diff --git a/pstoedit-3.44-quiet.patch b/pstoedit-3.44-quiet.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b29ec80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pstoedit-3.44-quiet.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+--- pstoedit-3.44/src/pstoedit.cpp.orig	2007-03-25 15:28:36.000000000 +0200
++++ pstoedit-3.44/src/pstoedit.cpp	2007-03-25 15:53:12.000000000 +0200
+@@ -352,14 +352,16 @@
+ 	#endif
+ #endif
+ 
++	const unsigned int remaining = options.parseoptions(errstream,argc,argv);
++
++	if (!options.quiet) {
+ 	errstream << "pstoedit: version " << version << " / DLL interface " <<
+ 		drvbaseVersion << " (build " << __DATE__ << " - " << buildtype << " - " << compversion << ")" 
+ 		" : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2006 Wolfgang Glunz\n";
++	}
+ 	// int arg = 1;
+ 	drvbase::SetVerbose( false );	// init
+ 
+-
+-	const unsigned int remaining = options.parseoptions(errstream,argc,argv);
+ 	//  handling of derived parameters
+ 	drvbase::SetVerbose(options.verbose);
+ 	closerObject.fromgui = (bool) options.fromgui;
+--- pstoedit-3.44/src/pstoeditoptions.h.orig	2007-03-25 15:26:10.000000000 +0200
++++ pstoedit-3.44/src/pstoeditoptions.h	2007-03-25 15:26:49.000000000 +0200
+@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@
+ 
+ 	Option < bool, BoolTrueExtractor > splitpages ;//= false;
+ 	Option < bool, BoolTrueExtractor > verbose ;//= false;
++	Option < bool, BoolTrueExtractor > quiet ;//= false;
+ 	Option < bool, BoolTrueExtractor > useBBfrominput; //= false;
+ 	Option < bool, BoolTrueExtractor > simulateSubPaths ;//= false;
+ 	Option < RSString, RSStringValueExtractor> unmappablecharstring ;//= 0;
+@@ -333,6 +334,9 @@
+ 		"Switch on verbose mode. Some additional information is shown "
+ 		"during processing. ",
+ 		false),
++	quiet				(true, "-quiet",noArgument,b_t,"turns on quiet mode", 
++		"Switch on quiet mode. Version information is not shown. ",
++		false),
+ 	useBBfrominput		(true, "-usebbfrominput",noArgument,g_t,"extract BoundingBox from input file rather than determining it during processing", 
+ 		"If specified, pstoedit uses the BoundingBox as is (hopefully) found in the input file instead of one that is calculated by its own. ",
+ 		false),
+@@ -573,6 +577,7 @@
+ 
+ 	ADD(splitpages);
+ 	ADD(verbose );
++	ADD(quiet);
+ 	ADD(useBBfrominput);
+ 	ADD(simulateSubPaths);
+ 	ADD(unmappablecharstring);
diff --git a/pstoedit.spec b/pstoedit.spec
index 8ead962..c22daa6 100644
--- a/pstoedit.spec
+++ b/pstoedit.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           pstoedit
 Version:        3.44
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Release:        6%{?dist}
 Summary:        Translates PostScript and PDF graphics into other vector formats
 
 Group:          Applications/Productivity
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ License:        GPL
 URL:            http://www.pstoedit.net/
 Source0:        http://download.sourceforge.net/pstoedit/pstoedit-%{version}.tar.gz
 Patch0:		pstoedit-3.44-cxxflags.patch
+Patch1:		pstoedit-3.44-quiet.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 Requires:	ghostscript
 BuildRequires:	gd-devel
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ applications
 %prep
 %setup -q
 %patch0 -p1 -b .cxxflags
+%patch1 -p1 -b .quiet
 dos2unix doc/*.htm doc/readme.txt
 
 %build
@@ -84,6 +86,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %{_datadir}/aclocal/*.m4
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Mar 25 2007 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 3.44-6
+- Added patch to add -quiet option
+
 * Wed Nov 22 2006 Denis Leroy <denis@poolshark.org> - 3.44-5
 - Added libEMF support