pdfaPilot 2.4.140
Release date: 2011-05-25
- Update of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 2 Desktop license
- Update of pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2
Features
- Visual comparison of PDF documents
- Preflight Certificate for safer document delivery
- Re-distilling of PDF documents in CLI
- Font and document structure optimization
- Support of PDF based ISO Standards:
- PDF/VT
- File format conversions extended:
- Conversion to PDF from
- Images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- PostScript
- MS Office 2011 Mac
- iWork 09 Pages
- Conversion from PDF to
- PostScript
- Conversion to PDF from
- Improvements to the Desktop version
- Output Preview
- Smoothing parameter added to action Image export
- Optimized activation process
- Switchboard-Actions:
- PostScript to PDF
- Image to PDF
- PostScript export
- Content export
- Extended fixups
- Flatten transparency extended to resave images as ZIP when choosing Optimization setting Best quality
- Convert fonts to outlines extended to process fonts that are not embedded
- New properties
- Detect visual differences
- Layer metadata
- Several new properties for PDF/VT
- Several new predefined Profiles, Checks and Fixup (can be filtered with “v2.4” 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
- Performance improvement in CLI when processing kfpx profiles 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
- 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
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved where missing CharSet was reported although it was present
- Problem solved where analysis of a PDF file ended with error message
- Problem solved where ToUnicode CMap was not properly analyzed
- PDF/A conversion
- Font corrections
- Problem solved where glyphs were not handled properly when differences array from TrueType fonts were removed
- Problem solved where error message occurred when glyph width of Type 3 font was fixed
- Problem solved where ToUnicode CMap was not properly adjusted
- Problem solved where Symbol font was not embedded properly
- Transparency flattening
- Problem solved where error message occurred after flattening transparency of CMYK object that was tagged with an ICC source profile during processing
- Problem solved where force blend color space was not set before transparency flattening
- Problem solved where correction of transparency groups was not listed in the report if no other transparent page objects were flattened
- Form fields
- Problem solved where form fields were modified when adjusting them for PDF/A
- Problem solved where PDF file without suffix PDF was not processed
- Problem solved where file size increased because page objects were not ZIP compressed in the converted PDF file
- Problem solved where converted PDF document could not be displayed properly in Acrobat 9
- Font corrections
- Desktop
- Problem solved where Output Intent was exported into kfpx profile although not necessary
- pdfaPilot Server application
- Problem solved where error message occurred when two CLI instances performed font substitution at the same time
pdfaPilot 2.3.130
Release date: 2010-12-15
- Update of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 2 Desktop license
Features
- Support for PDF/A-2 ISO standard
- Embed files in PDF files
- Support for Office documents extended
- Added support for Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit) to Windows version
- Added support for OpenOffice.org to Mac version
- Option added to save office documents as PDF without converting to PDF/A
- Performance improved
- Memory handling improved
- 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
- pdfaPilot 2 Desktop improved
- Support of Acrobat X Pro
- Batch processing of Switchboard actions added including Profiles, Checks and Fixups within the Workspace
- PDF/A in one click: Technical view for detailed problem analysis when conversion fails
- New action: Office to PDF/A: Create PDF/A documents directly from office files
- Organize pages: Easily move pages in PDF documents
- Visualizer: Visualizes print-relevant characteristics of PDF documents
- Sidebar added for embedded files and bookmarks
- Control via keyboard extended, e.g. for scrolling pages
- Revert option to undo changes and get back to original file
- Open recent option added
- New Checks added
- Several checks added for all aspects of PDF/A-2
- Page description errors of PDF files are reported with detailed error messages
- New Fixups added
- Adjust colors for PDF-based ISO standards
- Make document XMP Metadata compliant with PDF/A-2
- Remove all xmpMM:Manifest metadata entries
- Recompress JPEG 2000 images as JPEG
- Remove unnecessary transparency groups
- Remove CharSet if incomplete
- Remove CIDset if incomplete
- Extended fixups
- Adjust OCCDs for PDF-based ISO standards
- Remove XMP Metadata if not compliant with PDF/A
- Convert TrueType to CID
- Map spot and process colors
- Embed missing fonts
- Rotate pages extended to apply page rotation factors
- Initial view extended to support magnification 100%
- Transparency flattening also available on Mac, Linux and Solaris Sparc
- Support for page scaling factors (user units) to handle sheet sizes larger than 200 by 200 inches
- XML report extended to list annotations
- Installation software for Windows improved to better support user rights and have smaller installation packages
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved where missing glyph was incorrectly reported
- Problem solved where analysis of a specific PDF file lead to error message
- Problem solved where hit “CIDSet in subset font is incomplete” was mistakenly displayed
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where font was not embedded although possible
- Problem solved where layers could not be flattened
- Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed properly
- Problem solved where PDF document could not be converted because not enough memory was available
- Problem solved where conversion ended with error message
- Fixups
- Embed missing fonts: Problem solved were embedding failed when font should be embedded completely
- Set XMP Metadata fields: Problem solved where XMP entry was not set
- Office conversion
- Problem solved where Excel document was not properly processed on chinese operating system
- Desktop
- Problem solved where detailed results were not displayed when results dialog was opened via Report button of an action
- Problem solved where menu entries were not grayed out at the time when they are not functional
- Problem solved under Windows 7 where converted PDF was not displayed properly
- Reports
- Problem solved in XML report where time zone was not evaluated
- Problem solved where callas icon was placed in PDF files when creating layer report
pdfaPilot 2.2.121
Release date: 2010-08-31
- Update of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 2 Desktop license
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved where hit “CIDSet in subset font is incomplete” was mistakenly displayed
pdfaPilot 2.2.118
Release date: 2010-06-02
- Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot licence.
Features
- Improved font embedding
- Settings for font substitution improved to embed even more fonts (updater need to remove fontsubstitution.cfg in user prefs in advance)
- Font substitution activated when converting via
- Switchboard action PDF/A-1
- Power tools profiles “Convert to PDF/A-1a” and “Convert to PDF/A-1b”
- Switchboard action Embed font
Fixes
- Office document conversion to PDF/A
- Problem solved under Windows where office document could not be processed because Word instance was not able to close the document processed before
pdfaPilot 2.2.116
Release date: 2010-05-04
- Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot licence
Features
- Conversion of OpenOffice.org documents to PDF/A
- Documents of all file formats supported by OpenOffice.org 3.2 can directly be converted to PDF/A-1a or PDF/A-1b
- Supports latest version of OpenOffice.org 3.2 besides Microsoft Office 2007
- Supported under Windows in pdfaPilot Desktop 2, pdfaPilot Server 2 and pdfaPilot SDK 2 and under Linux in pdfaPilot CLI 2 and pdfaPilot SDK 2
- Keep visual and semantic reproducibility by converting to PDF/A-1a
- Common issues of PDF/A files created from Office applications are repaired
- Office documents that can not be exported from MS Office can be processed via OpenOffice.org
- Performance improved when converting MS Word documents to PDF/A
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
- Removal of incompatible XMP Metadata is now activated by default to convert even more PDF files to PDF/A
- Font substitution improved: Pre-installed setting extended to support more font styles
- New correction: Map structure to predefined types improves mapping of structure for PDF/A-1a compliance
- pdfaPilot Desktop:
- One click conversion can be customized via Preferences
- PDF/A compliance level
- Custom font folder
- Font substitution
- Transparency flattening under Windows
- XMP Metadata removal
- Custom settings in Power Tools are taken over from prior pdfaPilot Desktop 2 version 2.1
- One click conversion can be customized via Preferences
Fixes
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where Launch action was not converted to PDF/A compliant GoToR action
- pdfaPilot Plug-In and Standalone
- Power tools
- Fixups
- Set PDF version: Problem solved where PDF version was not set
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved where glyphs and page objects where modified
- Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where creating of font cache took long time
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where glyphs were modified
- 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
- Flip/Rotate/Scale pages: Problem solved where pattern object was modified
- Set media box to origin: Problem solved where smooth shade object was clipped
- Set Overprint and Knockout: Problem solved where OPM was not set for DeviceCMYK page object
- Fixups
- Switchboard Actions
- PDF/A-1: Problem solved where page objects defined in DeviceGray where converted to Separation Black
- Flip, Move content, Rotate, Scale by percent, Scale page content, Scale to format: Problem solved where page object defined as Pattern was modified
- 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
- Power tools
- pdfaPilot Standalone
- Problem solved where view could not be changed to other document when more than one document and Power tools where open
- Some problems in user interface and loupe solved
- Activation
- Problem solved where automatic activation failed when sending activation information from certain E-Mail clients
- Problem solved where activation info was not displayed after activating
- 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 pdfaPilot was not activated when parameter cachefolder was used
pdfaPilot 2.1.112
Release date: 2010-02-12
- Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot licence
Fixes
- Plug-In and Standalone: Problem solved where result file was not opened after converting a PDF
pdfaPilot 2.1.111
Release date: 2010-02-04
- Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot licence
Features
- Conversion of Office documents to PDF/A
- Documents from Word, Excel, PowerPoint can directly be converted to PDF/A-1a or PDF/A-1b
- Keep visual and semantic reproducibility by converting to PDF/A-1a
- Common issues in fonts and XMP Metadata of PDF/A files created from Office applications are repaired
- Support Microsoft Office 2007
- Adapted to the modified requirements of Technical Corrigendum 2 for PDF/A-1
- Transparency flattening
- New in Windows Desktop, Server and SDK
- Based on Adobe PDF Library 9 and additionally highly improved file optimization like improved preservation of image quality
- Extension schemas can be captured from PDF files and embedded during PDF/A conversion
- Use of most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
- Corrections added or extended to convert more files to PDF/A
- New Correction “Remove additional encoding entries in CMap of symbolic TrueType fonts”
- New Correction “Set values to implementation limits of PDF/A if possible”
- Correction “Reduce structure to predefined types” improved
- Adjusts XMP entries attached to font object created by Microsoft Office
- Adjusts URI entries that do not start with an identifier created by Microsoft Office
- Performance improved in pdfaPilot Desktop when converting PDF files using Switchboard Actions, Profiles or Fixups dialog
- Loupe window in pdfaPilot Standalone
- Extension schema editor
- Schemas and properties for PDF/X and PDF/E added
- Filter added “Document Metadata (undefined)” that filters custom metadata which are not yet defined
- Improved software licensing
- Full support for Windows 7
- Full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Chinese language version: Activation for international and chinese version can be combined on one machine
- pdfaPilot Standalone: kfpx profiles can be imported via Drag&Drop on pdfaPilot application
- pdfaPilot Plug-In and Standalone: Reference manual can be accessed via menu entry
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problems solved with the following checks where problem was reported although there was no problem
- Mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table (adapted to Technical Corrigendum 2 for PDF/A-1)
- CharSet missing or incomplete for Type 1 font
- Font is not valid
- Errors in PDF syntax
- Problem solved where optional entry for pdfaSchema:schema was treated as mandatory
- Problem solved where analysis was stopped because CourierNew was not in list of Base14 fonts
- Problem solved when validating against PDF/A-1a where missing Unicode support of fonts was not detected
- Problem solved when malformed tagging information could not be analysed
- Problems solved with the following checks where problem was reported although there was no problem
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where font could not be embedded
- Problem solved where glyph widths could not be adjusted
- Problem solved where some JPEG2000 images could not be converted to JPEG
- Problem solved where PDF could not be converted to PDF/A due to a very low StemV entry
- Plug-In and Standalone
- Power tools
- Fixups
- Convert colors: Several problems solved
- Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where PDF could not be printed or EPS creation failed after processing
- Convert fonts to outlines: Several problems solved where fonts could not be converted to outlines
- Subset fonts: Several problems solved where fonts could not be subsetted
- 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
- Downsample/Compress images: Problem solved where appearance of JPEG 2000 image was 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
- Fixups
- Switchboard Actions
- Replace font: Problem solved where font could not be replaced
- Problem solved where PDF was not rendered when page boxes are malformed
- Problem solved where network user with home directory on an AFP server could not use Profiles dialog
- Problem solved when file was closed during conversion
- Several minor problems in Extension schema editor solved
- Some minor GUI problems solved
- Power tools
pdfaPilot 2.0.097
Release date: 2009-10-29
- Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot license
Features
- Extension schema for xmpMM:InstanceID is embedded during PDF/A conversion
- Usability improved: where possible the conversion of Actions in the desktop flavors is made on the open document and no Save as dialog is displayed
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved where transparent FormXObject was not found with respective check
- Problem solved where glyph mismatch was reported although there was no problem
- Problem solved where unexpected error occurred when analyzing a PDF file
- Problem solved where mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table was detected although there was no problem
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where OPI was not removed completely
- Problem solved where unexpected error occurred when converting a PDF file to PDF/A
- Switchboard Actions
- Booklet: Cut marks are also set for pages if they are added dynamically by pdfToolbox to fill the sheet
- Optimize for internet: Fonts are no longer converted to outlines
- Plug-In and Standalone
- Problem solved where processing was not applied to currently active document
- Problem solved where ICC profile could not be embedded as source profile when converting via PDF/A in one click dialog
- Plug-In
- Problem solved under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard where some predefined color conversion fixups using pre-installed ICC profiles could not be executed
pdfaPilot 2.0.095
Release date: 2009-07-23
- Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Desktop license
Features
- First release of Chinese language version of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop (separate installation package)
- New fixups in Standalone 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
Fixes
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved where glyph width could not be corrected
- Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
- Power tools
- Fixups
- Fix glyph width info: Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed
- Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
- 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
- Fixups
- Switchboard Actions
- PDF/A - Replace fonts: Problem solved where glyph width was not adapted when replacing font fully
- Pages - Scale by percent: Problem solved where execution of action did not have any effect
- Plug-In
- Problem solved where error message was displayed when opening Profiles dialog
- Standalone
- Problem solved where encrypted PDF files, annotations and form fields were not displayed
- Problem solved where black and white image was displayed with inverted color
- Problem solved where page number, Standards button or icon for modified file was not displayed reliably
- Problem solved where active document could not be changed when Profiles, Checks or Fixups dialog was open
pdfaPilot 2.0.093
Release date: 2009-07-03
- Update free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Desktop license
Features
- First release of pdfaPilot 2
- Including Standalone version for Mac and Windows as part of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop version
- First release of Plug-In version for Mac
- Extension schema editor added
- Lists most frequently used extension schemas
- Lists extension schemas of current PDF document
- Allows for creating custom extension schemas
- Allows for embedding extension schemas to keep custom metadata in PDF/A files
- Feature set of Plug-In greatly expanded, amongst others these are:
- Switchboard
- Action to convert a PDF to both PDF/A-1b & PDF/X-3
- Actions to create detailed PDF reports about fonts, images and colors
- Actions to optimize PDF files for size or printing
- Actions to adapt the brightness of a PDF file
- Actions to scale and rotate pages
- Actions to arrange pages for print out and presentation
- Actions to (re-)embed fonts or convert them to outline
- Actions to easily get in contact with callas software
- Profiles
- Very detailed possibilities to analyze and modify PDF files
- Correction to make text visible that was created during scanning by an OCR software
- Analysis profile to list potential font problems
- Tools to
- Explore PDF
- Explore Fonts
- Explore Metadata
- Switchboard
- Analysis extensions
- Date string uses Unicode added
- Check for invalid extension schemas improved
- Conversion extensions
- Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts added
- Reduce structure to predefined types added
- Insert missing Type entry in StructElem objects added
- Prepare encoding entry in TrueType fonts for PDF/A added
- Font embedding only performed if text rendering mode is not 3
- Corrects several syntax problems during conversion
Fixes
- Analysis
- XMP
- Problem solved where wrong value type for XMP property dc:creator was not detected
- Problem solved where invalid URI was not detected
- Problem solved where missing xpacket entries in XMP metadata was not detected
- Problem solved where form field with an appearance and an N entry that has two appearance streams was not detected
- Problem solved where syntax problem was not detected (indirect object has object number not preceded by an EOL marker)
- Problem solved where mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table was not detected
- XMP
- Conversion
- Problem solved where correction to remove metadata that is not compliant with PDF/A did not remove all metadata that was not compliant
- Problem solved where appearance of certain form fields could not be made PDF/A compliant
- Problem solved on Mac where pre-installed font Symbol could not be embedded during conversion
- Problem solved where TrueType fonts were embedded with an encoding entry as a dictionary
- Reports
- Problem solved in XML reports where details for problems were only listed for the first 30 hits