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Version 4.4.060

Release date: 2009-11-26

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox license

  • Performance improvements on Windows, up to 350% faster
  • Widely enhanced imposition features
    • Custom definition of imposition sheet sizes in actions Booklet, N-Up, Step & Repeat and Reader Spreads
    • More control in the Impose action with an easy-to-use micro-wizard
    • Placement of cut marks and bleed improved
    • Creation of creep improved
  • Transparency flattening
    • New in Windows Desktop, Server, SDK and Linux CLI, SDK
    • Based on Adobe PDF Library 9 and additionally highly improved file optimization like improved preservation of image quality
  • Full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Full support for Windows 7
  • Use of most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
  • Improved software licensing
  • New pre-installed color conversion profiles for:
    • PSO LWC Improved (ECI)
    • PSO Uncoated ISO12647 (ECI)
  • DeviceLink Add-on extended by the following profiles:
    • Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, LWC improved to Japan
    • Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, LWC improved to US (SWOP)
    • Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, US (SWOP) to LWC improved
    • Convert using DeviceLink Sheetfed offset to Web offset on improved LWC paper
    • Convert using DeviceLink Sheetfed offset, coated to uncoated paper (PSO)
    • Convert using DeviceLink Web offset (LWC improved) to Newspaper (IFRA)
    • Convert using DeviceLink Sheetfed offset, uncoated, reduce to 280% ink limit (PSO) (Server/CLI only)
    • Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, reduce to 300% ink limit (PSO) (Server/CLI only)
    • Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, reduce to 300% ink limit with GCR (PSO) (Server/CLI only)
  • Power Tools
    • Fixups
      • Embed missing fonts: Pre-installed setting “Arial and Helvetica” for font substitution extended to support styles bold, italic, bold italic, narrow, narrow bold and narrow bold italic
    • Checks
      • New Properties to check for types of smooth shading
      • New Property to check whether orientation and size is equal for all pages with settings for tolerance and page box
      • Wizard check “Page size or page orientation is different from page to page” uses a tolerance of 2 pt
  • Loupe window in pdfToolbox Standalone
  • Chinese language version extended
    • Registration for international and chinese version can be combined on one machine
  • Reports improved
    • Icons added to PDF overview page
    • PDF comments report: added name of check to content of comment
    • PDF comment and layer report: Annotations and layer masks are sorted by severity
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Convert colors
        • Problem solved where processing ended with error message
        • Problem solved where page object was shifted after processing
        • Problem solved where page objects were not converted when fixup “Convert RGB colors using Quick Conversion (Office-RGB)” was contained in pdfToolbox profile
        • Problem solved where inline images were not converted
      • Convert colors using DeviceLink profiles
        • Problem solved where processing ended with error message
      • Map colors: Problem solved where objects were not mapped to destination color
      • Set Overprint and Knockout: Problem solved where OPM was not set for DeviceCMYK object
      • Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where PDF could not be printed or EPS creation failed after processing
      • Convert fonts to outlines
        • Problem solved where fonts were not converted to outlines although conversion was possible
        • Problem solved where error message was displayed after processing
        • Problem solved where appearance of glyph changed after processing
      • Subset fonts:
        • Problem solved where glyphs of special characters where modified
        • Problem solved where EPS creation failed after processing
      • Fix glyph width information: Problem solved where EPS creation failed after processing
      • Add missing space glyph: Problem solved where EPS creation failed after processing
      • Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts: Problem solved where error message was displayed after processing
      • Convert to PDF standard: names of Output Condition Identifier and Output Condition not properly written to embedded Output Intent
      • Convert to PDF/E: Problem solved under Unix where conversion ended with error message
      • Downsample/Compress images: Problem solved where appearance of JPEG 2000 image was modified
      • Increase line width: Problem solved where page object was modified that should not be modified
      • Adjust or remove annotations: Problem solved where annotations were not modified as requested
    • Checks
      • Problem solved where analysis ended with error message because of a certain type of pattern object
  • Switchboard Actions
    • Correct 4c Black: Problem solved where pixel in images were modified
    • Split layers: Problem solved where error message was displayed after processing
    • Import as layer: Problem solved in Standalone where error message occurred when open file was imported as layer in itself
    • Split in half: Problem solved where page was not properly split
  • Standalone
    • Problem solved where PDF was not rendered when page boxes are malformed

Release date: 2009-10-14

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox licence

  • Performance improvements especially for:
    • Downsampling of images (up to 70% faster)
    • Color conversion (up to 50% faster)
    • Processing of kfpx profiles containing only fixups and no checks (up to 90% faster)
    • Execution of Actions in the desktop flavours (where possible the conversion is made on the open document and no Save as dialog is displayed)
  • Power Tools
    • Fixups
      • PDF/A conversion: Extension schema for xmpMM:InstanceID is embedded
      • Downsample/compress images: Supported image formats for JPEG recompression extended (Color spaces Device, ICC and Cal are supported; DeviceN, Indexed, Lab, Pattern are not supported)
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Convert colors
        • Problem solved where spot color objects where not converted to CMYK
        • Problem solved where page objects where not converted to RGB
        • Problem solved where page objects using Default Color Space where not decalibrated
        • Problem solved where error occured during processing
      • Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where font was not embedded although embedding was possible
      • Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where error message occured with a PDF file during processing
      • Subset fonts: Problem solved where error occured with a PDF file during processing
      • Fix glyph width information: Problem solved where visual appearance changed
      • Make font name unique: Problem solved where glyph was not displayed at the right position
      • Make spot color appearance consistent: Problem solved where some page objects where not converted in a PDF file
      • Downsample/compress images:
        • Problem solved where image changed visual appearance
        • Problem solved where error occurred during processing of a bitmap image
      • Crop all pages: Problem solved where page object was clipped
      • Increase line width: Problem solved where line was increased to higher line width than specified in the fixup
      • Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Problem solved where page objects of hidden layer became visible after flattening
      • Set transparency blend color space: Problem solved where error occurred during processing
      • PDF/A conversion: Problem solved where error occurred during processing
    • Checks
      • Problem solved where transparent FormXObject was not found with respective check
      • Problem solved where number of plates was not properly evaluated for a PDF file
      • Problem solved where glyph width mismatch was reported although glyph width was consistent
  • Switchboard Actions
    • Booklet: Cut marks are also set for pages if they are added dynamically by pdfToolbox to fill the sheet
    • Optimize for internet: Fonts are no longer converted to outlines
  • Plug-In and Standalone
    • Problem solved where processing was not applied to currently active document
  • Plug-In
    • Problem solved under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard where some predefined color conversion fixups using preinstalled ICC profiles could not be executed
  • Standalone
    • Problem solved where dialog for custom color conversion settings of Switchboard Action Process conversion was not handled properly

Release date: 2009-07-23

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop licence

  • First release of Chinese language version of pdfToolbox 4 Desktop (separate installation package)
  • New fixups in Standalone that were only available in Plug-In version before:
    • Apply ZIP compression to uncompressed object streams
    • Discard embedded thumbnails
    • Discard private data of other applications
    • Optimize PDF for fast web view
  • Fixups Embed missing fonts and Convert fonts to outlines now list respective font name in results dialog
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Re-activated fixups Knockout white vector and/or text objects, Overprint black and Set Overprint Mode to 1 to be used with profiles created with pdfToolbox 4.2 and before, Note: It is not recommended to combine them with the new fixup Set Overprint and Knockout
      • Convert colors: Problem solved where OPM was not set to 0 when overprinting DeviceGray was converted to DeviceCMYK
      • Set transparency blend color space: Problem solved where transparency blend color space was not set to RGB ICC profile
      • Remove objects outside page area: Problem solved where object was removed that was lying partly inside page area
      • Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
      • Fix glyph width info: Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed
  • Switchboard Actions
    • Fonts - Replace fonts: Problem solved where glyph width was not adapted when replacing font fully
    • Pages - Scale by percent: Problem solved where execution of action did not have any effect
  • Reports
    • Problem solved where in PDF comments report color of comments did not match their severity
  • Plug-In
    • Problem solved where error message was displayed when opening Profiles dialog
  • Standalone
    • Problem solved where encrypted PDF files, annotations and form fields were not displayed
    • Problem solved where black and white image was displayed with inverted color
    • Problem solved where page number, Standards button or icon for modified file was not displayed reliably
    • Problem solved where active document could not be changed when Profiles, Checks or Fixups dialog was open

Release date: 2009-06-25

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 4 Plug-In licence

  • First release of pdfToolbox 4 Standalone version for Mac and Windows as part of pdfToolbox 4 Desktop version
  • Fixups
    • Set Rendering mode for text added
    • Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts added (integrated in PDF/A conversion)
    • Reduce structure to predefined types added (integrated in PDF/A conversion)
    • Insert missing Type entry in StructElem objects added (integrated in PDF/A conversion)
    • Prepare encoding entry in TrueType fonts for PDF/A added (integrated in PDF/A conversion)
    • Set Overprint and Knockout added
    • Convert colors extended to set overprint and knockout of converted colors
    • Map spot colors extended to specify spot color names via regular expressions
  • Checks
    • Option added to combine properties in checks using “or”
    • Date string uses Unicode added
    • Entry in array missing or invalid added
    • Entry in dictionary missing or incorrect added
    • Reference to non-existing object added
  • Switchboard Actions
    • Layer - Split layers: to create single PDF files of each layer view or layer of a PDF
    • Arrange - Sandwich: option added to define placement
    • Fonts - Replace font: extended to also fully embed replaced fonts, e.g. for fonts used in forms
    • Present - Light table: white background added
    • Get in touch - Video tutorials: showing short demonstrations of the most interesting features
    • Improved file handling, working on current document with most actions instead of saving as a new files
  • New and adapted predefined profiles and fixups in the Power tools, their name contains v4.3, amongst others these are:
    • Prepress
      • PDFX-ready profiles added
      • Fixups of GWG profiles extended
    • PDF/X compliance
      • Convert to PDF/X-4 and create language layer views (ISO Coated v2 (ECI))
    • Convert colors
      • Convert using DeviceLink Sheetfed offset, reduce to 300% ink limit, only if above 305% (Europe)
      • Map color with specified color values (color values can be set at run time)
      • Map spot color with specified name and color values (color values can be set at run time)
      • Convert to grayscale extended to also convert registration color to gray
    • PDF fixups
      • Make OCR text visible
    • PDF analysis
      • List potential font problems extended by another 12 font releated checks
  • New Output Intents preinstalled
    • PSO LWC Improved (ECI)
    • PSO Uncoated ISO12647 (ECI)
  • Plug-In user interface slightly optimized
    • Toolbar icon for Profiles dialog
    • Plug-In menu entries extended
    • Power Tools removed from Switchboard
  • Reports: Information about fixups and layers are listed in XML report
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Convert colors
        • Problem solved where Acrobat error message was displayed after conversion
        • Problem solved where spot color was not converted to CMYK
        • Problem solved where file size increased when converting to sRGB and embedding destination profile as source profile
        • Problem solved where ICC based RGB object could not be decalibrated
        • Problem solved where smooth shade was not as detailed as in original
        • Problem solved where parameters to set compression method and JPEG quality of images did not have an effect
        • OPM is now set to 0 when converting DeviceGray to DeviceCMYK
      • Map colors: Problem solved where Apply to option had no effect
      • Map spot colors: Problem solved where only first defined color had been mapped if more than one was specified
      • Convert to PDF/X
        • Problem solved where page boxes could not be nested properly
        • Problem solved where object data compression could not be removed
      • Remove objects outside page area: Problem solved where object was removed that was lying partly inside page area
      • Embed missing fonts: several issues fixed where font was not embedded although embedding was possible
      • Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where outline of a glyph was not placed at the right position
      • Subset fonts: Problem solved where Acrobat error message was displayed after subsetting
    • Analysis
      • Problem solved where annotation of type Redaction had not been found
      • Problem solved where contents stream of a PDF could not be analyzed
      • Problem solved where property “Belongs to a layer” did not find respective objects
      • Predefined check “Black text knocks out and is smaller than 12 pt” adapted
  • Switchboard Actions
    • Present - Passe partout: Problem solved where Acrobat 9 syntax check reported problem when analyzing converted file
    • Colors - Process conversion
      • Problem solved where error message was displayed when “Prepress (current file has PDF/X Output Intent)” had been chosen
      • Problem solved where error message was displayed when converting a specific file
    • Colors - Office PDF to CMYK: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
  • Explore fonts: Problem solved where glyphs in preview where not filled

Release date: 2009-05-28

  • Fixups
    • Convert colors: Alternate color values of Process colors defined as Separation or DeviceN, Separation All (Registration color) and Separation None are reset to default values
    • Embed missing fonts: Included Adobe font folders when system folder option is activated
    • Set Creation date entry: new fixup which allows an improved handling of invalid creation dates
    • Set Modification date entry: new fixup which allows an improved handling of invalid modification dates
  • Actions:
    • Colors - Correct 4c Black: Optimized to convert a wider range of separated black
  • Improved handling of invalid creation and modification dates during PDF/X conversion
  • DeviceLink Add-on: Profiles updated for better conversion results
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Convert colors:
        • Problem solved where spot color entries remained in PDF after converting spot color objects to destination
        • Process colors defined as Separation or DeviceN are treated as uncalibrated CMYK
        • Problem solved where page objects remained colored after conversion to grayscale
        • Problem solved where spot color with 0% was not converted to CMYK
        • Problem solved where number of channels in Output Intent was not set properly
        • Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
        • Problem solved where certain gray profiles in system folder were not listed as destination profile
      • Map colors: Problem solved where change of color was not visible in Acrobat unless PDF was reopened
      • Subset fonts: Problem solved where error message occurred after subsetting
      • Page geometry:
        • Problem solved where pages where not scaled to defined size
        • Problem solved where error message was displayed
        • Problem solved where flip and rotate fixups in one profile did not deliver expected result
      • Fix glyph width: Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed for all occurrences
      • Remove objects outside box: Problem solved where page object lying partly inside page box was removed
      • Crop pages to bounding box: Problem solved where invisible page objects were not cropped
      • Set layer default ON/OFF: Problem solved where RegEx was not applied
      • Convert NChannel to DeviceN: Problem solved where NChannel remained in PDF after processing
      • Option Omit ICC profile for standards conversion improved to omit the ICC profile in more cases
    • Analysis
      • Problem solved where performance of analysis of PostScript in PDF was low
  • Actions
    • Layers - Enumerate layers: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
    • Layers - Import as layer: Problem solved where PDF was not scaled properly after import
    • Reports - Browse metadata: Problem solved where preview of image was rotated
    • Fonts - Replace font: Problem solved where not all system fonts were displayed in list of fonts
    • Save as image:
      • Problem solved where image was rotated
      • Problem solved where image resolution of PNG files was not set properly
  • Reports
    • Problem solved in XML report where details for problems were only listed for the first 30 hits
  • DeviceLink Add-on: Problem solved where total area coverage was not reduced to 260% for ISO newspaper 26v4 ink reduction profile

Release date: 2009-03-20

  • Fixups
    • New fixup “Insert missing Type entry in StructElem objects” (necessary for PDF/A-1a)
    • Fixup “Scale pages” extended to work independent from the page orientation
    • Fixup “Discard all actions that are not compliant with PDF/A-1” extended to remove actions from form fields
  • Analysis
    • Transparency checks more detailed when using wizard checks for PDF version and transparency
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Convert fonts to outlines:
        • Problem solved where specific font was not converted to outlines
        • Problem solved where error message appeared after processing a specific PDF
      • Convert colors:
        • Problem solved where image with SMask having Matte value was not handled properly
        • Problem solved where conversion for objects was marked as failed when converting to RGB
        • Problem solved where conversion failed because of an invalid tag in an ICC profile
        • Problem solved where overprinting has behavior changed during the conversion with a specific PDF
        • Problem solved where image with decode array was not handled properly
        • Problem solved where DeviceN alternate of spot color was not converted to CMYK
        • Problem solved where Separation Black and DeviceN Black was separated to 4 colors after the conversion
        • Problem solved where tone values of Separation Black, DeviceN Black, DeviceGray and DeviceCMYK had slight differences after the conversion
        • Problem solved where conversion lead to crash with specific PDF
      • Layer handling: Problem solved where layer fixups could not be combined to create, make invisible and flatten layers in one profile
      • Downsample/compress images:
        • Problem solved where image with SMask having Matte value was not handled properly
        • Problem solved where Indexed CMYK image was modified after recompressing to JPEG
    • Analysis
      • Problem solved where properties “Font name in embedded font” and “Font name in PDF matches font name in embedded font” showed an error message when processing a specific PDF
  • Switchboard
    • Colors - Convert to B/W: Problem solved where page objects became darker or lighter tone values than expected
    • Layers - Browse layers: Problem solved where created layers were not PDF/X-4 compliant
    • Layers - Import as layer: Problem solved where file was rotated after importing
    • Reports - Browse metadata: Problem solved where preview of image where not displayed
  • Reports:
    • Mask report:
      • Problem solved where Warnings and Infos were displayed in color of errors (red) when viewing layer “All problems”

Release date: 2009-02-27

  • New layer features
    • Layer browser for exploring and modifying Layer views and Layers
    • Fixup for server based handling of Layer views (Fixup Apply OCCD setup)
    • Fixup extended to have full RegEx support when creating Layer views (Fixup Configure OCCD)
  • New option for adjusting profiles dynamically at run time
  • New Actions in the Switchboard
    • Layers
      • Browse layer (also available via Acrobat menu File - Layer)
  • New Fixups
    • Font handling
      • Subset fonts
      • Make font name unique
      • Fix glyph width information
      • Fix font encoding (CIDToGIDMap)
      • Insert CMap for CID fonts
      • Add missing SPACE glyphs
      • Embed missing fonts extended to substitute fonts that are not available
    • Color handling
      • Map colors
      • Map spot colors
      • Normalize spot color appearance
      • Remove Rendering Intents
    • Page handling
      • Rotate pages
      • Flip pages
      • Set media box to origin
    • PDF/A related fixups
      • Change Launch Action into GoToR Action
      • Convert SMask to image mask
      • Remove XMP Metadata if not compliant with PDF/A
    • Further Fixups
      • Recompress images
      • Increase line width of multicolored lines
      • Apply OCCD setup (created by Layer browser)
  • New Checks
    • Checks for analyzing the embedding flags of TrueType fonts
  • New and adapted predefined profiles and fixups in the Power tools, their name contains “v4.2”, amongst others these are:
    • New GWG profiles in the Prepress group
      • Sheetfed offset (CMYK, high res.)
      • Sheetfed offset (CMYK and spot colors, high res.)
    • Dynamic profiles, checks and fixups
      • List relevant printing aspects
      • List all color and grayscale images below specified resolution
      • Downsample image resolution to specified value
      • List spot color with specified name
      • List font with specified name
      • Ink coverage is above specified value
    • Font analysis and correction
      • List potential font problems
      • Fix potential font problems
    • Color conversion
      • Fixup for conversion PDFs from Office applications: Convert to CMYK, Office conversion (ISO Coated v2 (ECI))
      • All color conversion profiles and fixups adapted
    • Spot color handling
      • Make Pantone spot color names consistent
      • Make HKS spot color names consistent
      • Make custom spot color names consistent
      • Normalize spot color names
      • Merge spot color name if appearance is identical
      • Make spot color appearance consistent
    • PDF/A conversion
      • Prepare annotations for PDF/A-1
      • Prepare forms for PDF/A-1
      • Discard all actions that are not compliant with PDF/A-1
      • These and further fixups added to convert more PDF files to PDF/A
  • Option to add Profiles, Checks and Fixups to the Workspace of the Switchboard
  • Sample files added to plug-in to easily get to know pdfToolbox
  • Improved visualization in the Metadata browser
  • File format of profiles changed to kfpx
  • New Output Intents preinstalled
    • PSO Coated NP (ECI)
    • PSO Coated 300% NP (ECI)
    • PSO Uncoated NP (ECI)
    • PSO Standard News print SNP (ECI)
    • PSO Super Calandered SC (ECI)
    • PSO Machine Finished Coating MFC (ECI)
  • Spanish and Italian language support added
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Convert colors
        • Problem solved where DeviceLink conversion was not applied properly on inline image
        • Problem solved where conversion of objects failed and fixup was marked as failed
        • Problem solved where Smooth Shade object was set to overprint after the conversion
        • Problem solved where images with more than one filter where not converted properly
        • Problem solved where conversion of alternate color space lead to error message
        • Problem solved where custom color conversion policy was not properly exported to profile
      • Convert NChannel to DeviceN: Problem solved where conversion was not performed
      • Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where font was not embedded although embedding was possible
      • Convert fonts to outlines
        • Fonts are now removed after conversion to outlines
        • Problem solved where letter on page was not handled properly
      • Set page geometry boxes: Problem solved where rotated flag was ignored when setting page boxes
      • Scale pages: Problem solved where page size was not displayed properly by Acrobat after conversion
      • Crop all pages to bounding box: Problem solved where parts of page objects were cropped
      • Increase lines width: Problem solved where lines were not increased
      • Apply or remove transfer curves: Problem solved where tone values where not correct after applying transfer curve
      • Downsample/compress images: Problem solved where indexed CMYK image was not downsampled
      • Recompress LZW with ZIP: Problem solved where fixup did not convert
      • Discard all alternate images: Problem solved where error message occurred after processing
    • Analysis
      • Problem solved where Font was marked as not valid although it was valid
      • Problem solved where check “Spot color is used” did not find spot colors that are defined in the PDF but not used
      • Problem solved where image resolution check combined with OPI check did not deliver hits
      • Problem solved where name of check TrapNet annotation error did not appear in plug-in results dialog
      • Problem solved where ICC profiles of transparency blend color space did not show up in Overview
  • Switchboard
    • Fonts - Subset fonts: Problem solved where error message occurred after processing
    • Present - Passe partout: Problem solved where objects (DeviceGray) where not displayed properly after conversion
  • Reports
    • Mask: Problem solved where report did not contain all page objects of the original PDF file
    • Inventory: Problem solved where reports could not be created with option Colors
    • XML: Order of entries is no longer changing
  • Problem solved where plug-in registration was not displayed when opening About dialog via Acrobat Help menu without starting the plug-in before

Release date: 2009-01-13

  • Switchboard
    • Present - Passe partout problem solved where device dependent gray objects were not handled properly
  • Power tools
    • Analysis
      • Problem solved where font mistakenly was regarded as invalid font

Release date: 2008-12-19

  • Switchboard
    • Colors - DeviceLink conversion: Problem solved where page objects did not comply with PDF specification after DeviceLink conversion
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Problem solved where lines where not handled properly when increasing hairlines
      • Problem solved where error message appeared after downsampling an image
      • Problem solved where fixup “Crop all pages” caused an error when cropping an empty page
      • Problem solved where combination of fixups “Set page geometry boxes” and “Scale pages” did not create expected result

Release date: 2008-11-24

  • Switchboard
    • Colors - DeviceLink conversion: DeviceLink profiles of Add-on updated: when converting pure Black defined in CMYK the dot gain had not been compensated properly
    • Layers - Remove layer: Problem solved where visibility of layers could not be changed after removing layers
    • Font - Replace fonts: Problem solved where font names on Mac were not properly listed
  • Power tools
    • Fixups
      • Problem solved where invisible layers became visible during flattening
      • Problem solved where downsampling of bitmap image did not work properly with a PDF
      • Problem solved where fixup Stamp page did not work
      • Problem solved where PDF with OPI comments could not be processed
      • Modifications of layers and OCCDs are directly visible after processing without reopening the PDF
    • Color conversion
      • RGB conversion improved: Advanced color conversion policy file RGB added
      • Problem solved where gray image in a PDF became lighter than expected after color conversion
      • Problem solved where custom DeviceLink profiles were not properly exported to kfp file for execution with CLI
    • Analysis
      • Font check of PDF/A compliancy profile updated to hit only if text is in render mode 3
      • Problem solved where font metadata was not respected properly when checking for PDF/A-1 compliancy
    • Reports
      • Layer “All problems” of PDF mask report also contains all comments
      • Problem solved where no XML report was created for a PDF
    • User Interface
      • Problem solved on Mac where Find field could not be used
      • Duplicate fixup for font embedding removed
      • Several minor improvements of the user interface

Release date: 2008-10-24

  • Enhanced metadata support to explore and export XMP metadata information
  • Full compliancy with the latest specifications of the Ghent PDF Workgroup
  • Full support of Isartor test suite for PDF/A
  • Improved PDF mask, PDF comments and XML reports
  • New Actions in the Switchboard
    • Reports
      • Browse metadata - to explore and export XMP metadata information
    • Colors
      • Correct rich black - Restore accidentally separated Black
      • Registration Color - Converts Registration color into Black
      • Enhanced DeviceLink - Import option for custom DeviceLink profiles
  • New Fixups in the Power tools
    • Font handling
      • Embed missing fonts
      • Convert fonts to Outline
      • Fix CID set in subset fonts (required for PDF/A)
      • Fix Char set in subset fonts (required for PDF/A)
    • Spot color handling and correction
      • Make custom spot color names consistent
      • Make HKS spot color names consistent
      • Make Pantone spot color names consistent
      • Make spot color appearance consistent
      • Merge spot color name if appearance is identical
      • Normalize spot color names
    • Color conversion
      • Convert colors using DeviceLink profiles
      • Convert RGB colors to CMYK with special support for colors created in office applications
      • Convert Registration color to black
      • Adjust dot gain (tone value adjustment)
      • Enhanced fixup Convert colors
      • Enhanced fixup Convert to spot color
    • Metadata handling
      • Protect object level metadata (avoid losing metadata while transparency flattening images)
      • Remove object level metadata protection
    • Further fixups
      • Bicubic downsampling for images
      • Scale pages
      • Set initial view settings of PDF files
      • Enhanced fixup “Configure OCCD” - important for PDF/X-4 conversion
  • Latest ICC profiles and Output Intents of ECI, GRACoL and IFRA preinstalled
  • Switchboard
    • Colors - Remove ICC profiles: Problem solved where ICC profiles could not be removed
    • Fonts - Subset fonts: Several fixes where single glyphs were not handled properly
  • Power tools
    • Problem solved where check “Smallest distance inside from TrimBox border” was not working properly
    • Issue fixed where check “Font not valid” caused mistakenly a hit
    • Several issues fixed where hairlines were not properly reported
    • Problem solved where spot colors could not be created or imported in the spot color library
    • Layer report only contains relevant pages when analysis was limited to page range

Release date: 2008-08-14

  • French documentation added
  • General
    • GWG single actions in group Standards and Prepress profiles in the Power tools no longer cause an error message under Acrobat 8 if ICC profile Coated FOGRA 39 is not installed on the system
    • Output Intents list is no longer empty if pdfToolbox 4 Preferences are opened before Power tools are started once
    • Long names in popup entries under Windows are no longer cropped
  • Switchboard
    • Arrange - Sandwich: Issue solved where pages were not exactly placed on top of each other
    • Arrange - Impose: Imposed pages were not placed properly with imposition sheet “US Legal, 8 business cards”
    • Arrange - Duplicate pages: Pages are no longer rotated if page had certain constellation of page rotation
    • Present - Presentation: Thermometer was not displayed if page had certain constellation of page rotation
    • Prepress - Output Intent: RGB Output Intents are now available for embedding
    • Prepress - Extract ICC profiles: Problem solved where special characters in internal ICC profile name caused empty ICC profile file under Windows
    • Fonts - Subset font, Replace font, Font to outlines: Several minor fixes
    • Colors - Spot colors: Error message no longer appears when opening a certain PDF
    • Images - Recompress: Problem solved where JPEG2000 image could not be recompressed
  • Power tools
    • XML reports are now properly created
    • Wizard check for number of pages did not deliver correct result if less or greater than was chosen
    • Embedded Output Intent is respected if respective option is activated in PDF/X conversion setup dialog
    • Demo version watermarks are no longer placed on layer reports when product is licensed
    • Switchboard icon brings Switchboard in front of Power tools dialog

Release date: 2008-07-14

First Release version of callas pdfToolbox 4 plug-in for Mac and Windows