAX Connector it is able to extract FAX Numbers from the first PDF Page and send the PDF fully automatically to the FAX recipient.

Prices of the Aloaha PDF Suite start at 49USD/39 Euros. The software itself can be downloaded from http://www.aloaha.com/download/aloaha_pdf.zip

Aloaha PDF Suite introduces tracking Images

info@aloaha.com — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:21:58 GMT

Aloaha PDF Suite introduces tracking Images

Pembroke, 22.06.2005 – Aloaha Limited, part of Aloaha Limited, today released Build 2.0.69 of its award winning Aloaha PDF Suite. This Build includes an innovative new feature which allows the creator of a PDF Document to track exactly who is reading which page of the generated PDF Document.

To be able to do PDF tracking the document has to be loaded into the Aloaha PDF Editor which is part of the Aloaha PDF Suite. In the page menu a new item called tracking image has been added. The tracking image needs to be somewhere located on an http server and has to be the format jpg. If the image is not available or the reader of the document has no access to that web server the Adobe Reader will generate a warning.

It is possible to add HTTP GET options to the URL. For example http://www.aloaha.com/download/pixel.jpg?source=pressrelease

Aloaha releases new Build of its awarded Aloaha PDF Suite

info@aloaha.com — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 00:44:36 GMT

Aloaha releases new Build of its awarded Aloaha PDF Suite

20.06.2005, Pembroke – Aloaha Limited, part of Aloaha Limited released a new build of its awarded Aloaha PDF Suite. The overall winner of the MSD2D Peoples Choice Award 2005 enhances the existing IT infrastructure to generate and edit digitally signed PDF documents to be used in the internal document workflow or send them as invoices, quotations, etc.

Aloaha PDF Suites digital signatures are compatible with the PDF-Signature Interchange Standard so that no extra software is required to validate the digital signatures.

The Aloaha PDF Editor which is part of the Aloaha PDF Suite allows adding of text, images, annotations (sticky notes), URLs and digital signatures to existing PDF documents. Already signed documents can be commented with sticky notes and images without invalidating existing signatures. Annotated/commented PDF documents then can subsequently countersigned. This makes the Aloaha PDF Editor to a commodity tool in your existing document workflow.

The Aloaha PDF Suite also includes a Windows XP/2003 FAX Connector which allows sending faxes without having a local fax client installed. Only the FAX Number needs to be somewhere on the first page of the FAX. Very important is the possibility to convert incoming faxes into PDF to integrate FAX into the document workflow. These Faxes then can be edited or signed with the PDF Editor. The FAX Connector is not limited to send Faxes only. Of course email addresses can be embedded into the document as well.

Aloaha PDF Suite licenses can be purchased from the Aloaha Website. Prices start at 49 USD/User. Prices for the Server Version start at 380 USD/Server. The digital signature API which is available to integrate the digital signatures programmatically into any document management system or website is available for 800 USD/Server.

This article is available as a sample PDF Document is available for download http://www.aloaha.com/download/pr200605.pdf

Aloaha Limited introduces daily updated RSS Feed for its PDF related line of products

Sun, 20 Jun 2005 00:51:28 GMT

Aloaha Limited, part of Aloaha Limited, Pembroke, Malta is introducing a daily updated RSS Stream for its PDF related products such as Aloaha PDF Suite, Aloaha PDF Editor and the PDF Saver.

The RSS Stream is available in English at http://www.aloaha.com/download/pdfrss.xml and in german at http://www.aloaha.com/download/pdfrssde.xml

"This is just a consequent step to improve our customer relationship even further", commented Frank Hellmann, CEO of Aloaha Limited the introduction.

About Aloaha PDF Suite:
The Aloaha PDF Suite allows user to create and digitally sign PDF Document from every Windows application. Desktop licenses start at 39 Euro/User. The starting price for the server version is 390 Euro/Server. A digital Signature SDK is also available on request.

About Aloaha PDF Saver:
Aloaha PDF Saver allows user to fill in PDF Forms and save these locally on their Harddrive.

Aloaha Limited
eMail: info@aloaha.com
Telefon: +49 541 3859 4554
Fax: +49 541 3859 4554

Aloaha PDF Suite wins MSD2D Peoples Choice Award

info@aloaha.com — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 03:33:11 GMT

International award for Aloaha PDF Suite

MSD2D, the online resource for the Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, .NET and Security communities and professionals, has announced that the Aloaha PDF Suite was selected as the overall winner of more than 70 different categories of the prestigious MSD2D People's Choice Awards 2005.

Aloaha PDF Suite has won the document production category of the People's Choice Awards with most votes across the 70 possible categories.

Thousands of registered Microsoft and Exchange professionals voted to pick the favorites in over 70 product categories. Out of these 70 categories Aloaha PDF Suite was able to collect a majority of votes across the categories.

Aloaha PDF Suite allows user to produce, edit and digitally sign a PDF Documents from every windows application. The best feature might be that Aloaha is able to counter sign already signed documents without invalidating existing signatures.

"Aloaha allows you to sign and countersign any PDF document," explained to i-Tech Frank Hellmann, CEO at Aloaha Limited. "There is no need to make special preparations for it."

The software suite is developed and maintained by Aloaha Limited/Pembroke.

Aloaha PDF Suite includes a printer monitor to create a PDF Documents from any printed Document, a PDF Editor to add sticky notes, text stamps, images and digital signatures.

Customers with more than 25 licenses are able to access the digital signature and validation API via COM Interface. A royalty free version of this API is available as well.

The COM interface could be used to enable web applications to accept only digitally-signed documents.

Aloaha PDF Suite is available from http://www.aloaha.com

Aloaha PDF Suite 2.1 Released

info@aloaha.com — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 02:14:04 GMT

We are proud to announce the 2.1 release of our popular Aloaha PDF Suite.

Our new release is even more powerful than ever before. Besides our standard features such as digital signatures, active directory user lookups, MAPI support, etc we implemented a new freeware autoprint function. With the new autoprint function users are able to make hardcopies of their PDF Documents without even having a PDF Reader installed. PDF documents can be just dropped into an autoprint folder and will be printed to the default printer automatically.

Aloaha PDF Suite is available in English and German and can be downloaded from http://www.aloaha.com/download/aloaha_pdf.zip