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PDFspy is the ultimate Òget infoÓ utility for your PDF documents. It can extract a comprehensive list of attributes from a PDF file into an XML-based format. New version 1.1 adds several new features and enhancements including: - Support for PDF 1.7 (Acrobat 9) - Improved reliability with a wider variety of PDF files - element now shows CMYK separations that are actually used by text and vector elements - New element that shows the number of shading objects in PDF file - Several new checks for -validate option - Restored output being written to stdout if -o option not used, recommend using -quiet option when writing to stdout - Fixed calculation of page labels - Improved text extraction algorithm - Calculates color simulation values for ICCBased, Separation and DeviceN colorspaces - Improved Unicode, ISO Latin and AdobePDF character set support Some examples of the many types of information PDFspy can extract: - Page information (count, size, boxes) - Fonts usage (name, type, embedding & subset status, use of Unicode) - Colorspaces used (alternates, separation names, index bases) - Images (size, resolution, compression, colorspace) - Use of transparency, smooth shadings and patterns - Presence (or absence) of hidden text and optional content/layers - Hyperlinks (size, location and destination) - Annotations (size, location, type, contents, colors) - PDF/X compliance (including output intent details) - Metadata (info dictionary & XMP) - Security and Encryption settings Example uses: - Asset management system: extract page count, metadata, font & image information - Document management: determine text or image only documents, extract comments - Preflight: extract information about colorspaces, compression & font types - Developers: easily examine the structure of complex PDF documents Manufacturer: Apago |