pdfaPilot Desktop

In many environments, there are regulatory requirements that all communication regarding specific topics has to be archived for a certain period of time. pdfaPilot helps you guarantee that your documents can be archived and viewed long in the future.

Make your documents and emails last a lifetime

In many environments, there are regulatory requirements that all communication regarding specific topics has to be archived for a certain period of time. How long that is can differ widely – from a few years to multiple tens of years.

The format of choice for archiving is defined in the ISO standard PDF/A (PDF for Archiving). This ISO standard defines three different PDF/A versions and callas pdfaPilot can automatically convert all of your documents and emails into the PDF/A flavor required for your purposes. Additional job information (metadata) is fully supported and the solution is configurable enough to let it adapt to your workflow instead of the other way around.

Archiving documents is a critical operation of modern workflows; for that reason callas pdfaPilot has been extensively tested and complies with the ISO standards as verified with for example the veraPDF test corpus or the Isartor test suite. The fact that the very same technology is used in the de facto standard, Adobe Acrobat, is testament to its quality.

Archiving typical office documents

The best way to have good PDF/A files is to properly create them to begin with. For this, callas pdfaPilot can automatically convert Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher and Visio files into quality PDF files for you. Simply drag them on the document window of callas pdfaPilot Desktop and the conversion takes place in the best possible way.

LibreOffice and OpenOffice documents are fully supported too and on Mac OS X Pages and Keynote of course work as well. Using the integrated Adobe engine, callas pdfaPilot even does quality conversion of EPS and PostScript files for you, without requiring Adobe Acrobat Distiller to be installed.

Email archiving

These days, emails are an essential part of business communication in most organizations. Many countries have laws and regulations around the archival of such communication, either to be used in potential future litigation or as part of sound accounting practices.

Because emails are usually handled by email servers with limited storage capacities, there are no guarantees that an email you receive today will still be on the server ten years from now. When you download the email from your server it is converted into the proprietary format of the email client, and there is no guarantee that you will have such a client in the future. In addition, there are attachments to the emails that require a proper viewer for all file formats that may occur here. Luckily callas pdfaPilot lets you store these emails including all attachments in a PDF/A format that will be available and readable many years from now.

But even in environments where such regulatory guidelines don’t apply, there are good reasons to archive emails. In our modern society an amazing amount of business intelligence is captured in emails. Being able to maintain that information in a structured way and in the same format that is used for other documents and being able to efficiently search all of those documents including emails and their attachments efficiently will only become more important.

Handle EPUB and PDF/UA

Thanks to its unique checking feature for tagging structure in a PDF file callas pdfaPilot also offers optimized exporting to PDF/UA, the standard for accessibility. More and more legislation requires documents to be universally accessible for everyone, including people with physical disabilities. As a result, checking against the PDF/UA standard has gained importance for service providers, governments and enterprise customers alike.

But pdfaPilot lets you take advantage of PDF tagging in a very different area as well:
The tagging structure can be used in order to automatically create EPUB files from PDF. This PDF to EPUB feature converts PDFs into eBook files that can immediately be used on mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets.

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System requirements

• Mac (Intel): macOS, version 10.7 or newer, 64-bit-compliant
• Windows:
  • Windows 7 or newer
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 or newer

• 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, PDF/A-2 or PDF/A-3 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)
• Support of PDF/A-3 standard
• Improves PDFs to facilitate the creation of PDF/UA files
• Embeds and/or substitutes missing fonts and handles missing glyphs
• Optimizes all color data for compliance with the PDF/A standard
• Adjusts comments and form fields to the defaults required by the PDF/A standard
• Removes unwanted attributes such as layers or interactive content like movies
• Makes image compression compliant with the PDF/A standard
• Creates PDF/A documents that are web optimized for easier access and viewing
• Brings document metadata in line with PDF/A requirements
• Saves newer PDF versions as PDF 1.4 as specified by PDF/A-1
• Implements adjustments and corrections without loss of information
• Delivers clear reports to document all test and correction procedures
• Improves overall accessibility of PDF/A
• Is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese language versions
• PDF/A-3 collections may contain not just only other PDF/A files but arbitrary file formats like Word- or Excel-files or XML structures.
• Guaranteed PDF/A conversion; this automatically tries different conversion methods to create the best PDF/A file possible.
• Improved conversion of form fields and annotations, object level metadata in PDF/A-2 and the possibility to remove incompatible signatures when converting to PDF/A-2.
• Creating, checking or processing ZUGFeRD invoices

Get the most out of metadata

• Provides convenient browsing of document metadata as well as object-level metadata for images embedded inside the document
• Support for all relevant industry metadata standards including Dublin Core, IPTC, PRISM, GWG AdTicket/AdsML, PLUS, EXIF and Camera Raw
• Facilitates metadata based researching in Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, Google and AskMetaFilter
• Supports GPS data for use with Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and Google Earth
• XML export of all document and object level metadata for tracking image use and licenses
• Define extension schemas for your custom metadata fields as required by PDF/A standard with the Metadata Extension Editor
• Automatically embeds your company specific metadata schemas for reliable preservation of metadata inside your PDF/A files

Benefits

One-stop shop for all archival needs

• Support for all PDF/A versions and flavors
• Covers compliance checking and correcting PDF documents to bring them into compliance
• Full support for custom metadata to support archival workflows
• Provides the freedom to work inside of Adobe Acrobat or as a standalone application (without requiring Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to be installed)

Supports more than just PDF

• Converts office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Publisher, Project, Open Office documents) to good PDF or PDF/A
• Converts image formats (PNG, JPG, TIFF) to PDF or PDF/A
• Converts emails (optionally including attachments) to PDF or PDF/A

Speed up the way you work with PDF documents

• Identify PDF problems quickly through preflight with customizable profiles
• Further qualify production problems by using the visualizer; judge problems such as total ink coverage, image resolution and separations in a single glance
• Apply pre-configured fixes to solve problems immediately
• Create lists of corrections and checks to be executed in a single click
• Batch process folders with up to 100 PDF documents

Unparalleled ease-of-use

• Intuitive user interface providing functionality at different levels of complexity to support every type of user
• One-step window focused on checking against or converting to PDF/A
• Smartphone alike user interface (the Switchboard) with low entrance level functionality neatly grouped by functionality
• A workspace area you can customize to contain all features you frequently use
• Tons of predefined preflight profiles, checks and fixes with the ability to customize what is there or to create your own

pdfaPilot is the solution for conversion of PDF or native documents and emails into robust, searchable PDF or PDF/A files for long-term archiving. It uses the same rock-solid PDF/A technology as used in Adobe Acrobat and is available for desktop use, through watched folders or ready for integration into existing systems through a command line interface or 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)