pdfAutomator makes automation child’s play

pdfAutomator is a versatile, easy-to-use user interface offered by callas software for its command-line tools – pdfInspektor CLI, pdfColorConvert CLI and pdfCorrect CLI. It allows you to set up tasks for optimizing, color-converting and correcting PDF files in a matter of minutes. You can still use script code to individually customize the CLI tools within an existing workflow as before, but it is no longer always necessary.

Berlin, October 5th, 2006. Berlin-based callas software is presenting its new pdfAutomator product precisely in time for IFRA EXPO 2006 in Amsterdam. This product is an easy-to-use user interface for the command-line products: pdfInspektor CLI, pdfColorConvert CLI and pdfCorrect CLI. It will plug the gaps between our well-known Adobe Acrobat plug-ins and the special CLI tools designed to be used within a professional PDF workflow. You can install the user interface in a matter of a few minutes, and use it along with one or all the CLI tools. pdfAutomator is an integral part of all new CLI tools supplied. Registered users with a software maintenance contract will shortly receive a free update including pdfAutomator.

“With pdfAutomator we’ve made one of the key wishes that our customers have a reality. Many users just want to use our tools mainly to carry out a few PDF processing or automation activities, so they don’t need, to begin with, any kind of integration using script code. On top of that, many decision-makers shy away from considering the command line when using Windows, Apple, Linux or Sun Solaris, and would rather just get started straightaway,” explains Olaf Drümmer, CEO of callas software GmbH.

Background: Unlike the other well-known plug-ins from callas software’s pdfToolbox2 – pdfColorConvert, pdfCorrect and pdfLayerMaker – the CLI modules are primarily designed to be used in a professional context within open or in front of closed digital workflow systems, for example, in prepress systems. This means that the CLIs can be used to thoroughly check PDF files (pdfInspektor3 CLI), reliably optimize colors, such as converting from RGB to CMYK (pdfColorConvert CLI), and quickly make corrections to PDF files in almost any environment. Script code is used to adapt to the relevant workflow system or within a server environment. Thanks to the rapid and reliable CLIs’ seamless integration, you can achieve a high PDF data throughput using the CLI correction, color optimization and correction tools.

“As soon as users have recognized the huge potential offered by our CLI tools, it’s much easier for them to decide to integrate these modules completely in their workflow,” continues Olaf Drümmer. “pdfAutomator’s user interface is so easy to use, allowing users to run several automation routines at the same time. It doesn’t matter whether just one CLI tool is used or all three. Within a few seconds or minutes, depending on the size of the file, the user gets a PDF that has been checked for reproducibility, optimized, and if necessary, corrected.”


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