pdfToolbox 5.5.165
Release date: 2012-03-21
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Fixes
- Fixups
- Subset fonts: Problem solved where glyphs are malformed or wrong replaced in some cases [FP16954]
- Online publishing (optimize for size): Problem solved where processing results in error on some PDF [FP18155, FP18352]
- Downsample/recompress grayscale images: Problem solved where inline images cannot be recompressed to JPEG [FP18285]
- Downsample/recompress grayscale images: Problems solved, where used softmarks may result in error [FP18098]
- Rotate pages: Problems solved where form fields were not properly rotated [CA1020931]
- Embed Output Intent PSO Uncoated ISO12647 (ECI): Changed to ICC profile with correct hash-value [FP16951]
- Checks
- Max. amount of ink for image: Problem solved where values were rounded inproperly [FP6953]
- Actions
- Action: Save as image:
- Improved rendering for very large TIFF-images with better performance [CA1020593]
- Problem solved where Parameter “smoothing=all” was sometimes not respected [FP17144]
- Problem solved where resulting PDF were inverted [FP17293, FP18378]
- Problem solved where resulting CMYK-JPEGs became inverted
- Changed handling of simulationprofile in accordance with the chosen colorspace [CA1021196]
- Action: Visualizer:
- Problem solved where OutputIntent and Colorspace were not respected [CA1021149]
- Problem solved where thickness of lines was not properly detected [FP17999]
- Action: Save as image:
- Desktop
- Improved installation (Windows)
- Several minor improvements of OutputPreview, Visualizer and Visualizer reports
- Embedded OutputIntent can now always be selected in preview
- Problem solved where file could not be saved after processing [FP16747, FP18239, CA1021106, FP18324]
- Problem solved where processing ends with unknown error on some files [CA1019754]
pdfToolbox 5.4.160
Release date: 2012-02-21
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Fixes
- Fixups
- Downsample/compress monochrome images: Problem solved where CCITT 1-bit compression was not preserved on downsampling [CA1021130]
- Actions
- Action Create PostScript / Redistill: Problem solved where processing may shift page content in some cases [FP17164; FP18023]
- Action Merge PDF: Problem solved where documents could not be merged properly [CA1016580; CA1021103]
- Desktop
- Problem solved with certification after running a profile
- Problem solved in batch processing where files with special characters in name where not moved or copied (Mac only)
- ServerUI
- Quicker start of processing when a large amount of files are in the queue
- Problem solved where parallel processing of office files did not work properly
pdfToolbox 5.4.158
Release date: 2012-02-02
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Fixes
- Fixups
- Problem solved where objects shift after changing the content stream [CA1021052, CA1021055, CA1021083, FP17126]
- Actions
- Problem solved where ICC profile was not taken from the image when saving as PDF [CA1021073]
- Problem solved where split layers may create empty pages [FP17412, FP17786]
- Acrobat PlugIn
- Problem solved where transparency is not flattened with PlugIn in Acrobat 10.1.2 [CA1021069]
pdfToolbox 5.4.156
Release date: 2012-01-18
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Features
- Polish language support for Desktop version
- PDF/A-3 Support
- Force Conversion for conversion to PDF/A
- New and enhanced Profiles
- Convert to PDF/A-1a, -1b
- Convert to PDF/A-2a, -2b, -2u
- Convert to PDF/A-3a, -3b, -3u
- Verify compliance with PDF/A-3a, -3b, -3u
- Scale pages to A4 if not larger than A3
- New Fixups
- Repair invalid bookmark hierachies [CA1020567]
- Repair invalid ToUnicode-cMap information in fonts
- Convert pages into images
- Create invisible text copy for all text
- Set relationship entry for embedded files
- New Checks
- Several checks added for all aspects of PDF/A-3
Fixes
- Checks
- Distance to Trimbox now also finds object which are clipped by MediaBox [CA1021008]
- Fixups
- Downsample/Compress Color/Grayscale Images: SoftMaskImages will also be downsampled to reduce filesize [FP17392]
- Downsample/Compress Bitmaps: Problem solved where images may be inverted in special cases [FP17179]
- Increase line width: Problem solved where line width increased unexpected in some PDF [CA1019299]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where text may vanish after processing [FP17248; FP17258]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where not all spot colors were converted to CMYK in some cases [FP16446]
- Convert colors: Problem solved where RGB left in document after conversion to grayscale [CA1020837]
- Set MediaBox to origin: Improved handling of SmoothShade objects [CA1021035]
- Impose
- Improved handling of PDF-Version during impositioning using desktop version [FP16876]
- Reports
- Problem solved where color ressources were listed twice [CA1020718]
- Standards
- PDF/X-4 conversion: Invalid XMP Metadata on object level will be removed to ensure conversion [FP5935]
- Increased stabillity duing verification of PDF/VT-1 files
- Improvements for PDF/E conversion profiles [CA1020741]
- Desktop
- Problem solved where visualizer did not recognized image resolution properly [CA1021020]
- Improved Ink coverage view in visualizer [CA1021000]
- Office conversion: Problem solved where MS-Office macro-settings were not respected [FP7255]
- Added special Japanese imposition sceme [CA1020651]
- CLI
- Action “Merge PDF”: Problem solved where incorrect structure root in source PDF might cause an error [FP16526]
- Action “Merge PDF”: Improved handling of existing bookmarks from souce PDF [FP17606]
- Action “To PDF”: Problem solved where dimension of EPS file were not properly handled [CA1020621; FP17222]
- Action “Compare”: Problem solved where given pagerange were not respected [CA1020981]
- Action “Compare”: Problem solved where option “images” may cause modification of original file [CA1020978]
- Action “Compare”: Problem solved where files with differences are not marked properly in some cases [FP17353]
- Action “Implode”: Problem solved where ID of profile was not changed [CA1020920]
- Action “Save as image”: Improved handling of file-extensions when processing multiple files [CA1020873]
pdfToolbox 5.3.150
Release date: 2011-10-21
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Features
- New check to find ligatures [CA1020734]
- Japanese language support
- Rendering images based on page geometry boxes or custom boxes
- Extended fixups
- Scale pages with more options
- Split PDF: new tokens for file names [FP16756]
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated (v9.1.0PlusP4d)
- MacOS X Lion support
Fixes
- Checks
- Improvement with “Ignore objects outside” in a check that is used in fixup [FP6381]
- “Light object set to overprint” does only affect vector objects [FP6783]
- Fixups
- Downsample / Compress Color/Grayscale Images [FP7403, FP16455, FP16591, FP16693, FP7297]
- Flatten transparency [FP6824, FP7080, CA1020657]
- Fonts to outlines [FP7075]
- Subset fonts [FP16486]
- Scale pages
- Executed now after downsampling of images [FP6042]
- Problem solved where scaling down did not properly work [CA1020756]
- Convert colors
- Problem solved where not all spot colors were converted properly [CA1020424]
- Problem solved where office documents were not handled properly [FP16655]
- Problem solved where DeviceN colorants were not converted when using RegEx [CA1020716]
- Map spot and process colors [CA1020652, FP6591]
- Manage colors [FP16771]
- Force blend color space [FP6343]
- Set ICC profile for Output Intent [FP7381]
- Set overprint and knockout [FP6510]
- Overprint black
- Problem solved where white text disappeared [FP7245; FP16467]
- Flatten annotations and form fields
- Problem solved with flattening of checkboxes [FP6903]
- Discard hidden layer content and flatten invisible layers [FP7086]
- Reports
- XML: Problem solved where special characters were not handled properly [FP16654]
- XML: If fonts cannot be embedded fonts they are reported in the fixups details [CA1020827]
- Impose
- Problem solved where damaged PDF with unrecognized token may be created [CA1020739]
- Problem solved where an image as input and an additional pre-processing-profile results in no output [CA1020828]
- Problem solved where pre-processing-profiles containing only checks (are not supported here) resulted in an error [FP7372]
- Standards
- Problem solved where an inactive PDF-version setting did not avoid performing automatic checks [CA1020839]
- Problem solved where OpenType fonts are flagged within PDF 1.6 (Acrobat 7) [FP16742]
- Problem solved in PDF/X-4 validation [FP7239, FP6583]
- Problem solved where PDF/VT validation failed caused by multiple referenced XObjects [FP7125]
- Desktop
- Impose: Problem solved where imposing a booklet created missing/shifted page [FP16589]
- Office conversion: Problem solved where PowerPoint message interrupted processing [FP7254]
- CLI
- Action “Create PDF”: Problem solved where processing an TIFF ended with warning [CA1020828]
- Action “Create PDF”: Problem solved where TIFF-images did not keep their original resolution [CA1020816]
- Action “Save as image”: Output will also get a suffix number if source PDF contains only one page [CA1020830]
- Action “Save as image”: Problem solved where rendering intent was not respected
- Action “Save as image”: Problem solved where colorspace could not be combined with simulation profile
- Problem solved where plugins on Linux were not always found [CA1020484]
- Improvements for Linux x64 [FP7197, FP16548, FP7220]
- Improved handling of locked files [CA1020825]
- Files handling [FP7175; FP7263]
- Improved handling for invalid or encrypte PDF files [CA1017995, CA1019727, CA1020706]
- Problem solved when more than one image uses one softmask [CA1019329]
- Problem solved with handling of very small arrays within PDF [CA1020540, CA1020831]
pdfToolbox 5.0.137
Release date: 2011-07-14
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Features
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch
- Complete installation of Configurators for Enfocus Switch version 10
Fixes
- Fixups
- Set XMP Metadata field: Problem solved where InfoDictionary entry were modified incorrect [CA1020605]
- Insert CropBox: Problem solved where a rounding error may cause invalid nesting of boxes [CA1019606]
- Problem solved where an error occured in special cases when downsampling images [FP7187]
- Problem solved where increasing line width results in damage of content [FP7166]
- Acrobat Plug In
- Reports: Problem solved where generating a report of PDF/VT validation failed [FP7126]
pdfToolbox 5.0.135
Release date: 2011-06-30
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Fixes
- Checks
- Problem solved where some objects not handled correctly when determining distances
pdfToolbox 5.0.134
Release date: 2011-06-23
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Features
- New checks for analyzing objects close to TrimBox and BleedBox [CA1020520, FP6254]
- New properties
- Smallest distance from TrimBox
- Smallest distance from BleedBox
- New properties
- Corrections for pages improved
- New fixups
- Scale page content only [FP6584]
- Fixups enhanced by an Apply to option to restrict the fixup to specified pages
- Rotate pages [CA1020480]
- Scale pages
- Crop pages
- Create bleed
- New fixups
- Option added to create customizable profiles of standard analysis and conversion profiles like PDF/A and PDF/X
- New profiles and fixups (not automatically set up in Desktop version when updating, they can be downloaded from here: http://www.callassoftware.com/downloads/callas_pdfToolbox_5v0MR2_new_profiles.zip)
- Profiles
- Object closer to TrimBox than specified value
- Object closer to TrimBox than specified value (binding edges are not checked)
- Scale pages to A4 if not larger than A3
- Fixups
- Rotate pages to landscape if portrait
- Rotate pages to portrait if landscape
- Scale page content only to specified value
- Profiles
- pdfToolbox Desktop
- Simultaneous export of several profiles [CA1013728, CA1017434]
- User interface optimized by moving all Manage options to Options menu
- pdfToolbox CLI
- Improved control of number and types of reported values in XML report [CA1020392]
- Japanese support
- Japanese language support added
- Japanese destinations added to Switchboard Actions Process conversion and Office PDF to CMYK
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert colors: Problem solved where page object had not been converted into destination color space
- Convert colors: Problem solved where colors were not handled properly during RGB-conversion [FP7057]
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where glyphs were not outlined properly [FP6639, FP6936, FP6781]
- Set XMP Metadata field: Problem solved where metadata entry was not inserted [CA1020605]
- Create TrimBox: Problem solved with rotation entry in PDF [FP6691]
- Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Problems solved with some kinds of Japanese style crop marks
- Downsample/compress color images: Problem solved where indexed color space is used in images [CA1020529]
- Flatten annotations and form fields: Problem solved where stamps return to their original size
- Remove Differences array from TrueType fonts for PDF/A-1: Problem solved where processing did not succeed
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved where processing may cause unexpected errors [FP5994]
- Checks
- Problem solved where checking for registration color outside of a specified page box did not generate a hit [FP6490, FP6480, FP6301, CA1018541]
- Glyph in subset font missing: Problem solved where check triggered an improper hit
- Desktop
- Action Convert colors: Problem solved where custom destination profile could not be chosen
- Minor improvements and fixes in Compare feature
- pdfToolbox Server
- Problem solved in Action “Place PDF” where processing triggered an error [FP7010]
- Problem solved in command line where numbering of output files was not applied properly [FP6852, CA1017262]
- Problem solved in usage of expressions for Action “Split PDF” in CLI [FP6768]
- Improved handling when huge amount of files to be processed using Server UI [CA1014973, CA1017564, CA1020562]
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch
- Problem in Visualizer action of Actions configurator solved where Resolution or pixel width was not applied properly [FP6912]
- Problem in Create PostScript action of Actions configurator solved where processing could not be started [FP6777]
- Problem solved where configurators were not installed when executing 64 bit pdfToolbox Server installer [FP6531]
- Fixup “Discard all embedded files” removed from PDF/A-1 conversion to improve handling of PDF Portfolios [CA1020601]
- Action Extract ICC profiles: Problem solved where file name of ICC profile was truncated [CA1020593]
- Action PostScript to PDF: Problem solved where particular fonts from operating system were not embedded [FP6597]
- Action Convert to PDF: Problem solved where annotations in Word documents are visible after converting in special cases
- Action Save as image: Problem solved where the certain resolutions caused an error [CA1018070, CA1018452]
- Problem solved in predefined PDF/X-4 validation profile where PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files where analysed according to with their respective standard
- Problem solved in PDF/VT validation where PDF/X-4 related problem was not found
- Problem solved in PDF/A conversion where glyphs of symbolic TrueType font with PDF encoding were not handled properly [FP6930, CA1020545]
- Problem solved in PDF/A comversion where processed PDF files with JPEG2000 images may cause unstable behaviour [CA1020504]
- Problem solved in PDF/A conversion where embedded files are removed without notice [CA1020601]
- Problem solved in PDF/A validation where analysis stopped because of invalid XMP metadata [FP6759]
- Problem solved where use of present Output Intent for PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 not handled properly [CA1019444]
- Problem solved where effective ink coverage was not evaluated properly on specific files [FP6080]
- Problem solved where more actual versions of Output Intent shall replace modified ones during update process [CA1017285]
- Minor changes in displaying values in profiles, checks and fixups
- Implemented changes of PDF/X-5g and PDF/X-5pg caused by changes in Technical Corrigendum
- Creation of logfiles for failed conversions using Action Re-Distill and Post Script To PDF [FP6597, FP6748]
- Schema of XML report updated [CA1020564]
pdfToolbox 5.0.132
Release date: 2011-05-06
- Update of pdfToolbox 5 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 5 Desktop license
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert colors: Problem solved where image defined in CalRGB was not converted properly
- Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where glyphs were not outlined properly
- Fix glyph width information: Problem solved where width information could not be fixed
- Remove printer marks and Remove objects outside page area: Problem solved where text was shifted
- Flatten transparency:
- Problem solved where shape of glyph was modified
- Problem solved where processing ended with error message
- Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Problem solved where page objects on invisible layer became visible
- Compare
- Problem solved where highlighting was not updated properly when switching between documents
- Problem solved where file names of destination file in the compare report was not correct
- Problem solved where pages in the compare report were stretched when page sizes differed
- Problem solved where page was marked as difference in the compare report although “No difference highlighting” was chosen
- Problem solved where Loupe view was different to page view in pdfToolbox Standalone
- Default check “Compare converted document with original” adapted to higher resolution to get a more detailed analysis
- Desktop
- Problem solved where error message about missing ICC profile appeared
- Problem solved where Output Intents were written in kfpx profile during export although they were not necessary
- Problem solved where lines did not wrap in the profile summary and inventory report
- Problem solved where prior version of ISO Coated v2 (ECI) was installed
- Problem solved in batch processing where files with same name but different suffix were overwritten
- Problem solved where missing page boxes were not properly inserted
- Problem solved where DPart was not properly analysed when validating for PDF/VT
- Problem solved in the installation programs under Windows where start menu entries were removed when uninstalling
- Problem solved where trigger values for color related checks did not show all color spaces
pdfToolbox 5.0.130
Release date: 2011-04-13
- Upgrade to pdfToolbox 5 Desktop requires upgrade fee for owners of a pdfToolbox 4 Desktop license
Features
- Visual comparison of PDF documents
- Preflight Certificate for safer document delivery
- Redistilling of PDF documents
- Font and document structure optimization
- Support of PDF based ISO Standards:
- PDF/VT
- PDF/A-2
- PDF/X-4:2010
- File format conversions extended:
- Conversion to PDF from
- Images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG)
- PostScript
- MS Office 2011 Mac
- MS Publisher (32-bit and 64-bit)
- MS Visio (32-bit and 64-bit)
- MS Project (32-bit and 64-bit)
- iWork 09 Pages
- OpenOffice.org 3.3
- Conversion from PDF to
- PostScript
- Conversion to PDF from
- Improvements to the Desktop version
- Batch function added to several Switchboard actions
- Output Preview
- New action to Create TrimBox
- New actions to extract text and content
- New actions to embed files in PDF documents
- Smoothing parameter added to action Image export
- Sidebar added for embedded files and bookmarks
- Optimized activation process
- “Open recent…” option in File menu
- Control via keyboard extended, e.g. for scrolling pages
- Revert option to undo changes and get back to original file
- New fixups
- Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks
- Adjust colors for PDF based ISO standards
- Remove unnecessary transparency groups
- Remove CIDSet
- Remove CharSet
- Make document XMP Metadata compliant with PDF/A-2
- Remove all xmpMM:Manifest metadata entries
- Recompress images with JPEG 2000 as JPEG
- Extended fixups
- Flatten transparency extended to resave images as ZIP when choosing Optimization setting Best quality
- Convert colors extended to specify decalibration before color converting via user inferface
- Color mapping fixups extended to specify tint value and keep alternate color definition if already present in the PDF
- Convert fonts to outlines extended to process fonts that are not embedded
- Remove non-compliant XMP Metadata extended to support PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 and PDF/X-4
- New properties
- Detect visual differences
- Layer metadata
- Several new properties for PDF/VT and PDF/A-2
- Page description errors of PDF files are reported with detailed error messages
- Several new predefined Profiles, Checks and Fixup (can be filtered with “v5.0” 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
- pdfToolbox Server application
- Smoothing parameter added to image export
- XML report exteneded to list annotations
- Support of 64-bit of Server, CLI and SDK for Windows, Linux, Solaris Sparc and AIX
- Performance improvement in CLI 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
- for emptying font cache
- 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
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch adapted to latest features
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert colors
- Problem solved where conversion ended with error message because of an invalid color space of a JPEG 2000 image
- Problem solved where alternate color space did not get decalibrated
- Convert colors using DeviceLink profile
- Problem solved where error message occured during the conversion
- Problem solved where processing ended with out of memory
- Map colors
- Problem solved where combination of mapping parameters did not created expected result
- Embed missing fonts
- Problem solved where font embedding or substitution failed
- Problem solved under Linux where font folders where not properly scanned
- Convert fonts to outlines
- Problem solved where character was not rendered properly
- Problem solved where spot color object remained in the PDF after color conversion
- Subset fonts
- Problem solved where fonts could not be subsetted
- Fix glyph width information
- Problem solved where width information could not be fixed
- Convert True Type fonts to CID fonts
- Problem solved where characters were not rendered properly
- Flatten layers
- Problem solved where page object was slightly shifted
- Remove page objects which are completely outside of page area
- Problem solved where error message was displayed in Acrobat 8 when opening processed document
- Set author entry
- Problem solved where author entry was not set
- Set title
- Problem solved where title entry was not set
- Set Trapped key
- Problem solved where Trapped Key entry was not set
- Remove non-compliant XMP Metadata
- Problem solved where non-compliant XMP Metadata could not be removed
- Downsample/recompress images
- Problem solved where images where not handled properly
- Problem solved where white bar was visible when image with Indexed color space was resaved with CCITT filter
- Increase line width
- Problem solved where lines where not set to specified value
- Convert colors
- Checks
- Effective ink coverage
- Problem solved where property generated unexpected hit
- Problem solved where page boxes were not properly regarded
- Page is empty
- Problem solved where hit was generated although a page object was present
- Problem solved where check “Transparency used (filled object with ca value smaller than 1.0)” did not hit for images containing transparency
- Problem solved where property “List of color spaces” did not return all color spaces
- Effective ink coverage
- Standards
- Problem solved where colors where not completely prepared for PDF/X-4 when converting via Switchboard action PDF/X-4
- Problem solved where layers were not properly prepared for PDF/X-4
- Problem solved where page object was slightly shifted during PDF/X-1a conversion
- Form and Annotation handling improved when converting to PDF/A
- Conversion to PDF
- Problem solved where conversion stopped because of a Word dialog
- Problem solved where bookmarks from Word documents were not handed over to the PDF completely
- Switchboard Actions
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved where transparency blend color space was not set prior transparency flattening
- Convert colors: Problem solved where ISO Uncoated profile was used instead of PSO Uncoated ISO12647 (ECI)
- Desktop
- Problem solved where user preferences became invalid when variables where used
- Problem solved where error message appeared when viewing spot color objects in Visualizer
- Problem solved where save dialog could not be closed via cancel
- Problem solved where details of page objects where not displayed when results dialog was opened from the Switchboard after processing an action
- Problem solved in Profile Summary when options “Fire if any condition is met”, “Current file” and “Embedded file” where not listed
- Optimizations in the user interface
- CLI
- Save as image
- Problem solved where black bar appeared in image because of page rotation parameter in the PDF
- Problem solved where processing did not proceed because of an invalid page in the middle of a PDF
- Problem solved where spot color PDF was not properly converted into multichannel TIFF
- Problem solved where image of secured file could not be created although this was allowed
- Create EPS
- Problem solved
- Extract text
- Problem solved where text secured file could not be extracted although this was allowed
- Impose
- Problem solved where leading zeros where stripped during token evaluation
- Problem solved where PDF files where saved in PDF version 1.6
- Problem solved where color values of crop marks where not properly set
- Problem solved where parameter CropMarkWidth was not correct in pre-installed imposition config files
- Save as image
- Reports
- Problem solved where PDF/X entry was in report although PDF/X conversion failed
- XSLT: Problem solved where file suffix was missing when a folder was specified using the report path parameter
- Compact HTML: Problem solved where color labeling was not correct
- Configurators for Enfocus Switch
- Several minor fixes