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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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