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  • SKU: NXPOWERL


File optimisation software that reduces Microsoft Powerpoint, Word, Excel and JPEG file sizes by up to 98% and that optimises e-mail attachments automatically as they are sent. Files remain in their original format without the need to unzip.

NXPowerLite will compress PDF, JPEG and Microsoft Office (for Mac OS edition only Microsoft PowerPoint and Word) files simply and effectively, making them easy to email as attachments. It is especially effective on files that don’t zip well.

Key Features:

  • Smaller files, same format: Optimised files stay in the same format, so a JPG remains a JPG even when optimised. It will look and feel identical to the original, just much smaller. See the example below:
  • Compress Emails: NXPowerLite can automatically shrink your email attachments as they are sent. In Outlook 2010 or later you can also compress attachments on emails you have received.
  • How it works: PDF and Microsoft Office files often contain lots of high-resolution images and background data not required for normal use of the file. NXPowerLite removes this data and excess bytes from internal graphics and standalone JPEGs to radically reduce files to their smallest size - without compromising quality.
  • One key for Windows or Mac OS: Keys unlock the Windows or the Mac OS versions of NXPowerLite, so your software can come with you if you change platform. Also you can buy multi-user licences without specifying how many of each platform you want up front.
  • Finder Shortcuts (Mac OS): If you're planning to email your files then we've made it even easier. You can optimise and automatically attach them to a new email by selecting the files and clicking "Optimise and email" in the finder menu.

NXPowerLite - Features

Versions

General Features

NXPowerLite optimizes Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations by intelligently compressing the graphics and embedded documents stored within them.

It's fast, effective and incredibly easy to use. Simply select a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, choose your compression level and click on the 'Optimize' button. Compression settings are fully customizable, so you can choose the perfect balance between quality and compression. Batch processing options mean that you can optimize a number of files in one go, immediately freeing up large amounts of hard drive or network server storage. You can optimize files from within Word, Excel or PowerPoint - or by right-clicking them in Windows Explorer. NXPowerLite also integrates with Microsoft Outlook - so you can automatically optimize your email attachments before sending. The file recipient does not need to have NXPowerLite on their machine. Your optimized files retain their original format and all of their functionality, so they can be opened and edited by anybody with a copy of Microsoft Office.

Desktop Edition

NXPowerLite Desktop Edition radically reduces the size of your Microsoft Office files in seconds. They remain in their original format and there's no unzipping required.

It's incredibly easy to use - simply select a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, choose your compression level and click the 'Optimize' button.

  • Fully integrated with Windows and Microsoft Office.
  • Automatically optimizes Outlook email attachments.
  • Reduces image-heavy files much more than Zip compression.
  • Robust software used by over 500k people worldwide.
  • Developed entirely in house.

Benefits

  • Improve staff productivity: Saves employees the time, effort and frustration of dealing with large Microsoft Office files.
  • Reduce email problems: Minimizes instances of congested inboxes and undelivered attachments.
  • Cut courier costs: Enables users to email files that would previously have to be physically mailed or couriered.
  • Relieve the strain on your helpdesk: Reduces the number of email-related IT support enquiries.

New Features in Version 4.11

  • Now optimises JPEG images and ZIP archives
  • Improved user interface
  • Simpler optimisation settings
  • Adds support for Outlook Express and Windows Mail

File Server Edition

NXPowerLite File Server Edition radically reduces the size of Microsoft Office files on your server. They remain in their original format and there's no unzipping required.

It recursively searches through a configurable set of directories, optimizing files and replacing the original files with the optimized versions.

  • Simple to configure and deploy.
  • No end-user training or interaction required.
  • Contact us for a dry-run, and see how much storage you can save.
  • Robust software used by over 500k people worldwide.
  • Developed entirely in house.

Benefits

  • Instantly reduce storage requirements: Saves money on hardware upgrades and contributes to a greener storage strategy.
  • Shorten backup windows: Accelerates your backup process and lowers backup media requirements.
  • Decrease network traffic: Improves network response times and cuts data transfer costs.
  • Relieve the strain on your helpdesk: Reduces the number of storage-related IT support enquiries.

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New Features in Version 3.7.4

  • Improved optimisation engine for Office 2007 files
  • Better compression of PNG images within Office files

New Features in Version 3.7

The new version of NXPowerLite integrates directly with Lotus Notes to automatically optimize your Word, Excel and PowerPoint email attachments as they are sent. It also features improved Office 2007 support and a number of bug fixes.

Features in Version 3.6

Now supporting 6 file formats PowerPoint, Word & Excel, 97 2003, and PowerPoint, Word & Excel 2007, plus featuring a significantly improved optimization engine, this release is the most robust version of NXPowerLite to date, with the best compression performance so far! NXPowerLites unique features result in files shrinking over 25 times smaller than what our competitors can achieve.

Features

  • Improved support for optimizing metafiles (WMF and EMF format)
  • Default optimization setting for Outlook add-in can now be set on a per-machine basis in the Registry
  • Licence agreement dialog can now be suppressed on a per-machine basis
  • Added Italian translation
  • Added Traditional Chinese translation

Bugs fixed

  • Embedded documents can now be flattened in many Word (DOC) files
  • Fixed a problem that could cause Excel to give an "unable to read file" error when opening an optimized XLS file
  • Fixed a problem that could cause images to be blurred or not compressed as much as they should be in PPT files
  • Fixed some problems that could cause the size of images in DOC files not to be detected properly (this could have caused images to be scaled down too far or not enough)
  • Fixed a problem that could cause images in XLS files saved by Excel 2007 to be blurred
  • Fixed an incorrect error message being displayed when attempting to optimize DOC or XLS files created in Word or Excel 95 or earlier
  • An "assertion failure" message could appear under certain rare circumstances; this is now fixed
  • Fixed "last optimized size" information not being preserved after optimized files (in Office 97-2003 binary formats) were opened and resaved from within an Office application
  • Clarified error message shown when attempting to optimize a password protected file
  • Fixed some minor problems with French and Simplified Chinese translations

Known problems

  • Optimized attachments may move to the end of the message when sending Rich Text emails from Outlook 2007 without Service Pack 1. This is a bug in Outlook 2007, and can be resolved by installing Outlook 2007 Service Pack 1
  • When an Office 2007 file has other Office 2007 documents embedded within it, the embedded documents are optimized rather than being flattened, even if 'Flatten embedded documents' is enabled
  • Pictures inside SmartArt objects are not currently optimized
  • When the same picture is placed inside a SmartArt object and elsewhere in the same Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, the optimized file may be degraded or unreadable
  • If a Word 2007 (DOCX) file contains two copies of an embedded document, one of which is inline and the other is floating, the inline object may be cropped or of poor quality in the optimized file
  • Under specific rare circumstances with Office 2007 files, colors in an optimized picture will be noticeably darker than in the original file

Features in Version 3.5

  • NXPowerLite now supports Open XML file formats (such as DOCX, XLSX and PPTX), as used by Office 2007 and Office 2008
  • The Outlook add-in now has a 'Don't ask me this question again' option when asking whether to optimize attachments
  • NXPowerLite now appears in the 'Tools' menu in Office 2000-2003

Bugs fixed:

  • Fixed a problem that could cause optimization to fail with the message 'Raster Image processing exception [JPEG read error]' on Windows Vista and some locked-down installations of Windows 2000 and XP
  • Fixed an error 'I/O exception [HRESULT(0) - read 0 bytes]' that could occur while optimizing certain Word files
  • Fixed a problem that could cause NXPowerLite to report the size of a PowerPoint files as '0 bytes' when the file was open in NXPowerLite and being accessed over a network

Other changes:

  • Added support for Chinese language
  • Minor improvements to German and Japanese language translations

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Features in Version 3.0.1

Bugs fixed:

  • "Email" and "Zip & Email" features now work properly when requested to operate on original files
  • Fixed a problem that could cause a warning to be displayed about saving changes to "normal.dot" on some locked-down installations of Word
  • Fixed a problem that made it difficult to agree to the license agreement on German or Spanish versions of Windows
Other changes:
  • Improved integration with Word 2000
  • Improved Japanese language translation
  • User can no longer begin batch processing without specifying an output folder

Features in Version 3.0

New features:

  • NXPowerLite can now optimize Word documents and Excel spreadsheets
  • It is now possible to drag multiple files and/or folders onto the NXPowerLite icon
Other changes:
  • Various user interface enhancements
  • New MSI installer
  • Windows 98 and ME no longer supported
  • Danish language no longer supported

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NXPowerLite - System Requirements

Desktop Edition

  • NXPowerLite Desktop Edition 4.1.1 is compatible with PCs running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later.
  • Microsoft Office integration requires Office 2000 or later
  • Microsoft Office integration requires Office 2000 or later. Optimizes Word, Excel and PowerPoint files created in any version of Microsoft Office, from Office 97 to 2008 (or any other application that can save to Microsoft Office file formats).
  • Languages: Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish.

Also optimises files created in other office productivity suites (such as Google Apps, iWork, Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice or StarOffice), providing they are saved in the Microsoft Office formats.

File Server Edition

NXPowerLite File Server Edition 3.7.4 is compatible with servers running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later. However, it can be tasked to optimise files on other platforms, such as NetApp servers.
Requires JScript 5.5 or later.
Optimizes Word, Excel and PowerPoint files created in any version of Microsoft Office, from Office 97 to 2008 (or any other application that can save to Microsoft Office file formats).