Release notes callas pdfaPilot 4

pdfaPilot 4.3.186

Release date: 2013-05-28

• Update of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 4 Desktop license

Features

• New Fixups
  • Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images
• PDF/A Conversion
  • New Fixup “Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images” added to standard conversion for PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3
• Export to EPUB
  • Added new optional parameter for creation of chapters

Fixes

• PDF/A conversion
  • Problem solved, where inconsistent spot color representations were not corrected
• Profiles
  • Harmonized handling and recognition of values defined as RegEx
• Fixups
  • Remove Layers: Problem solved, where Layers were only removed from first page of the PDF
• Checks
  • Problem solved, where check for font sizes reported negative values
• Actions
  • Problem solved, where empty image data caused in inproper behaviour during conversion [FP21906]
• Desktop/PlugIn
  • Problem solved, where user preferences were assigned with insufficient access rights in some cases (MacOS only)
  • Switchboard: Problem solved, where Batch processing only handled 1 file (MacOS only)
• Server/CLI
  • Problem solved, where processing of Profiles containing DeviceLink-Profiles were not properly supported
  • Improved handling of licenses if more than 1 license (with different limitations) are on the respective system
  • Distributed processing: Problem solved, where processing of folders were not properly handled
• Reports
  • Added destination information for hyperlinks in annotations into XML Reports
  • Added information of UserUnits (if existing) into CompactHTML Reports and Result dialog

pdfaPilot 4.3.184

Release date: 2013-04-12

• Update of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 4 Desktop license

Features

• Profiles
  • New profile for optimized conversion of Office documents to CMYK (based on recommendations of FOGRA/PSD)
• Fixups
  • New Fixup to create embedded thumbnails of pages
  • New Fixup: Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images
  • Folder used in fixups for config files can now directly opened

Fixes

• PDF/A analysis
  • Problem solved, where invalid widths entries for a font were not properly detected [CA1021220]
• PDF/A conversion
  • Problem solved, where text encoding malformed after PDF/A conversion
  • Problem solved, where a false coded inline image caused an improper result [CA1021751]
  • Problem solved, where conversion of certain tagged and scanned PDF failed [FP21699]
• Profiles
  • “List potential font problems”: Check “Text cannot be mapped to Unicode” added
• Fixups
  • Remove empty group and block level elements from tagging structure: Problem solved where table cells were not properly handled
• Actions
  • Office conversion: Problem solved, where table of content was not properly converted (OpenOffice only) [FP21213]
• Server
  • Distributed processing: Ports for server communication changed
• CLI
  • Problem solved, where UTF16 encoding was not properly respected (SunOS only) [FP21451]
  • Changed reporting of standard-fixups (Convert to PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/E): If conversion is not successful, it will show up as FixFailure
• Sanity: Improved performance and stability for office files [FP17838]

pdfaPilot 4.1.176

Release date: 2013-01-10

• Update of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 4 Desktop license

Features

• Acrobat Plug In
  • Support for Acrobat 11
• Server
  • Use of accesskey is now mandatory
  • General server settings added to preferences
  • Profiles can be edited directly from job settings dialogue
• General
  • MacOS: Installers are delievered in DMG format
  • Windows: callas software is a verified publisher

Fixes

• PDF/A analysis
  • Problem solved, where a missing nbspace in CharSet was falsely flagged as a PDF/A-1 problem [CA1021591]
• PDF/A conversion
  • Force conversion: Problem solved, where Re-Convert resulted in failure when performed in profile [FP21148]
  • Problem solved, where a wrong PDF/A-OutputIntent was embedded if a PDF/X-OutputIntent was already present [FP19661]
  • Fixed issue, where signature appearance was flipped after flattening [CA1021632]
  • Problem solved, where preflight certificate prevented a PDF from being converted to PDF/A [CA1021696]
• Actions
  • MergePDF: Tagging structure of source PDF will now be kept [FP19942]
• General
  • Problem solved, where invalid keycodes where not properly reported on Unix platforms [FP21244]
  • Office conversion: Improved handling for several warnings for MS Office 2010 [CA1021744]

pdfaPilot 4.0.172

Release date: 2012-10-30

• Upgrade of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of an SMA contract

Features

• Process Plans
  • Allows you to combine Profiles, Checks, Fixups and Actions into a defined sequence with variable execution of steps depending on previous results
• Variables
  • Consolidation of used variables within a Profile or ProcessPlan
• Server
  • Completely new Server User Interface
  • Processing can be distributed to other servers
  • Setting up hotfolder jobs from any pdfToolbox standalone on a remote server
  • Load balancing using pdfaPilot Server as a “Dispatcher” within an arbitrary number of “Satellites” in a network
• pdfaPilot Desktop
  • Folder-based creation of collections for PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 by dropping folders on the canvas
  • Embedd files: Ability to embedd source file into resulting PDF (for PDF/A-3)
  • Replace fonts: Added support for fonts using build-in encoding and differences array
  • Search field in all lists of Profiles, Fixups and Checks
  • Ability to create, duplicate or edit profiles, checks and fixups via direct links in processplans, profiles or fixups
• Export to HTML from tagged PDF
• Export to EPUB from tagged PDF
• New and enhanced Profiles
  • General:
    • Regular Expressions - all Fixups and Checks allowing RegEx have a new help feature
  • Added new “Convert references to notdef into valid references” as custom fixup:
    • All “Convert to PDF/A-…”-Profiles
    • All “Convert to PDF/X-…”-Profiles
  • Convert to PDF/A1-b (without fallback conversion)
  • Convert to PDF/A2-b (without fallback conversion)
  • Convert to PDF/A3-b (without fallback conversion)
  • Fix problems in PDF tagging structure
  • Check for PDF/A-1b compliance and convert if not compliant (process plan)
• New and enhanced Fixups
  • Several fixups to solve problems in PDF tagging structure
  • Convert references to .notdef glyphs into valid references
  • Remove Layer
  • Spot colors using non-valid UTF-8 names will be converted to RGB [CA1021519]
• New and enhanced Checks
  • Find negative font size
  • Find multiple Unicode mappings
  • Several checks to find problems in PDF tagging structure
• Reports
  • Added timezone into XML-Reports
  • Added UserUnits (Scalingfactor) into XML-Reports if used
• General
  • Improved handling of multiple usage of fonts
  • Improved handling of existing bookmarks
• Ability to use wildcards for font substitution [CA1014912]
• New version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated (v9.1.0PlusP4s)
• Support for AIX 6.1

Fixes

• PDF/A analysis
  • Improved handling of memory when analyzing files
  • Improved handling for content streams to avoid unneccessary changes in document in certain cases
  • Problem solved where font error was not properly detected
• PDF/A conversion
  • Improved handling of encrpyted or invalid PDF during processing [CA1021373]
  • Problem solved where PDF file could not be analyzed [CA1021217]
  • Problem solved where missing OutputIntent resulted gray output [CA1021459]
  • Problem solved where PDF with attachment was converted into an image [CA1021506]
  • Problem solved where links did not properly work after conversion [CA1021449]
  • Problem solved where Launch action was not properly converted [CA1021268]
  • Font corrections
    • Improved font-encoding for embedding Type1 fonts as a Base14 Font
    • Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType fonts: Improved usage and better handling of special combinations
    • Improved FontSubstition to avoid missing glyphs after PDF/A-2b conversion [CA1021127, CA1021269]
    • Problem solved where embedding fonts was not properly handled [CA1021220]
• Form fields
  • Impoved state handling for form fields [CA1021275]
• Profiles
  • Fallback conversion settings in standard profiles for PDF/A-1a, -2a and 3a disabled
• Reports
  • Problem solved where fixup was inproperly listed in XML report [CA1021584]
  • Improved handling of custom checks in HTML reports
• CLI
  • New parameter to avoid conversion to PDF and to handle any kind of input file as PDF [CA1021112]