pdfToolbox Desktop

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Version: 14.0.597

Verfügbar seit: 30.09.2022 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Features

Desktop

• Switchboard: New functionality "Replace text" in group "Text"
  
• Profile, Check and Fixup steps: New possibility to limit processing using page selector settings
  
• Protected Profiles: Allows making content of a Profile or Process plan inaccessible and to limit the use to certain serial numbers
  
• New "Fast fix" for single Fixups and Quick Fixes in Desktop, which will limit the extent of post-processing analysis of the resulting PDF
  
• Fixup settings: New "Duplicate" button for settings
  
• Action editor for imposition: Direct access to editor and related functionalities
  
• Test mode: Preview for extracted text for Quick Fix "Search and replace text" and "Search and replace text for VDP" in Process plan context
  
• Test mode: New "Short overview (faster)" mode, which will limit the extent of post-processing analysis of the resulting PDF
  
• Switchboard: Extract dieline has been extended to work with a user selected page geometry box
  
• Switchboard: Impose: RunLists and SheetConfig files can be deleted and other minor usability improvements
  
• Impose RunList debugger: Now lists console.log() statements for JavaScript-based runlists
  
• Test mode: Optional "Preflight only pages" to limit processing to the defined page range
  
• JavaScript Variables editor: Support for using VS Code as external editor
  
• JavaScript Variables editor: Extended functionality to evaluate the results in a context with e.g. a previous step in a Process plan
  
• JavaScript Variables editor: Auto complete for JavaScript objects, Variables, Quick Check parameters and other minor usability improvements
  
• Profile window: "Search Libraries" has been replaced with "Import from Library", which offers more functionalities

Process plans

• Process plan steps Checks, Fixups, Profiles: Introduced a page selector input field per step [FP67632]
  
• New Action type: Extract dieline
  
• "Fast VDP mode" checkbox for Process Plans: Form XObject will be analyzed and processed only once, even if used multiple times within the PDF (designed especially for variable and transactional PDF files)
  
• Checks: The severity of a hit can now be set
  
• Compare PDF: Enhanced handling, so reports will be created only if differences were found [FP68727]
  
• Processing: Optimized application of running a generic post check (e.g. will not happen in Process plans with just an Action)
  
• Preliminary process plans can be saved
  
• Extended settings for JSON reports

New or enhanced predefined Profiles

• All "GWG 2022"-based Profiles targeting "Packaging Gravure": Adjusted recognition for allowed color spaces
  
• All "GWG 2022"-based Profiles targeting "WebSpot": Adjusted recognition regarding spot color naming
  
• PDF/UA-1 validation: Improved reporting for untagged PDFs [FP68324]
  
• PDF/A-4... validation: Added "CMYK source profile identical with blend color space profile"
  
• PDF/A-4... conversion: Added "Remove all alternate images" and "Discard image interpolation flag" Fixups
  
• Convert to PDF/X-... (Japan Color 2011 Coated)
  
• Convert color to Japan Color Coated 2011 (convert spot colors to CMYK)
  
• Convert color to Japan Color Coated 2001 (keep spot colors)
  
• Embed Output Intent Japan Color 2011 Coated

Extended and enhanced Fixups

• Create and apply shapes: New "Apply to pages" filter in all "Create shape" methods to create different shapes e.g. for even and odd pages [FP64197; CA1030598]
  
• Create and apply shapes: New Option "Existing transparent page content overlaps opaquely" which puts the existing page content into an isolated group XObject
  
• Map colors: Introduced individual tolerance per source colorant for better adjustment. Old tolerance settings will be applied for each colorant separately now [CA1022449; CA1031354; FP53858; FP54090; FP58197]
  
• Add white background: New Option "Existing transparent page content overlaps opaquely" which puts the existing page content into an isolated group XObject [FP68320]
  
• Set transparency blend color space: New options to limit to certain color spaces [FP68044]
  
• Insert page: New page content filter to limit the type of objects to be duplicated
  
• Remove page objects outside: Changed object recognition to Sifter technology for better analysis [CA1026869; CA1030849; CA1031669; CA1031766; FP46932; FP50227; FP53544; FP53819; FP58548; FP61468; FP64974; FP61666; FP61672; FP69158; FP69233; FP69635]
  
• Processing Steps can be selected in the UI for the following Fixups:
  
  • Convert colors
    
  • Crop to visible based on rendered page
    
  • Generate bleed at page edges
    
  • Generate bleed for irregular shapes
    
  • Map spot and process colors
    
  • Remove objects
    
  • Set Overprint and Knockout

New Properties

• CMYK object redefined to ICCbased CMYK via its transparency group
  
• Effective total area coverage (TAC) [FP64078]
  
• Area effectively covered by ink amount above threshold
  
• Create a hit (or not): Allows to set to create a hit or a trigger value e.g. based on a previously determined result (e.g. from a Quick Check or JavaScript-Variable)
  
• Determine JPEG quality factor [CA1031362]

Enhanced Properties

• Object uses Cyan|Magenta|Yellow|Black: ICCbased colors can optionally be taken into account (without applying color management)
  
• Object uses Cyan|Magenta|Yellow|Black with a percentage of: ICCbased colors can optionally be taken into account (without applying color management)

Actions

• Visualizer: Safety view: Color for TrimBox harmonized to other usages and highlighting for BleedBox added
  
• Impose: New SheetConfig "25x38 inch, 8up US Letter"

Quick Fix

• Search and replace text
  
• Search and replace text for VDP (to create PDFs with dynamic content)

Reports

• HTML-template based Reports: Completely redesigned and restructured default template, various additional views can be ordered via the manifest.xml (see online docu for further details)
  
• JSON report:
  
  • New mode "compact" to write report in single-line mode
    
  • New mode to request analysis for ink coverage
    
  • A Quick Check can optionally be requested, the results of which are then included in the report
    
  • Extended sequence step information for process plans
  
  
• XML report: Extended sequence step information for process plans

CLI

• Fast VDP mode: New optional parameter "--fastvdpmode" for Profile execution: Form XObject will be analyzed and processed only once, even if used multiple times within the PDF (designed especially for variable and transactional PDF files)

General

• Log Profile execution: Lists type of step and logging path into process.log
  
• XML & JSON reports with an appropriate message will now also be generated for encrypted or patially parseable PDFs [FP59022]
  
• Generic syntax checks now have a custom ID (e.g. in reports or app.doc.results)
  
• Optimized initialization of Profiles to enhance processing time for PDF files with a high number of page pages

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v18.0.4PlusP1e)

Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.5.076)

Fixes

Desktop

• Problems solved, where certain parts of the user interface were vanishing if window was moved to a second screen in certain cases (MacOS only) [CA1031345; FP66959; FP68206; FP69274; FP69435; FP70001]
  
• Process plans: Improved automatic scrolling when mouse is outside canvas [FP66937]
  
• RunList editor: Issue fixed, where no proper ask at runtime dialog was shown in test mode

Fixups

• Downsample/recompress images: Issue fixed, where page numbers with a FixFailures were reported zero-based (and not starting with "1")
  
• Downsample/recompress images: Problem solved, where invalid images were falsely flagged as successfully processed [FP69980]
  
• Convert page content into image: Problem solved, where hidden text was taken into account [FP69417]
  
• Convert page content into image: Problem solved, where a certain type of smooth shade was not properly converted [FP69599; FP69925; FP69987]
  
• Flatten transparency: Issue fixed, where processing took unnecessary long on specific PDFs [CA1030865]
  
• Flatten transparency: Problems solved, where defined timeout was not properly respected [FP68592]
  
• Flatten annotations or form fields: Problem solved, where certain annotation appearances could result into an improper result [CA1031691; CA1031756]
  
• Set transparency blend color space: Changed "All" to "All excluding soft masks"
  
• Map colors: Limited conversion of images to mapping within the same color space [FP48912]
  
• Map colors: Reviewed and optimized object recognition using the "Apply to" filter [CA1026860]

Checks

• Find bar codes: Optimized recognition of bar codes [CA1030800]
  
• Context aware object detection (Sifter): Problem solved, where MediaBox was not extended, if created shape exceeded this box [CA1031802]
  
• Context aware object detection (Sifter): Problem solved, where an excessive usage of extremely small patterns resulted in a long processing duration [FP69419]
  
• Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Check: Problem solved, where execution failed although successful in the past [FP69921]

Actions

• AddXMP: Problem solved, where certain XMP structure could not be properly handled [CA1029394]#
  
• Extract content: Issue fixed, where created XML report for text split UTF-8 glyphs into two entries (Linux only) [FP70188]
  
• Extract text: Problem solved, where processing failed with specific PDF [CA1030894]
  
• Split layers: Issue fixed, where file naming based on layer names did not work if filename contained "." [FP49501; FP69603]
  
• Extract dieline: Problem solved, where creation did not properly work for certain CropBox/MediaBox combinations [CA1030864]
  
• To PDF: Problem solved, where content of specific TIFFs file was not properly converted [CA1029317]
  
• To PDF: Problem solved, where a specific PSD file resulted in an improper behavior [FP69870]
  
• N-up: Issue fixed, where page content was not properly positioned if page scaling factor (UserUnits) had to be added or adjusted [CA1031402]
  
• Impose: Issue fixed, where page content was not properly positioned if a page scaling factor (UserUnits) had to be added or adjusted [FP68009]
  
• Save as image: Problem solved, where a certain usage of a transformation matrix resulted into black image using "no simulate overprint" [CA1031477]
  
• Add grommets: Issue fixed, where userUnits were not taken into account [FP66328]
  
• Quick Fix: Reviewed handling of multiple instructions within one Quick Fix to avoid conversion of one object multiple times

General

• Embedded file handling: Problem solved where conversion to PDF/A-2 failed on certain PDF [CA1029445]
  
• JavaScript-based Variables: Issue fixed, where the app.doc.pages area did not contain a page property to identify the page
  
• Page selector: Problem solved, where a defined page range with values out of possible range for current document was handled as an empty page range [CA1031720]

Reports

• XML: Issue fixed, where certain UTF-8 glyphs resulted into issues during report generation (MacOS only) [FP62319]
  
• XML: Issue fixed, where Quick Fixes in a Process Plan were not properly listed [FP68341]
  
• Quick Check: Problem solved, where creation failed when the input filename contained an umlaut in some cases (Linux Only) [FP69481]

Server

• Problem solved, where job name with command glyphs (e.g. a "tab") resulted in a locked situation in some cases [FP69125]
  
• JSON report is now available as report type

System requirements

Mac: MacOS X (Intel or ARM / M1), version 10.12 or newer, 64-bit-compliant

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