How do standards help automate label printing?

13 Jul 2022
By Akash Choudhary

Print shops today are required to work as efficiently as possible, i.e. to automate their processes to a large extent. T...

We heard you at the PDF Camp 2022

08 Jun 2022
By Akash Choudhary

Finally we all met in person and talked about PDFs, pdfToolbox and its capabilities.

Let's talk about the best-of-breed prepress solutions used by ABT...

18 May 2022
By Akash Choudhary

The ABT Mediengruppe relies heavily on automation, especially in the prepress area. Instead of introducing an all-in-one...

pdfToolbox 13.1 - chasing standards

19 Apr 2022
By David van Driessche

One of the guiding principles of pdfToolbox from very early on was that – as much as possible – relevant standards shoul...

GWG 2022 – same old, same old?

16 Mar 2022
By David van Driessche

First things first: the Ghent Workgroup or GWG is a standardization organization you should know if you’re active in the...

Quality assurance of PDF/A files? Let’s ask Beuth Verlag!

16 Feb 2022
By Akash Choudhary

Just a few years back, Beuth Verlag introduced callas pdfaPilot and pdfToolbox solutions for automated processing and qu...

callas in 2021

19 Jan 2022
By Akash Choudhary

Four numbers that when strung together make up a thunderous, unexpected, and yet hopeful year. That was 2021. Some thing...

How does this customer process 50 percent more print data with callas pdfToolbox?

15 Dec 2021
By Akash Choudhary

Procedes Chenel Beilken Digital Printing is a service provider for large-format digital prints, textile architecture and...

Grand entry: pdfToolbox 13! But what's next?

12 Nov 2021
By Akash Choudhary

Not only does pdfToolbox 13 get ever more dynamic, the new features and optimisations target the vital markets like Digi...

Are you leaving document archiving to chance?

19 Oct 2021
By Dietrich von Seggern

Companies and public institutions benefit from PDF/A because documents can be archived permanently with this standard. W...

Prepress automation in label printing

18 Aug 2021
By Dietrich von Seggern

The level of automation in print shops has risen massively in recent years and it is not a big surprise that researchers...

Emails for eternity

14 Jul 2021
By Dietrich von Seggern

According to a recent survey conducted on behalf of the digital association Bitkom, an average of 26 e-mails are receive...

PrePress Digital in collaboration with callas

23 Jun 2021
By Hans Peter Schneeberger

"In the past, we have repeatedly found that print shops cover the steps of the prepress and production process with soft...

Socially distancing penguins

12 May 2021
By David van Driessche

Sometimes funny concepts are the best way to explain what otherwise could be very dry (but important!) topics. And as ev...

pdfToolbox 12.2 MINUS pdfToolbox 12 = WOW improvements!

14 Apr 2021
By Akash Choudhary

It is not just the major versions of pdfToolbox that see major improvements, we release value to further increase produc...

“Variable data print” marries “prepress automation” - giving birth to callas pdfDPartner

10 Feb 2021
By Dietrich von Seggern

I believe DPart is one of the most important new features in PDF 2.0. DPart is page based metadata in a PDF file, stored...

callas in numbers

13 Jan 2021
By Akash Choudhary

What an unusual year 2020, wasn’t it? A lot of things changed at callas too. A quick look at the numbers from the past y...

Improved barcode readability with Fogra and callas

16 Dec 2020
By Akash Choudhary

Barcodes as machine-readable symbols have been around for years now. They are the smartest way from print to the digital...

Here comes the 12

18 Nov 2020
By Akash Choudhary

It’s day 3 of the VIP Event 2020 and we are very excited to step into the forthcoming era of pdfToolbox 12. While I hope...

OctoberPDFest online

14 Oct 2020
By Akash Choudhary

A month with the experts on topics like accessibility, security and digital signatures, new PDF standards, conversion, w...

Publish smart – The Internet Standards Series

16 Sep 2020
By Dietrich von Seggern

Most publishers today do not stick to a single format or communication channel. You can choose between the World Wide We...

RPA-based office workflows, using PDF

19 Aug 2020
By Dietrich von Seggern and Akash Choudhary

The RPA (Robotic Process Automation) approach is similar to the automated process that is common in manufacturing compan...

Regulate counterfeits with label printing

15 Jul 2020
By Akash Choudhary

Product piracy is something that strikes fear into the heart of many brand owners. How can printers of packaging and lab...

Managing manufacturing information with PDF

17 Jun 2020
By Akash Choudhary

Since 2005, PDF files come along with the ability to embed 3D models, which enables the viewers to interactively visuali...

What can Robotic Process Automation (RPA) learn from prepress?

13 May 2020
By Dietrich von Seggern

The IT industry has embarked on a new topic: Robotic Process Automation (RPA). It covers the automation of processes by ...

callas Desktop products can 'explore' your PDF documents

22 Apr 2020
By Dietrich von Seggern & Akash Choudhary

Imagine a scenario where you have copy-pasted some text from your PDF to another location and it comes out totally diffe...

Mobile Magazines

18 Mar 2020
By Dietrich von Seggern

Obviously, requirements for print are quite the opposite from mobile: print quality is important for advertisers in toda...

Spotify in pdfToolbox - all about spot colors

19 Feb 2020
By Akash Choudhary

Some printing processes do not use CMYK process inks at all, instead only spot inks are available, and sometimes even a ...

The time of the year where we look back, take stock & plan ahead

15 Jan 2020
By Akash Choudhary

First of all, a happy New Year to all our readers - from all of us here at callas software. We had a lot of fun in 2019:...

Automating complex workflows with pdfToolbox 11!

20 Nov 2019
By Akash Choudhary

What does complexity in terms of PDF processing actually mean? Is it a function of the file size? Majority of us would r...

VIP Event in Riga - All about preflight, automation & pdfToolbox 11

24 Oct 2019
By Akash Choudhary

The opening session 'Welcome to the VIP Event' starring Dietrich von Seggern, David van Driessche and Karina Zander brie...

How quick is pdfToolbox's QuickCheck functionality?

09 Oct 2019
By Akash Choudhary

In today’s complex automated prepress workflows, performance can still be an issue. For us as developer of solutions for...

How callas and Prepress changed each other

14 Aug 2019
By Dietrich von Seggern

Anyone (like me) who has been on the road in prepress for some time might still remember the days before PDF when custo...

Is ZUGFeRD 2.0 just as easy to use as its predecessor or any other data formats for e-invoices?

03 Jul 2019
By Akash Choudhary

Be it the Mexican "Comprobante Fiscal Digital a través de Internet" (CFDI), the Brazilian "Nota Fiscal Eletrônica 2.0" (...

A short story of callas License Server ...

19 Jun 2019
By Akash Choudhary

We already discussed our 'next big thing' at the VIP Event 2018: the License Server. But what led to this idea, what are...

Powerful coexistence of AFP and PDF

08 May 2019
By Dietrich von Seggern

Today, PDF is the universal format for the exchange of digital documents, but since many years it is also the standard f...

Advanced mathematics for better (context aware) preflight

04 Apr 2019
By Akash Choudhary

Since the existence of PDF preflight, it was always available in all products based on an object by object analysis. Tod...

What can you do with pdfToolbox's 'Decorate' feature?

06 Mar 2019
By Akash Choudhary

Do you know that the Switchboard actions under 'Decorate' let you place a range of different object types or even pages ...

Why DeviceLink profiles should interest you

20 Feb 2019
By David van Driessche

In version 10, pdfToolbox introduced support for a wide range of DeviceLink profiles. They can be used – for free – from...

Understanding Overprint

06 Feb 2019
By Dietrich von Seggern

When working with support cases, the ones that are related to Overprint in PDF are likely to surprise customers. It freq...

How accessible is the documentation these days?

23 Jan 2019
By Dietrich von Seggern

For people with physical disabilities, such as severely impaired vision, reading on a computer with technical aids is mu...

How does PDF 2.0 affect the printing industry?

09 Jan 2019
By Dietrich von Seggern

It's true that many developments in the printing industry have led to progressive automation of workflows, like increasi...

That's a wrap at the VIP Event!

21 Nov 2018
By Akash Choudhary

It was that time of the year again where we bring together our partners, customers and other stakeholders and meet in so...

Digital personnel records for eternity

07 Nov 2018
By Dietrich von Seggern

Numerous directives and laws state that employee records must be maintained for many years after an employee leaves the ...

How PDF changed prepress production dramatically in the last 25 years

24 Oct 2018
By Stephan Jaeggi

25 years ago the first version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) was published. This anniversary is a good opportuni...

Watch this video

10 Oct 2018
By David van Driessche

How can you learn the most about our software? Well, the obvious answer would be the online documentation of course, but...

The future of documents

19 Sep 2018
By Dietrich von Seggern

At the DocEng conference, I met a lot of academics and professionals discussing interesting requirements and solutions r...

A tour of the PDF standards

05 Sep 2018
By Akash Choudhary

Everybody whose occupation is related to a business process that relies on a subset standard will know it: somebody work...

Archive e-mails system-independently with PDF/A

16 Aug 2018
By Akash Choudhary

E-mails are increasingly replacing paper mail and are therefore an integral part of processes. So, it might be interesti...

Entirely barrier-free: PDF/UA in the Banking Industry

01 Aug 2018
By Olaf Drümmer

The goal of banks should be that all information is also accessible by people who use special tools, such as screen read...

Does PDF 2.0 have any effect on PDF/A?

18 Jul 2018
By Dietrich von Seggern

PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) has been available as a new standard since August 2017 - the result of almost ten years of work by...

Complex projects become compact files - Mapping document structures with PDF/A-3

04 Jul 2018
By Akash Choudhary

PDF/A-3 is a powerful tool for mapping projects and document structures, and also for converting work documents into arc...

Is it possible to apply the same individualization techniques in both the digital and the print sector?

20 Jun 2018
By Dietrich von Seggern

The print sector in the form of printed catalogues, price lists or postal mailing campaigns, continues to be an importan...

Can a PDF easily comply to PDF/A, PDF/X and PDF/UA?

06 Jun 2018
By Dietrich von Seggern

One of the questions that have been discussed at the recent PDF Days was whether a PDF can comply to more than just one ...

Save the data

16 May 2018
By Dietrich von Seggern

In my opinion, the ability to attach files to PDF ranks very high in the (long) list of PDF features that have a lot of ...

Why do we share our 'Secrets from the support vaults'?

02 May 2018
By Akash Choudhary

Nothing is better than facetime with customers when explaining something that might be complex and needs a simple push t...

Welcome to our blog!

19 Apr 2018
By Dietrich von Seggern

Here we are! Our target audience is everybody using PDF in a professional way, i.e. in processes where it is an essentia...

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