Version 5.4.158
Release date: 2012-02-02
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- Fixups
- Problem solved where objects shifts after changing the content stream [CA1021052, CA1021055, CA1021083, FP17126]
- Actions
- Problem solved where ICC profile was not taken from the image when saving as PDF [CA1021073]
- Problem solved where split layers may creates empty pages [FP17412, FP17786]
- Acrobat PlugIn
- Problem solved where transparency not flattened with PlugIn in Acrobat 10.1.2 [CA1021069]
Version 5.4.156
Release date: 2012-01-18
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Features
- Polish language support for Desktop version
- PDF/A-3 Support
- Force Conversion for conversion to PDF/A
- 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
- New Checks
- Several checks added for all aspects of PDF/A-3
Fixes
- Checks
- Distance to Trimbox now also finds object which are clipped by MediaBox [CA1021008]
- Fixups
- Downsample/Compress Color/Grayscale Images: SoftMaskImages will also be downsampled to reduce filesize [FP17392]
- Downsample/Compress Bitmaps: Problem solved where images may be inverted in special cases [FP17179]
- Increase line width: Problem solved where line width increased unexpected in some PDF [CA1019299]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where text may vanish after processing [FP17248; FP17258]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where not all spot colors were converted to CMYK in some cases [FP16446]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where RGB left in document after conversion to grayscale [CA1020837]
- Set MediaBox to origin: Improved handling of SmoothShade objects [CA1021035]
- Impose
- Improved handling of PDF-Version during impositioning using desktop version [FP16876]
- Reports
- Problem solved where color ressources were listed twice [CA1020718]
- Standards
- PDF/X-4 conversion: Invalid XMP Metadata on object level will be removed to ensure conversion [FP5935]
- Increased stabillity duing verification of PDF/VT-1 files
- Improvements for PDF/E conversion profiles [CA1020741]
- Desktop
- Problem solved where visualizer did not recognized image resolution properly [CA1021020]
- Improved Ink coverage view in visualizer [CA1021000]
- Office conversion: Problem solved where MS-Office macro-settings were not respected [FP7255]
- Added special Japanese imposition sceme [CA1020651]
- CLI
- Action “Merge PDF”: Problem solved where incorrect structure root in source PDF might cause an error [FP16526]
- Action “Merge PDF”: Improved handling of existing bookmarks from souce PDF [FP17606]
- Action “To PDF”: Problem solved where dimension of EPS file were not properly handled [CA1020621; FP17222]
- Action “Compare”: Problem solved where given pagerange were not respected [CA1020981]
- Action “Compare”: Problem solved where option “images” may cause modification of original file [CA1020978]
- Action “Compare”: Problem solved where files with differences are not marked properly in some cases [FP17353]
- Action “Implode”: Problem solved where ID of profile was not changed [CA1020920]
- Action “Save as image”: Improved handling of file-extensions when processing multiple files [CA1020873]
Version 5.3.150
Release date: 2011-10-21
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Features
- New check to find ligatures [CA1020734]
- Japanese language support
- Rendering images based on page geometry boxes or custom boxes
- Extended fixups
- Scale pages with more options
- Split PDF: new tokens for file names [FP16756]
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated
- MacOS X Lion support
Fixes
- Checks
- Improvement with “Ignore objects outside” in a check that is used in fixup [FP6381]
- “Light object set to overprint” does only affect vector objects [FP6783]
- Fixups
- Downsample / Compress Color/Grayscale Images [FP7403, FP16455, FP16591, FP16693, FP7297]
- Flatten transparency [FP6824, FP7080, CA1020657]
- Fonts to outlines [FP7075]
- Subset fonts [FP16486]
- Scale pages
- Executed now after downsampling of images [FP6042]
- Problem solved where scaling down did not properly work [CA1020756]
- Convert colors
- Problem solved where not all spot colors were converted properly [CA1020424]
- Problem solved where office documents were not handled properly [FP16655]
- Problem solved where DeviceN colorants were not converted when using RegEx [CA1020716]
- Map spot and process colors [CA1020652, FP6591]
- Manage colors [FP16771]
- Force blend color space [FP6343]
- Set ICC profile for Output Intent [FP7381]
- Set overprint and knockout [FP6510]
- Overprint black
- Problem solved where white text disappeared [FP7245; FP16467]
- Flatten annotations and form fields
- Problem solved with flattening of checkboxes [FP6903]
- Discard hidden layer content and flatten invisible layers [FP7086]
- Reports
- XML: Problem solved where special characters were not handled properly [FP16654]
- XML: If fonts cannot be embedded fonts they are reported in the fixups details [CA1020827]
- Impose
- Problem solved where damaged PDF with unrecognized token may be created [CA1020739]
- Problem solved where an image as input and an additional pre-processing-profile results in no output [CA1020828]
- Problem solved where pre-processing-profiles containing only checks (are not supported here) resulted in an error [FP7372]
- Standards
- Problem solved where an inactive PDF-version setting did not avoid performing automatic checks [CA1020839]
- Problem solved where OpenType fonts are flagged within PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) [FP16742]
- Problem solved in PDF/X-4 validation [FP7239, FP6583]
- Problem solved where PDF/VT validation failed caused by multiple referenced XObjects [FP7125]
- Desktop
- Imppose: Problem solved where imposing a booklet created missing/shifted page [FP16589]
- Office conversion: Problem solved where PowerPoint message interrupted processing [FP7254]
- CLI
- Action “Create PDF”: Problem solved where processing an TIFF ended with warning [CA1020828]
- Action “Create PDF”: Problem solved where TIFF-images did not keep their original resolution [CA1020816]
- Action “Save as image”: Output will also get a suffix number if source PDF contains only one page [CA1020830]
- Action “Save as image”: Problem solved where rendering intent was not respected
- Action “Save as image”: Problem solved where colorspace could not be combined with simulation profile
- Problem solved where plugins on Linux were not always found [CA1020484]
- Improvements for Linux x64 [FP7197, FP16548, FP7220]
- Improved handling of locked files [CA1020825]
- Files handling [FP7175; FP7263]
- Improved handling for invalid or encrypte PDF files [CA1017995, CA1019727, CA1020706]
- Problem solved when more than one image uses one softmask [CA1019329]
- Problem solved with handling of very small arrays within PDF [CA1020540, CA1020831]
Version 5.0.137
Release date: 2011-07-14
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Features
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch
- Complete installation of Configurators for Enfocus Switch version 10
Fixes
- Fixups
- Set XMP Metadata field: Problem solved where InfoDictionary entry were modified incorrect [CA1020605]
- Insert CropBox: Problem solved where a rounding error may cause invalid nesting of boxes [CA1019606]
- Problem solved where an error occured in special cases when downsampling images [FP7187]
- Problem solved where increasing line width results in damage of content [FP7166]
- Acrobat Plug In
- Reports: Problem solved where generating a report of PDF/VT validation failed [FP7126]
Version 5.0.135
Release date: 2011-06-30
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Fixes
- Checks
- Problem solved where some objects not handled correctly when determining distances
Version 5.0.134
Release date: 2011-06-23
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Features
- New checks for analyzing objects close to TrimBox and BleedBox [CA1020520, FP6254]
- New properties
- Smallest distance from TrimBox
- Smallest distance from BleedBox
- Corrections for pages improved
- New fixups
- Scale page content only [FP6584]
- Fixups enhanced by an Apply to option to restrict the fixup to specified pages
- Rotate pages [CA1020480]
- Scale pages
- Crop pages
- Create bleed
- Option added to create customizable profiles of standard analysis and conversion profiles like PDF/A and PDF/X
- New profiles and fixups (not automatically set up in Desktop version when updating, they can be downloaded from here: http://www.callassoftware.com/downloads/callas_pdfToolbox_5v0MR2_new_profiles.zip)
- Profiles
- Object closer to TrimBox than specified value
- Object closer to TrimBox than specified value (binding edges are not checked)
- Scale pages to A4 if not larger than A3
- Fixups
- Rotate pages to landscape if portrait
- Rotate pages to portrait if landscape
- Scale page content only to specified value
- pdfToolbox Desktop
- Simultaneous export of several profiles [CA1013728, CA1017434]
- User interface optimized by moving all Manage options to Options menu
- pdfToolbox CLI
- Improved control of number and types of reported values in XML report [CA1020392]
- Japanese support
- Japanese language support added
- Japanese destinations added to Switchboard Actions Process conversion and Office PDF to CMYK
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert colors: Problem solved where page object had not been converted into destination color space
- Convert colors: Problem solved where colors were not handled properly during RGB-conversion [FP7057]
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where glyphs were not outlined properly [FP6639, FP6936, FP6781]
- Set XMP Metadata field: Problem solved where metadata entry was not inserted [CA1020605]
- Create TrimBox: Problem solved with rotation entry in PDF [FP6691]
- Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Problems solved with some kinds of Japanese style crop marks
- Downsample/compress color images: Problem solved where indexed color space is used in images [CA1020529]
- Flatten annotations and form fields: Problem solved where stamps return to their original size
- Remove Differences array from TrueType fonts for PDF/A-1: Problem solved where processing did not succeed
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved where processing may cause unexpected errors [FP5994]
- Checks
- Problem solved where checking for registration color outside of a specified page box did not generate a hit [FP6490, FP6480, FP6301, CA1018541]
- Glyph in subset font missing: Problem solved where check triggered an improper hit
- Desktop
- Action Convert colors: Problem solved where custom destination profile could not be chosen
- Minor improvements and fixes in Compare feature
- pdfToolbox Server
- Problem solved in Action “Place PDF” where processing triggered an error [FP7010]
- Problem solved in command line where numbering of output files was not applied properly [FP6852, CA1017262]
- Problem solved in usage of expressions for Action “Split PDF” in CLI [FP6768]
- Improved handling when huge amount of files to be processed using Server UI [CA1014973, CA1017564, CA1020562]
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch
- Problem in Visualizer action of Actions configurator solved where Resolution or pixel width was not applied properly [FP6912]
- Problem in Create PostScript action of Actions configurator solved where processing could not be started [FP6777]
- Problem solved where configurators were not installed when executing 64 bit pdfToolbox Server installer [FP6531]
- Fixup “Discard all embedded files” removed from PDF/A-1 conversion to improve handling of PDF Portfolios [CA1020601]
- Action Extract ICC profiles: Problem solved where file name of ICC profile was truncated [CA1020593]
- Action PostScript to PDF: Problem solved where particular fonts from operating system were not embedded [FP6597]
- Action Convert to PDF: Problem solved where annotations in Word documents are visible after converting in special cases
- Action Save as image: Problem solved where the certain resolutions caused an error [CA1018070, CA1018452]
- Problem solved in predefined PDF/X-4 validation profile where PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files where analysed according to with their respective standard
- Problem solved in PDF/VT validation where PDF/X-4 related problem was not found
- Problem solved in PDF/A conversion where glyphs of symbolic TrueType font with PDF encoding were not handled properly [FP6930, CA1020545]
- Problem solved in PDF/A comversion where processed PDF files with JPEG2000 images may cause unstable behaviour [CA1020504]
- Problem solved in PDF/A conversion where embedded files are removed without notice [CA1020601]
- Problem solved in PDF/A validation where analysis stopped because of invalid XMP metadata [FP6759]
- Problem solved where use of present Output Intent for PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 not handled properly [CA1019444]
- Problem solved where effective ink coverage was not evaluated properly on specific files [FP6080]
- Problem solved where more actual versions of Output Intent shall replace modified ones during update process [CA1017285]
- Minor changes in displaying values in profiles, checks and fixups
- Implemented changes of PDF/X-5g and PDF/X-5pg caused by changes in Technical Corrigendum
- Creation of logfiles for failed conversions using Action Re-Distill and Post Script To PDF [FP6597, FP6748]
- Schema of XML report updated [CA1020564]
Version 5.0.132
Release date: 2011-05-06
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Features
- Output Preview also available in pdfToolbox Server/CLI and Enfocus Switch configurators
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated
- CLI: Summaries of kfpx profiles can be created using parameter –enumprofiles –profilesummary
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert colors: Problem solved where image defined in CalRGB was not converted properly
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where glyphs were not outlined properly
- Fix glyph width information: Problem solved where width information could not be fixed
- Remove printer marks and Remove objects outside page area: Problem solved where text was shifted
- Flatten transparency:
- Problem solved where shape of glyph was modified
- Problem solved where processing ended with error message
- Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Problem solved where page objects on invisible layer became visible
- Compare
- Problem solved where highlighting was not updated properly when switching between documents
- Problem solved where file names of destination file in the compare report was not correct
- Problem solved where pages in the compare report were stretched when page sizes differed
- Problem solved where page was marked as difference in the compare report although “No difference highlighting” was chosen
- Problem solved where Loupe view was different to page view in pdfToolbox Standalone
- Default check “Compare converted document with original” adapted to higher resolution to get a more detailed analysis
- Desktop
- Problem solved where error message about missing ICC profile appeared
- Problem solved where Output Intents were written in kfpx profile during export although they were not necessary
- Problem solved where lines did not wrap in the profile summary and inventory report
- Problem solved where prior version of ISO Coated v2 (ECI) was installed
- Problem solved in batch processing where files with same name but different suffix were overwritten
- pdfToolbox Server
- Problem solved where option Simulate overprint of the action Save as image was not saved properly in the server job
- Problem solved where invalid Excel documents remained in the In folder
- Profiles for Online publishing updated to latest parameters regarding RGB conversion
- Problem solved where missing page boxes were not properly inserted
- Problem solved where DPart was not properly analysed when validating for PDF/VT
- Problem solved in the installation programs under Windows where start menu entries were removed when uninstalling
- Problem solved where trigger values for color related checks did not show all color spaces
Version 5.0.130
Release date: 2011-04-13
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Features
- Visual comparison of PDF documents
- Preflight Certificate for safer document delivery
- Redistilling of PDF documents
- Font and document structure optimization
- Support of PDF based ISO Standards:
- PDF/VT
- PDF/A-2
- PDF/X-4:2010
- File format conversions extended:
- Conversion to PDF from
- Images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- PostScript
- MS Office 2011 Mac
- MS Publisher (32-bit and 64-bit)
- MS Visio (32-bit and 64-bit)
- MS Project (32-bit and 64-bit)
- iWork 09 Pages
- OpenOffice.org 3.3
- Conversion from PDF to
- PostScript
- Improvements to the Desktop version
- Batch function added to several Switchboard actions
- Output Preview
- New action to Create TrimBox
- New actions to extract text and content
- New actions to embed files in PDF documents
- Smoothing parameter added to action Image export
- Sidebar added for embedded files and bookmarks
- Optimized activation process
- “Open recent…” option in File menu
- Control via keyboard extended, e.g. for scrolling pages
- Revert option to undo changes and get back to original file
- New fixups
- Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks
- Adjust colors for PDF based ISO standards
- Remove unnecessary transparency groups
- Remove CIDSet
- Remove CharSet
- Make document XMP Metadata compliant with PDF/A-2
- Remove all xmpMM:Manifest metadata entries
- Recompress images with JPEG 2000 as JPEG
- Extended fixups
- Flatten transparency extended to resave images as ZIP when choosing Optimization setting Best quality
- Convert colors extended to specify decalibration before color converting via user inferface
- Color mapping fixups extended to specify tint value and keep alternate color definition if already present in the PDF
- Convert fonts to outlines extended to process fonts that are not embedded
- Remove non-compliant XMP Metadata extended to support PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 and PDF/X-4
- New properties
- Detect visual differences
- Layer metadata
- Several new properties for PDF/VT and PDF/A-2
- Page description errors of PDF files are reported with detailed error messages
- Several new predefined Profiles, Checks and Fixup (can be filtered with “v5.0” 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
- pdfToolbox Server application
- Smoothing parameter added to image export
- XML report exteneded to list annotations
- Support of 64-bit of Server, CLI and SDK for Windows, Linux, Solaris Sparc and AIX
- Performance improvement in CLI 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
- for emptying font cache
- 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
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted to latest features
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert colors
- Problem solved where conversion ended with error message because of an invalid color space of a JPEG 2000 image
- Problem solved where alternate color space did not get decalibrated
- Convert colors using DeviceLink profile
- Problem solved where error message occured during the conversion
- Problem solved where processing ended with out of memory
- Map colors
- Problem solved where combination of mapping parameters did not created expected result
- Embed missing fonts
- Problem solved where font embedding or substitution failed
- Problem solved under Linux where font folders where not properly scanned
- Convert fonts to outlines
- Problem solved where character was not rendered properly
- Problem solved where spot color object remained in the PDF after color conversion
- Subset fonts
- Problem solved where fonts could not be subsetted
- Fix glyph width information
- Problem solved where width information could not be fixed
- Convert True Type fonts to CID fonts
- Problem solved where characters were not rendered properly
- Flatten layers
- Problem solved where page object was slightly shifted
- Remove page objects which are completely outside of page area
- Problem solved where error message was displayed in Acrobat 8 when opening processed document
- Set author entry
- Problem solved where author entry was not set
- Set title
- Problem solved where title entry was not set
- Set Trapped key
- Problem solved where Trapped Key entry was not set
- Remove non-compliant XMP Metadata
- Problem solved where non-compliant XMP Metadata could not be removed
- Downsample/recompress images
- Problem solved where images where not handled properly
- Problem solved where white bar was visible when image with Indexed color space was resaved with CCITT filter
- Increase line width
- Problem solved where lines where not set to specified value
- Checks
- Effective ink coverage
- Problem solved where property generated unexpected hit
- Problem solved where page boxes were not properly regarded
- Page is empty
- Problem solved where hit was generated although a page object was present
- Problem solved where check “Transparency used (filled object with ca value smaller than 1.0)” did not hit for images containing transparency
- Problem solved where property “List of color spaces” did not return all color spaces
- Standards
- Problem solved where colors where not completely prepared for PDF/X-4 when converting via Switchboard action PDF/X-4
- Problem solved where layers were not properly prepared for PDF/X-4
- Problem solved where page object was slightly shifted during PDF/X-1a conversion
- Form and Annotation handling improved when converting to PDF/A
- Conversion to PDF
- Problem solved where conversion stopped because of a Word dialog
- Problem solved where bookmarks from Word documents were not handed over to the PDF completely
- Switchboard Actions
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved where transparency blend color space was not set prior transparency flattening
- Convert colors: Problem solved where ISO Uncoated profile was used instead of PSO Uncoated ISO12647 (ECI)
- Desktop
- Problem solved where user preferences became invalid when variables where used
- Problem solved where error message appeared when viewing spot color objects in Visualizer
- Problem solved where save dialog could not be closed via cancel
- Problem solved where details of page objects where not displayed when results dialog was opened from the Switchboard after processing an action
- Problem solved in Profile Summary when options “Fire if any condition is met”, “Current file” and “Embedded file” where not listed
- Optimizations in the user interface
- CLI
- Save as image
- Problem solved where black bar appeared in image because of page rotation parameter in the PDF
- Problem solved where processing did not proceed because of an invalid page in the middle of a PDF
- Problem solved where spot color PDF was not properly converted into multichannel TIFF
- Problem solved where image of secured file could not be created although this was allowed
- Create EPS
- Problem solved
- Extract text
- Problem solved where text secured file could not be extracted although this was allowed
- Impose
- Problem solved where leading zeros where stripped during token evaluation
- Problem solved where PDF files where saved in PDF version 1.6
- Problem solved where color values of crop marks where not properly set
- Problem solved where parameter CropMarkWidth was not correct in pre-installed imposition config files
- Reports
- Problem solved where PDF/X entry was in report although PDF/X conversion failed
- XSLT: Problem solved where file suffix was missing when a folder was specified using the report path parameter
- Compact HTML: Problem solved where color labeling was not correct
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch
- Several minor fixes
Version 4.5.100
Release date: 2011-02-01
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Features
- Performance improvement on Mac and Windows when embedding fonts with custom font folder and large numbers of fonts
- Image export supported in Server UI and Enfocus Switch configurators
Fixes
- CLI
- Save as image (image format PDF)
- Problem solved where JPEG compression level and JPEG format was not applied properly
- Problem solved where page boxes and page rotation was not evaluated properly when page boxes had an offset to origin of coordinate system
- Problem solved where error message occurred when color space was set to RGB
- Split in half: Problem solved where pages were not split properly
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch
- Problem solved where reports could not be created when processing error occurred
- Problem solved where reports in Czech language could not be created
Version 4.5.098
Release date: 2010-12-10
Update of pdfToolbox Server 4 or pdfToolbox CLI 4 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 4 or pdfToolbox CLI 4
Features
- Image export extended: PDF files are exported and saved as image in the PDF format
Fixes
- Fixups
- Map spot colors:
- Problem solved where process color page objects defined as Separation or DeviceN where separated to CMYK
- Problem solved where page object defined as multi-channel DeviceN was not mapped
- Convert colors using DeviceLink profiles: Problem solved where processing ended with error message
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where processing time was increased
- Embed missing fonts: Problem solved under Unix where Adobe font list file was created in current working directory
- Adjust or remove annotations: Problem solved where page was rotated
- Checks
- Problem solved where processing ended with error message when analyzing a specific PDF file
- CLI
- Action Create EPS:
- Problem solved where file size of created EPS files were very large
- Problem solved where document with a created EPS file could not be printed from within InDesign
- Problem solved where CID Type 2 fonts where not properly encoded when outputting PostScript Level 2
- Impositioning Actions: Problem solved where negative values in token expression were not parsed correctly
- Problem solved under Linux where CLI wrapper script did not check for necessary 32bit system libraries
- Problem solved under Linux where shell retcode of CLI wrapper script was not correct
- Problem solved where kfpx profile with invalid hash value could not be repaired
Version 4.5.093
Release date: 2010-11-03
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Features
- Performance improved
- when applying fixups, especially when converting fonts to outlines or when processing complex PDF files
- when converting colors to black and white
- when applying fixups or actions modifying pages (rotate, flip, scale, move content, enlarge page)
- Memory handling improved
- Visualizer report in CLI extended to support:
- Image formats JPEG (with several compression types), PNG and TIFF
- Color spaces RGB and Gray
- Image export in CLI extended: Smoothing for images, graphics and text can be defined selectively
- Fixup Embed missing fonts extended to specify custom font folder at runtime using variables
- Fixup Adjust layers for PDF/X-4 adapted to meet the requirements of PDF/X-4:2010
- Transparency flattening also available on Solaris Sparc
- Page description errors of PDF files are reported with detailed error messages
- XSLT reports such as CompactHTML now also list fixups
- Conversion of Office documents improved: PDF files created from Excel sheets are cropped to visible page objects
- CLI: Parameter added to enumerate pdfToolbox profiles: names, comments and variable are written to a XML file
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted to latest features
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert colors:
- Problem solved where page objects had an unexpected color shift
- Problem solved where DeviceN objects had color shift when converting to RGB
- Problem solved where file size was increased when converting to RGB
- Problem solved where Acrobat Preflight reported syntax problem after color conversion
- Map colors: Problem solved where page objects with Indexed color space were not mapped
- Convert registration color to black: Problem solved where vector objects (e.g. smooth shades) were not converted
- Embed missing fonts:
- Problem solved where wrong font style was embedded
- Problem solved where fonts were not embedded or substituted
- Convert fonts to outlines:
- Problem solved where position of glyph changed
- Problem solved where glyph was modified
- Problem solved where error message appeared in Acrobat when opening converted PDF file
- Subset fonts:
- Problem solved where glyph was modified
- Problem solved where glyph width mismatched after subsetting fonts
- Fix glyph width information: Problem solved where glyph was modified
- Convert TrueType to CID font: Problem solved where glyph was modified
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved where text was clipped
- Increase line width: Problem solved where line width was not increased properly
- Downsample/Compress images: Problem solved where page object was shifted because of rounding issue with very small numbers
- Remove objects outside page area:
- Problem solved where page object was removed that was partly inside page area
- Problem solved where processing ended with error message
- Set XMP Metadata fields: Problem solved where XMP entry was not set
- Set custom property: Problem solved where custom property was not set when fixup was combined with other fixups
- Flip pages, Crop all pages, Stamp, Adjust or remove annotations/forms: Problem solved where page rotation factor was not properly regarded
- Rotate pages, Create bleed: Problem solved where page object was clipped after rotating pages
- Rotate pages: Problem solved where pattern object was not rotated
- Set layer visibility: Fixup not executed when layer name contains brackets
- Put objects on layers: Problem solved where processing stopped with error message because of Type 3 font
- Profile: Optimize for online publishing: Problem solved where file size was increased
- Convert to PDF/A: Problem solved where conversion to PDF/A failed because of missing key in font resource
- Checks
- Effective ink coverage: Problem solved where trigger value was not output properly
- CLI
- Action: Save as image: Problem solved where black bar appeared at the edge of images when page was very narrow or wide
- Impositioning Actions: Problem solved where PDF version number was set to 1.6 although not necessary
- Visualizer: Problem solved where image resolution was 1 ppi less than defined
- Problem solved where FixFailure appeared in command line for fixup Embed missing fonts although fixup was executed properly
- Reports
- XML: Problem solved where time zone of creation and modification date was not regarded properly
- XSLT: Problem solved where suffix of output method of XSLT overwrote file suffix specified in path option of the CLI report parameter
- PDF mask: Problem solved where description text of the mask was not positioned properly
- PDF layer: Problem solved where layer was created for a check that did not hit
- Error report is also created when fixup fails (e.g. because missing font is not available) but no check with severity error hits
- Problem solved where Font Descriptor Flag ForceBold was not evaluated properly
Version 4.5.090
Release date: 2010-08-23
Update of pdfToolbox Server 4 or pdfToolbox CLI 4 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 4 or pdfToolbox CLI 4
Features
- Transparency flattening is now also supported on Mac and Linux
- 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
Fixes
- Power tools
- Fixups
- Flatten transparency: Several problems solved with Adobe PDF Library 9.1 where page objects were not handled properly
- Crop all pages: Problem solved where page was not cropped properly
- Checks
- Effective ink coverage: Problem solved where ink coverage was not evaluated properly
- Page is empty: Problem solved where check fired although page had objects
- Visualizer
- Problem solved where an area of a page was highlighted by mistake
- Problem solved where color bar of legend was not correct when a high threshold was chosen
Version 4.5.086
Release date: 2010-07-14
Update free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 4 or pdfToolbox CLI 4
Features
- Performance improvement especially when processing complex PDF files
- Higher processing speed
- Less memory consumption
- Faster creation of font cache
- Visualizer: Visualizes print-relevant characteristics of PDF documents
- Office document support
- Documents of all file formats supported by Microsoft Office 2010 or 2007 (Windows only) and OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Macintosh, Windows and Linux) can directly be converted to PDF
- Supported in pdfToolbox Desktop 4, pdfToolbox Server 4, pdfToolbox CLI 4 (Linux only) and pdfToolbox SDK 4 (Macintosh, Windows and Linux)
- Keep visual and semantic reproducibility by direct export from the office application
- Common issues of PDF files created from Office applications are repaired
- Office documents that can not be exported from Microsoft Office can be processed via OpenOffice.org
- Support for page scaling factors (user units) to handle sheet sizes larger than 200 by 200 inches
- Latest PDFX-ready profiles pre-installed (Version 1.3)
- PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-4p conversion extended to preserve page objects in RGB by tagging with ICC profile
- PDF/A-1 conversion and validation adapted to the modified PDF/A-1 requirements as defined in the ISO Technical Corrigendum 2 for the standard
- Fontsubstitution activated for Arial and Helvetica when converting to PDF/A
- Image export extended
- Image format TIFF (LZW) supported
- JPEG quality maximum and minimum added
- Color space of image can be set to RGB, CMYK (TIFF only) and Gray
- RGB images are tagged with ICC profile sRGB
- Fixups
- New fixup: Remove unnecessary transparency groups
- Functionality also executed when fixup Flatten transparency, Switchboard actions Process conversion, Office PDF to CMYK, Spot to process, Convert to RGB and DeviceLink conversion and Server/CLI action Convert colors are executed
- New fixup: Add marks
- New fixup: Create bleed
- New fixup: Set page geometry boxes (page box dimensions)
- New fixup: Set page scaling factor
- Convert colors extended
- to allow tagging of page objects with ICC profiles
- to set transparency blend color space
- Map colors extended
- Improved support of smooth shades
- Map spot colors extended
- Improved support of smooth shades
- Option added to specify destination color space and values
- Embed missing fonts extended
- Settings for font substitution improved to substitute more fonts (updater need to remove fontsubstitution.cfg in user prefs in advance)
- Rotate pages extended to apply page rotation factors
- Initial view extended to support magnification 100%
- Relevant fixups extended by option to factor in page scaling factors (user units)
- Checks
- New check: Effective ink coverage
- Relevant checks extended by option to factor in page scaling factors (user units)
- pdfToolbox Server UI
- Further information is displayed in Progress dialog to track performance statistics (updater need to “Clear statistics” in the Progress dialog prior processing)
- pdfToolbox Server/CLI 4
- Number of pages output on command line
- Usage of splitpdf improved for easier handling
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted to latest features
- Installation software for Windows improved to better support user rights and have smaller installation package
Fixes
- Power tools
- Fixups
- Convert colors:
- Problem solved where processing ended with error message
- Problem solved where page objects were converted when source and destination ICC profile were identical
- Problem solved where black text was in all process channels when fixup was executed together with fixup Flatten transparency
- Problem solved when converting to RGB where color shift in smooth shade occurred
- Problem solved where processing of an already converted PDF file took longer than necessary
- Problem solved were created PDF file could not be processed on specific RIP
- Convert colors using DeviceLink profiles:
- Problem solved were page object was not converted
- Problem solved were created PDF file could not be processed on specific RIP
- Convert Registration color to black: Problem solved where error message occurred
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved where smooth shade was modified
- Set transparency blend color space: Problem solved where blend color space in soft mask was not handled properly
- Embed missing fonts:
- Problem solved where font could not be embedded
- Problem solved where font could not be fully embedded
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where glyph was modified
- Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts: Problem solved where processing stopped with error message
- Subset fonts:
- Problem solved where error message occurred
- Problem solved where subsetting failed
- Add missing SPACE glyph: Problem solved where glyph width was modified
- Make font name unique: Problem solved where fixup failed
- Set overprint and knockout: Problem solved where custom check for image masks could not be selected
- Set ICC profile for Output Intent: Problem solved where error message occurred when ICC profile was used that was not in system folder for ICC profiles
- Remove objects outside page area: Problem solved where page objects where removed that where partly inside page area
- Scale pages: Problem solved where link annotations were not scaled
- Auto-correct nesting of page geometry boxes: Problem solved where correction failed
- Initial view: Problem solved where “Open to page” was not set
- Set layer visibility dependent on a zoom level: Problem solved where layer name mistakenly was interpreted as regular expression
- Checks
- Number of colorants which are non-zero: Problem solved where number of colorants were not evaluated correctly
- Page size, Size of TrimBox etc.: Problem solved when comma was used in the values
- Embedded font contains all glyphs needed in PDF: Problem solved where SPACE glyph was evaluated that was present
- Character references .notdef glyph: Problem solved where check fired where it should not fire
- pdfToolbox Server UI
- Problem solved in action Slice where result files were not placed in proper folder
- CLI
- Action: Save as image:
- Problem solved where image was cropped when MediaBox of PDF did not start at 0/0
- Problem solved where image size was not correct when specifying height and weight
- Action: Create EPS:
- Problem solved where created EPS file could not be converted back to PDF by using Acrobat
- Action: Convert colors:
- Problem solved where processing ended with error message
- Action: Impose:
- Problem solved where group entry was not handled properly
- Problem solved where unknown unit was interpreted as point
- Reports
- Problem solved in layer report where no layer was created when checking for missing glyphs
- Enfocus Switch Configurators: Problem solved where unit “inch” was not respected properly
Version 4.4.071
Release date: 2010-04-20
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox license
Fixes
- CLI
- Problem solved on Mac when CLI was started by user with no home directory
Version 4.4.070
Release date: 2010-04-01
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox license
Features
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
- pdfToolbox Server UI: Option added to overwrite result files
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch
- Support for Switch 09
- Support for variables added to Impose configurator
- Chinese pdfToolbox Server 4: Manual added in Chinese language
- pdfToolbox SDK Mac: Java wrapper added
Fixes
- Power tools
- Fixups
- Convert colors:
- Problem solved where conversion of JBIG2 image caused error message
- Problem solved where tone values of smooth shade defined in Separation or DeviceN where too low
- Problem solved where image mask with pattern object remained colored after conversion to grayscale
- Problem solved where file size increased when converting smooth shades
- Conversion to RGB:
- Problem solved where page objects remained CMYK when converting to RGB
- Problem solved where smooth shade defined in process colors as Separation and DeviceN where not converted to RGB
- Problem solved where file size increased during RGB conversion
- Map colors: Problem solved where error message occurred
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved where glyphs and page objects where modified
- Flip/Rotate/Scale pages: Problem solved where pattern object was modified
- Set media box to origin: Problem solved where smooth shade object was clipped
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where glyphs were modified
- Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where creating of font cache took long time
- Set Overprint and Knockout: Problem solved where OPM was not set for DeviceCMYK page object
- Actions
- Flip, Move content, Passe partout, Rotate, Scale by percent, Scale page content, Scale to format: Problem solved where pattern object was modified
- Activation
- Problem solved where automatic activation failed when sending activation information from certain E-Mail clients
- 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
- Impositioning
- Problem solved under Unix where error message occurred when trying to place text on imposed sheet
- pdfToolbox Desktop
- Problem solved under Windows where language of user interface did not match to language of operating system
- Problem solved where user preferences could not be saved on an AFP file server
- CLI
- CLI actions:
- Convert colors: Problem solved where page object was not converted properly
- Save as image:
- Problem solved where image had black background that was transparent in the PDF
- Problem solved where overprint behavior changed
- Create EPS: Problem solved where overprint behavior changed
- Enfocus Switch Configurators
- Problem solved where old style config folders were not used
Version 4.4.064
Release date: 2009-12-22
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox license
Features
- 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
Fixes
- 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
- CLI
- Problem solved where hash of kfpx profile was evaluated although parameter –ignorehash was set
- Action Save as image: Problem solved under Unix where page object got black and white
Version 4.4.060.1
Release date: 2009-12-09
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox license
Fixes
- Problem solved where fixup Flatten transparency was executed although PDF did not contain transparency
- Problem solved in Switch Configurator for Actions where option simulate overprint could not be deactivated
- Problem solved in CLI where error occurred when parameter –cachefolder was used by a user that does not have a user folder
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
- 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
- Chinese language version extended
- Server and CLI: additional report languages added
- Registration for international and Chinese version can be combined on one machine
- CLI action Save as image extended by option to simulate overprint
- New CLI parameter fontquickembed where missing glyphs or width mismatches are ignored when embedding fonts
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted to latest features
- 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
- CLI
- Problem solved where parallel processing with several CLI instances ended with error message
- Problem solved when using parameter –cachefolder in combination with –keycode or –status
- CLI actions
- Save as image: Problem solved under Solaris X86 where parts of page in image where black and white
- Convert colors: Problem solved where tone value of DeviceGray objects were too dark after processing
- Create EPS: Problem solved where EPS creation failed
- Fixups
- Set ICC profile for Output Intent(s): Problem solved where fixup was not executed
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 flavors (where possible the conversion is made on the open document and no Save as dialog is displayed)
- First release of Chinese language version of pdfToolbox Server 4 (separate installation package)
- 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)
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted to latest features
- Reports: Slight adaptions of predefined XSLTs regarding file size and page box information
- CLI: Parameter added to customize cache folder
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 occurred 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 occurred with a PDF file during processing
- Subset fonts: Problem solved where error occurred 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
- Actions
- Booklet: Cut marks are also set for pages if they are added dynamically by pdfToolbox to fill the sheet
- CLI
- Problem solved when CLI was started by user with no home directory
- Configurators
- Create EPS: Problem solved where PostScript Level 3 was created when PostScript Level 2 was requested
- Problem solved where negative values for dynamic variables where not processed properly
Version 4.3.044
Release date: 2009-07-23
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Server/CLI license
Features
- New fixups in Server and CLI 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 the command line output
- pdfToolbox Server application: Option added to create PDF reports with overview
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
- Reports
- Problem solved where in PDF comments report color of comments did not match their severity
- 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 4.3.041
Release date: 2009-06-25
Update free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Server 4 license
Features
- 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
- CLI Actions
- Split layers to create single PDF files of each layer view or layer of a PDF
- Split & Merge of PDF files
- Impositioning extended to place texts in impositioned sheets
- 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 related checks
- Reports: Information about fixups and layers are listed in XML report
- Performance improvement of pdfToolbox Server application
- CLI
- Report option now allows more than one trigger value (e.g. error and warning)
- Number of hits can now be limited (hitsperdoc and hitsperpage)
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted to latest features
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
- CLI Actions
- Create EPS: Problem solved where CMYK objects had been color converted
- Save as image: Problem solved where no PNG file was created if resolution was too high
- Create EPS and Save as image do no longer append index number if just one page is output
- pdfToolbox Server application
- Problem solved on Mac with case-sensitive formatted hard drive where jobs could not be edited
- Problem solved where documentation could not be opened via menu
- CLI
- Problem solved where report could not be created if comma was used in report file name
- Problem solved where report file with dot at the end of the file name was not created
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
- New option to specify page range for analysis via profiles and actions Create EPS and Save as image
- Improved handling of invalid creation and modification dates during PDF/X conversion
- DeviceLink Add-on: Profiles updated for better conversion results
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted to latest features
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
- 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
- Problem solved on Unix platforms where no XML report was created if input file contained non-UTF-8 characters
- Problem solved where –overwrite option was not applied for reports
- DeviceLink Add-on: Problem solved where total area coverage was not reduced to 260% for ISO newspaper 26v4 ink reduction profile
- Problem solved where temporary files remained in temp folder after processing
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
- CLI: Font and glyph names are listed on the command line when they created a hit
Fixes
- 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
- Problem solved in CLI where PDF version was not set properly
- 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
- CLI actions
- Layers - Import as layer: Problem solved where file was rotated after importing
- Create EPS: Problem solved where created EPS files made problems in further processing because conversion of TrueType to Type 1 was activated
- Reports:
- Mask report:
- Problem solved where Warnings and Infos were displayed in color of errors (red) when viewing layer “All problems”
- Problem solved on Linux where special characters in Report where not displayed properly
Version 4.2.020.1
Release date: 2009-03-04
Fixes
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted
- Server/CLI actions
- Create EPS:
- Problem solved, where font names in created EPS caused problem in following RIP process
- Problem solved, where wrong font resource was used in later processing of the EPS
Version 4.2.020
Release date: 2009-02-27
Features
- New layer features
- 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 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
- Substitute fonts that are not available
- Set custom font paths for Unix platforms
- 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
- New Server/CLI action to save PDF files as image in JPEG or PNG
- New options added to Server/CLI EPS export like simulation of overprints
- Improved Batch processing in Server application
- 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)
- Latest Configurators for Enfocus Switch preinstalled
- New report languages for Sever/CLI: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish and Swedish
- First pdfToolbox CLI version for Solaris X86
- pdfToolbox CLI Linux now also supports SuSE 9 and RedHat distribution
Fixes
- 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
- Server/CLI actions
- Convert colors:
- Problem solved where parameter JPEGQuality did not have any effect
- Problem solved where return code showed an error although no conversion took place
- Create EPS: Problem solved where page objects were not displayed after distilling the created EPS
- 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
- XSLT: Problem solved where no report was created for a PDF
Version 4.1.018
Release date: 2009-01-13
Fixes
- Problem solved where PDF/X, PDF/A or PDF/E conversion failed when “Apply fixups” in the Standards settings of the profile was activated and no custom fixup Convert colors was used
- Problem solved where font mistakenly was regarded as invalid font
- Problem solved where device dependent gray objects were not handled properly when running Action passepartout
- Problem solved on Linux and Solaris where invalid font stopped processing during font embedding
Version 4.1.017
Release date: 2008-12-19
Fixes
- 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
- Problem solved where page objects did not comply with PDF specification after DeviceLink conversion
- Problem solved in Server/CLI where “XMP Basic Schema” and “XMP Media Management Schema” was not corrected when running fixup “Make document XMP Metadata compliant with PDF/X-4”
- Reports
- Problem solved where no report was created in Server/CLI when pdfToolbox profile contained fixups and PDF/X compliance check
Version 4.1.013
Release date: 2008-11-24
Fixes
- 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
- DeviceLink profiles of Add-on updated: when converting pure Black defined in CMYK the dot gain had not been compensated properly
- Problem solved where profiles of DeviceLink Add-on caused error message when executing
- Problem solved where color conversion with a PDF caused error message
- 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
- Actions
- Problem solved where Action handout could not be used under Windows
- 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
- Server application
- Problem solved where PDF reports could not be created with pdfToolbox Server application
- Problem solved where metadata report files had not been saved in Out folder
