Release notes callas pdfaPilot 3

pdfaPilot 3.1.156

Release date: 2012-03-21

• Update of pdfaPilot 3 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 3 Desktop license

Features

• New Fixup: Remove Signatures [CA1021127]
• New Fixup: Remove XFA ressource entry [CA1021127]

Fixes

• Fixups
  • Problem solved where objects shift after changing the content stream [CA1021052, CA1021055, CA1021083, FP17126]
• Reports
  • Problem solved where creation of MHT reports failed [FP18241]
• PDF/A Analysis
  • Improved check for “Form field has multiple appearances” in PDF/A-1 validation
• PDF/A Conversion
• Problem solved where StemV entry was not handled properly [CA1021172]
• Improved handling of multiple office document conversion
• Unix-platforms: Problem solved where wrong system folders where searched for fonts

pdfaPilot 3.0.151

Release date 2011-12-15

• Upgrade to pdfaPilot 3 Desktop requires upgrade fee for owners of a pdfaPilot 2 Desktop license
• Upgrade to pdfaPilot 3 Desktop free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot 2 Desktop

Features

• PDF/A-3 Support
• Improved features for creating file packages and collections
• Distributed processing
• Force Conversion for conversion to PDF/A
• Support for SharePoint
• 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
  • Scale page content only
  • Rotate pages to landscape if portrait
  • Rotate pages to portrait if landscape
• Extended fixups
  • Scale pages with more options
  • Fixups enhanced by an “Apply to” option to restrict the fixup to specified pages:
    • Rotate pages
    • Scale pages
    • Crop pages
    • Create bleed
• New Checks
  • New check to find latin ligatures
  • Several checks added for all aspects of PDF/A-3
  • Smallest distance from TrimBox
  • Smallest distance from BleedBox
  • Object closer to TrimBox than specified value
  • Object closer to TrimBox than specified value (binding edges are not checked)
• pdfaPilot Desktop
  • New dialogue for setting relationship entry and describtion for embedded files when creating PDF/A-3 packages
  • Simultaneous export of several profiles
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated (v9.1.0PlusP4d)

Fixes

• Improved stability on all platforms
• Comments can be added for Fixups to show up when selected or executed [CA1020681]
• PDF/A Analysis
  • Improved PDF Syntax analysis
  • Improved analysis of embedded Fonts [CA1020585]
• PDF/A Conversion
  • Added force conversion feature to standard PDF/A conversion profiles
  • Problem solved where object compression failed with PDF/A-2 conversion [FP17296]
  • Improved handling and removing of XMP object metadata [CA1015970]
  • Form fields and annotations
    • Problems solved with form fields being converted to PDF/A-2 [CA1020860]
    • Problem solved with highlight annotations on pages with rotation factor [CA1020859]
    • Improved handling of annotations without appearance [CA1020860]
  • Font corrections
    • Improved handling of several font problems
    • Problem solved where a missing font name causes failure of PDF/A conversion [CA17299]
    • Problem solved where false embedded fonts prevented conversion [CA1020545]
  • Problem solved where wrong OutputIntents avoided conversion to PDF/A
  • Improved handling of transparency blend color space
  • Improved handling of PDF-version during impositioning
  • Problem solved where in certain cases the file size unexpectedly increased [FP6106]
  • Improvements for PDF/E conversion profiles [CA1020741]
• CLI
  • Improved handling of file extension [CA1020563]
  • Improved control over the number and types of values that are listed in the XML report