pdfaPilot 4.3.186
Release date: 2013-05-28
- Update of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 4 Desktop license
Features
- New Fixups
- Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images
- PDF/A Conversion
- New Fixup “Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images” added to standard conversion for PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3
- Export to EPUB
- Added new optional parameter for creation of chapters
Fixes
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved, where inconsistent spot color representations were not corrected
- Profiles
- Harmonized handling and recognition of values defined as RegEx
- Fixups
- Remove Layers: Problem solved, where Layers were only removed from first page of the PDF
- Checks
- Problem solved, where check for font sizes reported negative values
- Actions
- Problem solved, where empty image data caused in inproper behaviour during conversion [FP21906]
- Desktop/PlugIn
- Problem solved, where user preferences were assigned with insufficient access rights in some cases (MacOS only)
- Switchboard: Problem solved, where Batch processing only handled 1 file (MacOS only)
- Server/CLI
- Problem solved, where processing of Profiles containing DeviceLink-Profiles were not properly supported
- 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
- Reports
- Added destination information for hyperlinks in annotations into XML Reports
- Added information of UserUnits (if existing) into CompactHTML Reports and Result dialog
pdfaPilot 4.3.184
Release date: 2013-04-12
- Update of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 4 Desktop license
Features
- Profiles
- New profile for optimized conversion of Office documents to CMYK (based on recommendations of FOGRA/PSD)
- Fixups
- New Fixup to create embedded thumbnails of pages
- New Fixup: Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images
- Folder used in fixups for config files can now directly opened
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved, where invalid widths entries for a font were not properly detected [CA1021220]
- PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved, where text encoding malformed after PDF/A conversion
- Problem solved, where a false coded inline image caused an improper result [CA1021751]
- Problem solved, where conversion of certain tagged and scanned PDF failed [FP21699]
- Profiles
- “List potential font problems”: Check “Text cannot be mapped to Unicode” added
- Fixups
- Remove empty group and block level elements from tagging structure: Problem solved where table cells were not properly handled
- Actions
- Office conversion: Problem solved, where table of content was not properly converted (OpenOffice only) [FP21213]
- Server
- Distributed processing: Ports for server communication changed
- CLI
- Problem solved, where UTF16 encoding was not properly respected (SunOS only) [FP21451]
- Changed reporting of standard-fixups (Convert to PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/E): If conversion is not successful, it will show up as FixFailure
- Sanity: Improved performance and stability for office files [FP17838]
pdfaPilot 4.1.176
Release date: 2013-01-10
- Update of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 4 Desktop license
Features
- Acrobat Plug In
- Support for Acrobat 11
- Server
- Use of accesskey is now mandatory
- General server settings added to preferences
- Profiles can be edited directly from job settings dialogue
- General
- MacOS: Installers are delievered in DMG format
- Windows: callas software is a verified publisher
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Problem solved, where a missing nbspace in CharSet was falsely flagged as a PDF/A-1 problem [CA1021591]
- PDF/A conversion
- Force conversion: Problem solved, where Re-Convert resulted in failure when performed in profile [FP21148]
- Problem solved, where a wrong PDF/A-OutputIntent was embedded if a PDF/X-OutputIntent was already present [FP19661]
- Fixed issue, where signature appearance was flipped after flattening [CA1021632]
- Problem solved, where preflight certificate prevented a PDF from being converted to PDF/A [CA1021696]
- Actions
- MergePDF: Tagging structure of source PDF will now be kept [FP19942]
- General
- Problem solved, where invalid keycodes where not properly reported on Unix platforms [FP21244]
- Office conversion: Improved handling for several warnings for MS Office 2010 [CA1021744]
pdfaPilot 4.0.172
Release date: 2012-10-30
- Upgrade of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of an SMA contract
Features
- Process Plans
- Allows you to combine Profiles, Checks, Fixups and Actions into a defined sequence with variable execution of steps depending on previous results
- Variables
- Consolidation of used variables within a Profile or ProcessPlan
- Server
- Completely new Server User Interface
- Processing can be distributed to other servers
- Setting up hotfolder jobs from any pdfToolbox standalone on a remote server
- Load balancing using pdfaPilot Server as a “Dispatcher” within an arbitrary number of “Satellites” in a network
- pdfaPilot Desktop
- Folder-based creation of collections for PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 by dropping folders on the canvas
- Embedd files: Ability to embedd source file into resulting PDF (for PDF/A-3)
- Replace fonts: Added support for fonts using build-in encoding and differences array
- Search field in all lists of Profiles, Fixups and Checks
- Ability to create, duplicate or edit profiles, checks and fixups via direct links in processplans, profiles or fixups
- Export to HTML from tagged PDF
- Export to EPUB from tagged PDF
- New and enhanced Profiles
- General:
- Regular Expressions - all Fixups and Checks allowing RegEx have a new help feature
- Added new “Convert references to notdef into valid references” as custom fixup:
- All “Convert to PDF/A-…”-Profiles
- All “Convert to PDF/X-…”-Profiles
- Convert to PDF/A1-b (without fallback conversion)
- Convert to PDF/A2-b (without fallback conversion)
- Convert to PDF/A3-b (without fallback conversion)
- Fix problems in PDF tagging structure
- Check for PDF/A-1b compliance and convert if not compliant (process plan)
- General:
- New and enhanced Fixups
- Several fixups to solve problems in PDF tagging structure
- Convert references to .notdef glyphs into valid references
- Remove Layer
- Spot colors using non-valid UTF-8 names will be converted to RGB [CA1021519]
- New and enhanced Checks
- Find negative font size
- Find multiple Unicode mappings
- Several checks to find problems in PDF tagging structure
- Reports
- Added timezone into XML-Reports
- Added UserUnits (Scalingfactor) into XML-Reports if used
- General
- Improved handling of multiple usage of fonts
- Improved handling of existing bookmarks
- Ability to use wildcards for font substitution [CA1014912]
- New version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated (v9.1.0PlusP4s)
- Support for AIX 6.1
Fixes
- PDF/A analysis
- Improved handling of memory when analyzing files
- Improved handling for content streams to avoid unneccessary changes in document in certain cases
- Problem solved where font error was not properly detected
- PDF/A conversion
- Improved handling of encrpyted or invalid PDF during processing [CA1021373]
- Problem solved where PDF file could not be analyzed [CA1021217]
- Problem solved where missing OutputIntent resulted gray output [CA1021459]
- Problem solved where PDF with attachment was converted into an image [CA1021506]
- Problem solved where links did not properly work after conversion [CA1021449]
- Problem solved where Launch action was not properly converted [CA1021268]
- Font corrections
- Improved font-encoding for embedding Type1 fonts as a Base14 Font
- Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType fonts: Improved usage and better handling of special combinations
- Improved FontSubstition to avoid missing glyphs after PDF/A-2b conversion [CA1021127, CA1021269]
- Problem solved where embedding fonts was not properly handled [CA1021220]
- Form fields
- Impoved state handling for form fields [CA1021275]
- Profiles
- Fallback conversion settings in standard profiles for PDF/A-1a, -2a and 3a disabled
- Reports
- Problem solved where fixup was inproperly listed in XML report [CA1021584]
- Improved handling of custom checks in HTML reports
- CLI
- New parameter to avoid conversion to PDF and to handle any kind of input file as PDF [CA1021112]