pdfaPilot CLI

pdfaPilot CLI garandeert dat je documenten worden gearchiveerd en tot ver in de toekomst toegankelijk zijn, geïntegreerd in je eigen oplossing.

Command-line processing

pdfaPilot CLI is a true command-line application available on Windows (32 and 64-bit), Linux (32 and 64-bit), Mac OS X, IBM AIX and Sun Solaris. Because it is totally self-sufficient (installation is as easy as unzipping the installation archive) and has been optimized for speed and reliability, it is the ideal PDF/A engine for web portals, document management systems or automated archival systems.

This command-line version of pdfaPilot is actually also the engine underneath pdfaPilot Server, so if you have pdfaPilot Server running you also have access to all power of pdfaPilot CLI.

PDF/A support and a wide range of PDF related functionality

pdfaPilot CLI obviously supports all PDF/A standards (and a range of related PDF standards as well); it can verify PDF/A compliance or bring incoming file into compliance with the PDF/A flavor of your choice. As pdfaPilot CLI can generate highly configurable reports in PDF and XML format, integration in further automated processes is easy. Next to PDF/A support, pdfaPilot CLI offers a number of related PDF features as well:

• Converting from office documents, images and PostScript/EPS to PDF or PDF/A
• Saving images for each page in a PDF
• Extracting content (text) and images from a PDF
• Securing a PDF file with a password
• Converting tagged PDF into HTML or EPUB
• Creating, checking or processing ZUGFeRD invoices
• …

For each of these tasks, pdfaPilot CLI has a dedicated command-line action that comes with a range of customizable options.

Versatility in usage

Even though pdfaPilot CLI is a command-line application, it can be used in an extremely flexible way. First of all the command-line application can be started multiple times in parallel (8 times for a standard license, an unlimited times for the unlimited version of the product) in order to perform PDF/A compliance checking or conversion or to run any of the myriad of PDF manipulation actions built-in to the application.

But pdfaPilot CLI can also be launched as a watched folder processing server, straight from the command-line. Or it can be launched using a dispatcher or satellite license to partake in load balancing across systems. In these modes it can be configured and controlled by a pdfaPilot Desktop running anywhere else in the network.

Complex automation environments

Working with pdfaPilot CLI in environments where automation needs are complex or where high-availability of resources is crucial provides a number of benefits over the regular pdfaPilot Server product.

pdfaPilot CLI can be started as a “typed” satellite. These allow a categorization of satellites connected to a dispatcher so that files can be processed on the best-qualified satellite. The command-line version can also be used to monitor a running pdfaPilot Server or Dispatcher (in order to ensure that everything runs smoothly).

In critical environments, pdfaPilot CLI can be used to automatically address two different pdfaPilot Dispatchers so that results can be guaranteed even if one of the dispatchers would experience difficulties.

pdfaPilot for OEM customers

pdfaPilot is used by many OEM customers worldwide integrated into their own products, mainly for document and email archiving based on the PDF/A standard, and for analysis, processing and conversion of office and print PDFs. Our OEM customers’ products are used in government agencies, finance or in the industry for archiving, document management, email management, product live cycle management and much more.

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System requirements

Complete automation

• Perform quality control by running any pdfaPilot profile or process plan
• Convert PDF, office files, images and emails to PDF or PDF/A from the command-line
• Generate an unlimited amount of preflight reports from a single preflight
• With special command-line commands, run a PDF action on PDF files
• Process 8 documents in parallel using the regular license or scale up to the full power of your hardware or virtual environment with an unlimited license
• Alternatively launch pdfaPilot CLI as server, dispatcher or satellite to create a standalone server or a component in a load-balancing workflow
• Integrate into Enfocus Switch and laidback solutions FileTrain

The best and most complete PDF quality control on the planet

• Checks PDFs for compliance to the PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 standard (ISO 19005-1, 19005-2 and 19005-3)
• Converts PDF files to PDF/A-1 and implements all necessary corrections
• Converts emails into PDF/A
• Converts PDF files to EPUB and HTML
• Supports all PDF/A conformance levels (from PDF/A-1b to PDF/A-3u)
• Improves PDFs to facilitate the creation of PDF/UA files
• Reporting of problems through different types of predefined PDF reports
• Customizable PDF reports based on HTML templates for maximum adjustment to your brand and users (including easy adaptation of colors, layout, icons and logos and textual content)
• Integrated fixes allows quickest handling of PDF documents
• Secured fixing by using PDF comparison technology; easily identify when a fix causes visual differences
• Build process plans: customizable lists of fixes that can be executed on PDF documents conditionally
• Guaranteed conversion to PDF/A by re-distilling (generating PostScript and distilling back into PDF) or by rasterizing each page with problems

Customize quality control and fixing

• Insert variables into checks or fixes
• Modify values for variables in each job
• Decide on the fly whether checks or fixes need to be run for a specific document

Benefits

Easy integration for all of your PDF needs

• Supports all PDF standards, both from international standard organizations and from national user associations
• Covers quality control, result reporting, PDF fixing and many other PDF manipulations (generating PDF from office files, conversion from and to PostScript or EPS, and much more)
• Command-line interface makes it easy to integrate pdfaPilot CLI with limited amount of development resources required
• Full documentation and in-application help for quick integration
• Runs on any common problem (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX)

Configure your automation exactly as you need it

• Command-line application can be used to execute preflight profiles or process plans, but also executes a multitude of PDF actions (saving image, converting to and from PDF, splitting and merging PDF documents, extracting content and much more)
• Standard license supports 8 parallel processes; unlimited license supports the full power of your hardware or virtual platform
• pdfaPilot CLI can be used as a regular command-line application or can be launched as a server or dispatcher
• The command-line application can be used to monitor a server running anywhere on the network
• The command-line application can be used in client mode to pass commands to a server or dispatcher running on a different machine
• Works together with Enfocus Switch or Laidback FileTrain for further automation needs

Enjoy highest quality and reliability

• Uses the same PDF preflight engine as Adobe Acrobat
• Builds on the Adobe PDF Library for PDF file processing, transparency flattening, PostScript / EPS support and more

pdfaPilot is dé oplossing voor conversie van PDF- of andere documenten en e-mails naar hoogkwalitatieve, doorzoekbare PDF- of PDF/A-bestanden voor archivering op lange termijn. Het maakt gebruik van dezelfde uiterst betrouwbare PDF/A-technologie als Adobe Acrobat en is beschikbaar voor desktopgebruik, via hot folders of voor integratie in bestaande systemen via een command-line interface of een software development kit.

Version history

Showing the 5 most recent of 36 releases.

13.1.385

• A free of charge update of pdfaPilot 13 Desktop for owners of a pdfaPilot 13 Desktop license
• A free of charge update of pdfaPilot Server, pdfaPilot CLI or pdfaPilot SDK for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA)

Features

• Desktop
  • Test mode: Several smaller improvements, e.g. loupe now shows page geometry boxes and page content is displayed in bleed preview
• Process plans
  • Compare: A compare report can now also be created if no differences were found
  • Action "Split or reorder" now supports output options like folder, prefix and suffix
• New Fixups
  • Place file on page
• New Properties
  • Size of image
  • Size of page object
  • Color distance between barcode / matrix code and background
  • Bounding box of effectively used page area
• New or enhanced predefined Profiles and Process plans
  • Library: PDF Standards:
    • Verify compliance with PDF/A-2u: Adjusted algoritm for allowed ToUnicode values
    • PDF/UA-1 validation: Element does not use standard tag: Improved detection of recursive RoleMaps
  • Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:
    • Added 34 new Profiles for validation and conversion accordingly to the Ghent Workgroup "GWG 2022 R1 Specification"
      • Digital Print
      • Large Format Printing (LFP)
      • Newspaper and Magazine Ads
      • Packaging Flexo / Gravure / Offset
      • SheetCMYK / SheetSpot
      • WebCMYK / WebSpot
• Actions
  • To PDF: Automatic fallback for office files to use OpenOffice/LibreOffice if no MS Office is available (Windows only)
• CLI
  • SaveAsImage New optional parameter to define working color spaces for RGB, CMYK and Gray on CLI
• General
  • RegEx used in Checks and Fixups: Wrong RegEx syntax will be reported during execution
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v18.0.4PlusP2z)
• Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.5.084.1)
  

Fixes

• Desktop
  • Manage Libraries: Problem solved, where importing of a JavaScript based runlist was not properly done
  • Process plan editor: Problem solved, where un-protecting a protected Process plan wasn't possible anymore
  • Object inspector: Problem solved, where certain PDF files could not be analyzed
  • Output preview: Issue fixed, where selected RGB or Gray ICC profiles had no effect on displayed color swatches
  • Output preview: Problem solved, where a PDF/X-5n could not be rendered properly
  • Switchboard: Issue in batch processing fixed, where certain functions were not properly executed when files were processed on a network path (Windows only)
  • Visualizer: Issue fixed, where view was not refreshed when page or document was changed
• Fixups
  • Crop to visible based on rendered page: Issue fixed, where CropBox was set larger than MediaBox and an unnecessary ArtBox was introduced
  • Crop to visible based on rendered page: Problem solved, where the option "ignore objects using Registration color" was not properly regarded in some cases
  • Create link for page objects: Issue fixed, where new link annotations were not positioned on top of existing link annotations
  • Create invisible text via OCR: Problem solved, where an improperly nested CropBox/MediaBox had an incomplete result
  • Discard hidden layers: Problem solved, where removing a layer could result in missing resources
  • Downsample/recompress images:
    • Issue fixed, where a FixFailure was reported for ZIP compressed images and re-compression
    • Issue fixed, where an JPEG2000 image with smask could not be converted
    • Issue fixed, where a smask was not properly handled
    • Problem solved, where re-compression was not properly executed on a certain, very large PDF
    • Issue fixed, where processing took very long on a certain file with a very high number of very small images (Windows only)
  • Remove empty layers: Problem solved, where certain layer-related entries remained in PDF
  • Flatten transparency: Issue fixed, where the time out setting was not regarded with certain PDFs
  • Subset fonts: Issue fixed, where .notdef glyph used for space characters became visible in certain viewers if its Unicode referenced non-breaking space character
  • Place content on page: Issue fixed, where layers were not merged although name, default visibility and Process Steps metadata were matching
  • Place content on page: Issue fixed, where the "Order" array of already existing Layers was not properly maintained
  • Font processing: Problem solved, where certain result fonts triggered a warning for an unavailable font in certain PDF viewers
  • Recompress JPEG2000 images as JPEG: Issue fixed, where certain JPEG2000 image could not be converted
  • Remove printer marks: Problem solved, where objects were not removed on all pages if referenced by more than one Form XObject
• Properties
  • Number of hits in this check / Number of hits in this check in document: Improved handling of defined limits to avoid unnecessary high memory usage and to improve performance
  • Find barcodes: Limit rendering to CropBox even if a custom area is defined and exceeds it to avoid unnecessary memory consumption
  • Number of plates: Issue fixed, where smooth shades using only black were reported as "more than 1 plate used"
  • Text on page: Problem solved were multiple word repetitions occurred in the trigger value for OCR text
  • Has transfer function: Issue fixed, where a TR2 entry was also taken into account in some cases, although not relevant
  • Syntax issues: Multiple defined "object streams" with identical order numbers in PDF stream added to internal list of checks
• Actions
  • Collection: Problem solved, where the overview page remained emty and no files were embedded in certain cases [FP77375]
  • Compare: A wrong path was written for a preview image in cals_params.js when used with a report template
  • Duplicate pages: Issue fixed, where the transparency blend color space was not properly maintained
  • Save as image:
    • Problem solved, where rendering of a certain font was not possible
    • Issue fixed, where conversion to TIFF using CMYK and multichannel resulted in an unexpected CMYK color shift
    • Issue fixed where rendering outside of the CropBox was no longer possible
  • List Variables: Issue fixed, where certain Variable information was missing for a Process plan
  • QuickFix: ResavePDF: Problem solved, where wrong header was written in a certain cases
  • QuickFix: Enlarge pages: Issue fixed, were certain pattern used in a smooth shade was not properly handled
  • Imposition: Issue fixed where a page scaling factor was not properly regarded if JavaScript-based imposition was applied
  • To PDF for images:
    • Problem solved, where PDF creation resulted in wrong dimension for certain JPEG
    • Problem solved, where a certain way of placing text in a SVG resulted in an unexpected result
    • Issue fixed, where a CMYK TIFF was not completely converted to PDF
    • Problem solved, where transparent regions from CMYK TIFF files became white
    • Problem solved, where 8bit CMYK TIFF files with Photoshop alpha layers were not converted to PDF correctly
    • Issue fixed, where conversion from TIFF with a smaller BBox than Path-to-clip resulted in a thin white line
    • Issue fixed, where conversion of certain high-resolution TIFF resulted in a slightly shifted result
    • Issue fixed, where a multichannel TIFF could not be properly converted to PDF
    • Problem solved, where a TIFF using the deprecated "Old-style JPEG (in TIFF)" compression could not be converted
    • Issue fixed, where an uncompressed grayscale TIFF using 8-Bit could not be converted properly
    • Issue fixed, where conversion of a certain TIFF using 16-Bit resulted in gray tiles
    • Issue fixed, where a CMYK TIFF using 8-Bit with JPEG compression was converted correctly
    • Problem solved, where a TIFF containing an ICC profile with issues could not be converted
    • Issue fixed, where a TIFF with Photoshop alpha layers exceeding the dimension of the image itself was not handled properly
    • Problem solved, where the dimension of a certain JPG image using a resolution with decimal values was not properly maintained
  • To PDF: Problem solved, where a certain type of scaling in a CF2 file was not properly interpreted
  • ZUGFeRD: Issue solved, where XMP entry for Version was set to "1p0" instead of "1.0"
• Reports
  • XML/JSON: Explicit reporting of default color spaces
  • JSON v2: Issue fixed, where no report was generated for password protected PDFs
  • JSON v2: Issue fixed, where no report was generated for PDFs with an invalid colorspace type for an image mask
  • JSON v2: Issue fixed, where embedded files with AF entry were not listed
  • XML: XML schema (XSD) adjusted to cover output_intents entries
• Server
  • Issue fixed, where a specified limitation of parallel processes was internally always set to 8 processes even the License Server was used
• CLI
  • To PDF: Problem solved, where PostScript-to-PDF conversion could result in unnecessary high memory consumption
  • Profile execution: Optimized handling for hits per document if no report option is selected in order to increase performance
• Distributed processing
  • Problem solved, where result files of Actions using sub-folders were not transferred back to the Client
  • Problem solved, where placing PDFs using the "Place content on page" Fixup was not properly done
• General
  • Actions in ProcessPlan: Issue fixed, where a defined sub-folder structure was not regarded
  • Process plans: A "File pick up" step now restores the original file name as well
  • Process plans: Problem solved, where a combination of "Rename PDF" and "Do not save modified input file" resulted in an error
  • Issue fixed, where a Process plan execution was not successful with the first runs but was successful later
  • Problem solved, where Profile execution was not successful if certain Fixups were using certain settings

13.2.388

• A free of charge update of pdfaPilot 13 Desktop for owners of a pdfaPilot 13 Desktop license
• A free of charge update of pdfaPilot Server, pdfaPilot CLI or pdfaPilot SDK for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA)

Features

• New Properties
  • Glyph without contour used for non white space character
• Enhanced Properties
  • All barcode-related Checks: Revised and optimized analysis for improved recognition and higher speed
  • Report PDF syntax issues: Reporting for invalid end-of-data (EOD) marker in inline images
• Desktop
  • Password visibility can be toggled
  • Process plans: Multiple steps can now be marked as a group and activated or deactivated together and assigned a variable
• Actions
  • Visualizer: Support for RGBA (RGB with transparency) and GrayA (Gray with transparency) as output colorspace for PNG
    
  • Save as image: Support for CMYK + Alpha (CMYK with transparency) for TIFF
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v18.0.5PlusP1c)

Fixes

• Desktop
  • Acrobat Plug-in: Problem solved, where other 3rd-party Plug-ins could not be closed anymore when a PDF was processed by pdfToolbox
  • Batch processing: Processing result in crashing application if "Do not save modified input file" was enabled
  • Explore PDF: Problem solved, where analysis was not successful if certain data after EOF marker existed
  • Explore PDF: Problem solved, where certain PDF with content stream issues was not analyzed properly
  • Layer explorer: Issue fixed, where the visibility of cascading layer groups could not be switched on or off properly
• PDF Standards
  • Convert to PDF/A-...: Problem solved, where in rare cases a date mismatch between Document Info and XMP Metadata was not adjusted
• Fixups
  • Convert TrueType fonts to CFF (for font not matching PDF/A-2 requirements): Issue fixed, where the result PDF had certain font issues
  • Create invisible text via OCR: Issue fixed, where invisible text was not positioned properly if MediaBox is larger than CropBox
    
  • Create invisible text via OCR: Issue fixed, where an empty text block was generated although the PDF had no text
    
  • Downsample/recompress images: Issue fixed, where a destination resolution of "0" was not handled properly and resulted in a missing image
    
  • General font processing: Issue fixed, where certain, rare supplement encoding entries in CFF fonts were not regarded properly, resulting in a changed visual appearance of a glyph
  • Place circle|rectangle: Issue fixed, where created layers did not contain certain entries in the layer order array and therefore were not listed as layers in certain PDF viewers
  • Remove annotations: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an error due to certain, incomplete annotation entries
    
  • Remove pages: Issue fixed, where page labels were not properly restored when pages were deleted
  • Scale pages: Problem solved, where "Fit from outside (cut page)" didn't reduce the size of TrimBox and BleedBox when needed
    
  • Set layer default to ON/OFF: Problem solved where processing was not executed properly
  • Subset fonts: Issue fixed, where processing could change the visual appearance of a particular glyph in a certain case
    
  • All rendering-based Fixups: Improved error message when required memory size could not be allocated
• Checks
  • Character code can not be mapped to Unicode: Issue fixed, where certain CMap entries were not properly taken into account
  • Find barcodes:
    • Issue fixed, where barcode recognition took quite long on certain large pages
    • Problem solved, where an unnecessary high amount of memory was used (Linux only)
    • Improved recognition of certain, low quality scanned barcodes
    • Issue fixed, where an inverted barcode could not be found in certain cases
  • Annotation inside BleedBox/TrimBox Problem solved, where annotations were not detected correctly in some cases
• Actions
  
  • E-mail to PDF: Issue solved, where certain tables were not properly formatted [CA1033322]
  • ToPDF:
    • Problem solved, where the resolution of JPEG images was not maintained in certain cases
    • Issue fixed, where MS Publisher files were not converted by MS Office but via LibreOffice
    • Issue fixed, where a TIFF using "Old-style JPEG (in TIFF)" compression could not be converted
  • E-invoice (ZUGFeRD): Problem solved, where XML schema for validation could not be found if the executable was called from a network path
• Reports
  • XML: Issue fixed, where the report contained for a PDF with an embedded file was incomplete
  • XML: Schema (XSD) adapted, as certain entries were not clearly defined
• Server
  • Job view: Problem solved, where starting or stopping a job did not maintain the scrolling position
    
• CLI
  • Several Fixups will now report a more detailed error message if an invalid RegEx is used
  • Problem solved, where processing failed due to missing dependencies in certain RHEL (and SLES) based Linux distributions [e.g. an AlmaLinux docker environment]
• General
  • Native ARM support for installer on macOS
  • RegEx used in Checks and Fixups: Problem solved, where certain incorrect RegEx syntax was not reported properly during execution
  • Adjusted version info in "info.plist" to match specified scheme by Apple (macOS only)
  • Rendering: Problem solved, where certain colored PDFs were displayed as gray, caused by a specific RGB-ICC profile as transparency blend color space
  • Rendering: Issue fixed, where certain, slightly corrupt PDF could no longer be rendered
  • "ZuGFeRD" renamed to "e-invoice"

13.2.388.1

• A free of charge update of pdfaPilot 13 Desktop for owners of a pdfaPilot 13 Desktop license
• A free of charge update of pdfaPilot Server, pdfaPilot CLI or pdfaPilot SDK for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA)

Fixes

• Process plans:
  
  • Data loss problem fixed that could occur when Process Plans with File Pickup in combination with “Do not save modified input file” were used

14.0.392

• An upgrade to pdfaPilot Server 14, pdfaPilot CLI 14 or pdfaPilot SDK 16 from earlier versions of these products requires a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA). Please contact your reseller for further information.

Features

Desktop

• Space usage dialogue
• Edit Checks: New "Mouse selector" to define a custom area
• Edit Fixups: New "Mouse selector" to define a custom area
• Library Manager: Support for exporting multiple libraries simultaneously
• Layer explorer: Usability improvements, e.g. "Add missing layer"
• Variables editor: Insert JavaScript allows for importing JavaScript versions of Checks or Fixups
• Variables editor: Predefined sample Runlist imposition objects added
• Profile summary: Overview can be exported as CSV

Process plans

• Editor: Process plans can have annotations
• "Process plan" step: Option to process only certain pages
• "Process plan" step: Process pages individually in a loop
• Create PDF file copy: Option "Copy into variable" to save the path of the created PDF for later use
• Action "Image export": Support for Lab color space for TIFF images
• Action "Split and reorder": Option "Digits for page number"
• Action "Image export": Option "Digits for page number"
• "Add files" step: Option to replace current PDF with another file referenced by a path
• Improved highlighting for steps connected by "File pick up" and "Compare" steps
• Action "Imposition": Results are available in "app.doc.result" for subsequent use via JavaScript

New Fixups

• Place file on path
• Derive stroked from filled vector path
• Replace barcode
• Adjust Form XObject BBoxes to CropBox
• Remove data: Removes data such as annotations, metadata or private data

Enhanced Fixups

• Convert colors: Optimized processing of multipage PDFs and multiple referenced objects
• Convert page content into image: Support for Lab color space
• Flatten transparency: Filter to exclude objects from flattening
• Place barcode: New option to define the background color of a placed barcode
• Place barcode: New section for advanced settings to define additional barcode generation parameters (JSON)
• Place barcode|text|content: Improved reporting when processing results in an error, e.g. due to invalid barcode values or JavaScript issues
• Arbitrary JavaScript-controlled Fixups: Automatic fallback to default values if parameters are missing

New Properties

• Size of document XMP
• Size of object XMP (on page level)
• TrimBox is landscape
• TrimBox is portrait

Enhanced Properties

• Find barcodes: Support for DataBar (RSS 14) codes
• Find barcodes: "Color distance between barcode / matrix code and background” check works better for non-uniform colors
• Operators for text input fields: "is contained in list (ignore upper/lower case)" and "is not contained in list (ignore upper/lower case)"
• Text on page: RegEx capture groups are now reported in trigger values in XML, JSON and JSONv2 reports as well as in JS Variable "app.doc.result" objects
• Various properties: Added Variable support for units

New or enhanced predefined Profiles and Process plans

• Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:
• Identify color pages: Returns a hit for every page that contains color and stores the result in variables
• Generate 5mm bleed (autoselect bleed generation method)
• All "GWG 2022 R1"-based Profiles: Improved ink coverage checks and of identifying empty pages
• All "GWG 2015" & "GWG 2022" Profiles removed as they have been deprecated by GWG

New or enhanced predefined Fixups

• Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:
• Generate 5mm bleed (autoselect bleed generation method)
• Derive spot color for haptic print
• Redraw cut line

New Library: Processing Steps

• Profiles and Process plans:
• Prepare PDF using technical colors with Processing Steps layers
• Add Processing Steps layers
• Verify compliance with Processing Steps (ISO 19593-1) for packaging and label (formerly part of the "PDF Standards" Library)
• List Processing Steps metadata information (formerly part of the "PDF Standards" Library)
• Fixups
• Flatten transparency, keep Processing Steps layers
• Checks
• Is Processing Steps layer

New or enhanced Actions

• Create file
• Imposition: The "place content" functionality is now available in JavaScript-based impose scripts.
• ToPDF: Support for HEIF and HEIC images
• SaveAsImage: Support for Lab color space for TIFF images

New or enhanced Quick Fix

• Apply 2D transformation matrix to page content: Allows scaling, rotation, translation and skewing of content

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v18.0.5PlusP1g)

• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Converter integrated (PostScript to PDF conversion; v3.2.0Plus1m)
• Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.6.096)

Fixes

Desktop

• Workspace: Problem solved, where Process plan setting "Do not save modified input file" was not respected

Process plans

• Reports: Issue fixed, where a Variable defined for the PDF overview report template was not respected
• Do not save modified input file: Problem solved, where files were not handled properly if loops existed in the Process plan

Fixups

• Convert colors: Problem solved, where processing time increased due to non-optimal handling of shared resources
• Convert page content into image: Improved handling of existing Output Intents for rendering if object filters are used
• Convert page content into image: Improved handling of existing Output Intent when objects were excluded from bleed creation to ensure correct color values
• Crop pages: Problem solved, where certain, unnecessary content stream operators were not handled properly and resulted in shifted content
• Make document XMP Metadata compliant: Problem solved, where processing resulted in a failure
• Optimize the PDF for fast web view: Issue fixed, where execution was not reported
• Place content on page: JavaScript errors are now reported if a failure occurs due to this error
• Place file on page: New options to specify width and height for placed file
• Remove invisible image data: Problem solved, where image visually disappeared due to a specific SoftMask usage
• Remove objects: Problem solved, where Form XObjects used for bleed remained outside page area
• Set layer initial print state: Problem fixed, where initial state could not be set to "Never prints" in certain case
• Place ... based Fixups: Issue fixed, where only one Fixup was reported, when several Fixups were executed
• Subset fonts: Problem solved, where certain supplement encodings were not handled correctly, resulting in incomplete rendering with certain viewers [FP80291]
• General font processing: Problem solved, where a double SPACE was inserted, although not necessary
• General font processing: Problem solved, where unnecessary entries in the encoding of a CFF font caused problems on certain output devices

Checks

• Is landscape: Changed behavior, now uses the CropBox to determine orientation (was BleedBox before)
• Is portrait: Changed behavior, now uses the CropBox to determine orientation (was BleedBox before)
• Image is not valid: Problem solved, where analysis could not be executed properly
• Find barcodes: Problem solved, where size of found "RSS Extended Stacked" barcodes was not determined correctly
• Find barcodes: Issue fixed, where a barcode was reported for a layer, although not assigned to this layer
• Sifter-based properties: Issue fixed, where certain clipped smooth shades were incorrectly interpreted
• General font analysis: Problem solved, where a certain unusually high value in Font CMaps resulted in unnecessary long processing and memory consumption

Process plans

• Action "Split and reorder": Issue fixed, where output filename was indexed instead of being derived from the page number

Actions

• ToPDF:
  • Images: Issue fixed, where certain Tiff files could not be converted to PDF
  • PostScript:
    • Problem solved, where clippings were not handled correctly in some cases
    • Problem solved, where content was not handled properly when certain PostScript constructions were used
    • Issue fixed, where not all page geometry boxes were retained after conversion
• Extract images: Problem solved, where certain images were inverted when exported
• Extract content: Problem fixed where certain combined UTF-16 code (to represent a UTF-32 character) was not handled correctly (Linux only)
• SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where rendering could not be performed correctly for certain file dimensions at certain resolutions
• SaveAsImage: Issue fixed, where exported multichannel TIFF files were inverted when created with high resolution

Reports

• XML: Problem solved, where report creation failed in a certain case
• XML: Schema (XSD) adapted, as certain entries were not clearly defined

General

• Problem solved, were certain corrupt metadata could result in an unstable behavior
• JavaScript Variables: Problem solved, where accessing invalid data could result in unstable behavior in certain cases

System requirements

• Mac: macOS version 10.15 or newer, 64-bit-compliant

14.1.395

• A free of charge update of pdfaPilot 14 Desktop for owners of a pdfaPilot 14 Desktop license
• A free of charge update of pdfaPilot Server, pdfaPilot CLI or pdfaPilot SDK for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA)

Features

Desktop

• Testmode: A new "Cancel" button next to the progress bar, makes it easier to cancel the run when it takes too long, while keeping the Check results collected so far
• ProcessPlan editor: Improved "snap to grid" functionality for steps and annotations
• *ProcessPlan editor: Annotations now support different text alignment options

Fixups

• Remove invisible image data: New option "Duplicate multiple used images if necessary"

Actions

• MergePDF: Pagelabels of input files will now be maintained
• Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.6.098)

Fixes

Desktop

• Object Inspector: Problem solved, where the position of an object was not properly transferred to the derived Check
• Search Libraries dialog: Fixed an issue, where entries in the Libraries popup were not sorted alphabetically

New Fixups

• Remove broken link annotations and bookmarks

New Properties

• Link annotation uses broken destination
• Bookmark uses broken destination

Enhanced Profiles

• Library: PDF Standards:
• Convert to PDF/X-1...: "Recompress JPEG2000 images as JPEG" has been added as an additional default Fixup

Fixups

• Add missing layer / Put objects on layer: Issue fixed, where created layer structure contained an empty group entry
• Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where glyphs were not properly handled due to some rare encoding entries
• Create invisible text via OCR: Issue fixed, where text was created with an offset if the boxes were not properly nested
• Downsample/compress bitmap images: Problem solved, where certain CCITT-decoded inline images were not converted properly
• Place rectangle: Problem solved, where the position differed if the rounded corner value was set
• Remove from layer: Problem solved, where certain layer structures where not properly maintained and objects could become invisible
• Remove XMP metadata: Problem solved, where not all defined metadata was removed when multiple Fixup settings were defined
• Remove XMP metadata: Issue fixed, where processing resulted in an error when "Set Title entry to filename" was executed in the same Profile
• Subset fonts: Problem solved, where certain CID encoding for space characters could result in glyphs vanishing
• General font processing: Problem solved, where certain, corrupt cmap structures were not properly detected or repaired

Checks

• Find barcodes:
• Issue fixed, where the number of barcodes found varied from run to run in certain cases (Windows only)
• Improved recognition of QR code quiet zones when the surrounding background is just slightly different to the background of the barcode area
• Improved barcode detection and more accurate dimension calculation
• Font is not valid: Improved recognition of certain font issues where glyphs were not listed correctly in the necessary tables

Actions

• Extract XMP metadata: Issue fixed, where images in Form XObjects with no dimensions were not handled properly
• Modify Structures: Problem solved, where bookmarks using the "Open" state were not inserted correctly
• To PDF: Problem solved, where certain 16-bit TIFF images could not be converted to PDF properly
• To PDF: Problem solved where temporary, internal files being created during conversion to PDF were not being deleted even though the final PDF was saved

CLI

• Problem solved, where placing content failed due to a missing "libatomic1" package in certain, Linux distributions
• Merge PDF: Issue fixed, where attempting to merge a corrupt file resulted in an incomplete merge instead of triggering an error

General

• Profile processing: Discontinued creation of dedicated log files in the TEMP folder of the application if processing errors occur
• Improved recognition and repair of certain invalid SMask definitions
• Problem solved, where internal content stream optimization did not set the color space for used SoftMasks not correctly in some cases, which could result in display issues
• Process plans: Problem solved, where temporary files that were marked for deletion after processing were still listed as created files in the output
• Process plans: Problem solved, where requesting an XML report including ink coverage for a step resulted in an error upon execution
• Problem solved, where the application became unstable when OpenCV system libraries were installed on the same system (macOS only)