pdfToolbox 7.6.314
Release date: 2015-03-19
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
-
Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Features
- Enhanced Profiles
- All “Convert to PDF/A…”-Profiles
- New Fixup “Remove glyphs with invalid encoding definition” [CA1023466; CA1023522]
- All “Convert to PDF/A…”-Profiles
- New Checks
- Has private Illustrator information [FP23244; FP26833]
- Radial smooth shade without radius
- Several new properties related to embedded files (especially for PDF/A-3)
- Enhanced Checks
- Possibility to use negation of regular expressions in those checks added, where values can be defined
- New Fixups
- Replace glyphs without Unicode to SPACE characters
- Enhanced Fixups
- New function to switch between normal and table view in certain Fixups [FP27603]
- Set relationship entry for embedded files: “Apply to” added for more flexibility
- Remove XMP metadata: Option to remove XMP metadata from structure elements added
- Actions
- ToPDF: Added support for OpenOffice using 64Bit JavaVM
- CLI
- UncompressImg: Extended scope, works now also for images-based Checks used in Fixups [FP27168]
- Improve reporting of additionally created files from ProcessPlans
- Reports
- XML-Reports: Page label is listed in page information
- General
- Deactivation of licenses using Desktop and CLI
- Introduced a validity period for activation with generated license file
- License files used in CLI-only environments needs to be activated before deployment
- Improved reporting if a Fixup is not successful for all objects (especially on CLI Fix and FixFailure will become reported now)
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP3n)
Fixes
- Profiles
- Verify compliance with PDF/X-4p: Problem solved, where the trailing space for RGB was not properly regarded [CA1023556]
- Fixups
- Fix glyph width information: Fixed issue, where positioning of glyphs changed in certain cases [FP25990; FP26244; FP27795; CA1023570]
- Fix glyph width information: Problem solved, where glyphs are distorted in some cases [FP24435]
- Flatten transparency:
- Problem solved, where text was not properly formatted after processing [FP24371]
- Problem solved, where text vanished in certain cases [FP25667; FP27233; FP27270; FP27639]
- Problem solved, where glyphs were displaced [FP26089]
- Make XMP metadata compliant: Problem solved, where multiple creator entries were not respected
- Make XMP metadata compliant with PDF/X-4: Fixed issue, where unusual DocInfo entry was not properly removed [FP27145]
- Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an unexpected result [CA1023528]
- Convert colors using DeviceLink profiles: Problem solved, where colorspaces in DefaultRGB or DefaultCMYK were not properly handle in some cases [CA1023656]
- Remove objects outside of page area: Fixed issue, where certain cases of text placement was not properly respected [FP27658]
- Make font names unique: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an improper behavior during postprocessing [FP20693; CA1022294]
- Set MIME type entry for embedded files: Fixed issue, where entry was not properly set in certain cases
- Set page label: Adjusted handling to enable modification of complete page ranges [FP27217]
- Embed missing fonts: Problem solved, where font was not embedded due to missing Subtype-entry [FP27498]
- Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where conversion was not successful in certain cases [FP26772]
- Problem solved, where Smooth Shades were not properly handled in some cases [CA1022421]
- Problem solved, where invalid UTF-8 font names were not corrected [CA1023559]
- Checks
- Number of effectively non-empty plates: Fixed issue, where selected units for aperture was not properly respected [CA1023646]
- Effective Ink coverage:
- Fixed issue, where result was not properly determined if aperture was identical to sample size [CA1023392]
- Optimized handling to avoid unnecessary internal rendering [CA1023410]
- If custom area is defined, it will be corrected to stay inside of CropBox if original dimension exceeds this box [CA1023392]
- Fixed issue, where certain PDF structures resulted in false hits [FP27559; FP27939]
- Fixed issue, where some kinds of Smooth Shades were mistakenly flagged as invalid [CA1023332]
- Actions
- ReDistill: Fixed issue, where processing special PDFs files causes an error [FP27494; FP27635]
- Impose: Problem solved, where umlaut characters used in PlaceText resulted in an unexpected font [CA1023435]
- ToPDF: Fixed issue, where the print area of XSLX-Excel-documents were not properly respected [FP27328]
- ToPDF: Problem solved, where Unicode file names of TIFF files resulted in an unexpected behavior [CA1023605]
- Save as image: Fixed issue, where overprint was not respected in some cases [CA1023059; FP27495]
- Process Plans
- Problem solved, where reports created by sequence steps did not contained annotations [FP27963]
- Problem solved, where removing of steps resulted in an improper behavior in certain cases [FP27757]
- Desktop
- Reports: Problem solved, where custom PDF reports were not properly created in certain cases [FP27718; FP27979]
- Variables dialog: Problem solved, where quotation marks became replaced by operating system (MacOS only) [FP27547]
- Compare: Problem solved, where custom settings could not be used for reports [FP26947]
- Server
- Checkpoint: Problem solved, where preview did not work for PDF with Japaneses characters in filename [FP26938]
- Reports: Fixed issue, where overview reports were not properly created [FP27966]
- Fixed issue, where not convertible non-PDF files were moved into “Processed”- instead of “Error”-folder [FP26835]
- General
- Fixed problem, where special characters in name of Output Intent avoided a proper profile export [FP28111]
- Desktop: Fixed issue, where text was not properly displayed (MacOS Retina only)
- CLI
- Improved handling of hotfolders when user “nobody” is used (Linux only)
- Problem solved, where no template based PDF reports were created if ProcessPlans has been used [FP27087]
pdfToolbox 7.5.307
Release date: 2014-12-18
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
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Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Fixes
- Fixups
- Remove objects outside of MediaBox: Problem solved, where objects inside were affected [FP26958; FP26979; FP27329; FP27413; FP27458; CA1023533]
- Convert colors: Problem solved, where conversion was not applied properly in certain cases [CA1023520]
- CLI
- Problem solved, where unnecessary entries in system log occurred (MacOS 10.10 only) [CA1022935; CA1023414]
- General
- Update signature of installer to comply with latest security settings (MacOS only) [FP27341]
pdfToolbox 7.5.304
Release date: 2014-10-01
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
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Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Fixes
- Distributed Processing
- Problem solved, where an unavailable dispatcher resulted in an unstable behavior in certain cases [FP26627]
pdfToolbox 7.5.303
Release date: 2014-09-26
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
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Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Features
- New Fixups
- Remove bookmarks: Removes all bookmarks in a PDF [FP26479]
- Set page labels (and their styles): Set page labels based on defined checks [FP25697]
- Remove page label: Removes all page labels in a PDF [FP25697]
- New Checks
- Effective ink coverage in custom area, can be used in order to check whether a certain area on the printed sheet is empty [CA1023021]
- Several new properties to find page labels and their styles [FP25697]
- Page is last page: Determines if a page is the last in a PDF [CA1023021]
- Page has objects using transparency [CA1022314]
- Enhanced Profiles
- All PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-1 and -3 based Profiles, Profiles for Online Publishing and Digital Printing:
- Flatten Transparency: Internal optimization has become deprecated and has been removed from the user interface
- All PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-1 and -3 based Profiles, Profiles for Online Publishing and Digital Printing:
- Enhanced Fixups
- All “Flatten transparency” Fixups:
- Internal optimization has been deprecated and has been removed from the user interface
- All “Flatten transparency” Fixups:
- Enhanced Checks
- Effective ink coverage: Improved calculation of trigger values. Area coverage will only be reported as trigger value if “Evaluate all pixels” is activated [FP]
- Actions
- ToPDF: Additional file formats supported for MS Word (.dot; .dotx; .dotm; .txt; .xml), MS Excel (.xslm; .xlt; .xltx; .xltm) and MS Powerpoint (.ppa; .ppam)
- ToPDF: Font substitutions, which took place in MS Word can be reported on CLI and in SDK [CA1022584; CA1023233]
- ToPDF: Support for multipage-TIFF added [CA1022701]
- Impose: Improved positioning of text [FP25672; FP25112]
- CLI
- Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame works now also for office conversion processes [FP26251; FP26513; FP22133]
- Program folder contains a new init-script that shows how to start a pdfToolbox server at system start (Linux only) [FP26507]
- Distributed Processing
- Improved reporting for errors on CLI [FP]
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP3c)
- All components on MacOS are x64 now
Fixes
- Profiles
- Verify compliance with PDF/VT-1: Adjusted analysis of DPart structure [CA1023271]
- Fixups
- Set document language to language in tagging structure: Problem solved, where Figure Tag description was removed [CA1023202]
- Convert color using DeviceLink profile: Problem solved, where conversion was not applied properly [CA1022684]
- Subset fonts: Fixed issue, where glyphs were removed in some cases [FP26505]
- Adjust DotGain: Fixed issue, where processing resulted in improper result [FP20297; FP22585; FP23230; FP23606; CA1023240]
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where annotations were removed during processing [FP24614; CA1022661]
- Font to outline: Problem solved, where characters were not properly handled in certain cases [FP25828]
- Font to outline: Problem solved, where glyphs vanished in some cases [FP25783]
- Font to outline: Fixed issue, where internal structure was not properly created [FP24394]
- Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Fixed issue, where invisible layers were not properly removed [FP22502; CA1023254]
- Remove layer: Problem solved, where content remained in the document [FP20692; FP20710; FP21689]
- Fix font encoding: Fixed issue, where text was improperly positioned in some cases [FP26069]
- Remove objects outside page area: Problem solved, where objects remained outside the defined page area [FP24602; CA1022829]
- Set transparency blend mode: Fixed issue, where the “apply to” filter within the Fixup settings was not properly respected [FP21385; FP19895]
- Checks
- Glyph width is inconsistent: Problem solved, where widths were not properly calculated in some cases [FP26600]
- MD5 checksum of ICC profiles: Corrected naming of reported results
- Actions
- ToPDF: Problem solved, where certain PNG images were rotated
- Split Layers: Fixes issue, where created files were not properly output on command line when using “singlepages” option (CLI only) [CA1023264]
- Create PostScript: Problem solved, where objects were moved in some cases [FP26175]
- Create PostScript: Problem solved, where text became converted to images [FP25888; FP25672]
- Save as image: Problem solved, where the Output Intent was not properly respected [CA1023108]
- Extract text: Fixed issue, where extracting text caused an error with some files [CA1023097]
- Reports
- Visualizer report: Fixed issues, where report was not properly scaled for PDFs with large dimensions [FP23315]
- Font inventory report: Fixed issue, where glyphs and unicode values were not listed [FP24267; FP24680]
- Desktop
- Various improvements for usability and stability
- Fixed problem, where creating a Check out of editing a Fixup resulted in an improper behavior [CA1023222]
- Server
- Problem solved, where Japanese language was not properly handled [FP25603]
- General
- Improved handling for font files without extension (Unix only) [CA1023053]
- Problem solved, where optimization of the ContentStream resulted in vanished objects in certain cases [FP26051]
- Problem solved, where processing using Solaris 10 resulted in unstable behavior [CA1023097]
pdfToolbox 7.4.292
Release date: 2014-06-25
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
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Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Features
- Fixups
- Remap characters from Unicode Private Use Area: Map Unicode from PUA to another valid Unicode [FP21906]
- Remove all tagging information: Removes all tagging structure [CA1022859]
- Checks
- Number of effectively non-empty plates: Checks for number of plates based on an offscreen rendered PDF per page [FP24249]
- Enhanced Fixups
- Font to outline: “Apply to” added to control, which fonts are outlined [FP24277; FP24750]
- Enhanced Checks
- Effective ink coverage: Optional possibility added to render whole page to determine the complete amount of ink coverage [FP25022]
- Desktop
- Visualizer: Added option to set simulation profile and improved handling if an OutputIntent exists [FP24842]
- Profile editor: Several predefined filters in search field for checks and fixups
- CLI
- Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame
- Server, Dispatcher or Satellite can be used as service on Windows [CA1018775; CA1019172]
- New function –splitmergepdf to create a result PDF from split pages in one run [FP23621]
- New function –listfonts to list all available fonts for “Set TextFont” in Imposition
- Distributed processing
- Optional failover for Dispatcher in Client-mode
- Possibility for typification for Satellites
- Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame for distributed processes [FP24945]
- Local processing (as a fall-back) can be disabled
- Optimization for connecting process between Dispatcher and Satellite
Fixes
- Fixups
- Make Pantone spot color names consistent: Problem solved, where multi-digit numbers were not handled properly [FP25433]
- Fix glyph width information: Problem solved, where text was not properly handled for certain PDF created by PhotoShop [FP24435; FP25487]
- Rotate pages: Problem solved, where page rotation factor was not handled correctly for links in some cases [CA1022891]
- Set transparency properties for stroke: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an error [FP25416]
- Font-related corrections: Problem solved, where false entries in PostScript font resulted in an improper behavior [CA1022964]
- Font-related corrections: Problem solved, where glyphs seemed to be corrupt when viewed in Acrobat 8 [FP25207]
- Font-related corrections: Fixed issue, where glyph widths did not match after processing [CA1023004]
- Downsample/recompress color/grayscale images: Problem solved, where downsampling was not applied properly [CA1022771]
- Downsample/recompress grayscale images: Problem solved, where recompressing JBIG2 images did not take place if used in masks [FP25017]
- Remove JavaScript not associated with actions: Problem solved, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly removed [FP24590]
- Remove actions: Problem solved, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly removed [FP24590]
- Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where fixup did not work like expected
- Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType fonts: Problem solved, where resulting PDF could not be processed by some RIPs [FP24817]
- Remove layer: Problem solved, where some content on layer was not properly removed caused by “OC” entries in images and FormXObjects [FP24742]
- Remove or adjust annotations: Problem solved, where annotation was moved outside page area instead of being flattened into page content [FP23345]
- Remove or adjust annotations: Fixed issue, where annotations were not properly rotated [CA1022661]
- Font to outline: Problem solved, where characters defined as .notdef glyph were not properly handled in certain cases [FP18277; FP18547; FP18347]
- Font to outline: Problem solved, where not embedded fonts were not converted [FP24777]
- Font to outline: Problem solved, where some glyphs were not completely filled in after processing in some cases [FP22538]
- Font to outline: Fixed issue, where processing resulted in improper result [FP25402]
- Subset fonts: Optimized handling for width entries of unused glyphs [CA1022860]
- Remove invisible image data: Problem solved, where processing of inline images resulted in an error [CA1022876]
- Remove invisible image data: Problem solved, where images with no size were not properly handled [FP24852]
- Unsharp masking of images: Fixed issue, where processing did not succeed as expected [CA1022930]
- Make font names unique: Problem solved, where errors occurred during postprocessing in certain cases [FP20693; CA1022294]
- Substitute characters using .notdef glyph with space characters: Fixed issue, where text was moved during processing [FP24117]
- Create bookmarks from headings: Problem solved, where existing bookmarks were removed [CA1022846]
- Convert page into image: Problem solved, where improper nested geometry boxes resulted in unexpected dimension of created image[CA1022872]
- Checks
- Document contains actions: Fixed issue, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly detected [FP24590]
- Document contains JavaScript: Fixed issue, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly detected [FP24590]
- Symbolic TrueType font has Encoding dictionary: Problem solved, where unusual encoding entry was not detected properly [FP23523]
- MD5 checksum of ICC profiles: Adjusted names and comments to better explain how the checksum is computed
- Character references .notdef glyph: Problem solved, where .notdef glyphs were not recognized in certain cases [FP24810]
- Effective ink coverage: Fixed issue, where trigger value for amount of ink was wrong [FP25022]
- Effective ink coverage: Adjusted usage of simulation profile for page blending to match expected results [FP23214]
- Actions
- ToPDF: Support for latest Pages (Version 5.2) for Mac [FP25116]
- ToPDF: Problem solved, where rotation info in TIFF images was not respected in certain cases [CA1022942]
- ToPDF: TXT files will be handled by MS Office if no OpenOffice is installed (Windows + MacOS) [CA1022881]
- Impose: Improved reporting if needed fonts are not available on the system
- Impose: Problem solved, where text in positioned pages was moved in certain cases [FP25112]
- Save As Image: Harmonized used simulation profiles for PNG to those used for other image formats ('sRGB IEC61966-2.1', 'Dot Gain 15%' or 'ISO Coated v2 (ECI)')
- Reports
- Template-based PDF-Reports: Corrected use of time zone of local computer time
- Desktop
- Some Problems solved, where user interface did not work as expected [FP23091, FP23115]
- Switchboard: Letterhead: Improved handling for multi-page documents [FP25090]
- Switchboard: Flatten transparency: Adjusted settings to those used by profiles
- Acrobat PlugIn
- Problem solved, where batch processing resulted in an improper behavior in Acrobat 9 [FP24960]
- General
- Desktop: Optimized handling of unused conditions
- Desktop: Improved indexing of check and fixup names during import of profiles
- Process Plans: Optimization for PostCheck when standard conversion is used
- Checks: Optimized analysis to reduce needed amount of memory [CA1022630; FP20799]
- Fixups: Problem solved, where optimization of content stream did not handle unnecessary clipping paths correctly [FP24997]
- Distributed processing: Problem solved, where saving as image resulted in error if pagerange was used [FP24980]
- Distributed processing: Problem solved, where merging PDF was not successful if an output filename was defined [FP24800]
pdfToolbox 7.3.280
Release date: 2014-03-24
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
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Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Features
- Switchboard
- New function to outline page geometry boxes
- Server/CLI
- Possibility to use cachefolder for distributed processing added
- New function to empty fontcache and profilecache when cachefolder-mechanism is used (CLI only)
- Fixups
- Flatten transparency: New Option to define kind of image compression used [FP23306]
- New and enhanced Profiles
- Verify compliance with PDF/VT-2
- All PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-1 and -3 based Profiles, Profiles for Online Publishing and Digital Printing:
- Flatten transparency: Internal optimization deactivated
- Flatten transparency: Color images created by the flattener are not always using JPEG
- All GWG2012-Profiles:
- Minor adjustments for “black object”-checks to match requirements of the latest specification errata document
- All “Convert to PDF/A-2-…”- and “Convert to PDF/A-3…”-Profiles
- New fixup “Insert missing F and UF entries for embedded files”
- New and enhanced Process Plans
- Check for non-CMYK color, create a report, convert to CMYK (ISO Coated v2) and flatten transparency
- New and enhanced Fixups
- All “Flatten transparency” fixups:
- Internal optimization deactivated
- Color images created by the flattener are not always using JPEG
- Convert to grayscale: Adjusted settings to preserve objects from conversion, which are using only black already [FP23065]
- Set layer name: New fixup to set layer name based on a check
- All “Downsample bitmap|color|grayscale images” fixups:
- Recompression will not take place if images are not downsampled
- All “Flatten transparency” fixups:
- New and enhanced Checks
- New Properties to find transparent objects on xobject- or page-level
- New Property to find if a JBIG2 compression is marked as lossy or lossless
- CLI
- Action Overlay: New option to parameter “placebelow” added to define which document is used for number of pages in resulting document [FP24201]
Fixes
- Profiles
- Convert to PDF/X-4: Problem solved, where multiple metadata namespaces were not properly handled in certain cases [FP24371]
- Fixups
- Problem solved, where glyph problems occurred during PDF/X-4 conversion [CA1022608]
- Font to outline: Problem solved, where glyph widths were not properly respected in certain cases [FP24485]
- Font to outline: Problem solved, where glyphs were distorted in some cases [FP24011; FP24207; FP24318]
- Add missing SPACE glyph: Problem solved, where processing resulted in improper result [FP24479; FP24528]
- Convert colors: Problem solved, where objects seemed to be changed in position after processing [FP23659]
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where processing on files with removed Output Intent resulted in improper behaviour [FP23556, FP24316]
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where resulting images were not created in requested resolution when Raster/Vector balance is set to “0” [CA1022603]
- Remove Output Intent: Problem solved, where removing resulted in an error in certain cases [FP24284]
- Generate bleed from page content: Problem solved, where created bleed was not properly scaled and positioned [FP22575; FP23525]
- Unsharp masking of images: Problem solved, where images smaller than defined threshold resulted in improper behaviour [FP24549]
- Convert SoftMask to ImageMask: Problem solved, where images were not visible after processing
- Actions
- ToPDF: Problem solved, where EPS files were not converted to PDF (Linux x64 only) {FP24287]
- ToPDF: Extended support for LibreOffice on more Linux distributions
- Reports
- Template-based PDF-Reports: Problem solved, where reports were not created using Linux [FP23117]
- Compare reports: Problem solved, where images were not scaled correctly (Desktop only) [FP24235]
- CLI
- Implode profiles: Problem solved, where OutputIntent was not properly added again from exploded profiles [FP23674]
- Enumerate profiles: Support for variables used in ProcessPlans added [CA1022677]
- General
- Problem solved, where PowerPoint files could not be converted when using MS Office 2013
- Improved usage of system resources on x64-based installations [FP23489]
- Distributed processing: Problem solved, where umlauts in filename resulted in improper behaviour in some cases (Linux only) [FP24372]
- Problem solved, where a special combination of custom fixups resulted in instable processing [FP24262]
- Fixes issue, where time zones with different offset than a full hour were not properly handled in the XMP metadata
- Standard14 fonts: Adjusted recognition, so that an existing FontDescriptor is tolerated
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP2k)
pdfToolbox 7.2.262
Release date: 2014-01-30
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
-
Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Features
- Reports
- Customizable PDF-Reports: Support for creation of XML-Reports on the fly and adding content to the PDF-Report [FP23183]
Fixes
- CLI
- EnumerateProfiles: Support for Process plans added [CA1022677]
pdfToolbox 7.2.261
Release date: 2014-01-23
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
-
Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Features
- General
- Process Plans: Improved performance [CA1021808]
- Fixups
- Outline page geometry boxes: Several new options added
- Generate bleed from page content: Option added to create images in DeviceCMYK
- New Checks
- Transparency group has transparent objects
- Transparency group on page level has transparent objects
- Reports
- Customizable PDF-Reports: Can also be created using pdfToolbox Desktop
- Customizable PDF-Reports: Localization added
- Actions
- ToPDF: PostScript to PDF conversion now also x64 when using Linux x64 [FP23753]
- ToPDF: New optional warning if font substitution takes place in PDFs created from MS Word documents [CA1022584]
- ToPDF: New parameter to create PDFs for MS Excel documents according to the Excel behavior [CA1022382, FP23677, FP21000]
- CLI
- Action Overlay: Support for more file formats
- Process Plan: Support for variables used in impose actions [FP]
Fixes
- Fixups
- Convert Colors: Problem solved, where inconsistent encoding entries in images resulted in improper result[FP23626]
- Downsample/Recompress images: Problem solved, where downsampling was not applied for some kinds of SoftMasks [FP23527]
- Scale pages: Problem solved, where objects defined as pattern were not handled properly in some cases [FP23617, FP23672]
- Fix glyph width info: Problem solved, where glyphs were not properly handled [FP21681, FP22548, FP22125]
- Checks
- Fixed problem, where special usage of resource dicts in PDF ended up in unexpected result [FP24057]
- CLI
- ToPDF: Optimized conversion handling for OEM integration [CA1022639]
- ToPDF: Problem solved, where file permissions form original file (read-only) were also applied to the result PDF [CA1022305]
- General: Fixed problem, where longer processing time could result in improper behavior in OEM integration [CA1022632]
- Cachefolder: Fixed handling of global temp directory (Linux only) [FP23117]
- Reports: Problem solved, where Inventory reports were not created as expected [FP23676]
- Switch configurators
- Profiles: Improved validation of Switch flows [FP23440]
- Actions: SplitPDF: Added missing tokens
- Actions: MergePDF: Improved handling for folders with ”.” in name [FP23103]
pdfToolbox 7.1.258.1
Release date: 2013-12-20
Platform: Windows only
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
-
Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Fixes
- Fixed a problem, where application could not be started using Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
pdfToolbox 7.1.258
Release date: 2013-12-16
- Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license
-
Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7
Features
- Fixups
- ConvertColors: Updated engine for color conversion incl. support for ICC v4 profiles integrated [CA1022482]
- Actions
- CreateEPS: New options for color workingspaces added [FP]
- CLI
- New option for defining a max. used amount of memory during processing (Linux only) [FP23099]
- ToPDF: Added parameter to set searchpath for fonts to be used during PostScript conversion [FP23128]
Fixes
- Profiles
- Embed missing fonts: Problem fixed where fonts were not properly embedded during conversion to PDF/X-4 [FP23494]
- PDF/A: Problem solved, where Unicode information was not properly handled in some cases [CA1022448]
- PDF/A: Problem solved, where text information vanished in certain cases [CA1022466]
- Fixups
- Adjust DotGain: Problem solved, where SmoothShades were not properly handled [FP22587]
- Flatten annotations and form fields: Problem solved, where position of signatures were not kept [CA1022502]
- Convert page into image: Optimized handling of colorspaces to ensure correct color values in result [FP23195]
- Subset fonts: Problem solved, where glyphs were not handled properly in certain cases [FP23228]
- Rotate pages: Problem solved, where patterns were not rotated [CA1022457]
- Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType: Problem solved, where text was not properly handled [FP23369]
- Remove Differences array from TrueType fonts: Problem solved, where processing resulted in improper file in certain cases [FP23494]
- Checks
- Enhanced stability during analysis of partly corrupt files [FP23531]
- Is set to overprint: Improved recognition of SmoothShades
- Actions
- CreateEPS: Harmonized workingspace for RGB: set to “sRGB IEC61966-2.1” also in Desktop
- CreateEPS: Problem solved, where generated EPS was not well formed (x64 on Windows and Linux only)
- ToPDF: Enhanced handling for outsized TIFF-images [CA1022596]
- ToPDF: Added handling for JPEG images, where resolution is only available in Adobe Photoshop private area [FP23323]
- ToPDF: Added support for images using progressive JPEG compression [FP21658; FP23515]
- MergePDF: Problem solved, where processing was not successful [FP22579]
- SaveaAsImage: Problem solved, where resulting image was rendered in wrong size in certain cases
- Compare: Problem solved, where generated files did not use correct naming syntax [CA1022570]
- Reports
- HTML-Template based reports: Problem solved, where reports were not created on Linux [FP23117]
- XML: Problem solved, where Lab color values were not properly reported [CA1022438]
- Desktop/PlugIn
- Problem solved, where setting as variable check was removed when severity was changed [FP23133]
- Problem solved, where references in ProcessPlans were not properly adjusted when moved
- Problem solved, where importing a DeviceLink profile resulted in a false warning in some cases [FP23559]
- Process Plans: Identical variables used in different sequence steps will now only cause a single dialog during runtime
- Acrobat PlugIn
- Problem solved, where verification for PDF/X-4 resulted in false hits [FP23652]
- Convert page into image: Problem solved, where page was not converted [FP23034]
- Problem solved, where embedding of fonts failed in certain cases [FP23182]
- Server
- Enhanced processing stability [FP23592]
- Problem in ServerUI fixed, where processed files remained visible [FP23519]
- CLI
- Problem solved where creation of PDF/A files failed during fallback processing [CA1022502]
- Distributed processing
- SOAP: HTTP Get handler enabled for retrieving status information [CA1022535]
- SOAP: WDSL documentation added for developers wanting to use the SOAP interface
pdfToolbox 7.0.251
Release date: 2013-10-02
- Upgrade to pdfToolbox Desktop 7 requires upgrade fee for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 4, 5 or 6 license
- Upgrade to pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Desktop 6
- Upgrade to pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 requires SMA for at least one additional year. Please contact your reseller for further information.
- Upgrade of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 4, 5 or 6 or pdfToolbox CLI 4, 5 or 6.
Features
- New internal engine for rendering, transparency flattening, optimization and creation of PS/EPS
- New internal engine for font handling
- Checkpoint for pdfToolbox 7 Server
- Ability to interactively review and modify PDF files during Server and CLI processing
- Also supported by a new Switch Configurator
- New and enhanced Profiles
- All PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-1 and -3 based Profiles:
- Flatten transparency: “Convert text to outline” option has been deactivated by default
- All GWG2012-Profiles:
- Replaced existing check for ICC-profile version with 2 new profiles to enhance reporting
- Modified check: Transparency blend color space not DeviceGray or DeviceCMYK in softmask of type Luminosity
- Settings in Custom Fixups will override settings from automatically generated Fixups from Standard-Conversion (Wizard)
- All PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-1 and -3 based Profiles:
- New and enhanced Fixups
- Flatten Transparency (all Fixups)
- “Preserve Overprints” works also on pages that do not contain transparency
- “Convert text to outline” option has been deactivated by default
- Set transparency property for page objects (filled or stroked)
- Remove all object level XMP metadata [FP22876, FP17553]
- Convert page into image: extended settings so that it is now e.g. possible to convert those pages that have certain problems
- Crop images to visible area (hard remove image areas, thereby making the PDF smaller and avoid unnecessary hits for hidden objects)
- Crop page to visible page area improved because the page area is now determined based on rendered page
- Enlarge page by adding space to a defined edge [FP22179]
- Outline page geometry boxes [CA1021680]
- Remove objects based on check for objects [FP21956]
- Remove all objects using Registration color inside TrimBox
- Remove all objects using spot color with specified name
- Set MIME type entry for embedded files (for PDF/A-3)
- Add Modification Date to an embedded file's Params dictionary (for PDF/A-3)
- Convert page into image (extended settings)
- Convert page content into CMYK image (150 ppi, high JPEG quality)
- Flatten Transparency (all Fixups)
- New and enhanced Checks
- Effective text x-height is below 0.9 / 1.2 mm
- ToUnicode CMap has syntax problems
- Line width is 0 pt [FP22452]
- New Properties in order to determine possible PDF version entries in a PDF file
- Acrobat Extension Level
- Developer names in Extension dictionary
- Developer Extension Level BaseVersion does not match Version entry in Catalog
- Value of version in PDF header his lower than Version entry in Catalog
- Version entry in Catalog
- New and enhanced Reports
- Compare: PDF separations can be compared, e.g. in order to convert only black (only text) or only CMY (ignoring black text) [FP21284]
- Overview-Report customizable based on HTML-template (available in Server and CLI; Windows and MacOS only)
- New an enhanced actions in CLI
- Duplicate pages [FP22103]
- pdfToolbox Standalone
- Added update notification and direct download link for latest version (MacOS and Windows)
Fixes
- Profiles
- Convert to PDF/X-1a: Improved handling of invalid fonts [CA1017018]
- Convert to PDF/X-1a: Problem solved, where text was not properly displayed after conversion [FP21101]
- Convert to PDF/X-4: Improved conversion to ensure proper handling of .notdef glyphs and TrueType encoding entries
- Convert to PDF/A: Problem solved, where text could not be copied after processing [CA1022072]
- Fixups
- Rotate pages: Problem solved, where gradients were not properly handled in some cases [FP22350]
- Problem solved with profiles containing ICC-Profiles (some special MacOS 10.8 and Linux environments only) [FP22444]
- Set transparency blend color space: Problem solved, where processing was not successful in some cases (Linux 64bit only) [FP22537]
- Remove Layers: Usage of RegEx improved [FP20269; FP20489]
- Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Problem solved, where processing failed (Windows only) [FP22529]
- Remove objects outside…: Problem solved, where special XObjects were not properly handled [CA1022224]
- Remove signature (flatten): Problem solved, where signature was improperly positioned in some cases [CA1022143]
- Map spot and process colors:
- Problem solved, where objects were not properly processed
- Problem solved, where spot color object were not handled properly after CMYK conversion [CA1022141; FP22626]
- Clarified usage of option (German translation) [FP21956]
- Downsample/recompress grayscale images: Problem solved, where objects vanished in certain cases [CA1022184; FP22380]
- Set page geometry boxes: Problem solved, where documents were not handled properly [CA1021721]
- Convert SMask to ImageMask: Problem solved, where objects vanished in certain cases [CA1022181]
- Prepare annotations for PDF/A-1: Problem solved, where processing failed [CA1022168]
- Make font names unique: Problem solved, where glyphs were not visible after processing [FP22126]
- Convert TrueType fonts to CID: Improved for certain cases [FP22890]
- Font to outline:
- Problem solved, where glyphs were changed during conversion [CA1022012]
- Problem solved, where processing failed due to usage of 2 different encodings in an embedded font [CA1013199]
- Problem solved, where glyphs were malformed in some cases [FP18830; FP18722]
- Problem solved, where special glyphs vanished in certain files [FP22366; FP22564]
- Fix glyph width:
- Problem solved, where result was not displayed properly in some viewers [CA1022318]
- Problem solved, where image objects were affected [FP21863]
- Save as PDF 1.x: Problem solved, where fonts were not handled properly(Acrobat Plug-In only) [CA1019067]
- Remove additional encodings of CMap fonts
- Problem solved, where glyphs were no more visible in certain cases [FP22344]
- Fixed issue, where processing did not work as expected [FP21034]
- Problem solved, where text was not properly handled [CA1021563]
- Subset fonts:
- Problem solved, where glyphs were missing after processing [FP223695]
- Fixed issue, where processing failed on certain files [FP22064]
- Problem solved, where appearance of glyphs changed in an unexpected way [FP21218]
- Embed missing fonts
- Problem solved, where font was not embedded successfully [CA1019010]
- Problem solved, where text was not handled properly in some cases [FP20244]
- Fixed issue, where processing resulted in invalid file [CA1021420]
- Enhanced handling of fonts in ”.dfont” file format (MacOS only) [FP17743]
- Set black to overprint: Problem solved, where Type3 fonts were not converted properly [FP18571]
- Substitute characters using .notdef glyph: Problem solved, where glyphs moved in certain cases [FP21202; FP21403]
- Repair invalid ToUnicode CMap information: Extended function to ensure valid mapping to Unicode [FP19442]
- Newspaper Ads: Problem solved, where processing was not successful [CA1022247]
- Flatten transparency
- Fixed issue, where text was not handled properly [CA1022123; CA1022026; FP16862; FP22712; CA1022020; CA1021953; FP17129; FP21167; FP21696; CA1014743; CA1014932; CA1015574; CA1016800; FP5964]
- Problems solved, where objects were not properly flattened [FP19461; FP20366; CA1019350; FP6944; FP20686; CA1018570; FP22300; FP22009; FP22103; FP18660]
- Enhanced handling of overprinting objects [CA1018477; CA1018680; FP21842; CA1018519; FP22456; FP18210; FP17257; FP17163; FP19615; FP19777]
- Improved usage of different ICC-profiles (Linux only)
- Problem solved, where text could not be copied after processing (MacOS only) [FP17952]
- Increased stability of processing [FP18330; CA1021060; FP22569; FP22009]
- Flatten overprints: Problem solved, where overprinting objects were not properly reduced [CA1022196; FP22662]
- Optimization: Problem solved, where processing resulted in improper PDF [FP3439]
- Checks
- Standard14 fonts: Adjusted recognition, so that an existing FontDescriptor is tolerated [FP22533]
- Effective ink coverage for separated plates: Fixed issue, where values were not properly determined [FP22942]
- ICC-Profile Version: Adjusted reporting of version (GWG profiles) [FP22321]
- Ink coverage: Improved recognition of visible and hidden objects
- Font analysis: Improved speed of checks [CA1022278]
- Compatible to PDF version: Problem solved, where anaysis were not properly handled [CA1022278]
- Number of plates: Problem solved, where some varieties of pattern were not properly regarded [FP22998]
- Resolution of color/grayscale images: Problem solved, where UserUnits (Scalingfactor) were not taken into account in a correct way
- Actions
- Create PostScript: Problem solved, where conversion was not successful [CA1021411; FP19854; FP7056; FP19836; CA1021759; FP18176]
- Create Encapsulated PostScript: Problem solved, where conversion was not successful [FP20962]
- Create Encapsulated PostScript: Problem solved, where text was not properly handled [CA1022151
- ReDistill: Fixed issue, where objects were not properly handled [FP18837]
- ReDistill: Increased stability of processing [FP21787; FP16490; FP17342]
- Imposition: Improved handling of defined text size for positioned text
- SplitPDF: Problem solved, where processing did not work as expected [CA1022160]
- Office conversion: Problem solved, where Excel pages with footer were not properly created [CA1020853]
- Office conversion: Problem solved, where Excel files were not converted in special cases [CA1020625]
- Save as image: Improved usage of black point compensation during rendering [CA1022090]
- Save as image: Rendering of transparent PNGs adjusted to match expected appearance [CA1022103]
- Desktop/PlugIn
- Problem solved, where files could not be displayed properly [CA1021131; FP7435; FP20835; CA1022330]
- Harmonized settings of transparency flattening in Switchboard to those of Fixups [FP21842]
- Switchboard: Adjusted file handling during batch-processing [FP21884]
- Problem solved, where loading profiles took unusual long time [FP22903]
- Server/CLI
- Distributed processing: Problem solved, where dispatcher could not be monitored (Linux only) [FP19911]
- Activation: Problem solved, where activation failed (Linux only)
- Visualizer: Fixed issue, where process separation was shown inverted if a spot colors existed [FP22348]
- Reports
- Overview-Report: Fixed issue, where creation of PDF/A-3-report resulted in unstable behaviour of application [Wat3567816]
- XML Report: Added values for Check “Effective ink coverage for separated plates” [CA1022167]
- XML Report: SequenceSteps from ProcessPlans and Fixups of last step are added
- XML Report: Various information added about PDF version and Developer extensions level
- Changed internal package version for profiles to 13
- Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP2b, Solaris Intel: v10.1.0Plus2a)