Berlin, September 1st, 2009 – callas software announces the availability of pdfAutoOptimizer 2. Based on Acrobat’s PDF engine, callas pdfAutoOptimizer automates transparency flattening and overall file optimization without loosing the difference between raster and vector elements.

Drop shadows, vignettes, translucent objects, objects softly blending into each other and other effects based on transparency are all features that can make a design more attractive and have vastly increased the use of transparency in PDFs. Unfortunately the ability to deal with it during print, publishing and ad production systems or even in layout applications is mostly inadequate. The only workaround in such cases is to convert PDFs with transparency into non-transparent, so called “flattened” PDFs.
callas pdfAutoOptimizer 2 offers an ideal solution to optimize investments of the past and keep customers happy. Printers and publishers can now accept files including live transparency without the need to update all their RIPs. Designers and agencies can easily and fully automatically create and deliver standards-based PDF files from one master PDF without having to trade-off on creativity such as the use of drop shadows and vignettes.

While other solutions on the market will flatten and rasterize the entire page or documents, they are limited to CMYK only documents. The best tool so far is the flattening feature in Adobe Acrobat – but it still has some limitations like noticeable JPEG artifacts and images with too low resolution in flattened pages. In addition this is a manual process. callas pdfAutoOptimizer 2 allows you to flatten files fully automated, handling both CMYK and spot colors, while keeping most raster, vector and text elements intact. While pdfAutoOptimizer 2 is based on Adobe Acrobat’s engine it overcomes most of Acrobat's limitations on top of fully automating the flattening process. Whether you’re a document creator or document receiver, pdfAutoOptimizer 2 can easily be built in any production automation solution.

callas pdfAutoOptimizer 2 is immediately available. callas pdfAutoOptimizer 2 for Acrobat Pro costs €1.999, the version for Enfocus Switch €1.299. The update from callas pdfAutoOptimizer 1 for the Acrobat version is at €699, the update from callas pdfAutoOptimizer 1 for Switch at €499. Customers who purchased their copy of pdfAutoOptimizer 1 after June 1 are entitled to a free upgrade.

callas software finds simple ways to handle complex PDF challenges. As a technology innovator, callas software develops and markets PDF technology for publishing, print production, document exchange and document archiving.

callas software helps agencies, publishing companies and printers to meet their challenges, by providing software to preflight, correct and repurpose PDF files for print production and electronic publishing.

Businesses and government agencies all over the world rely on callas software’s future-proof, fully PDF/A compliant archiving products.

In addition, callas software technology is available as a programming library (SDK) for developers with a need for PDF optimization, validation and correction. Software vendors such as Adobe®, Quark®, Xerox® and many others have understood the quality and flexibility provided by these callas tools and have incorporated them into their solutions.

callas software actively supports international standards and has been participating in ISO, CIP4, the European Color Initiative and the Ghent PDF Workgroup. callas software is based in Berlin, Germany. For more info, please visit www.callassoftware.com .

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