pdfaPilot 5.5.230
Release date: 2015-03-19
- Update of pdfaPilot Desktop 5 free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Desktop 5 license
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Update of pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5
Features
- Enhanced Profiles
- All “Convert to PDF/A…”-Profiles
- New Fixup “Remove glyphs with invalid encoding definition” [CA1023466; CA1023522]
- All “Convert to PDF/A…”-Profiles
- New Checks
- Has private Illustrator information [FP23244; FP26833]
- Radial smooth shade without radius
- Several new properties related to embedded files (especially for PDF/A-3)
- Enhanced Checks
- Possibility to use negation of regular expressions in those checks added, where values can be defined
- New Fixups
- Replace glyphs without Unicode to SPACE characters
- Enhanced Fixups
- New function to switch between normal and table view in certain fixups [FP27603]
- Set relationship entry for embedded files: “Apply to” added for more flexibility
- Remove XMP metadata: Option to remove XMP metadata from structure elements added
- Actions
- e-mail to PDF:
- Support for additional archive formats for e-mail attachments (z7, tz, rar) [CA1022881]
- Optimized naming for converted attachments keeps now their original file extension in attachment names and bookmarks
- Support for HTML and HTM as e-mail attachments [CA1023701]
- Improved handling for multi-level nested msg and eml files [CA1023102]
- ToPDF: Added support for OpenOffice using 64Bit JavaVM
- e-mail to PDF:
- Reports
- XML-Reports: Page label is listed in page information
- General
- Incorporate new ZUGFeRD schema (as defined in a corrigendum, published October 17, 2014)
- Deactivation of licenses using Desktop and CLI
- Introduced a validity period for activation with generated license file
- License files used in CLI-only environments needs to be activated before deployment
- Improved reporting if a Fixup is not successful for all objects (especially on CLI Fix and FixFailure will become reported now)
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP3n)
Fixes
- Checks
- Fixed issue, where certain PDF structures resulted in false hits [FP27559; FP27939]
- Fixed issue, where some kinds of Smooth Shades were mistakenly flagged as invalid [CA1023332]
- Fixups
- Make XMP metadata compliant: Problem solved, where multiple creator entries were not respected
- Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an unexpected result [CA1023528]
- Fixed issue, where an incomplete CIDset prevented a successful conversion to PDF/A [FP25347]
- Problem solved, where conversion to PDF/A resulted in an unexpected behavior [CA1023509]
- Problem solved, where conversion to PDF/A of certain PDFs resulted in an improper result [CA1023626]
- Problem solved, where images were not properly converted during conversion to PDF/A in special cases [CA1023306]
- Fix glyph width information: Fixed issue, where positioning of glyphs changed in certain cases [FP25990; FP26244; FP27795; CA1023570]
- Fix glyph width information: Problem solved, where glyphs are distorted in some cases [FP24435]
- Flatten transparency:
- Problem solved, where text was not properly formatted after processing [FP24371]
- Problem solved, where text vanished in certain cases [FP25667; FP27233; FP27270; FP27639]
- Problem solved, where glyphs were displaced [FP26089]
- Make font names unique: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an improper behavior during postprocessing [FP20693; CA1022294]
- Set MIME type entry for embedded files: Fixed issue, where entry was not properly set in certain cases
- Fixed issue, where some PDF viewers were showing ab unnecessary warning when opening processed files in some cases [FP25347]
- Embed missing fonts: Problem solved, where font was not embedded due to missing Subtype-entry [FP27498]
- Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where conversion was not successful in certain cases [FP26772]
- Problem solved, where Smooth Shades were not properly handled in some cases [CA1022421]
- Problem solved, where invalid UTF-8 font names were not corrected [CA1023559]
- Actions
- ReDistill: Fixed issue, where processing special PDFs files causes an error [FP27494; FP27635]
- ToPDF: Fixed issue, where the print area of XSLX-Excel-documents were not properly respected [FP27328]
- ToPDF: Problem solved, where Unicode file names of TIFF files resulted in an unexpected behavior [CA1023605]
- e-mail to PDF:
- Problem solved, where nested msg or eml files were not properly handled [CA1022881; CA1023102; CA1023717]
- Problem solved, where protected PDFs as e-mail attachment were not properly handled [CA1023442]
- Desktop
- Reports: Problem solved, where custom PDF reports were not properly created in certain cases [FP27718; FP27979]
- Variables dialog: Problem solved, where quotation marks became replaced by operating system (MacOS only) [FP27547]
- General
- Fixed problem, where special characters in name of Output Intent avoided a proper profile export [FP28111]
- Desktop: Fixed issue, where text was not properly displayed (MacOS Retina only)
- CLI
- Improved handling of hotfolders when user “nobody” is used (Linux only)
- Problem solved, where no template based PDF reports were created if ProcessPlans has been used [FP27087]
pdfaPilot 5.2.221
Release date: 2014-10-15
- Update of pdfaPilot Desktop 5 free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Desktop 5 license
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Update of pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5
Features
- New Fixups
- Remove bookmarks: Removes all bookmarks in a PDF [FP26479]
- New Checks
- Page has objects using transparency [CA1022314]
- Enhanced Profiles
- All PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-1 and -3 based Profiles, Profiles for Online Publishing and Digital Printing:
- Flatten Transparency: Internal optimization has become deprecated and has been removed from the user interface
- All PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-1 and -3 based Profiles, Profiles for Online Publishing and Digital Printing:
- Enhanced Fixups
- All “Flatten transparency” Fixups:
- Internal optimization has been deprecated and has been removed from the user interface
- All “Flatten transparency” Fixups:
- Actions
- ToPDF: Additional file formats supported for MS Word (.dot; .dotx; .dotm; .txt; .xml), MS Excel (.xslm; .xlt; .xltx; .xltm) and MS Powerpoint (.ppa; .ppam)
- ToPDF: Font substitutions, which took place in MS Word can be reported on CLI and in SDK
- CLI
- Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame works now also for office conversion processes
- Distributed Processing
- Improved reporting for errors on CLI
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP3c)
- All components on MacOS are x64 now
Fixes
- PDF/A Conversion
- Conversion of TrueType to CFF limited to fewer cases when absolutely needed[CA1023161]
- Fixed issue, where glyphs were removed in some cases [CA1023274]
- Problem solved, where an improperly defined annotation size was not properly handled [CA1023269]
- Problem solved, where nested PDF files were not validated correctly [CA1023113]
- Profiles
- Verify compliance with PDF/VT-1: Adjusted analysis of DPart structure [CA1023271]
- Fixups
- Set document language to language in tagging structure: Problem solved, where Figure Tag description was removed [CA1023202]
- Subset fonts: Fixed issue, where glyphs were removed in some cases
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where annotations were removed during processing [FP24614; CA1022661]
- Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Fixed issue, where invisible layers were not properly removed [FP22502; CA1023254]
- Remove layer: Problem solved, where content remained in the document [FP20692; FP20710; FP21689]
- Fix font encoding: Fixed issue, where text was improperly positioned in some cases
- Fix glyph width info: Problem solved, where width was not corrected [FP25347; CA1023058]
- Checks
- Glyph width is inconsistent: Problem solved, where widths were not properly calculated in some cases [FP26600]
- MD5 checksum of ICC profiles: Corrected naming of reported results
- Actions
- ToPDF: Problem solved, where certain PNG images were rotated
- Create PostScript: Problem solved, where objects were moved in some cases
- Create PostScript: Problem solved, where text became converted to images
- Extract text: Fixed issue, where extracting text caused an error with some files [CA1023097]
- E-mail to PDF: Fixed issue, where bookmarks were not properly created [CA1023075]
- E-mail to PDF: Problem solved, where empty pages were added unnecessarily [CA1023115]
- E-Mail to PDF: Problem solved, where the created file was invalid [CA1023078]
- Collection: Fixed issue, where links were not properly created for embedded non-PDF files [FP26003]
- Reports
- Font inventory report: Fixed issue, where glyphs and Unicode values were not listed [FP24267; FP24680]
- Desktop
- Various improvements for usability and stability
- Fixed problem, where creating a Check out of editing a Fixup resulted in an improper behavior
- Server
- Problem solved, where Japanese language was not properly handled
- Distributed Processing
- Problem solved, where an unavailable dispatcher resulted in an unstable behavior in certain cases
- General
- Improved handling for font files without extension (Unix only) [CA1023053]
- Problem solved, where customized Profiles did not handled embedded files properly [CA1023219]
pdfaPilot 5.1.211
Release date: 2014-08-11
- Update of pdfaPilot Desktop 5 free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Desktop 5 license
- Update of pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5
- Update for Windows and MacOS only
Features
- Support for released ZUGFeRD version 1.0 (German e-invoice standard)
pdfaPilot 5.1.210
Release date: 2014-07-08
- Update of pdfaPilot Desktop 5 free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Desktop 5 license
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Update of pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5
Features
- New Fixups
- Remap characters from Unicode Private Use Area: Map Unicode from PUA to another valid Unicode [FP21906]
- Remove all tagging information: Removes all tagging structure [CA1022859]
- Enhanced Fixups
- Font to outline: “Apply to” added to control, which fonts are outlined
- Desktop
- Visualizer: Added option to set simulation profile and improved handling if an OutputIntent exists
- Profile editor: Several predefined filters in search field for Checks and Fixups
- CLI
- Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame
- Server, Dispatcher or Satellite can be used as service on Windows
- Distributed processing
- Optional failover for Dispatcher in Client-mode
- Possibility for typification for Satellites
- Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame for distributed processes
- Local processing (as a fall-back) can be disabled
- Optimization for connecting process between Dispatcher and Satellite
Fixes
- PDF/A conversion
- Added correction “Substitute characters using .notdef glyph with space characters” to conversion using CLI, Switchboard, QuickConversion
- Fonts used for form fields will be embedded completely to ensure full functionality after conversion to PDF/A [CA1020787]
- Fixups
- Fix glyph width information: Problem solved, where text was not properly handled for certain PDF created by PhotoShop
- Rotate pages: Problem solved, where page rotation factor was not handled correctly for links in some cases [CA1022891]
- Font-related corrections: Problem solved, where false entries in PostScript font resulted in an improper behavior
- Font-related corrections: Problem solved, where glyphs seemed to be corrupt when viewed in Acrobat 8
- Font-related corrections: Fixed issue, where glyph widths did not match after processing [CA1023004]
- Remove JavaScript not associated with actions: Problem solved, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly removed
- Remove actions: Problem solved, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly removed
- Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where fixup did not work like expected
- Remove or adjust annotations: Problem solved, where annotation was moved outside page area instead of being flattened into page content
- Remove or adjust annotations: Fixed issue, where annotations were not properly rotated
- Subset fonts: Optimized handling for width entries of unused glyphs [CA1022860]
- Make font names unique: Problem solved, where errors occurred during postprocessing in certain cases
- Substitute characters using .notdef glyph with space characters: Fixed issue, where text was moved during processing
- Create bookmarks from headings: Problem solved, where existing bookmarks were removed
- Checks
- Document contains actions: Fixed issue, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly detected
- Document contains JavaScript: Fixed issue, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly detected
- Symbolic TrueType font has Encoding dictionary: Problem solved, where unusual encoding entry was not detected properly
- Character references .notdef glyph: Problem solved, where .notdef glyphs were not recognized in certain cases
- Actions
- ToPDF: Support for latest Pages (Version 5.2) for Mac
- ToPDF: TXT files will be handled by MS Office if no OpenOffice is installed (Windows + MacOS)
- e-mail-to-PDF: Problem solved, where certain MIME type entry in e-mail were not handled properly [CA1022881]
- e-mail-to-PDF: Fixed issue, where umlauts were not converted in certain cases [CA1022881]
- Reports
- Template-based PDF-Reports: Corrected use of time zone of local computer time
- Problem solved, where MHT reports could not be created using the Server UI [FP25271]
- Desktop
- Some Problems solved, where user interface did not work as expected
- Acrobat PlugIn
- Problem solved, where batch processing resulted in an improper behavior in Acrobat 9
- General
- Desktop: Optimized handling of unused conditions
- Desktop: Improved indexing of check and fixup names during import of profiles
- ProcessPlans: Optimization for PostCheck when standard conversion is used
- Checks: Optimized analysis to reduce needed amount of memory
pdfaPilot 5.0.203
Release date: 2014-03-13
- Upgrade to pdfaPilot 5 Desktop requires upgrade fee for owners of a pdfaPilot 3 or 4 Desktop license
- Upgrade to pdfaPilot 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot 3 or 4 Desktop
- Upgrade to pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5 requires SMA for at least one additional year. Please contact your reseller for further information.
- Upgrade of pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 2, 3 or 4 or pdfaPilot CLI 2, 3 or 4.
Features
- New function to convert email to PDF, supporting email formats EML, EMLX and MSG
- New internal engine for rendering, transparency flattening, optimization and creation of PS/EPS
- New internal engine for font handling
- Official support for ZUGFeRD (German initiative for electronic invoicing), according to the release candidate of the specification
- Customizable PDF-Reports (incl. support for creation of XML-Reports on the fly and adding content to the PDF-Report)
- Checkpoint for pdfaPilot 5 Server
- New and enhanced Profiles
- Verify compliance with PDF/VT-2
- All “Convert to PDF/A-2-…”- and “Convert to PDF/A-3…”-Profiles
- Added new fixup “Insert missing F and UF entries for embedded files” [CA1022655]
- All PDF/A-1…, PDF/X-1…, PDF/X-3 based profiles:
- Flatten transparency: Internal optimization deactivated
- Flatten transparency: Color images created by the flattener are not always using JPEG
- Flatten transparency: “Convert text to outline” option has been deactivated by default
- All GWG2012-Profiles:
- Minor adjustments for “black object”-checks to match requirements of the latest specification errata document
- Replaced existing check for ICC-profile version with 2 new profiles to enhance reporting
- Modified check: Transparency blend color space not DeviceGray or DeviceCMYK in softmask of type Luminosity
- Settings in Custom Fixups will override settings from automatically generated Fixups from Standard-Conversion (Wizard)
- New and enhanced Fixups
- All “Flatten transparency” fixups:
- Internal optimization deactivated
- Color images created by the flattener are not always using JPEG
- “Preserve Overprints” works also on pages that do not contain transparency
- “Convert text to outline” option has been deactivated by default
- All “Downsample bitmap|color|grayscale images” fixups:
- Recompression will not take place if images are not downsampled
- Remove re-mapping of predefined tags
- Convert TrueType fonts to CFF fonts
- Convert color to grayscale: Adjusted setting to avoid conversion of objects which are using only black
- Remove all object level XMP metadata
- Convert page into image: extended settings so that it is now e.g. possible to convert those pages that have certain problems
- Remove objects based on check for objects
- Remove all objects using Registration color inside TrimBox
- Remove all objects using spot color with specified name
- Set MIME type entry for embedded files (for PDF/A-3)
- Add Modification Date to an embedded file's Params dictionary (for PDF/A-3)
- All “Flatten transparency” fixups:
- New Checks
- Transparency group has transparent objects
- Transparency group on page level has transparent objects
- ToUnicode CMap has syntax problems
- New Properties in order to determine possible PDF version entries in a PDF file
- Acrobat Extension Level
- Developer names in Extension dictionary
- Developer names in Extension dictionary
- Developer Extension Level BaseVersion does not match Version entry in Catalog
- Value of version in PDF header his lower than Version entry in Catalog
- Version entry in Catalog
- General
- Process Plans: Improved performance
- Enhanced handling of fonts in ”.dfont” file format (MacOS only)
- Font analysis: Improved speed of checks
- XML Report: SequenceSteps from ProcessPlans and Fixups of last step are added
- XML Report: Various information added about PDF version and Developer extensions level
- Actions
- Export to EPUB
- Added support for EPUB 3.0
- New Config-file to control advanced handling of tags and attributes
- Now also supported on Linux
- Export to EPUB
- pdfaPilot Standalone
- Added update notification and direct download link for latest version (MacOS and Windows)
- CLI
- Conversion to PDF:
- New options for conversion of Excel documents to show hidden columns, to adjust content size for overflowing cells and to use Excel page layout (without white space removal) [FP23720]
- Collection: New option to embed files as PDF - without conversion to PDF/A
- PostScript to PDF conversion now also x64 when using Linux x64
- New optional warning if font substitution takes place in PDFs created from MS Word documents
- New option for defining a max. used amount of memory during processing (Linux only)
- Conversion to PDF:
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved, where a missing ”%EOF” marker was not handled properly in some cases [FP22356]
- Fixed issue, where glyphs were falsely marked as missing or using wrong widths [FP20154]
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved, where signed PDF/A file was not properly handled if converted again in certain cases [FP22226]
- Problem solved, where a CID fonts without Unicode CMap resulted in conversion failure
- Problem solved, where content on inline image was falsely interpreted as PDF source content [FP24533]
- Fixed issue, where EXIF data of JPEG images were not handled properly in some cases [CA1022650]
- Fixed issue, where colors were not properly adjusted if used in an annotation
- Problem solved, where text vanished after processing in certain cases [CA1022033]
- Problem solved, where resources of fonts where not properly handled in some cases [CA1022178]
- Problem solved, where annotations were not properly flattened [CA1022661]
- Problem solved, where resulting PDFs were not properly generated with certain files [CA1022330]
- Problem solved, where SoftMask objects were not flattened successfully in some cases [CA1022714]
- Fixed issue, where mapping of text to UniCode was not properly corrected, if the CMap had problems which are now resolved [FP19442]
- Fixed issue, where annotations with mirrored coordinates caused by applying rotation factor of page were not properly handled [CA1022168]
- Problem solved, where annotations were shifted during conversion in some cases [CA1021195]
- Fixed issue, where Unicode information was not properly kept during conversion in certain cases [CA1022072, CA1022448]
- Problem solved, where text information vanished in certain cases [CA1022466]
- Profiles
- Harmonized handling and recognition of values defined as RegEx
- Fixups
- Embedd missing fonts: Problem solved, where missing fonts were not properly embedded in some cases [CA1021920]
- Mark all non-structure elements as artifact: Problem solved, where FormXObjects were falsely marked as Arifacts [FP24417]
- Create bookmarks from heading: Fixed issue, where wrapping headlines were not properly handled
- Convert SoftMask to ImageMask: Problem solved, where images were not visible after processing [CA1022181]
- Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType fonts: Fixed issue, where not all glyphs were properly handled [FP21034, CA1021563, CA1021420]
- Fix glyph width info:
- Problem solved, where glyphs were not properly handled
- Problem solved, where result was not displayed properly in some viewers
- Problem solved, where image objects were affected
- Flatten annotations and form fields: Problem solved, where position of signatures were not kept
- Subset fonts: Problem solved, where glyphs were not handled properly in certain cases
- Remove Differences array from TrueType fonts: Problem solved, where processing resulted in improper file in certain cases
- Prepare annotations for PDF/A-1: Problem solved, where processing failed
- Substitute characters using .notdef glyph: Problem solved, where glyphs moved in certain cases
- Repair invalid ToUnicode CMap information: Extended function to ensure valid mapping to Unicode
- Checks
- General: Enhanced stability during analysis of partly corrupt files
- Invalid language identifier: Fixed issues, where an empty language identifier was not ignored [FP22931]
- Problem solved, where check for font sizes reported negative values
- Desktop/PlugIn
- Batch in Switchboard
- Problem solved, where file was moved into failure folder although successfully converted to PDF/A. [FP22711]
- Adjusted file handling during processing
- Problem solved, where processing only handled 1 file [MacOS 10.7 only)
- ZUGFeRD verification: Problem solved, where validating could not be properly executed [FP23701]
- Problem solved, where files could not be displayed properly
- Batch in Switchboard
- Server
- Enhanced processing stability [FP23592]
- Problem in ServerUI fixed, where processed files remained visible [FP23519
- Server/CLI
- Problem solved where creation of PDF/A files failed during fallback processing
- Improved handling of licenses if more than 1 license (with different limitations) are on the respective system
- Distributed processing: Problem solved, where processing of folders were not properly handled
- General
- Conversion to PDF:
- Changed behaviour to disable footer in Excel sheets [CA1020853]
- Optimized handling of invisible pages [CA1020625]
- Problem solved, where file permissions form original file (read-only) were also applied to the result PDF
- Added parameter to set searchpath for fonts to be used during conversion from PostScript
- Optimized conversion handling for OEM integration
- Fixes issue, where time zones with different offset than a full hour were not properly handled in the XMP metadata [CA1022664]
- Standard14 fonts: Adjusted recognition, so that an existing FontDescriptor is tolerated [FP22533]
- Fixed problem, where longer processing time could result in improper behavior in OEM integration
- Optimization: Problem solved, where processing resulted in improper PDF
- ReDistill: Increased stability of processing
- Conversion to PDF:
- Changed internal package version for profiles to 13
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP2k)
- Mac: Requires Mac OS X, version 10.6 or newer