Switchboard Actions
| Arrange | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Booklet | Prepares a PDF document for double sided printing, such that the printout can be folded and saddle-stitched. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Duplicate page | Duplicates pages. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Fill page | Puts several pages onto a new page with a defined page size. Distributes pages across/down as space permits. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Impose | Offers flexible imposition based on imposition templates. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | N-Up | Puts several pages onto a new page. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | New page | Creates an empty page in the active PDF document. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Reader spreads | Prepares a PDF document for double sided printing. The pages are sorted continuously. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Sandwich | Places the chosen PDF on top of the active PDF file. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Slice | Creates two documents. One containing the chosen objects. The other one contains all other objects. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Split in half | Splits double pages into single pages. Recognizes whether single and double pages are present within one document, and only splits the double pages, leaving the single pages as they are. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Arrange | Step & Repeat | Puts each page multiple times on a new page. |
| Present | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Present | Handout | Creates a handout containing several slides on one page and optionally some lines for notes. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Present | Light table | Puts several pages on one new page to give the impression of a light table. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Present | Passe partout | Adds a background border around the current page content. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Present | Presentation | Optimize PDF for use as a slide presentation. Add progress thermometer to each page (except first page). |
| Versioning | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Versioning | Create single version | Creates a new version of the current document by replacing the chosen objects with the chosen objects of another document. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Versioning | Launch in InDesign | Sends the active PDF document to InDesign where a new document with the PDF in the background is created. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Versioning | Launch in QuarkXPress | Sends the active PDF document to QuarkXPress where a new document with the PDF in the background is created. |
| Standards | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Commercial CMYK | Prepares the PDF for commercial printing (CMYK). |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Commercial CMYK+spot | Prepares the PDF for commercial printing (CMYK and spot colors). |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Digital (B/W) | Prepares the PDF for digital printing (B/W). |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Digital (color) | Prepares the PDF for digital printing (color). |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Display status | Displays the compliancy with the ISO standards PDF/X, PDF/A and PDF/E. Furthermore the Output Intent and destination profile is shown. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Magazine Ad | Prepares the PDF for magazine ad. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Newspaper Ad | Prepares the PDF for newspaper ad. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | PDF/X-1a | Converts to PDF/X-1a. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | PDF/X-3 | Converts to PDF/X-3. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | PDF/X-4 | Converts to PDF/X-4. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | PDF/X-4p | Converts to PDF/X-4p. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Web Offset CMYK | Prepares the PDF for web offset printing (CMYK). |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Standards | Web Offset CMYK+spot | Prepares the PDF for web offset printing (CMYK and spot colors). |
| Prepress | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Prepress | Add marks | Marks are created according to the TrimBox and BleedBox. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Prepress | Create TrimBox | Inserts TrimBox and BleedBox on the basis of existing crop marks. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Prepress | Extract ICC profiles | Saves ICC profiles from the document to the Desktop. Either the Output Intent ICC profile or source profiles can be extracted. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Prepress | Flatten transparency | Flattens transparency, e.g. for preparing documents for printout or PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 conversion. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Prepress | Increase line width | Increases line widths to ensure they appear properly on the printout. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Prepress | Output Intent | Sets/Replaces/Removes an Output Intent in the PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Prepress | Overprint & Knockout | Adjusts overprint and knockout behavior of black or white text and vector objects. |
| Document | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Content export | Extracts the content of the PDF into a newly created file. The extraction of words and characters is XML formatted and contains link annotations. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Create file package | Creates a new PDF containing all files from the chosen folder. The file package has a summary and bookmarks for direct access to the embedded files. The folder structure of the input files is preserved. All file types are embedded. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | EPS export | Saves the PDF file as single page EPS file(s). Transparency will be flattened using high quality setting. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Embed files | Embeds the chosen files into the current PDF. All file types can be embedded. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Extract files | Extracts files that are embedded in the PDF to the chosen folder. Existing folder structures are reconstructed. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Image export | Saves the PDF file in various image formats. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Image to PDF | Converts images directly to PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Letter head | Places the chosen letter head on top of the active document. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Office to PDF | Converts Office documents directly to PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Optimize PDF | Rewrites and optimizes the internal structure of the PDF. In addition the PDF is saved for Fast Web View. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Overlay | Places the chosen content on top of the active PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | PostScript export | Saves the PDF file as PostScript file. Transparency will be flattened using high quality setting. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | PostScript to PDF | Converts PostScript and EPS files directly to PDF using the chosen PDF settings. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Re-Distill | Recreates the PDF via PostScript, prepares for use with older equipment (RIPs). |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Document | Resave as PDF 1.x | Saves the PDF in the defined format version. |
| Pages | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Create bleed | Bleed is created by upscaling. As pages may be upscaled unproportionally a maximum distortion can be specified. If it is set to 0 all pages are scaled proportionally. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Crop to visible | Crops the page to the visible area. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Enlarge | Enlarges the page area without modifying the page content. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Flip | Flips the pages horizontally or vertically. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Move content | Moves the content of a page by a given distance. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Organize pages | Allows for organizing pages of one or several PDF documents. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Rotate | Rotates pages by the defined angle. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Scale by percent | Scales the PDF to a given percentage. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Scale page content only | Scales the page content to a given percentage without changing the page dimension. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Scale page format only | Adjust the page dimensions without changing the page content. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Pages | Scale to format | Scales the PDF proportionally to fit into the specified paper size. |
| Fonts | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Fonts | Embed font | Embeds missing fonts in the PDF if they are installed on the system. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Fonts | Font to outlines | Converts fonts to outline so that these fonts do not remain in the PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Fonts | Replace font | Replaces an embedded font in the PDF with another font. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Fonts | Subset font | Creates font subsets of fully embedded fonts to minimize the filesize. |
| Colors | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Brightness | Adjusts the brightness of all objects on the page, and is most suitable for B/W pages or where color PDFs are to be printed on B/W printers. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Convert to B/W | Converts PDF files to black and white. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Convert to RGB | Converts PDF files to RGB (sRGB). |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Correct 4c Black | Restores accidently separated Black. Text and Vector objects colored in Black with values in all CMYK channels get converted back to pure Black. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | DeviceLink conversion | Converts colors in the current PDF based on DeviceLink profiles. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Extract ICC profiles | Saves ICC profiles from the document to the Desktop. Either the Output Intent ICC profile or source profiles can be extracted. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Office PDF to CMYK | Converts PDF files created from Office applications to the selected printing condition. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Process conversion | Prepares the current PDF for the chosen printing condition and carries out the necessary color conversion. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Registration color | Converts registration color into Black only. Registration color which is typically used for crop and registration marks or print job slugs can be converted to the defined color. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Remove ICC profiles | Removes ICC source profiles from tagged CMYK color spaces. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Spot colors | Modifies the name, alternate color and overprint setting of spot colors. Furthermore spot colors can be mapped to other spot colors or converted to CMYK. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Spot to process | Converts all spot colors in the PDF to process colors. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Colors | Tone value adjustment | Adjusts tone values by a given percentage. |
| Images | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Images | Downsample | Reduces the resolution of images. That is useful if the PDF shall be used in a different environment like newspaper printing or display only. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Images | Recompress | Recompresses images in the chosen compression types. |
| Layers | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Browse Layer | Allows you to see and modify layers and OCCDs in the PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Comments by author | Puts comments from all authors on separate layers. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Enumerate layer | Enumerates the chosen objects on separate layers. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Flatten layers | Flattens all layers. Objects on invisible layers are removed. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Form fields by type | Puts form fields based on their type on separate layers. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Import as layer | Imports the chosen PDF document as a layer in the active PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Make layer | Allows to create layers in the PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Remove layer | Remove layer including all objects on this layer. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Layers | Split layers | For each layer view (or layer, if no layer views are present) a new file is created with just the content of that layer view (or layer). |
| Reports | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Reports | Browse Metadata | Allows you to review metadata for the whole PDF document as well as metadata associated with images in the PDF. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Reports | Colors | Creates a detailed report about the colors of the active document. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Reports | Compare documents | Allows the comparison of the visual appearance of two PDF documents by highlighting or fast change of the view. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Reports | Fonts | Creates a detailed report about the fonts of the active document. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Reports | Images | Creates a detailed report about the images of the active document. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Reports | Visualizer | Allows for visualizing print-relevant characteristics of PDF documents. |
| Get in touch | |||
| Switchboard Action | Group: Get in touch | Bug report | Opens a form in your web browser to enter a bug report. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Get in touch | Feature Request | Opens a form in your web browser to enter your feature request. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Get in touch | Support | Opens a form in your web browser to enter your support request. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Get in touch | User forum | Opens the website of the User forum in your web browser. |
| Switchboard Action | Group: Get in touch | Video tutorials | Opens a website with video tutorial in your web browser. |
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