Version 3.0.151
Release date 2011-12-15
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Features
- PDF/A-3 Support
- Improved features for creating file packages and collections
- Distributed processing
- Force Conversion for conversion to PDF/A
- Support for SharePoint
- New and enhanced Profiles
- Convert to PDF/A-1a, -1b
- Convert to PDF/A-2a, -2b, -2u
- Convert to PDF/A-3a, -3b, -3u
- Verify compliance with PDF/A-3a, -3b, -3u
- Scale pages to A4 if not larger than A3
- New Fixups
- Repair invalid bookmark hierachies [CA1020567]
- Repair invalid ToUnicode-cMap information in fonts
- Convert pages into images
- Create invisible text copy for all text
- Set relationship entry for embedded files
- Scale page content only
- Rotate pages to landscape if portrait
- Rotate pages to portrait if landscape
- Extended fixups
- Scale pages with more options
- Fixups enhanced by an “Apply to” option to restrict the fixup to specified pages:
- Rotate pages
- Scale pages
- Crop pages
- Create bleed
- New Checks
- New check to find latin ligatures
- Several checks added for all aspects of PDF/A-3
- Smallest distance from TrimBox
- Smallest distance from BleedBox
- Object closer to TrimBox than specified value
- Object closer to TrimBox than specified value (binding edges are not checked)
- pdfaPilot Desktop
- New dialogue for setting relationship entry and describtion for embedded files when creating PDF/A-3 packages
- Simultaneous export of several profiles
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated
Fixes
- Improved stability on all platforms
- Comments can be added for Fixups to show up when selected or executed [CA1020681]
- PDF/A Analysis
- Improved PDF Syntax analysis
- Improved analysis of embedded Fonts [CA1020585]
- PDF/A Conversion
- Added force conversion feature to standard PDF/A conversion profiles
- Problem solved where object compression failed with PDF/A-2 conversion [FP17296]
- Improved handling and removing of XMP object metadata [CA1015970]
- Form fields and annotations
- Problems solved with form fields being converted to PDF/A-2 [CA1020860]
- Problem solved with highlight annotations on pages with rotation factor [CA1020859]
- Improved handling of annotations without appearance [CA1020860]
- Font corrections
- Improved handling of several font problems
- Problem solved where a missing font name causes failure of PDF/A conversion [CA17299]
- Problem solved where false embedded fonts prevented conversion [CA1020545]
- Problem solved where wrong OutputIntents avoided conversion to PDF/A
- Improved handling of transparency blend color space
- Improved handling of PDF-version during impositioning
- Problem solved where in certain cases the file size unexpectedly increased [FP6106]
- Improvements for PDF/E conversion profiles [CA1020741]
- CLI
- Improved handling of file extension [CA1020563]
- Improved control over the number and types of values that are listed in the XML report
Version 2.4.140
Release date: 2011-05-25
Update of pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2
Features
- Visual comparison of PDF documents
- Preflight Certificate for safer document delivery
- Re-distilling of PDF documents in CLI
- Font and document structure optimization
- Support of PDF based ISO Standards:
- PDF/VT
- File format conversions extended:
- Conversion to PDF from
- Images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- PostScript
- MS Office 2011 Mac
- iWork 09 Pages
- Conversion from PDF to
- PostScript
- Improvements to the Desktop version
- Output Preview
- Smoothing parameter added to action Image export
- Optimized activation process
- Switchboard-Actions:
- PostScript to PDF
- Image to PDF
- PostScript export
- Content export
- Extended fixups
- Flatten transparency extended to resave images as ZIP when choosing Optimization setting Best quality
- Convert fonts to outlines extended to process fonts that are not embedded
- New properties
- Detect visual differences
- Layer metadata
- Several new properties for PDF/VT
- Several new predefined Profiles, Checks and Fixup (can be filtered with “v2.4” in search field of Desktop version)
- Conversion to PDF/A extended to compress all uncompressed objects using lossless ZIP compression
- Support for metadata of layers
- Performance improvement in CLI when processing kfpx profiles through caching of kfpx profiles and reducing command line output
- Memory handling improved
- CLI options added:
- to Overlay to change order of PDF documents
- to enumerate kfpx profiles
- to Save as image and Create EPS to specify number of digits when indexing output files
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved where missing CharSet was reported although it was present
- Problem solved where analysis of a PDF file ended with error message
- Problem solved where ToUnicode CMap was not properly analyzed
- PDF/A conversion
- Font corrections
- Problem solved where glyphs were not handled properly when differences array from TrueType fonts were removed
- Problem solved where error message occurred when glyph width of Type 3 font was fixed
- Problem solved where ToUnicode CMap was not properly adjusted
- Problem solved where Symbol font was not embedded properly
- Transparency flattening
- Problem solved where error message occurred after flattening transparency of CMYK object that was tagged with an ICC source profile during processing
- Problem solved where force blend color space was not set before transparency flattening
- Problem solved where correction of transparency groups was not listed in the report if no other transparent page objects were flattened
- Form fields
- Problem solved where form fields were modified when adjusting them for PDF/A
- Problem solved where PDF file without suffix PDF was not processed
- Problem solved where file size increased because page objects were not ZIP compressed in the converted PDF file
- Problem solved where converted PDF document could not be displayed properly in Acrobat 9
- Desktop
- Problem solved where Output Intent was exported into kfpx profile although not necessary
- pdfaPilot Server application
- Problem solved where error message occurred when two CLI instances performed font substitution at the same time
Version 2.3.131
Release date: 2010-12-17
Update of pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2
Features
- First release of pdfaPilot Server 2 Windows and pdfaPilot CLI 2 Linux with 64-bit support
Version 2.3.130
Release date: 2010-12-15
Update of pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2
Features
- Support for PDF/A-2 ISO standard
- Support for Office documents extended
- Added support for Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit) to Windows version
- Added support for OpenOffice.org to Mac version
- Option added to save office documents as PDF without converting to PDF/A
- Performance improved
- Memory handling improved
- Support of 64-bit (Windows, Linux, SolSparc and AIX)
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated
- New optimization of internal PDF structure during saving now creates smaller file sizes, especially with complex PDF files
- Actions added to pdfaPilot CLI to
- Extract text and metadata from PDF files
- Create images from PDF files
- Arrange pages (impositioning)
- Manage layers
- Create presentations and handouts
- Process kfpx profiles with all available checks and fixups of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop version
- New Checks added
- Several checks added for all aspects of PDF/A-2
- Page description errors of PDF files are reported with detailed error messages
- New Fixups added
- Adjust colors for PDF-based ISO standards
- Make document XMP Metadata compliant with PDF/A-2
- Remove all xmpMM:Manifest metadata entries
- Recompress JPEG 2000 images as JPEG
- Remove unnecessary transparency groups
- Remove CharSet if incomplete
- Remove CIDset if incomplete
- Extended fixups
- Adjust OCCDs for PDF-based ISO standards
- Remove XMP Metadata if not compliant with PDF/A
- Convert TrueType to CID
- Map spot and process colors
- Embed missing fonts
- Rotate pages extended to apply page rotation factors
- Initial view extended to support magnification 100%
- Transparency flattening also available on Mac, Linux and Solaris Sparc
- Support for page scaling factors (user units) to handle sheet sizes larger than 200 by 200 inches
- pdfaPilot Server UI:
- Further information is displayed in Progress dialog to track performance statistics (updater need to “Clear statistics” in the Progress dialog prior to processing)
- Spanish, Italian and French language support added
- pdfaPilot Server/CLI 2: Command line output extended by
- Number of pages
- Glyph number for glyph related checks
- XML report extended to list annotations
- Installation software for Windows improved to better support user rights and have smaller installation packages
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved where missing glyph was incorrectly reported
- Problem solved where analysis of a specific PDF file lead to error message
- Problem solved where hit “CIDSet in subset font is incomplete” was mistakenly displayed
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where font was not embedded although possible
- Problem solved where layers could not be flattened
- Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed properly
- Problem solved where PDF document could not be converted because not enough memory was available
- Problem solved where conversion ended with error message
- Fixups
- Embed missing fonts: Problem solved were embedding failed when font should be embedded completely
- Set XMP Metadata fields: Problem solved where XMP entry was not set
- Office conversion
- Problem solved where Excel document was not properly processed on chinese operating system
- CLI
- Problem solved where path separators were not handled properly
- Problem solved under Linux where a PDF file which was set to read-only could not be analyzed
- Problem solved under Unix where Adobe font list file was created in current working directory
- Reports
- Problem solved in XML report where time zone was not evaluated
- Problem solved where callas icon was placed in PDF files when creating layer report
- Problem solved where 2-byte characters were not properly encoded in HTML and MHT reports
Version 2.2.122
Release date: 2010-11-17
Update of pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2
Fixes
- Problem solved where transparency flattening did not properly work
Version 2.2.121
Release date: 2010-08-31
Update of pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2
Features
- pdfaPilot Server UI
- Further information is displayed in Progress dialog to track performance statistics (updater need to “Clear statistics” in the Progress dialog prior to processing)
- pdfaPilot Server/CLI 2
- Number of pages output on command line
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved where hit “CIDSet in subset font is incomplete” was mistakenly displayed
- CLI
- Problem solved where path separators were not handled properly
- Problem solved under Linux where a PDF file which was set to read-only could not be analyzed
Version 2.2.119
Release date: 2010-06-02
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot licence
Fixes
- CLI
- Problem on Mac solved when CLI was started by user with no home directory
Version 2.2.118
Release date: 2010-06-02
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot licence
Features
- Improved font embedding
- Settings for font substitution improved to embed even more fonts (updater need to remove fontsubstitution.cfg in user prefs in advance)
Fixes
- Office document conversion to PDF/A
- Problem solved under Windows where office document could not be processed because Word instance was not able to close the document processed before
- Reports
- Problem solved where MHT report was not created and syntax of MHT and HTML report was not correct
Version 2.2.116
Release date: 2010-05-04
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot licence
Features
- Conversion of OpenOffice.org documents to PDF/A
- Documents of all file formats supported by OpenOffice.org 3.2 can directly be converted to PDF/A-1a or PDF/A-1b
- Supports latest version of OpenOffice.org 3.2 besides Microsoft Office 2007
- Supported under Windows in pdfaPilot Desktop 2, pdfaPilot Server 2 and pdfaPilot SDK 2 and under Linux in pdfaPilot CLI 2 and pdfaPilot SDK 2
- Keep visual and semantic reproducibility by converting to PDF/A-1a
- Common issues of PDF/A files created from Office applications are repaired
- Office documents that can not be exported from MS Office can be processed via OpenOffice.org
- Performance improved when converting MS Word documents to PDF/A
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
- Removal of incompatible XMP Metadata is now activated by default to convert even more PDF files to PDF/A
- Font substitution improved: Pre-installed setting extended to support more font styles
- New correction: Map structure to predefined types improves mapping of structure for PDF/A-1a compliance
- pdfaPilot Server application: Option added to overwrite result files
Fixes
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where Launch action was not converted to PDF/A compliant GoToR action
- Problem solved where creating of font cache took long time
- Activation
- Problem solved where automatic activation failed when sending activation information from certain E-Mail clients
- Problem solved where activation info was not displayed after activating
- Problem solved where activation could not be made for all users of a computer
- Problem solved where activation got invalid after changing network device
- Problem solved where pdfToolbox was not activated when parameter cachefolder was used
Version 2.1.112
Release date: 2010-02-12
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot license
Fixes
- Plug-In and Standalone: Problem solved where result file was not opened after converting a PDF
Version 2.1.111
Release date: 2010-02-04
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot license
Features
- Conversion of Office documents to PDF/A
- Documents from Word, Excel, PowerPoint can directly be converted to PDF/A-1a or PDF/A-1b
- Keep visual and semantic reproducibility by converting to PDF/A-1a
- Common issues in fonts and XMP Metadata of PDF/A files created from Office applications are repaired
- Support Microsoft Office 2007
- Adapted to the modified requirements of Technical Corrigendum 2 for PDF/A-1
- Transparency flattening
- New in Windows Desktop, Server and SDK
- Based on Adobe PDF Library 9 and additionally highly improved file optimization like improved preservation of image quality
- Extension schemas can be captured from PDF files and embedded during PDF/A conversion
- Use of most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
- Corrections added or extended to convert more files to PDF/A
- New Correction “Remove additional encoding entries in CMap of symbolic TrueType fonts”
- New Correction “Set values to implementation limits of PDF/A if possible”
- Correction “Reduce structure to predefined types” improved
- Adjusts XMP entries attached to font object created by Microsoft Office
- Adjusts URI entries that do not start with an identifier created by Microsoft Office
- pdfaPilot Server/CLI
- New parameters added to embed XMP Metadata
- New parameters added to embed bookmarks
- New parameters added to embed specified default ICC profiles for RGB, CMYK or Gray making device dependent page objects PDF/A compliant
- Improved software licensing
- Full support for Windows 7
- Full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Chinese language version: Activation for international and chinese version can be combined on one machine
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problems solved with the following checks where problem was reported although there was no problem
- Mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table (adapted to Technical Corrigendum 2 for PDF/A-1)
- CharSet missing or incomplete for Type 1 font
- Font is not valid
- Errors in PDF syntax
- Problem solved where optional entry for pdfaSchema:schema was treated as mandatory
- Problem solved where analysis was stopped because CourierNew was not in list of Base14 fonts
- Problem solved when validating against PDF/A-1a where missing Unicode support of fonts was not detected
- Problem solved when malformed tagging information could not be analysed
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where font could not be embedded
- Problem solved where glyph widths could not be adjusted
- Problem solved where some JPEG2000 images could not be converted to JPEG
- Problem solved where PDF could not be converted to PDF/A due to a very low StemV entry
- CLI
- Parameter cachefolder
- Problem solved when parameter was used in combination with –keycode or –status
- Problem solved where error occurred when parameter was used by a user that does not have a user folder
- Optimizations for multiple instances implemented
Version 2.0.097
Release date: 2009-10-29
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot license
Features
- First release of Chinese language version of pdfaPilot Server 2 (separate installation package)
- Extension schema for xmpMM:InstanceID is embedded during PDF/A conversion
- Parameter added to customize cache folder
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved where transparent FormXObject was not found with respective check
- Problem solved where glyph mismatch was reported although there was no problem
- Problem solved where unexpected error occurred when analyzing a PDF file
- Problem solved where mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table was detected although there was no problem
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where OPI was not removed completely
- Problem solved where unexpected error occurred when converting a PDF file to PDF/A
- CLI
- Problem solved when CLI was started by user with no home directory
Version 2.0.096
Release date: 2009-08-20
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Server license
Fixes
- Analysis
- Only PDF files with valid length entry in linearization dictionary are treated as linearized
Version 2.0.095
Release date: 2009-07-23
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Server license
Fixes
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where glyph width could not be corrected
- Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
- Power tools
- Fixups
- Fix glyph width info: Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed
- Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
- 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
- pdfToolbox Server application
- Problem solved where result file name was indexed number or result file was placed in wrong folder when file name of original file contained another dot than the one before the suffix
Version 2.0.093
Release date: 2009-07-03
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Server license
Features
- First release of pdfaPilot 2
- Including Standalone version for Mac and Windows as part of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop version
- First release of Plug-In version for Mac
- Extension schema editor added
- Lists most frequently used extension schemas
- Lists extension schemas of current PDF document
- Allows for creating custom extension schemas
- Allows for embedding extension schemas to keep custom metadata in PDF/A files
- Analysis extensions
- Date string uses Unicode added
- Check for invalid extension schemas improved
- Conversion extensions
- Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts added
- Reduce structure to predefined types added
- Insert missing Type entry in StructElem objects added
- Prepare encoding entry in TrueType fonts for PDF/A added
- Font embedding only performed if text rendering mode is not 3
- Corrects several syntax problems during conversion
- Performance improvement
- Up to 60% performance improvement on Solaris Intel
- Added support to pass multiple files inside a folder using CLI call for higher speed since CLI is only initialized ones
- CLI
- Parameter –substitute extended to specify path to font substitution configuration file
- Added support for response file using CLI
Fixes
- Analysis
- XMP
- Problem solved where wrong value type for XMP property dc:creator was not detected
- Problem solved where invalid URI was not detected
- Problem solved where missing xpacket entries in XMP metadata was not detected
- Problem solved where form field with an appearance and an N entry that has two appearance streams was not detected
- Problem solved where syntax problem was not detected (indirect object has object number not preceded by an EOL marker)
- Problem solved where mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table was not detected
- Conversion
- Problem solved where correction to remove metadata that is not compliant with PDF/A did not remove all metadata that was not compliant
- Problem solved where appearance of certain form fields could not be made PDF/A compliant
- Problem solved on Mac where pre-installed font Symbol could not be embedded during conversion
- Problem solved where TrueType fonts were embedded with an encoding entry as a dictionary
- Reports
- Problem solved in XML reports where details for problems were only listed for the first 30 hits
- CLI
- Problem solved where existing Output Intent was not removed when embedding new one for PDF/A
- pdfaPilot Server application
- Problems solved where documentation was not opened properly
Version 1.3.080
Release date: 2009-03-27
Features
- Adobe PDF library integrated
- New conversion features
- Converted PDF files are optimized for fast web view (linearized)
- Correction to add the Type entry in the StructElem which is required by PDF/A-1a
- Correction to convert SMasks to image masks that are allowed by PDF/A
- Font handling extended
- Adobe standard fonts are automatically available for font embedding
- Correction to remove Differences entry from TrueType font by converting the font to CID font
- Cross type embedding of fonts extended
- Optimization in font caching
- Server
- Batch processing improved
- Option added to remove XMP Metadata that is not compatible with PDF/A
- Up to 60% performance improvement on Linux
Fixes
- Problems solved where fonts where not embedded in specified PDF files (fonts Times, Symbol and MS Gothic for Japanese glyphs)
- Problem solved where glyph width mismatch was not corrected
Version 1.2.077
Release date: 2008-12-18
Features
- Language support added for French, Spanish, Italian
Fixes
- Problem solved where incompatible XMP could not be removed
- Problem solved where CMap was not embedded properly for a PDF
- Problem solved where encoding was not adapted after font embedding for a PDF
Version 1.2.075
Release date: 2008-12-08
Features
- CMap embedded for CID fonts if not present
- Space glyph inserted if missing
- Remove XMP metadata that prevents a PDF from being PDF/A compliant
- Convert Launch actions in bookmarks to GoToR actions
- Process encrypted PDF files and create reports
- Report language entry inserted in XML report
Fixes
- Several improvements in font embedding and font substitution
- Problem fixed where “Wrong encoding for non-symbolic TrueType font” was reported after the conversion
- Problem fixed where glyph width mismatch was reported after the conversion
- Several improvements in font analysis
- Analysis of white space and non-breaking space character improved
- Several improvements in XMP metadata handling
- Additional data types regarded as valid
- Entries pdfx:Company and pdfx:SourceModified added to XMP extension schema
- Problem fixed where Author in DocInfo could not be adapted for PDF/A
- Problem solved where invalid rendering intent could not be corrected
