Supports all PDF versions (up to PDF 1.7/Acrobat® 9)

Supports all PDF/X standards (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5)

Includes the most significant industry standard profiles like the Ghent PDF Workgroup standard

Connects to existing workflows through hot folders

Simultaneous processing of multiple files for optimized throughput

Splits multipage PDF files into segments

Creates permutations of PDF files per layer or layer view

Merges multiple PDFs into a single PDF file

Generates configurable single page EPS files

Exports pages as JPEG or PNG in quality settings from thumbnail over full size preview up to high resolution content proof

Uses IPTC, XMP and other object related metadata and exports them in a configurable XML report

Allows to limit most manipulations to specific objects

Provides configuration files that can be interchanged with other servers

Integrates fully into FullSwitch® and PowerSwitch®

Updated Switch® configurator with the ability to define runtime parameters in dynamic pdToolbox 4 profiles

Extensive Switch® integration improvements: save as image, enhanced EPS export, creation of multiple reports, severity-dependent reporting, and saving of XML reports as an XML metadata data set

Checks more than 1000 characteristics

Adjusts and corrects more than 100 different features

Supports all principle standards: validates and creates PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-4p, and validates PDF/X-5

Allows creation of different types of reports in one run

Embeds missing fonts (including Easter European, Cyrillic and Far Eastern fonts) and makes font names unique to protect against character dropouts or font substitution in down stream processes

Imposes any type of PDF based on extremely flexible rule based imposition schemes

Places page objects or new PDFs on layers

Creates PDF/X-4 conforming layer views (OCCDs) for using multilingual publication files or handling product variants in packaging

Provides adjustable compression methods for images

Supports smart configuration through dynamic pdfToolbox 4 profiles that allow variable parameters to be defined at runtime - creating incredible versatility in your workflow (profiles can be adjusted on the fly and checks and fix-ups can be dynamically switched on or off)

Full support of ICC and DeviceLink profiles

Provides comprehensive conversion of Office RGB

Delivers all professional conversions - RGB gray to black only for text, line-art and images, CMYK and spot colors to RGB, spot colors to process, colored PDFs to black/white

Processes line-art and images separately

Allows to optionally preserve primary, secondary and tertiary colors

Offers tone value adjustment (for both process and spot colors)

Supports black point compensation

Maps between various color spaces

Includes a series of most used DeviceLink profiles for repurposing in professional printing

Includes DeviceLink profiles for optimization of total ink coverage and ink saving for standard printing conditions

Supports process conversion between sheet fed offset, web offset, news printing and gravure, supporting established best practice guidelines for Europe, North America and Japan