pdfToolbox Server

Product info

pdfToolbox Server All-in-one PDF automation from preflighting and fixing to impositioning and repurposing

Whether for print production, PDF/X standard compliant file exchange, presentation preparation, repurposing or any other type of document analysis or processing, callas pdfToolbox Server 5 surpasses its competition in ease of use, speed, and feature set.

From the developers of Adobe® Acrobat®’s Preflight technology, pdfToolbox Server 5 offers comprehensive, yet easy to use

PDF preflighting and automatic correction
metadata extraction
presentation tools
imposition
…and more

Newest features in version 5.3:

MacOS X Lion support
New check to find ligatures
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
Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated

What is new in pdfToolbox Server 5?

Convert Office files to print-ready PDFs automatically
- Windows, Office 2007, 2010 - Open Office on Mac & Win
- Add Bleed (create bleed by scaling) & Cropmarks
Automated preparation for visual inspection capabilities
- Adds “Temperature” highlighting. This feature adds colored highlighting in different levels depending on the gravity of certain problems. “Temperature” highlighting is available on:
- Ink Coverage
- Image Resolution
- Object Size
Web-development kit for easy integration
- Integrate into any production automation, asset management or WebToPrint solution

Key features

General

Supports all PDF versions (up to PDF 1.7/Acrobat® 9)
Supports all PDF/X standards (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5)
Includes the most significant industry standard profiles like the Ghent PDF Workgroup standard
Connects to existing workflows through hot folders
Simultaneous processing of multiple files for optimized throughput
Splits multipage PDF files into segments
Creates permutations of PDF files per layer or layer view
Merges multiple PDFs into a single PDF file
Generates configurable single page EPS files
Exports pages as JPEG or PNG in quality settings from thumbnail over full size preview up to high resolution content proof
Uses IPTC, XMP and other object related metadata and exports them in a configurable XML report
Allows to limit most manipulations to specific objects

Workflow

Provides configuration files that can be interchanged with other servers
Integrates fully into FullSwitch® and PowerSwitch®
Updated Switch® configurator with the ability to define runtime parameters in dynamic pdToolbox 5 profiles
Extensive Switch® integration improvements: save as image, enhanced EPS export, creation of multiple reports, severity-dependent reporting, and saving of XML reports as an XML metadata data set

Verification & conversion features

Checks more than 1000 characteristics
Adjusts and corrects more than 100 different features
Supports all principle standards: validates and creates PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-4p, and validates PDF/X-5
Allows creation of different types of reports in one run
Embeds missing fonts (including Easter European, Cyrillic and Far Eastern fonts) and makes font names unique to protect against character dropouts or font substitution in down stream processes
Imposes any type of PDF based on extremely flexible rule based imposition schemes
Places page objects or new PDFs on layers
Creates PDF/X-4 conforming layer views (OCCDs) for using multilingual publication files or handling product variants in packaging
Provides adjustable compression methods for images
Supports smart configuration through dynamic pdfToolbox 5 profiles that allow variable parameters to be defined at runtime - creating incredible versatility in your workflow (profiles can be adjusted on the fly and checks and fix-ups can be dynamically switched on or off)

Color-management features

Full support of ICC and DeviceLink profiles
Provides comprehensive conversion of Office RGB
Delivers all professional conversions - RGB gray to black only for text, line-art and images, CMYK and spot colors to RGB, spot colors to process, colored PDFs to black/white
Processes line-art and images separately
Allows to optionally preserve primary, secondary and tertiary colors
Offers tone value adjustment (for both process and spot colors)
Supports black point compensation
Maps between various color spaces

DeviceLink Add-On features (payable option)

Includes a series of most used DeviceLink profiles for repurposing in professional printing
Includes DeviceLink profiles for optimization of total ink coverage and ink saving for standard printing conditions
Supports process conversion between sheet fed offset, web offset, news printing and gravure, supporting established best practice guidelines for Europe, North America and Japan

Benefits

Focus and simplicity

No more need for a host of different products. Access all the PDF automation functionality you need from one application

Easy to use

Intuitive user interface to configure and manage hot folder automation
Simple setup for ad hoc batch-processing of one large set of files.
Clear reporting of results as a PDF, XML, Text or HTML report
Comes with the pdfToolbox 5 desktop version for easy configuration of PDF analysis and processing instructions
Highly intuitive configurators in FullSwitch® and PowerSwitch® make it easy to set up, run and monitor advanced automation features

Increase productivity through fully automated PDF processing

Processes large amounts of data at high speed
Analyzes and processes in one step as opposed to complicated and time consuming sequences of multiple steps
Offers comprehensive testing of all PDF file characteristics with unsurpassed performance
Identifies and corrects production problems and minimizes risks during the processing and releasing of PDF files

Enjoy highest quality and reliability

Uses the same technology that callas software licenses to Adobe® for Acrobat® Preflight
Achieve perfect color, fully automated
Industry strength, unattended 24/7 operation
Easy replication of setup to additional servers
Ready-to-use configurations supporting established guidelines from industry association like Ghent PDF Workgroup or PDFXready

Prepare any PDF for use in various environments

Electronic delivery and publishing
In-house and corporate publishing including marketing, commercial, legal and technical documentation
Prepress and print production for sheet fed and web offset as well as gravure and digital printing
Ad delivery and handling between ad agencies and publishing houses (for newspapers, magazines, books)

Benefit from the market’s widest range of capabilities

PDF/X standards compliance, both in terms of validation as well as PDF/X production and value added transformation and conversion