Release date: 2008-10-24

• Enhanced metadata support to explore and export XMP metadata information
• Full compliancy with the latest specifictaions 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 accidently 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

• First release of callas pdfToolbox Server for automated processing
• Besides the Plug-In features pdfToolbox Server offers automated EPS generation
• Transparencies can only be flattened with pdfAutoOptimizer, it is not supported in pdfToolbox Server
• Direct pdfToolbox Server support in Enfocus Switch (Configurators are installed)

• 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