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pdfToolbox is a must-have tool for anyone involved in professional print production. Its visual inspection and automatic correction functionality allows users to quickly prepare files for their intended output.
Based on Adobe Acrobat’s preflight technology, pdfToolbox' automatic correction capabilities are easy to operate. Users simply select their production process and pdfToolbox will make the document compliant. The product also allows for comprehensive colour conversion and advanced font embedding. New in version 4.4:
• First release of pdfToolbox 4 Standalone version for Mac and Windows as part of pdfToolbox 4 Desktop version
• Adding ease-of-use
The layer viewer that manages and generates layer views was introduced in the previous version of pdfToolbox 4. Currently it is still the only tool in the industry to generate layers views (OCCD) in accordance with PDF/X-4. callas software now introduces a new feature that allows users to create a single PDF from the different layers or layer views within the PDF. So in a multi-language print job, you can not only create and view the various language versions, but even get a PDF for every version – with one click. Further improvements include:
• pdfToolbox 4’s imposition engine permits to place dynamic text on imposed pages, making it possible to create slug lines with job information on the imposed sheet.
• Swiss PDFX- ready profiles (based on GWG version 4 specs) were included and localized for all supported languages.
• Extended overprint and knockout fixup for complete control of the overprinting behaviour.
• Updates of DeviceLink profiles for producing more harmonized conversions, especially in dark areas.
• Support of the latest ICC profiles recently released by ECI pdfToolbox Benefits:
• Correcting PDFs is no longer in the hands of a few experts
• Full support of PDF/X standards
• Intuitive full text search helps to identify the best correction profile
• Correction profiles can easily be changed and tested
Key Features:
• General
- Supports all PDF versions (including PDF 1.7/Acrobat 8)
- Integrates fully into FullSWITCH and PowerSWITCH, the workflow platform for Gradual
- Connects to various existing workflows through hotfolders
- Simultaneous processing of multiple files for optimised throughput • Verification and correction features
- Checks more than 800 characteristics
- Adjusts and corrects more than 80 different features
- Validates both PDF files and resources used therein (fonts, images, ICC profiles and XML metadata)
- Supports all principle standards: validates and creates PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b
- Provides fine grained checking of individual attributes through flexible comparison operators
- Allows creation of different types of reports in one run
- Validates IPTC and other image metadata and displays them in a report
- Embeds missing fonts (including Easter European, Cyrillic and Far Eastern fonts)
- Supports definition of replacement fonts when original fonts are not available • Colour-management features
- Full support of ICC and DeviceLink profiles
- Provides comprehensive conversion of Office RGB
- Converts RGB grey to black only (for line-art and image)
- Converts CMYK and Spot Colours to RGB
- Processes line-art and image separately
- Allows to optionally preserve primary, secondary or tertiary colors
- Converts CMYK and Spot Colours to RGB
- Offers dot-gain compensation (for both process and spot colours)
- Support black point compensation
- Converts spot colours
- Unifies spot colour representation
- Allows to set black to overprint
- Creates and embeds output intents
- Provides adjustable compression methods for images
- Converts coloured PDFs to black/white
- Provides configuration files that can be interchanged with other server • Usable in every PDF-based CTP workflow environment for interactive changes and corrections
• No more customer complaints about unsatisfactory printing results due to bad PDFs
- Analyses and corrects more than 60 different production problems in PDF files
- Avoids incorrect characters and embeds missing fonts • Professional colour management for everybody – complete the learning curve in less than 5 minutes
- Converts RGB from Office PDFs into printable CMYK
- Enables repurposing for online publishing by converting CMYK and Spot colours to RGB
- Put black graphics or text and greyscale images on the black plate
- Avoids unwanted CMYK conversions
- Allows to map spot colours or convert – completely or selectively – to CMYK
- Aligns colour for different production processes through DeviceLink profiles
- Converts any colour PDF to B/W for output on monochrome printer Version 4 boasts a completely revamped, iPhone-like user interface that places frequently needed tools in the user's personal workspace. With pdfToolbox, users can rest assured that they will be able to fix nearly all errors of their incoming files, faster than anyone else on the block. Affordable and easy to use, pdfToolbox enables every user to create production-friendly PDFs. New in version 4.2:
• Advanced font-management keeps font names unique and prevents font caching problems when combining PDFs using subsets of the same font
• Built-in image re-compression allows you to change the compression method of images right inside your PDF files
• The PDF Layer Viewer allows you to manage and generate layer views (OCCDs), and includes the first-in-industry ability to generate layers in accordance with PDF/X-4
• New advanced color mapping to map between various color spaces including RGB to CMYK or vice versa, Spot to Spot, Spot to CMYK or RGB, and RGB or CMYK to Spot
• Lets you place frequently needed tools, including saved pdfToolbox 4 profiles, in your personal workspace
• Ships with additional pre-configured pdfToolbox 4 profiles to demonstrate the latest checks and fixes with the click of a button
• pdfToolbox 4 includes Dynamic Profiles that allow variable parameters to be defined at runtime. pdfToolbox 4 Dynamic Profiles can be adjusted on the fly and checks and fix-ups can be dynamically switched on or off, creating incredible versatility in your workflow Manufacturer: callas software gmbh |
