PDF First ! [callas software]

Fred Soar, Managing Director Soar Printing: “The printing industry has changed radically since we started out but one thing has remained the same – behind every single job is a customer who wants it done right. Soar Printing understands this. It is the heart of our culture. It guides our investment in new technologies and it helps us to continually evolve our business. We need to grow with our customers’ business and be aware of the trends and opportunities they are facing globally. From the smallest print job to the most complex, we want our customers to have the utmost confidence in our company” Read more...

Publication of PDF/VT

Improve reliability & production performance of graphically rich personalized content

ISO, the international organization for Standardization" has completed the development of an international standard that defines a PDF-based variable data-printing (VDP) job exchange format
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Infocamere adopts PDF/A

Italian Companies’ Register accepts deeds in PDF/A format only

Infocamere carries out systematic compliance checks and chose callas pdfaPilot, which has been entrusted with the prompt validation of the files sent to the Register. Read more...

DeviceLink Add-on for pdfToolbox

Smooth CMYK-to-CMYK conversion

A comprehensive set of specifically prepared DeviceLink profiles offer highest quality color transformations of PDF files. Read more...

pdfToolbox brings Formula 1 power to our web-based solutions

F.E. Burman, London, automates the complete web-to-print back-end process

Andy Psarianos, F.E.Burman's director in charge of development: “pdfToolbox allows us to build some very powerful and sophisticated products. It’s like putting a Formula 1 engine in our web-based products. We have processed literally hundreds of thousands PDF files through the software, and I honestly can’t recall of one instance where we ever had to question the accuracy of the system. The quality of the imposition and preflight engine is outstanding and the software is extremely user friendly with clear instructions on how to use it. Implementation by our in-house development team was therefore very easy, fast and successful. Read more...

Why should you care about dynamic preflighting?

Read what David van Driessche says about preflighting and pdfToolbox

"Well, what is dynamic preflighting to begin with? You know what preflight is of course: checking different properties of a file to make sure it will be suitable for your purposes. Modern preflight applications allow you to create a preflight profile; such a profile contains a set of preflight checks and fixes. Each check defines a potential problem you want to check for; each fix defines how you want to correct potential problems."
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callas software, Tools4Media & TGLC announce bundles

Compelling, feature rich production tool to optimize ink reduction, prepare and preflight PDF files

Color conversions are one aspect where pdfToolbox excels compared to other PDF preflight and correction solutions on the market. callas software has a separate and efficient way of dealing with RGB to CMYK conversions. There is a "quick convert" mode which can be specifically used for converting Microsoft Office documents from RGB to CMYK. Using this mode pdfToolbox optimizes the conversion of all the document contents. Read more...