Release notes callas pdfToolbox 6

pdfToolbox 6.3.225

Release date: 2013-05-17

• Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license

Features

• New properties
  • Effective ink coverage for registration color per plate [FP21919]

Fixes

• Profiles
  • Harmonized handling and recognition of values defined as RegEx [FP21956]
  • PDF/X-Wizard: Problem solved, where omitting ICC profiles did not worked properly [FP21820]
• Fixups
  • Remove Layers: Problem solved, where Layers were only removed from first page of the PDF [FP22091]
  • Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where additional empty pages where added on certain PDFs when optimization was used [FP22019]
• Checks
  • Improved analysis for Registration color, which has been clipped away [FP21919]
  • Problem solved, where check for font sizes reported negative values [FP21434; FP21907]
  • Effective ink coverage for separated plates: Problem solved, where given measurement units were not properly respected [CA1022006]
• 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 10.7 only) [FP22041]
• Server/CLI
  • Improved handling of licenses if more than 1 license (with different limitations) are on the respective system [CA1021784]
  • Distributed processing: Problem solved, where processing of folders were not properly handled [FP21868]
• Reports
  • Added destination information for hyperlinks in annotations into XML Reports [CA1022007]
  • Added information of UserUnits (if existing) into CompactHTML Reports and Result dialog

pdfToolbox 6.3.223

Release date: 2013-04-03

• Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license

Features

• Switchboard
  • Create Bleed: New function for creating bleed by mirroring of content added
  • Sharpen images: New function to increase contrast of images
• 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
• Actions
  • SplitInHalf: New parameter to make content outside of TrimBox invisble [CA1021627; FP21490; FP21736]
• Switch
  • Added support for reports created by ProcessPlans [FP20924]
  • Added support for creation of bleed to Booklet, Step&Repeat, Fillpage, Nup [FP21258]
• Reports
  • Extended Visualizer-reports to create separations in respective color (CLI only)

Fixes

• Desktop
  • Explore Layers: Problem solved, where new default view was not properly saved [FP20126; FP20954; FP20354]
  • Improved provision for OutputIntents when displaying PDFs [CA1017453; CA1017807]
  • Problem solved, where general graphic state property could not be selected from list [FP21693]
  • Improved recognition of already existing Fixups when importing profiles [CA1017022]
  • Problem solved, where usage of variables resulted in error for certain profiles
• Profiles
  • “List potential font problems”: Check “Text cannot be mapped to Unicode” added
  • “GWG 2012”-Profiles: Check “Alternate color space does not use DeviceCMYK” replaced with “Alternate color space does not use DeviceCMYK or DeviceGray”
  • “GWG 2012”-Profiles: Adjusted destination profiles for “Convert alternate of spot colors…”-fixups depending on printing target
  • PDF/X-4p: Problem solved, where OutputIntent was embedded although not needed
• Fixups
  • Map spot and process colors: Problem solved, where import of spot colors via PDF does not work as expected [CA1021672]
  • Rotate pages: Problem solved, where some content was inadvertedly affected [FP21073]
  • Crop pages to bounding box: Problem solved, where the Fixup did not work as expected in some cases [FP21426]
  • Flatten Transparency: Problem solved, where text using Type 3 font was changed [FP16953]
  • Remove objects outside bleedbox: Problem solved, where vector shape were changed [FP20877; FP20947; FP21208]
  • Remove ICC source profiles if identical to OutputIntent profile: Problem solved, where profiles were not removed [FP7385; FP21171]
  • Knockout white vector and/or text objects: Problem solved where execution of fixup was not properly reported [CA1021912]
  • Set page scaling factor: Decimal values are now allowed [FP21365]
  • Unsharp masking of images: Problem solved for images using indexed colorspace [CA1021845]
  • Problem solved, where a false coded inline image caused an improper result [CA1021751]
• Process Plans
  • Problem soved, where JobOptions were not respected [FP21573]
  • “Certify” is now also available for ProcessPlans
  • Minor adjustments in availability and handling of reports
• Actions
  • Create PS: Problem solved, where creation failed in some cases [FP16693]
  • SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where resolution was not respected when colorspace CMYK used [FP21556; FP21750]
  • Create EPS / PS: Problem in conjunction with some legacy systems solved [FP21814]
  • Office conversion: Problem solved, where table of content was not properly converted (OpenOffice only) [FP21213]
  • Impose: Added support for empty strings used in variables
  • Booklet: Problem solved, where given –voffset and –pageheight were not properly respected [CA1021883]
  • SaveAsImage: Added support for exporting pages into uncompressed multichannel TIFFs [CA1021761]
• Server
  • Improved recognition of changes in profiles in “Edit Job”-dialogue
  • Enhanced handling of PDFs when additional parameter –certify is used
  • Distributed processing: Problem solved, where XSLT-files for reports were not forwarded to satellite
  • Problem solved, where process plans containing a single impose action with sheetconfig.pdf resulted in unexpected result
• CLI
  • Improved handling of temporary working directories to avoid problems with simultaneous processes
  • Problem solved, where listing of variables did not work with process plans [CA1021914]
  • SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where created dimension differed from requested one [FP21318]
  • SaveAsImg: Added new parameter for smoothing to avoid favoring of thin lines [FP21815]
  • Reports will automatically be moved to the folder defined in -f/–outputfolder, if not otherwise defined in –report
  • Problem solved with assertion during saveasimg in special cases (Linux only) [FP21446]
  • Changed reporting of standard-fixups (Convert to PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/E): If conversion is not successful, it will show up as FixFailure
  • Problem solved, where UTF16 encoding was not properly respected (SunOS only) [FP21451]
  • ConvertColors: Improved reporting when conversion was not successful
• Reports
  • Improved reporting of MD5-Hash-values for ICC Profiles used by objects or Output Intents
  • Improved reporting of spot color names as trigger values [FP21005]
  • Problem solved, where Layer report had unnecessary layer entry [CA1021902]
  • Added optional parameter to list ink coverage in % and sqcm in XML reports (CLI only)
• Acrobat Plug In
  • Summary report: Problems solved, where purpose text was not wrapped [CA1020742]
• Problem solved, where processing failed on certain PDFs [CA1021943; FP21536]
• Sanity: Improved performance and stability for office files [FP17838]

pdfToolbox 6.2.212

Release date: 2013-01-10

• Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license

Features

• Fixups
  • New Fixup: Add white background [FP20580]
• Server
  • Use of accesskey is now mandatory
  • General server settings added to preferences
  • Profiles can be edited directly from job settings dialogue
• CLI
  • Splithalf: Add new function to make content outside of defined slot invisble [CA1021627]
  • Enabled usage of Symlinks for MacOS and Unix-platforms [CA1013140]
• General
  • MacOS: Installers are delievered in DMG format
  • Windows: callas software is a verified publisher
• Reports
  • Ink coverage in percent and area can now be listed for all pages in XML-reports

Fixes

• Profiles
  • Problem solved, where wrong error code was given after successful processing [FP20344]
  • Convert to PDF/X-1a: Fixed issue, where conversion resulted in missing objects
  • When a “Conversion to standard” is ordered, the respective check in “Standard compliance” will be activated automatically
• Checks
  • Problem solved, where overprint not detected for SmoothShades [FP20907]
• Process Plans
  • Enabled handling of reports from ProcessPlans in Switch [FP20924]
• Fixups
  • Problem solved, where registry entry of OutputIntent was not properly embedded in some cases [FP19927]
  • DeviceLink: Problem solved, where conversion resulted in unexpected result [CA1021777]
  • DeviceLink: Problem solved, where conversion results in error in shading dictionary [FP21150]
• Actions
  • ReDistill: Fixed issue, where processing resulted in unexpected result [FP7305]
• Acrobat Plug In
  • Problem solved, where fixup “Generate bleed” did not work as expected [FP21054]
• Server
  • Problem solved, where different types of licenses on a system resulted in limited functionality [CA1021784]
  • Problem solved, where Office conversion did not work after update [FP20922]
• CLI
  • Problem solved, where usage of additional parameter –uncompressimg had improper results [CA1021717]
  • Problem solved, where use of additional parameter –uncompressimg reported 4c for a black and white image [FP21005]
  • SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where simulating overprint did not work as expected [FP20989]
  • Problem solved, where wrong reason code for encrypted PDFs was given [CA1021581]

pdfToolbox 6.2.208

Release date: 2012-11-21

• Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license

Features

• New fixups
  • Generate bleed by adding images of content at edges and corners
  • Predefined: Decalibrate ICCbased CMYK by converting them to DeviceCMYK
• Actions
  • Fillpage adds empty slots to generate cutmarks on all edges
• Desktop
  • Improved dialogue for dynamic variables during runtime
  • Checks and Fixups containing variables are now marked in the edit dialogue for profiles
  • Arrange: Fillpage adds empty slots to generate cutmarks on all edges
• Acrobat Plug In
  • Support for Acrobat 11
• Server
  • Added reports to all severities in ServerUI
• CLI
  • EnumerateLayers: Language can now be defined by –language
  • SplitPDF: Optimized handling to increase performance of processing [CA1021368; CA1021543]
  • Step and Repeat, Fillpage, N-Up and Booklet: Bleed creation without cutmarks
• Reports
  • Resolution of images in PDF reports can be defined by additional CLI parameter
  • PDF reports get suffix “_report” if no explicit output filename is specified
  • Results from optional “When it does not fire, report as…” are now also listed in XML-Reports [FP20836]

Fixes

• Fixups
  • Increase line width: Problem solved where processing resulted in improper changes of filled vector objects [FP20660; FP20443]
  • Convert to PDF/X-4: Fixed issue where PDF could not be converted due to failure in XMP metadata correction [CA 1020132]
  • Convert to PDF/X-4p: Fixed issue where PDF version was changed to 1.3 [FP20582]
  • Downsample/Recompress: Problem solved where Color Key Masking resulted in improper converted image [FP20136]
  • Downsample/Recompress: Problem solved where inline images where not properly handled [FP20230]
  • Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where objects were not properly converted [CA1021622]
  • Convert colors: Problem solved where some objects in DeviceN were not processed correctly [CA1021543]
  • Convert colors: Fixed issue where conversion to grayscale resulted in visual differences
• Checks
  • Plates per page: Problem solved where registration color resulted in an increased number [CA1021666]
  • Line width: Problem solved where check reported problems although they were already fixed within the same profile [CA1020413]
• Actions
  • Save as image: Problem solved where combination of –rect and –resolution resulted in unexpected results [FP19001]
  • Save as image: Changed default rendering intent to “Relative Colorimetric” [FP20283]
  • Save as image: Problem solved where colors differ between normal PNG and transparent PNG [FP20684]
• Desktop
  • Added support for quotes in labels and default values of variables
  • Switchboard: Problem solved where converting to PDF/X-4 resulted in invalid XMP Metadata [FP20371]
• Server
  • Fewer empty lines in CLI-logfiles (Problem was on Windows only)
  • Problem solved where processing took much longer in Server than using the CLI [FP20853; FP20596]
  • Problem solved where processing seems to freeze [FP19824]
• Reports
  • Fixed issue where a corrupt PostScript function in PDF resulted in missing report after processing [CA1021562]
  • PDF Mask reports: Problem solved where Layers where listed twice [CA1021564]
  • Improved reporting of used plates [CA1021460]
• Impose
  • Problem solved where PDF file becomes much larger after impositioning [CA1021652]

pdfToolbox 6.1.198

Release date: 2012-09-24

• Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license

Fixes

• Reports
  • Problem solved where plates were not properly determined. [CA1021460]

pdfToolbox 6.1.197

Release date: 2012-09-13

• Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license

Features

• New profiles
  • Prepress: Added 7 profiles for validation and conversion accordingly to the “Ghent Workgroup PDF Specification 2012 CMYK”
  • Analyze pages for effectively used plates (based on rendered pages)
• New properties
  • Effective ink coverage for separated plates (based on rendered pages)
• Checks
  • Effective ink coverage: Enhanced for average inside sample size [FP20121]
• Desktop
  • Search field in all lists of Profiles, Fixups and Checks
  • Ability to create, duplicate or edit profiles, checks and fixups via direct links in process plans, profiles or fixups
  • New Switchboard function in group colors: “Map a process color into a spot color”
• Server
  • New option to delete originals after processing
• CLI
  • Compare: Added function to create only those pages in reports that have differences
  • Split PDF: Extended parameters to define an end page [CA1020779]
  • Visualizer: Added function to render individual separations
  • Visualizer: Added function to create only those pages that have problems

Fixes

• Fixups
  • Increase line width: Problem solved where line width was not changed in some cases [CA1020817]
  • Convert colors: Enhanced handling of different encodings in policy [FP16716]
  • Map spot and process colors: Problem solved where conversion from DeviceN black into CMYK resulted in 4c black [FP16715]
  • Scale pages: Problem solved where combination with certain fixups in one profile resulted in an error [FP18312], [FP18352]
• Checks
  • Effective ink coverage: Problem solved where improper results were determined [CA1021152]
• Actions
  • Redistill: Problem solved where some vector objects changed their appearance [FP16868]
  • Redistill: Problem solved where image was not properly handled [FP16942]
  • Redistill: Problem solved where smooth shades resulted in improper result [FP17215]
  • Passe partout: Problem solved where objects with certain blend mode vanished [FP18829]
  • Passe partout: Problem solved where boxes were improperly handled [CA1016305]
• Reports
  • Improved layout of filenames in compare reports [FP16489], [CA1020687]
  • Fixed issue where plates used in document were not properly reported in XML report [CA1021516], [CA1021501]
  • Problem solved where reports for images and colors were created malformed [FP20176]
  • Problem solved where fixups are missing in the summary page of the PDF-Layer report [CA1021259]
• Impose
  • Problem solved where defined color value of cropmark were not respected [FP17079]
• CLI
  • Support for empty variables [FP18708]
  • Problem solved where conversion of large TIFF into PDF were not handled properly [FP18141]
• Server
  • Problem solved where text reports were not moved into correct output destination [FP19873]
• Acrobat Plug In
  • Problem solved where removal of document structure compression failed [FP18305]
• Problem solved where ICC profiles were not searched in system folder
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9.1 integrated (v9.1.0PlusP4s)

pdfToolbox 6.0.185

Release date: 2012-07-09

• Upgrade to pdfToolbox 6 Desktop requires upgrade fee for owners of a pdfToolbox 4 or 5 Desktop license
• Upgrade to pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox 5 Desktop

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 Process Plan
• 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 pdfToolbox Server as a “Dispatcher” within an arbitrary number of “Satellites” in a network
• 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
    • All Profiles based on the recommendations of the Ghent PDF Workgroup
• New and enhanced Fixups
  • Map spot and process colors: New mapping of process colorants into spot color colorants
  • Convert colors: New setting to include SoftMasks [CA1021345; FP18507]
  • Convert references to .notdef glyphs into valid references
  • Remove Layer
• New and enhanced Checks
  • Find negative font size
  • Find multiple Unicode mappings
• New and enhanced Actions
  • Create EPS: Added support for “Clean 7 bit EPS” [FP7178]
• Reports
  • Overview pages of reports containing links to page with occurance [CA102340]
  • Added timezone into XML-Reports [CA1021271]
  • Added UserUnits (Scalingfactor) into XML-Reports if used [CA1021213]
• CLI
  • Action “Save as image”: Support for pagebox “MediaBox” added
  • Action “Save as image”: Support for transparent PNG-files added
  • Report: “Overview” can be created separately
• General
  • Improved handling of multiple usage of fonts [FP16967]
  • Improved handling of existing bookmarks [CA1016503]
• Desktop
  • Replace fonts: Added support for fonts using build-in encoding and differences array [CA1019457]

Fixes

• Fixups
  • Convert colors: Problem solved where some kind of DeviceN objects became invisible [CA1021165]
  • Convert colors: Improved handling of special combinations of transparency modes [FP17849]
  • Convert colors: Problem solved where objects may disappear in special constellation [FP17172]
  • Convert colors: Improved results when previous processing steps altered the PDF file [FP18560]
  • Convert colors: Problem solved where some CalRGB objects where not properly handled [CA1020468]
  • Convert colors: Problem solved where results were improperly handled in special fixup combinations [CA1021320]
  • Convert colors: Improved handling of PDFs using incomplete Form XObjects [CA1021336]
  • Convert colors using DeviceLink: Problem solved where special filter settings for Process and DeviceN were not respected [CA1014206]
  • Convert colors using DeviceLink: Problem solved where processing may result in improper result [FP17652]
  • Convert registration color to black: Problem solved where not all occurances where converted with a single run [FP17427]
  • Crop to visible: Improved recognition of objects [CA1018617]
  • Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Improved recognition of CropMarks [FP16985; CA1021385]
  • Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Improved handling of existing CropBox [FP7009]
  • Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Problem solved where fixup failed on certain PDFs [FP18290; FP18313]
  • Downsample/recompress images: Problem solved where image masks were not downsampled in some cases [CA1020747]
  • Downsample/recompress images: Problem solved where processing special PDF files causes an error [CA1019830]
  • Downsample/recompress bitmaps: Problem solved where image became inverted [FP17301]
  • Fix potential font problems: Problem solved where glyphs were missing in certain PDFs [CA1020735]
  • Embed missing fonts: Improved font-encoding for embedding Type1 fonts as a Base14 Font [CA1021049]
  • Flatten transparency: Improved handling of multiply used SmoothShase patterns [FP16668; FP17790]
  • Map spot and process colors: Problem solved in handling of DeviceN channels with value “None” [FP19417]
  • Map spot and process colors: Problem solved where processing with special settings resulted in an error [FP18417]
  • Map spot and process colors: Improved handling of setting “Use source color” [FP18287]
  • Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType fonts: Improved usage and better handling of special combinations [CA1021293]
  • Remove objects out of trimbox: Improved recognition of painting parts of objects [FP17987]
• Checks
  • Page orientation with tolerance: Problem solved where setting was not properly respected [FP7344]
  • Problem solved where ink coverage was not correctly determined in special cases [CA1020818]
  • Improved handling of memory when analyzing files [CA1021226]
  • Improved handling for content streams to avoid unneccessary changes in document in certain cases [FP19103]
  • Problem solved where font error was not properly detected [CA1014901]
• Actions
  • Enumerate Layers: Problem solved where spot colors were not handled correctly [CA1021173]
  • To PDF: Added handling of TIFF-images using sample value = 5 per pixel [CA1021037]
  • To PDF: Problem solved where wrong font was used when converting some EPS to PDF on Macintosh [FP17854]
  • To PDF: Problem solved where PostScript to PDF conversion with certain joboptions caused move of glyphs [FP17534]
• Changed internal package version for profiles to 12
• Discontinued installation of configurators for Enfocus Switch (Distribution will continue via CrossRoads & Enfocus PackManager)