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Version 4.4.064

Release date: 2009-12-22

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox license

Performance improvements when executing fixups, up to 600% faster
Processing of malformed PDF files improved by saving them completely by Adobe PDF Library prior further processing
Impositioning features
- Variables used in Runlist can be defined via the ”–setvariable” parameter
- Color definition of crop marks and placed text can be specified
Fixups
- Transparency flattening
  - Transparency flattening is only performed on pages containing live transparency
pdfToolbox Standalone: kfpx profiles can be imported via Drag&Drop on pdfToolbox
pdfToolbox Desktop: Reference manual can be accessed via menu entry

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Transparency flattening
    - Problem solved where ICC source profiles created by the flattening did not get removed
    - Problem solved where transparency flattening was not executed when tranparent object was outside page area
Activation
- Problem solved where automatic activation failed when sending activation information from certain E-Mail clients
- Problem solved under Windows 7 where error message occured when no standard E-Mail client was set up
Impositioning
- Problem solved on Mac where umlauts in placed text where not output properly
- Problem solved where imposition configurations where not visible after updating pdfToolbox from version 4.3
pdfToolbox Desktop
- Several problems of Loupe window solved

Version 4.4.060

Release date: 2009-11-26

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox license

Features

Performance improvements on Windows, up to 350% faster
Widely enhanced imposition features
- Custom definition of imposition sheet sizes in actions Booklet, N-Up, Step & Repeat and Reader Spreads
- More control in the Impose action with an easy-to-use micro-wizard
- Placement of cut marks and bleed improved
- Creation of creep improved
Transparency flattening
- New in Windows Desktop, Server, SDK and Linux CLI, SDK
- Based on Adobe PDF Library 9 and additionally highly improved file optimization like improved preservation of image quality
Full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Full support for Windows 7
Use of most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
Improved software licensing
New pre-installed color conversion profiles for:
- PSO LWC Improved (ECI)
- PSO Uncoated ISO12647 (ECI)
DeviceLink Add-on extended by the following profiles:
- Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, LWC improved to Japan
- Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, LWC improved to US (SWOP)
- Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, US (SWOP) to LWC improved
- Convert using DeviceLink Sheetfed offset to Web offset on improved LWC paper
- Convert using DeviceLink Sheetfed offset, coated to uncoated paper (PSO)
- Convert using DeviceLink Web offset (LWC improved) to Newspaper (IFRA)
- Convert using DeviceLink Sheetfed offset, uncoated, reduce to 280% ink limit (PSO) (Server/CLI only)
- Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, reduce to 300% ink limit (PSO) (Server/CLI only)
- Convert using DeviceLink Web offset, reduce to 300% ink limit with GCR (PSO) (Server/CLI only)
Power Tools
- Fixups
  - Embed missing fonts: Pre-installed setting “Arial and Helvetica” for font substitution extended to support styles bold, italic, bold italic, narrow, narrow bold and narrow bold italic
- Checks
  - New Properties to check for types of smooth shading
  - New Property to check whether orientation and size is equal for all pages with settings for tolerance and page box
  - Wizard check “Page size or page orientation is different from page to page” uses a tolerance of 2 pt
Loupe window in pdfToolbox Standalone
Chinese language version extended
- Registration for international and chinese version can be combined on one machine
Reports improved
- Icons added to PDF overview page
- PDF comments report: added name of check to content of comment
- PDF comment and layer report: Annotations and layer masks are sorted by severity

Fixes

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Convert colors
    - Problem solved where processing ended with error message
    - Problem solved where page object was shifted after processing
    - Problem solved where page objects were not converted when fixup “Convert RGB colors using Quick Conversion (Office-RGB)” was contained in pdfToolbox profile
    - Problem solved where inline images were not converted
  - Convert colors using DeviceLink profiles
    - Problem solved where processing ended with error message
  - Map colors: Problem solved where objects were not mapped to destination color
  - Set Overprint and Knockout: Problem solved where OPM was not set for DeviceCMYK object
  - Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where PDF could not be printed or EPS creation failed after processing
  - Convert fonts to outlines
    - Problem solved where fonts were not converted to outlines although conversion was possible
    - Problem solved where error message was displayed after processing
    - Problem solved where appearance of glyph changed after processing
  - Subset fonts:
    - Problem solved where glyphs of special characters where modified
    - Problem solved where EPS creation failed after processing
  - Fix glyph width information: Problem solved where EPS creation failed after processing
  - Add missing space glyph: Problem solved where EPS creation failed after processing
  - Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts: Problem solved where error message was displayed after processing
  - Convert to PDF standard: names of Output Condition Identifier and Output Condition not properly written to embedded Output Intent
  - Convert to PDF/E: Problem solved under Unix where conversion ended with error message
  - Downsample/Compress images: Problem solved where appearance of JPEG 2000 image was modified
  - Increase line width: Problem solved where page object was modified that should not be modified
  - Adjust or remove annotations: Problem solved where annotations were not modified as requested
- Checks
  - Problem solved where analysis ended with error message because of a certain type of pattern object
Switchboard Actions
- Correct 4c Black: Problem solved where pixel in images were modified
- Split layers: Problem solved where error message was displayed after processing
- Import as layer: Problem solved in Standalone where error message occurred when open file was imported as layer in itself
- Split in half: Problem solved where page was not properly split
Standalone
- Problem solved where PDF was not rendered when page boxes are malformed

Version 4.3.050

Release date: 2009-10-14

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox licence

Features

Performance improvements especially for:
- Downsampling of images (up to 70% faster)
- Color conversion (up to 50% faster)
- Processing of kfpx profiles containing only fixups and no checks (up to 90% faster)
- Execution of Actions in the desktop flavours (where possible the conversion is made on the open document and no Save as dialog is displayed)
Power Tools
- Fixups
  - PDF/A conversion: Extension schema for xmpMM:InstanceID is embedded
  - Downsample/compress images: Supported image formats for JPEG recompression extended (Color spaces Device, ICC and Cal are supported; DeviceN, Indexed, Lab, Pattern are not supported)

Fixes

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Convert colors
    - Problem solved where spot color objects where not converted to CMYK
    - Problem solved where page objects where not converted to RGB
    - Problem solved where page objects using Default Color Space where not decalibrated
    - Problem solved where error occured during processing
  - Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where font was not embedded although embedding was possible
  - Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where error message occured with a PDF file during processing
  - Subset fonts: Problem solved where error occured with a PDF file during processing
  - Fix glyph width information: Problem solved where visual appearance changed
  - Make font name unique: Problem solved where glyph was not displayed at the right position
  - Make spot color appearance consistent: Problem solved where some page objects where not converted in a PDF file
  - Downsample/compress images:
    - Problem solved where image changed visual appearance
    - Problem solved where error occurred during processing of a bitmap image
  - Crop all pages: Problem solved where page object was clipped
  - Increase line width: Problem solved where line was increased to higher line width than specified in the fixup
  - Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Problem solved where page objects of hidden layer became visible after flattening
  - Set transparency blend color space: Problem solved where error occurred during processing
  - PDF/A conversion: Problem solved where error occurred during processing
- Checks
  - Problem solved where transparent FormXObject was not found with respective check
  - Problem solved where number of plates was not properly evaluated for a PDF file
  - Problem solved where glyph width mismatch was reported although glyph width was consistent
Switchboard Actions
- Booklet: Cut marks are also set for pages if they are added dynamically by pdfToolbox to fill the sheet
- Optimize for internet: Fonts are no longer converted to outlines
Plug-In and Standalone
- Problem solved where processing was not applied to currently active document
Plug-In
- Problem solved under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard where some predefined color conversion fixups using preinstalled ICC profiles could not be executed
Standalone
- Problem solved where dialog for custom color conversion settings of Switchboard Action Process conversion was not handled properly

Version 4.3.044

Release date: 2009-07-23

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop licence

Features

First release of Chinese language version of pdfToolbox 4 Desktop (separate installation package)
New fixups in Standalone that were only available in Plug-In version before:
- Apply ZIP compression to uncompressed object streams
- Discard embedded thumbnails
- Discard private data of other applications
- Optimize PDF for fast web view
Fixups Embed missing fonts and Convert fonts to outlines now list respective font name in results dialog

Fixes

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Re-activated fixups Knockout white vector and/or text objects, Overprint black and Set Overprint Mode to 1 to be used with profiles created with pdfToolbox 4.2 and before, Note: It is not recommended to combine them with the new fixup Set Overprint and Knockout
  - 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
  - Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
  - Fix glyph width info: Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed
Switchboard Actions
- Fonts - Replace fonts: Problem solved where glyph width was not adapted when replacing font fully
- Pages - Scale by percent: Problem solved where execution of action did not have any effect
Reports
- Problem solved where in PDF comments report color of comments did not match their severity
Plug-In
- Problem solved where error message was displayed when opening Profiles dialog
Standalone
- Problem solved where encrypted PDF files, annotations and form fields were not displayed
- Problem solved where black and white image was displayed with inverted color
- Problem solved where page number, Standards button or icon for modified file was not displayed reliably
- Problem solved where active document could not be changed when Profiles, Checks or Fixups dialog was open

Version 4.3.041

Release date: 2009-06-25

Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 4 Plug-In licence

Features

First release of pdfToolbox 4 Standalone version for Mac and Windows as part of pdfToolbox 4 Desktop version
Fixups
- Set Rendering mode for text added
- Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts added (integrated in PDF/A conversion)
- Reduce structure to predefined types added (integrated in PDF/A conversion)
- Insert missing Type entry in StructElem objects added (integrated in PDF/A conversion)
- Prepare encoding entry in TrueType fonts for PDF/A added (integrated in PDF/A conversion)
- Set Overprint and Knockout added
- Convert colors extended to set overprint and knockout of converted colors
- Map spot colors extended to specify spot color names via regular expressions
Checks
- Option added to combine properties in checks using “or”
- Date string uses Unicode added
- Entry in array missing or invalid added
- Entry in dictionary missing or incorrect added
- Reference to non-existing object added
Switchboard Actions
- Layer - Split layers: to create single PDF files of each layer view or layer of a PDF
- Arrange - Sandwich: option added to define placement
- Fonts - Replace font: extended to also fully embed replaced fonts, e.g. for fonts used in forms
- Present - Light table: white background added
- Get in touch - Video tutorials: showing short demonstrations of the most interesting features
- Improved file handling, working on current document with most actions instead of saving as a new files
New and adapted predefined profiles and fixups in the Power tools, their name contains v4.3, amongst others these are:
- Prepress
  - PDFX-ready profiles added
  - Fixups of GWG profiles extended
- PDF/X compliance
  - Convert to PDF/X-4 and create language layer views (ISO Coated v2 (ECI))
- Convert colors
  - Convert using DeviceLink Sheetfed offset, reduce to 300% ink limit, only if above 305% (Europe)
  - Map color with specified color values (color values can be set at run time)
  - Map spot color with specified name and color values (color values can be set at run time)
  - Convert to grayscale extended to also convert registration color to gray
- PDF fixups
  - Make OCR text visible
- PDF analysis
  - List potential font problems extended by another 12 font releated checks
New Output Intents preinstalled
- PSO LWC Improved (ECI)
- PSO Uncoated ISO12647 (ECI)
Plug-In user interface slightly optimized
- Toolbar icon for Profiles dialog
- Plug-In menu entries extended
- Power Tools removed from Switchboard
Reports: Information about fixups and layers are listed in XML report

Fixes

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Convert colors
    - Problem solved where Acrobat error message was displayed after conversion
    - Problem solved where spot color was not converted to CMYK
    - Problem solved where file size increased when converting to sRGB and embedding destination profile as source profile
    - Problem solved where ICC based RGB object could not be decalibrated
    - Problem solved where smooth shade was not as detailed as in original
    - Problem solved where parameters to set compression method and JPEG quality of images did not have an effect
    - OPM is now set to 0 when converting DeviceGray to DeviceCMYK
  - Map colors: Problem solved where Apply to option had no effect
  - Map spot colors: Problem solved where only first defined color had been mapped if more than one was specified
  - Convert to PDF/X
    - Problem solved where page boxes could not be nested properly
    - Problem solved where object data compression could not be removed
  - Remove objects outside page area: Problem solved where object was removed that was lying partly inside page area
  - Embed missing fonts: several issues fixed where font was not embedded although embedding was possible
  - Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where outline of a glyph was not placed at the right position
  - Subset fonts: Problem solved where Acrobat error message was displayed after subsetting
- Analysis
  - Problem solved where annotation of type Redaction had not been found
  - Problem solved where contents stream of a PDF could not be analyzed
  - Problem solved where property “Belongs to a layer” did not find respective objects
  - Predefined check “Black text knocks out and is smaller than 12 pt” adapted
Switchboard Actions
- Present - Passe partout: Problem solved where Acrobat 9 syntax check reported problem when analyzing converted file
- Colors - Process conversion
  - Problem solved where error message was displayed when “Prepress (current file has PDF/X Output Intent)” had been chosen
  - Problem solved where error message was displayed when converting a specific file
- Colors - Office PDF to CMYK: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
Explore fonts: Problem solved where glyphs in preview where not filled

Version 4.2.032

Release date: 2009-05-28

Features

Fixups
- Convert colors: Alternate color values of Process colors defined as Separation or DeviceN, Separation All (Registration color) and Separation None are reset to default values
- Embed missing fonts: Included Adobe font folders when system folder option is activated
- Set Creation date entry: new fixup which allows an improved handling of invalid creation dates
- Set Modification date entry: new fixup which allows an improved handling of invalid modification dates
Actions:
- Colors - Correct 4c Black: Optimized to convert a wider range of separated black
Improved handling of invalid creation and modification dates during PDF/X conversion
DeviceLink Add-on: Profiles updated for better conversion results

Fixes

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Convert colors:
    - Problem solved where spot color entries remained in PDF after converting spot color objects to destination
    - Process colors defined as Separation or DeviceN are treated as uncalibrated CMYK
    - Problem solved where page objects remained colored after conversion to grayscale
    - Problem solved where spot color with 0% was not converted to CMYK
    - Problem solved where number of channels in Output Intent was not set properly
    - Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
    - Problem solved where certain gray profiles in system folder were not listed as destination profile
  - Map colors: Problem solved where change of color was not visible in Acrobat unless PDF was reopened
  - Subset fonts: Problem solved where error message occurred after subsetting
  - Page geometry:
    - Problem solved where pages where not scaled to defined size
    - Problem solved where error message was displayed
    - Problem solved where flip and rotate fixups in one profile did not deliver expected result
  - Fix glyph width: Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed for all occurrences
  - Remove objects outside box: Problem solved where page object lying partly inside page box was removed
  - Crop pages to bounding box: Problem solved where invisible page objects were not cropped
  - Set layer default ON/OFF: Problem solved where RegEx was not applied
  - Convert NChannel to DeviceN: Problem solved where NChannel remained in PDF after processing
  - Option Omit ICC profile for standards conversion improved to omit the ICC profile in more cases
- Analysis
  - Problem solved where performance of analysis of PostScript in PDF was low
Actions
- Layers - Enumerate layers: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
- Layers - Import as layer: Problem solved where PDF was not scaled properly after import
- Reports - Browse metadata: Problem solved where preview of image was rotated
- Fonts - Replace font: Problem solved where not all system fonts were displayed in list of fonts
- Save as image:
  - Problem solved where image was rotated
  - Problem solved where image resolution of PNG files was not set properly
Reports
- Problem solved in XML report where details for problems were only listed for the first 30 hits
DeviceLink Add-on: Problem solved where total area coverage was not reduced to 260% for ISO newspaper 26v4 ink reduction profile

Version 4.2.026

Release date: 2009-03-20

Features

Fixups
- New fixup “Insert missing Type entry in StructElem objects” (necessary for PDF/A-1a)
- Fixup “Scale pages” extended to work independent from the page orientation
- Fixup “Discard all actions that are not compliant with PDF/A-1” extended to remove actions from form fields
Analysis
- Transparency checks more detailed when using wizard checks for PDF version and transparency

Fixes

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Convert fonts to outlines:
    - Problem solved where specific font was not converted to outlines
    - Problem solved where error message appeared after processing a specific PDF
  - Convert colors:
    - Problem solved where image with SMask having Matte value was not handled properly
    - Problem solved where conversion for objects was marked as failed when converting to RGB
    - Problem solved where conversion failed because of an invalid tag in an ICC profile
    - Problem solved where overprinting has behavior changed during the conversion with a specific PDF
    - Problem solved where image with decode array was not handled properly
    - Problem solved where DeviceN alternate of spot color was not converted to CMYK
    - Problem solved where Separation Black and DeviceN Black was separated to 4 colors after the conversion
    - Problem solved where tone values of Separation Black, DeviceN Black, DeviceGray and DeviceCMYK had slight differences after the conversion
    - Problem solved where conversion lead to crash with specific PDF
  - Layer handling: Problem solved where layer fixups could not be combined to create, make invisible and flatten layers in one profile
  - Downsample/compress images:
    - Problem solved where image with SMask having Matte value was not handled properly
    - Problem solved where Indexed CMYK image was modified after recompressing to JPEG
- Analysis
  - Problem solved where properties “Font name in embedded font” and “Font name in PDF matches font name in embedded font” showed an error message when processing a specific PDF
Switchboard
- Colors - Convert to B/W: Problem solved where page objects became darker or lighter tone values than expected
- Layers - Browse layers: Problem solved where created layers were not PDF/X-4 compliant
- Layers - Import as layer: Problem solved where file was rotated after importing
- Reports - Browse metadata: Problem solved where preview of image where not displayed
Reports:
- Mask report:
  - Problem solved where Warnings and Infos were displayed in color of errors (red) when viewing layer “All problems”

Version 4.2.020

Release date: 2009-02-27

Features

New layer features
- Layer browser for exploring and modifying Layer views and Layers
- Fixup for server based handling of Layer views (Fixup Apply OCCD setup)
- Fixup extended to have full RegEx support when creating Layer views (Fixup Configure OCCD)
New option for adjusting profiles dynamically at run time
New Actions in the Switchboard
- Layers
  - Browse layer (also available via Acrobat menu File - Layer)
New Fixups
- Font handling
  - Subset fonts
  - Make font name unique
  - Fix glyph width information
  - Fix font encoding (CIDToGIDMap)
  - Insert CMap for CID fonts
  - Add missing SPACE glyphs
  - Embed missing fonts extended to substitute fonts that are not available
- Color handling
  - Map colors
  - Map spot colors
  - Normalize spot color appearance
  - Remove Rendering Intents
- Page handling
  - Rotate pages
  - Flip pages
  - Set media box to origin
- PDF/A related fixups
  - Change Launch Action into GoToR Action
  - Convert SMask to image mask
  - Remove XMP Metadata if not compliant with PDF/A
- Further Fixups
  - Recompress images
  - Increase line width of multicolored lines
  - Apply OCCD setup (created by Layer browser)
New Checks
- Checks for analyzing the embedding flags of TrueType fonts
New and adapted predefined profiles and fixups in the Power tools, their name contains “v4.2”, amongst others these are:
- New GWG profiles in the Prepress group
  - Sheetfed offset (CMYK, high res.)
  - Sheetfed offset (CMYK and spot colors, high res.)
- Dynamic profiles, checks and fixups
  - List relevant printing aspects
  - List all color and grayscale images below specified resolution
  - Downsample image resolution to specified value
  - List spot color with specified name
  - List font with specified name
  - Ink coverage is above specified value
- Font analysis and correction
  - List potential font problems
  - Fix potential font problems
- Color conversion
  - Fixup for conversion PDFs from Office applications: Convert to CMYK, Office conversion (ISO Coated v2 (ECI))
  - All color conversion profiles and fixups adapted
- Spot color handling
  - Make Pantone spot color names consistent
  - Make HKS spot color names consistent
  - Make custom spot color names consistent
  - Normalize spot color names
  - Merge spot color name if appearance is identical
  - Make spot color appearance consistent
- PDF/A conversion
  - Prepare annotations for PDF/A-1
  - Prepare forms for PDF/A-1
  - Discard all actions that are not compliant with PDF/A-1
  - These and further fixups added to convert more PDF files to PDF/A
Option to add Profiles, Checks and Fixups to the Workspace of the Switchboard
Sample files added to plug-in to easily get to know pdfToolbox
Improved visualization in the Metadata browser
File format of profiles changed to kfpx
New Output Intents preinstalled
- PSO Coated NP (ECI)
- PSO Coated 300% NP (ECI)
- PSO Uncoated NP (ECI)
- PSO Standard News print SNP (ECI)
- PSO Super Calandered SC (ECI)
- PSO Machine Finished Coating MFC (ECI)
Spanish and Italian language support added

Fixes

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Convert colors
    - Problem solved where DeviceLink conversion was not applied properly on inline image
    - Problem solved where conversion of objects failed and fixup was marked as failed
    - Problem solved where Smooth Shade object was set to overprint after the conversion
    - Problem solved where images with more than one filter where not converted properly
    - Problem solved where conversion of alternate color space lead to error message
    - Problem solved where custom color conversion policy was not properly exported to profile
  - Convert NChannel to DeviceN: Problem solved where conversion was not performed
  - Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where font was not embedded although embedding was possible
  - Convert fonts to outlines
    - Fonts are now removed after conversion to outlines
    - Problem solved where letter on page was not handled properly
  - Set page geometry boxes: Problem solved where rotated flag was ignored when setting page boxes
  - Scale pages: Problem solved where page size was not displayed properly by Acrobat after conversion
  - Crop all pages to bounding box: Problem solved where parts of page objects were cropped
  - Increase lines width: Problem solved where lines were not increased
  - Apply or remove transfer curves: Problem solved where tone values where not correct after applying transfer curve
  - Downsample/compress images: Problem solved where indexed CMYK image was not downsampled
  - Recompress LZW with ZIP: Problem solved where fixup did not convert
  - Discard all alternate images: Problem solved where error message occurred after processing
- Analysis
  - Problem solved where Font was marked as not valid although it was valid
  - Problem solved where check “Spot color is used” did not find spot colors that are defined in the PDF but not used
  - Problem solved where image resolution check combined with OPI check did not deliver hits
  - Problem solved where name of check TrapNet annotation error did not appear in plug-in results dialog
  - Problem solved where ICC profiles of transparency blend color space did not show up in Overview
Switchboard
- Fonts - Subset fonts: Problem solved where error message occurred after processing
- Present - Passe partout: Problem solved where objects (DeviceGray) where not displayed properly after conversion
Reports
- Mask: Problem solved where report did not contain all page objects of the original PDF file
- Inventory: Problem solved where reports could not be created with option Colors
- XML: Order of entries is no longer changing
Problem solved where plug-in registration was not displayed when opening About dialog via Acrobat Help menu without starting the plug-in before

Version 4.1.018

Release date: 2009-01-13

Fixes

Switchboard
- Present - Passe partout problem solved where device dependent gray objects were not handled properly

Power tools
- Analysis
  - Problem solved where font mistakenly was regarded as invalid font

Version 4.1.017

Release date: 2008-12-19

Fixes

Switchboard
- Colors - DeviceLink conversion: Problem solved where page objects did not comply with PDF specification after DeviceLink conversion

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Problem solved where lines where not handled properly when increasing hairlines
  - Problem solved where error message appeared after downsampling an image
  - Problem solved where fixup “Crop all pages” caused an error when cropping an empty page
  - Problem solved where combination of fixups “Set page geometry boxes” and “Scale pages” did not create expected result

Version 4.1.013

Release date: 2008-11-24

Fixes

Switchboard
- Colors - DeviceLink conversion: DeviceLink profiles of Add-on updated: when converting pure Black defined in CMYK the dot gain had not been compensated properly
- Layers - Remove layer: Problem solved where visibility of layers could not be changed after removing layers
- Font - Replace fonts: Problem solved where font names on Mac were not properly listed

Power tools
- Fixups
  - Problem solved where invisible layers became visible during flattening
  - Problem solved where downsampling of bitmap image did not work properly with a PDF
  - Problem solved where fixup Stamp page did not work
  - Problem solved where PDF with OPI comments could not be processed
  - Modifications of layers and OCCDs are directly visible after processing without reopening the PDF
- Color conversion
  - RGB conversion improved: Advanced color conversion policy file RGB added
  - Problem solved where gray image in a PDF became lighter than expected after color conversion
  - Problem solved where custom DeviceLink profiles were not properly exported to kfp file for execution with CLI
- Analysis
  - Font check of PDF/A compliancy profile updated to hit only if text is in render mode 3
  - Problem solved where font metadata was not respected properly when checking for PDF/A-1 compliancy
- Reports
  - Layer “All problems” of PDF mask report also contains all comments
  - Problem solved where no XML report was created for a PDF
- User Interface
  - Problem solved on Mac where Find field could not be used
  - Duplicate fixup for font embedding removed
  - Several minor improvements of the user interface

Version 4.1.010

Release date: 2008-10-24

Features

Enhanced metadata support to explore and export XMP metadata information
Full compliancy with the latest specifications 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 accidentally 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

Fixes

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

Version 4.0.005

Release date: 2008-08-14

Features

French documentation added

Fixes

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

Version 4.0.004

Release date: 2008-07-14

First Release version of callas pdfToolbox 4 plug-in for Mac and Windows

callas pdfToolbox 4 Desktop history

pdfaPilot 2 Update 1 released

Maintenance Release for pdfToolbox

pdfToolbox 4 Update 4 released

Overview of all pdfToolbox 4 features

pdfaPilot 2 released