pdfToolbox Desktop

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Version: 15.1.639

Verfügbar seit: 26.07.2024 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Features

Desktop

• Test mode: Several smaller improvements, e.g. loupe now shows page geometry boxes and page content is displayed in bleed preview
  
• Manage Libraries: Support for n-channel ICC profiles

Process plans

• Compare: A compare report can now also be created if no differences were found [FP77465]
  
• Split and reorder: Support for output options like folder, prefix and suffix

New Fixups

• Adjust dot gain using script variables
  
• Create spot color plate based on ink amount using script variables
  
• Place file on page [CA1032298, CA1033402]

Enhanced Fixups

• Remove printer marks: New setting "Objects outside TrimBox" [CA1028061, CA1030705]
  
• Create and apply shapes: New option to keep existing alternate spot color definition [FP74482]
  
• Set page geometry boxes (based on page content): Support for page-range Checks [FP63269]
  
• Convert colors: Support for page-based Black Point Compensation entries (requires PDF 2.0)

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 [FP74044]
    
  • 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) [FP54688]

CLI

• SaveAsImage New optional parameter to define working color spaces for RGB, CMYK and Gray on CLI [FP51617]
  
• --logexecution: Support for defining a custom output folder [CA1033429]

General

• Log Profile execution: A runlist debugger log file will be created automatically if the Impose Action is executed
  
• Log Profile execution: For "Create and apply shapes" / "From joined vector paths" new images show single path objects in distinct colors
  
• RegEx used in Checks and Fixups: Wrong RegEx syntax will be reported during execution [CA1033344]
  
• 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 [FP77406]
  
  • Process plan editor: Problem solved, where un-protecting a protected Process plan wasn't possible anymore [FP76360, FP76499]
    
  • Process plan editor: Problem solved, where a defined Variable from certain process plan steps was not properly exported [FP77138, FP77401]
    
  • Profile editor: Issue fixed where a Profile without a name could be created [FP77756]
    
  • Object inspector: Problem solved, where certain PDF files could not be analyzed [CA1033239, CA1033482]
    
  • 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 [FP68178]
    
  • Switchboard: Generate bleed: Issue fixed, where bleed was not created correctly [FP77696, FP76697, FP77042, FP77238, FP77437]
    
  • Switchboard: Impose: Issue fixed, where importing a sheetconfig with syntax issues resulted into an unexpected result
    
  • Switchboard: Issue in batch processing fixed, where certain functions were not properly executed when files were processed on a network path (Windows only) [FP76983]
    
  • Layer explorer: Issue fixed, where a wrong display value for Processing Steps metadata "Positions > CodingMarking" was used [FP77305]
    
  • Visualizer: Issue fixed, where view was not refreshed when page or document was changed [FP75428]

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 [CA1027164, CA1030546]
  
• Create and apply shapes:
  
  • Issue fixed, where an open path object was not joined for the created Shape using the option "From joined vector paths" [CA1033235]
    
  • Problem solved, were a stroked shape was not correct when certain rendering resolution was used [CA1033367]
    
  • Problem solved, where page was not sufficiently enlarged [CA1031419, FP75848]
    
  • Issue fixed, where shape from joined vector path was not created as expected in certain case [CA1031498]
    
  • Issue fixed, where shape was slightly misaligned for certain page with large dimension [FP76038]
    
  • Problem solved, where after clipping thin white lines appeared in existing page content [FP77056]
  
  
• Create link for page objects: Issue fixed, where new link annotations were not positioned on top of existing link annotations
  
• Create bleed for irregular shapes: Problem solved, where shape generation was not properly executed for certain multi-page PDFs [CA1033428]
  
• Create bleed for irregular shapes: Issue fixed, where page scaling factors were not properly regarded
  
• Create invisible text via OCR: Problem solved, where an improperly nested CropBox/MediaBox had an incomplete result [FP62342]
  
• Derive page geometry boxes from crop marks: Reviewed and optimized analysis to detect more variants of crop marks [FP7137, FP21571, FP17912, FP21077, FP30987, FP52238, FP61575, FP63193, FP63629, FP64901, FP73582, FP76423, FP76514, CA1030373, CA1032395]
  
• Discard hidden layers: Problem solved, where removing a layer could result in missing resources [FP61033]
  
• Downsample/recompress images:
  
  • Issue fixed, where a FixFailure was reported for ZIP compressed images and re-compression [CA1029723, CA1033472]
    
  • Issue fixed, where an JPEG2000 image with smask could not be converted [FP60689]
    
  • Issue fixed, where a smask was not properly handled [FP70689]
    
  • Problem solved, where re-compression was not properly executed on a certain, very large PDF [CA1033109]
    
  • Issue fixed, where processing took very long on a certain file with a very high number of very small images (Windows only) [CA1031829]
  
  
• Remove empty layers: Problem solved, where certain layer-related entries remained in PDF [CA1032936]
  
• Flatten transparency: Issue fixed, where the time out setting was not regarded with certain PDFs [FP76436]
  
• Generate bleed at page edges:
  
  • Problem solved, where the resulting PDF was not fully correct for certain PDFs and if bleed was set to overprint [FP76417]
    
  • Issue fixed where an unnecessary TR2 entry was inserted [FP77486]
    
  • Issue fixed, where deriving the bleed offset automatically did not properly work [FP76594]
  
  
• Spotify: Issued fixed, where spot color library was not completely included in an exported Profile in some cases [FP77338]
  
• Subset fonts: Issue fixed, where .notdef glyph used for space characters became visible in certain viewers if its Unicode referenced non-breaking space character [FP76876]
  
• 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 [CA1032253]
  
• Font processing: Problem solved, where certain result fonts triggered a warning for an unavailable font in certain PDF viewers [CA1033213, CA1033438]
  
• Recompress JPEG2000 images as JPEG: Issue fixed, where certain JPEG2000 image could not be converted [FP64642]
  
• Remove printer marks: Problem solved, where objects were not removed on all pages if referenced by more than one Form XObject [CA1031544]

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 [FP76799]
  
• Number of plates: Issue fixed, where smooth shades using only black were reported as "more than 1 plate used" [FP19765, CA1021954]
  
• Text on page: Problem solved were multiple word repetitions occurred in the trigger value for OCR text [FP65713; FP77064]
  
• Has transfer function: Issue fixed, where a TR2 entry was also taken into account in some cases, although not relevant [FP77532]
  
• Sifter-based properties: Issue fixed, where processing together with a "Convert colors" Fixup within one Profile was not successful [FP76597, FP76903]
  
• Syntax issues: Multiple defined "object streams" with identical order numbers in PDF stream added to internal list of checks [CA1033431]
  
• Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Check: Problem solved, where list values from a predefined Check were not properly handled [FP75807]

Actions

• 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 [FP76346]
  
• Save as image:
  
  Problem solved, where rendering of a certain font was not possible [FP77270]
  
  • Issue fixed, where conversion to TIFF using CMYK and multichannel resulted in an unexpected CMYK color shift [CA1033206]
    
  • 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 [CA1033257]
    
  • QuickFix: ResavePDF: Problem solved, where wrong header was written in a certain cases [FP76675]
    
  • QuickFix: Enlarge pages: Issue fixed, were certain pattern used in a smooth shade was not properly handled [CA1033177]
    
  • Imposition: Issue fixed where a page scaling factor was not properly regarded if JavaScript-based imposition was applied [FP77661]
  
  
• To PDF for images:
  
  Problem solved, where PDF creation resulted in wrong dimension for certain JPEG [CA1030102, FP31134, FP54034, FP64150]
  
  • Problem solved, where a certain way of placing text in a SVG resulted in an unexpected result [FP76914, FP77240]
    
  • Issue fixed, where a CMYK TIFF was not completely converted to PDF [FP68946]
    
  • Problem solved, where transparent regions from CMYK TIFF files became white [FP74524]
    
  • Problem solved, where 8bit CMYK TIFF files with Photoshop alpha layers were not converted to PDF correctly [FP67874]
    
  • Issue fixed, where conversion from TIFF with a smaller BBox than Path-to-clip resulted in a thin white line [CA1032876]
    
  • Issue fixed, where conversion of certain high-resolution TIFF resulted in a slightly shifted result [FP4157]
    
  • Issue fixed, where a multichannel TIFF could not be properly converted to PDF [FP28281]
    
  • Problem solved, where a TIFF using the deprecated "Old-style JPEG (in TIFF)" compression could not be converted [CA1031774]
    
  • Issue fixed, where an uncompressed grayscale TIFF using 8-Bit could not be converted properly [FP75240]
    
  • Issue fixed, where conversion of a certain TIFF using 16-Bit resulted in gray tiles [FP73457]
    
  • Issue fixed, where a CMYK TIFF using 8-Bit with JPEG compression was converted correctly [FP75281]
    
  • Problem solved, where a TIFF containing an ICC profile with issues could not be converted [FP61561, FP64047]
    
  • Issue fixed, where a TIFF with Photoshop alpha layers exceeding the dimension of the image itself was not handled properly [CA1029777]
    
  • Problem solved, where the dimension of a certain JPG image using a resolution with decimal values was not properly maintained [FP47035, FP73807]
  
  
• To PDF: Problem solved, where a certain type of scaling in a CF2 file was not properly interpreted [FP76692]
  
• ZUGFeRD: Issue solved, where XMP entry for Version was set to "1p0" instead of "1.0" [CA1033016]
  Reports
  
  • HTML template based report: Issue fixed, where visualizer images could not be requested using the legacy manifest.xml entry (used up to and including pdfToolbox 14) [FP77396]
    
  • QuickCheck: Issue fixed, where ICC source profiles were not listed in the created report (Linux only) [CA1033276]
    
  • 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 [FP77546]
  
  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 [CA1028600, FP77263]
    
  • Profile execution: Optimized handling for hits per document if no report option is selected in order to increase performance [CA1033174]
  
  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 [FP77271]
  
  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 [FP76750]
    
  • Process plans: Problem solved, where a combination of "Rename PDF" and "Do not save modified input file" resulted in an error [FP76767]
    
  • Issue fixed, where a Process plan execution was not successful with the first runs but was successful later [CA1033239]
    
  • Problem solved, where Profile execution was not successful if certain Fixups were using certain settings [CA1033292, FP77773]

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