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David is our new Chief Evangelist! In this blog, he shares his impressive career path and passion for penguins and PDF.
From simply adding static files to adding fully dynamic content via HTML templates – get an overview.
Learn more about pdfToolbox's new automation feature that automatically determines the best bleed location.
Find out how integrating JavaScript into callas pdfToolbox can revolutionize your workflows.
This blog will give you an insight into the highlights of pdfCamp, with hands-on sessions and insightful discussions.
Over the last few years, Test Mode has become increasingly powerful. Discover its potential and helpful features.
This blog focuses on the output performance of variable data print (VDP) PDFs and what impact form XObjects have.
Discover the highlights of the REACT event and explore different solutions for using pdfToolbox as an API.
As we say goodbye to an exciting year, we want to share some of the highlights and numbers that defined 2023.
Explore the different methods to automatically add a white underlay with pdfToolbox.
Discover innovative technologies discussed at the PDF Association Symposium that could extend the capabilities of PDF.
Explore pdfCamp 2023's fall edition, featuring sessions on product capabilities and customer challenges.
To ensure a seamless user experience, QR Codes should be optimized for digital publications.
Why does it take so long for new PDF standards to be adopted and implemented by the industry?
Learn more about parallel PDF structures, what they are used for, and how they can be modified.
pdfToolbox uses internal rendering to determine ink related properties and provides several Checks for this.
pdfCamp once again united users, developers and PDF experts for two days of learning and collaboration.
In a world where virtualization and cloud computing are becoming increasingly prevalent the challenges of software licen...
PDF/A – the ISO standard for long-term archiving – now has four sub-standards. This raises an obvious question: which on...
PDF reports are a great tool to share preflight results with your customers. pdfToolbox 14 introduces new features for t...
It takes real skills to build callas products' profiles and process plans; where complex process plans can contain many ...
Some time ago Adobe announced that it "will disable support for authoring with Type 1 fonts by January 2023". What does ...
Are you already using pdfToolbox version 14 that was distributed to the launch event attendees or did you just hear the ...
Print shops today are required to work as efficiently as possible, i.e. to automate their processes to a large extent. T...
In order to maintain its productivity despite changes in the underlying conditions, the ABT Media Group relies on automa...
One of the guiding principles of pdfToolbox from very early on was that – as much as possible – relevant standards shoul...
First things first: the Ghent Workgroup or GWG is a standardization organization you should know if you’re active in the...
Just a few years back, Beuth Verlag introduced callas pdfaPilot and pdfToolbox solutions for automated processing and qu...
Companies and public institutions benefit from PDF/A because documents can be archived permanently with this standard. W...
The level of automation in print shops has risen massively in recent years and it is not a big surprise that researchers...
According to a recent survey conducted on behalf of the digital association Bitkom, an average of 26 e-mails are receive...
"In the past, we have repeatedly found that print shops cover the steps of the prepress and production process with soft...
Sometimes funny concepts are the best way to explain what otherwise could be very dry (but important!) topics. And as ev...
It is not just the major versions of pdfToolbox that see major improvements, we release value to further increase produc...
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...
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...
Barcodes as machine-readable symbols have been around for years now. They are the smartest way from print to the digital...
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...
A month with the experts on topics like accessibility, security and digital signatures, new PDF standards, conversion, w...
Most publishers today do not stick to a single format or communication channel. You can choose between the World Wide We...
The RPA (Robotic Process Automation) approach is similar to the automated process that is common in manufacturing compan...
Product piracy is something that strikes fear into the heart of many brand owners. How can printers of packaging and lab...
Since 2005, PDF files come along with the ability to embed 3D models, which enables the viewers to interactively visuali...
The IT industry has embarked on a new topic: Robotic Process Automation (RPA). It covers the automation of processes by ...
Imagine a scenario where you have copy-pasted some text from your PDF to another location and it comes out totally diffe...
Obviously, requirements for print are quite the opposite from mobile: print quality is important for advertisers in toda...
Some printing processes do not use CMYK process inks at all, instead only spot inks are available, and sometimes even a ...
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:...
What does complexity in terms of PDF processing actually mean? Is it a function of the file size? Majority of us would r...
The opening session 'Welcome to the VIP Event' starring Dietrich von Seggern, David van Driessche and Karina Zander brie...
In today’s complex automated prepress workflows, performance can still be an issue. For us as developer of solutions for...
Anyone (like me) who has been on the road in prepress for some time might still remember the days before PDF when custom...
Be it the Mexican "Comprobante Fiscal Digital a través de Internet" (CFDI), the Brazilian "Nota Fiscal Eletrônica 2.0" (...
We already discussed our 'next big thing' at the VIP Event 2018: the License Server. But what led to this idea, what are...
Today, PDF is the universal format for the exchange of digital documents, but since many years it is also the standard f...
Since the existence of PDF preflight, it was always available in all products based on an object by object analysis. Tod...
Do you know that the Switchboard actions under 'Decorate' let you place a range of different object types or even pages ...
In version 10, pdfToolbox introduced support for a wide range of DeviceLink profiles. They can be used – for free – from...
When working with support cases, the ones that are related to Overprint in PDF are likely to surprise customers. It freq...
For people with physical disabilities, such as severely impaired vision, reading on a computer with technical aids is mu...
It's true that many developments in the printing industry have led to progressive automation of workflows, like increasi...
It was that time of the year again where we bring together our partners, customers and other stakeholders and meet in so...
Numerous directives and laws state that employee records must be maintained for many years after an employee leaves the ...
25 years ago the first version of the Portable Document Format (PDF) was published. This anniversary is a good opportuni...
How can you learn the most about our software? Well, the obvious answer would be the online documentation of course, but...
At the DocEng conference, I met a lot of academics and professionals discussing interesting requirements and solutions r...
Everybody whose occupation is related to a business process that relies on a subset standard will know it: somebody work...
E-mails are increasingly replacing paper mail and are therefore an integral part of processes. So, it might be interesti...
The goal of banks should be that all information is also accessible by people who use special tools, such as screen read...
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...
PDF/A-3 is a powerful tool for mapping projects and document structures, and also for converting work documents into arc...
The print sector in the form of printed catalogues, price lists or postal mailing campaigns, continues to be an importan...
One of the questions that have been discussed at the recent PDF Days was whether a PDF can comply to more than just one ...
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 ...
Nothing is better than facetime with customers when explaining something that might be complex and needs a simple push t...
Here we are! Our target audience is everybody using PDF in a professional way, i.e. in processes where it is an essentia...
