pdfToolbox 6.3.225
Release date: 2013-05-17
- Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license
Features
- New properties
- Effective ink coverage for registration color per plate [FP21919]
Fixes
- Profiles
- Harmonized handling and recognition of values defined as RegEx [FP21956]
- PDF/X-Wizard: Problem solved, where omitting ICC profiles did not worked properly [FP21820]
- Fixups
- Remove Layers: Problem solved, where Layers were only removed from first page of the PDF [FP22091]
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where additional empty pages where added on certain PDFs when optimization was used [FP22019]
- Checks
- Improved analysis for Registration color, which has been clipped away [FP21919]
- Problem solved, where check for font sizes reported negative values [FP21434; FP21907]
- Effective ink coverage for separated plates: Problem solved, where given measurement units were not properly respected [CA1022006]
- 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 10.7 only) [FP22041]
- Server/CLI
- Improved handling of licenses if more than 1 license (with different limitations) are on the respective system [CA1021784]
- Distributed processing: Problem solved, where processing of folders were not properly handled [FP21868]
- Reports
- Added destination information for hyperlinks in annotations into XML Reports [CA1022007]
- Added information of UserUnits (if existing) into CompactHTML Reports and Result dialog
pdfToolbox 6.3.223
Release date: 2013-04-03
- Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license
Features
- Switchboard
- Create Bleed: New function for creating bleed by mirroring of content added
- Sharpen images: New function to increase contrast of images
- 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
- Actions
- SplitInHalf: New parameter to make content outside of TrimBox invisble [CA1021627; FP21490; FP21736]
- Switch
- Added support for reports created by ProcessPlans [FP20924]
- Added support for creation of bleed to Booklet, Step&Repeat, Fillpage, Nup [FP21258]
- Reports
- Extended Visualizer-reports to create separations in respective color (CLI only)
Fixes
- Desktop
- Explore Layers: Problem solved, where new default view was not properly saved [FP20126; FP20954; FP20354]
- Improved provision for OutputIntents when displaying PDFs [CA1017453; CA1017807]
- Problem solved, where general graphic state property could not be selected from list [FP21693]
- Improved recognition of already existing Fixups when importing profiles [CA1017022]
- Problem solved, where usage of variables resulted in error for certain profiles
- Profiles
- “List potential font problems”: Check “Text cannot be mapped to Unicode” added
- “GWG 2012”-Profiles: Check “Alternate color space does not use DeviceCMYK” replaced with “Alternate color space does not use DeviceCMYK or DeviceGray”
- “GWG 2012”-Profiles: Adjusted destination profiles for “Convert alternate of spot colors…”-fixups depending on printing target
- PDF/X-4p: Problem solved, where OutputIntent was embedded although not needed
- Fixups
- Map spot and process colors: Problem solved, where import of spot colors via PDF does not work as expected [CA1021672]
- Rotate pages: Problem solved, where some content was inadvertedly affected [FP21073]
- Crop pages to bounding box: Problem solved, where the Fixup did not work as expected in some cases [FP21426]
- Flatten Transparency: Problem solved, where text using Type 3 font was changed [FP16953]
- Remove objects outside bleedbox: Problem solved, where vector shape were changed [FP20877; FP20947; FP21208]
- Remove ICC source profiles if identical to OutputIntent profile: Problem solved, where profiles were not removed [FP7385; FP21171]
- Knockout white vector and/or text objects: Problem solved where execution of fixup was not properly reported [CA1021912]
- Set page scaling factor: Decimal values are now allowed [FP21365]
- Unsharp masking of images: Problem solved for images using indexed colorspace [CA1021845]
- Problem solved, where a false coded inline image caused an improper result [CA1021751]
- Process Plans
- Problem soved, where JobOptions were not respected [FP21573]
- “Certify” is now also available for ProcessPlans
- Minor adjustments in availability and handling of reports
- Actions
- Create PS: Problem solved, where creation failed in some cases [FP16693]
- SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where resolution was not respected when colorspace CMYK used [FP21556; FP21750]
- Create EPS / PS: Problem in conjunction with some legacy systems solved [FP21814]
- Office conversion: Problem solved, where table of content was not properly converted (OpenOffice only) [FP21213]
- Impose: Added support for empty strings used in variables
- Booklet: Problem solved, where given –voffset and –pageheight were not properly respected [CA1021883]
- SaveAsImage: Added support for exporting pages into uncompressed multichannel TIFFs [CA1021761]
- Server
- Improved recognition of changes in profiles in “Edit Job”-dialogue
- Enhanced handling of PDFs when additional parameter –certify is used
- Distributed processing: Problem solved, where XSLT-files for reports were not forwarded to satellite
- Problem solved, where process plans containing a single impose action with sheetconfig.pdf resulted in unexpected result
- CLI
- Improved handling of temporary working directories to avoid problems with simultaneous processes
- Problem solved, where listing of variables did not work with process plans [CA1021914]
- SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where created dimension differed from requested one [FP21318]
- SaveAsImg: Added new parameter for smoothing to avoid favoring of thin lines [FP21815]
- Reports will automatically be moved to the folder defined in -f/–outputfolder, if not otherwise defined in –report
- Problem solved with assertion during saveasimg in special cases (Linux only) [FP21446]
- Changed reporting of standard-fixups (Convert to PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/E): If conversion is not successful, it will show up as FixFailure
- Problem solved, where UTF16 encoding was not properly respected (SunOS only) [FP21451]
- ConvertColors: Improved reporting when conversion was not successful
- Reports
- Improved reporting of MD5-Hash-values for ICC Profiles used by objects or Output Intents
- Improved reporting of spot color names as trigger values [FP21005]
- Problem solved, where Layer report had unnecessary layer entry [CA1021902]
- Added optional parameter to list ink coverage in % and sqcm in XML reports (CLI only)
- Acrobat Plug In
- Summary report: Problems solved, where purpose text was not wrapped [CA1020742]
- Problem solved, where processing failed on certain PDFs [CA1021943; FP21536]
- Sanity: Improved performance and stability for office files [FP17838]
pdfToolbox 6.2.212
Release date: 2013-01-10
- Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license
Features
- Fixups
- New Fixup: Add white background [FP20580]
- Server
- Use of accesskey is now mandatory
- General server settings added to preferences
- Profiles can be edited directly from job settings dialogue
- CLI
- Splithalf: Add new function to make content outside of defined slot invisble [CA1021627]
- Enabled usage of Symlinks for MacOS and Unix-platforms [CA1013140]
- General
- MacOS: Installers are delievered in DMG format
- Windows: callas software is a verified publisher
- Reports
- Ink coverage in percent and area can now be listed for all pages in XML-reports
Fixes
- Profiles
- Problem solved, where wrong error code was given after successful processing [FP20344]
- Convert to PDF/X-1a: Fixed issue, where conversion resulted in missing objects
- When a “Conversion to standard” is ordered, the respective check in “Standard compliance” will be activated automatically
- Checks
- Problem solved, where overprint not detected for SmoothShades [FP20907]
- Process Plans
- Enabled handling of reports from ProcessPlans in Switch [FP20924]
- Fixups
- Problem solved, where registry entry of OutputIntent was not properly embedded in some cases [FP19927]
- DeviceLink: Problem solved, where conversion resulted in unexpected result [CA1021777]
- DeviceLink: Problem solved, where conversion results in error in shading dictionary [FP21150]
- Actions
- ReDistill: Fixed issue, where processing resulted in unexpected result [FP7305]
- Acrobat Plug In
- Problem solved, where fixup “Generate bleed” did not work as expected [FP21054]
- Server
- Problem solved, where different types of licenses on a system resulted in limited functionality [CA1021784]
- Problem solved, where Office conversion did not work after update [FP20922]
- CLI
- Problem solved, where usage of additional parameter –uncompressimg had improper results [CA1021717]
- Problem solved, where use of additional parameter –uncompressimg reported 4c for a black and white image [FP21005]
- SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where simulating overprint did not work as expected [FP20989]
- Problem solved, where wrong reason code for encrypted PDFs was given [CA1021581]
pdfToolbox 6.2.208
Release date: 2012-11-21
- Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license
Features
- New fixups
- Generate bleed by adding images of content at edges and corners
- Predefined: Decalibrate ICCbased CMYK by converting them to DeviceCMYK
- Actions
- Fillpage adds empty slots to generate cutmarks on all edges
- Desktop
- Improved dialogue for dynamic variables during runtime
- Checks and Fixups containing variables are now marked in the edit dialogue for profiles
- Arrange: Fillpage adds empty slots to generate cutmarks on all edges
- Acrobat Plug In
- Support for Acrobat 11
- Server
- Added reports to all severities in ServerUI
- CLI
- EnumerateLayers: Language can now be defined by –language
- SplitPDF: Optimized handling to increase performance of processing [CA1021368; CA1021543]
- Step and Repeat, Fillpage, N-Up and Booklet: Bleed creation without cutmarks
- Reports
- Resolution of images in PDF reports can be defined by additional CLI parameter
- PDF reports get suffix “_report” if no explicit output filename is specified
- Results from optional “When it does not fire, report as…” are now also listed in XML-Reports [FP20836]
Fixes
- Fixups
- Increase line width: Problem solved where processing resulted in improper changes of filled vector objects [FP20660; FP20443]
- Convert to PDF/X-4: Fixed issue where PDF could not be converted due to failure in XMP metadata correction [CA 1020132]
- Convert to PDF/X-4p: Fixed issue where PDF version was changed to 1.3 [FP20582]
- Downsample/Recompress: Problem solved where Color Key Masking resulted in improper converted image [FP20136]
- Downsample/Recompress: Problem solved where inline images where not properly handled [FP20230]
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where objects were not properly converted [CA1021622]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where some objects in DeviceN were not processed correctly [CA1021543]
- Convert colors: Fixed issue where conversion to grayscale resulted in visual differences
- Checks
- Plates per page: Problem solved where registration color resulted in an increased number [CA1021666]
- Line width: Problem solved where check reported problems although they were already fixed within the same profile [CA1020413]
- Actions
- Save as image: Problem solved where combination of –rect and –resolution resulted in unexpected results [FP19001]
- Save as image: Changed default rendering intent to “Relative Colorimetric” [FP20283]
- Save as image: Problem solved where colors differ between normal PNG and transparent PNG [FP20684]
- Desktop
- Added support for quotes in labels and default values of variables
- Switchboard: Problem solved where converting to PDF/X-4 resulted in invalid XMP Metadata [FP20371]
- Server
- Fewer empty lines in CLI-logfiles (Problem was on Windows only)
- Problem solved where processing took much longer in Server than using the CLI [FP20853; FP20596]
- Problem solved where processing seems to freeze [FP19824]
- Reports
- Fixed issue where a corrupt PostScript function in PDF resulted in missing report after processing [CA1021562]
- PDF Mask reports: Problem solved where Layers where listed twice [CA1021564]
- Improved reporting of used plates [CA1021460]
- Impose
- Problem solved where PDF file becomes much larger after impositioning [CA1021652]
pdfToolbox 6.1.198
Release date: 2012-09-24
- Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license
Fixes
- Reports
- Problem solved where plates were not properly determined. [CA1021460]
pdfToolbox 6.1.197
Release date: 2012-09-13
- Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license
Features
- New profiles
- Prepress: Added 7 profiles for validation and conversion accordingly to the “Ghent Workgroup PDF Specification 2012 CMYK”
- Analyze pages for effectively used plates (based on rendered pages)
- New properties
- Effective ink coverage for separated plates (based on rendered pages)
- Checks
- Effective ink coverage: Enhanced for average inside sample size [FP20121]
- Desktop
- Search field in all lists of Profiles, Fixups and Checks
- Ability to create, duplicate or edit profiles, checks and fixups via direct links in process plans, profiles or fixups
- New Switchboard function in group colors: “Map a process color into a spot color”
- Server
- New option to delete originals after processing
- CLI
- Compare: Added function to create only those pages in reports that have differences
- Split PDF: Extended parameters to define an end page [CA1020779]
- Visualizer: Added function to render individual separations
- Visualizer: Added function to create only those pages that have problems
Fixes
- Fixups
- Increase line width: Problem solved where line width was not changed in some cases [CA1020817]
- Convert colors: Enhanced handling of different encodings in policy [FP16716]
- Map spot and process colors: Problem solved where conversion from DeviceN black into CMYK resulted in 4c black [FP16715]
- Scale pages: Problem solved where combination with certain fixups in one profile resulted in an error [FP18312], [FP18352]
- Checks
- Effective ink coverage: Problem solved where improper results were determined [CA1021152]
- Actions
- Redistill: Problem solved where some vector objects changed their appearance [FP16868]
- Redistill: Problem solved where image was not properly handled [FP16942]
- Redistill: Problem solved where smooth shades resulted in improper result [FP17215]
- Passe partout: Problem solved where objects with certain blend mode vanished [FP18829]
- Passe partout: Problem solved where boxes were improperly handled [CA1016305]
- Reports
- Improved layout of filenames in compare reports [FP16489], [CA1020687]
- Fixed issue where plates used in document were not properly reported in XML report [CA1021516], [CA1021501]
- Problem solved where reports for images and colors were created malformed [FP20176]
- Problem solved where fixups are missing in the summary page of the PDF-Layer report [CA1021259]
- Impose
- Problem solved where defined color value of cropmark were not respected [FP17079]
- CLI
- Support for empty variables [FP18708]
- Problem solved where conversion of large TIFF into PDF were not handled properly [FP18141]
- Server
- Problem solved where text reports were not moved into correct output destination [FP19873]
- Acrobat Plug In
- Problem solved where removal of document structure compression failed [FP18305]
- Problem solved where ICC profiles were not searched in system folder
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated (v9.1.0PlusP4s)
pdfToolbox 6.0.185
Release date: 2012-07-09
- Upgrade to pdfToolbox 6 Desktop requires upgrade fee for owners of a pdfToolbox 4 or 5 Desktop license
- Upgrade to pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox 5 Desktop
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 Process Plan
- 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 pdfToolbox Server as a “Dispatcher” within an arbitrary number of “Satellites” in a network
- 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
- All Profiles based on the recommendations of the Ghent PDF Workgroup
- General:
- New and enhanced Fixups
- Map spot and process colors: New mapping of process colorants into spot color colorants
- Convert colors: New setting to include SoftMasks [CA1021345; FP18507]
- Convert references to .notdef glyphs into valid references
- Remove Layer
- New and enhanced Checks
- Find negative font size
- Find multiple Unicode mappings
- New and enhanced Actions
- Create EPS: Added support for “Clean 7 bit EPS” [FP7178]
- Reports
- Overview pages of reports containing links to page with occurance [CA102340]
- Added timezone into XML-Reports [CA1021271]
- Added UserUnits (Scalingfactor) into XML-Reports if used [CA1021213]
- CLI
- Action “Save as image”: Support for pagebox “MediaBox” added
- Action “Save as image”: Support for transparent PNG-files added
- Report: “Overview” can be created separately
- General
- Improved handling of multiple usage of fonts [FP16967]
- Improved handling of existing bookmarks [CA1016503]
- Desktop
- Replace fonts: Added support for fonts using build-in encoding and differences array [CA1019457]
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert colors: Problem solved where some kind of DeviceN objects became invisible [CA1021165]
- Convert colors: Improved handling of special combinations of transparency modes [FP17849]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where objects may disappear in special constellation [FP17172]
- Convert colors: Improved results when previous processing steps altered the PDF file [FP18560]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where some CalRGB objects where not properly handled [CA1020468]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where results were improperly handled in special fixup combinations [CA1021320]
- Convert colors: Improved handling of PDFs using incomplete Form XObjects [CA1021336]
- Convert colors using DeviceLink: Problem solved where special filter settings for Process and DeviceN were not respected [CA1014206]
- Convert colors using DeviceLink: Problem solved where processing may result in improper result [FP17652]
- Convert registration color to black: Problem solved where not all occurances where converted with a single run [FP17427]
- Crop to visible: Improved recognition of objects [CA1018617]
- Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Improved recognition of CropMarks [FP16985; CA1021385]
- Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Improved handling of existing CropBox [FP7009]
- Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Problem solved where fixup failed on certain PDFs [FP18290; FP18313]
- Downsample/recompress images: Problem solved where image masks were not downsampled in some cases [CA1020747]
- Downsample/recompress images: Problem solved where processing special PDF files causes an error [CA1019830]
- Downsample/recompress bitmaps: Problem solved where image became inverted [FP17301]
- Fix potential font problems: Problem solved where glyphs were missing in certain PDFs [CA1020735]
- Embed missing fonts: Improved font-encoding for embedding Type1 fonts as a Base14 Font [CA1021049]
- Flatten transparency: Improved handling of multiply used SmoothShase patterns [FP16668; FP17790]
- Map spot and process colors: Problem solved in handling of DeviceN channels with value “None” [FP19417]
- Map spot and process colors: Problem solved where processing with special settings resulted in an error [FP18417]
- Map spot and process colors: Improved handling of setting “Use source color” [FP18287]
- Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType fonts: Improved usage and better handling of special combinations [CA1021293]
- Remove objects out of trimbox: Improved recognition of painting parts of objects [FP17987]
- Checks
- Page orientation with tolerance: Problem solved where setting was not properly respected [FP7344]
- Problem solved where ink coverage was not correctly determined in special cases [CA1020818]
- Improved handling of memory when analyzing files [CA1021226]
- Improved handling for content streams to avoid unneccessary changes in document in certain cases [FP19103]
- Problem solved where font error was not properly detected [CA1014901]
- Actions
- Enumerate Layers: Problem solved where spot colors were not handled correctly [CA1021173]
- To PDF: Added handling of TIFF-images using sample value = 5 per pixel [CA1021037]
- To PDF: Problem solved where wrong font was used when converting some EPS to PDF on Macintosh [FP17854]
- To PDF: Problem solved where PostScript to PDF conversion with certain joboptions caused move of glyphs [FP17534]
- Changed internal package version for profiles to 12
- Discontinued installation of configurators for Enfocus Switch (Distribution will continue via CrossRoads & Enfocus PackManager)