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pdfaPilot 2.4.140

Release date: 2011-05-25 

Update of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 2 Desktop license
Update of pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 2 or pdfaPilot CLI 2

Features

Visual comparison of PDF documents
Preflight Certificate for safer document delivery
Re-distilling of PDF documents in CLI
Font and document structure optimization
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Release notes callas pdfaPilot 3

pdfaPilot 3.1.156

Release date: 2012-03-21 

Update of pdfaPilot 3 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 3 Desktop license

Features

New Fixup: Remove Signatures [CA1021127]
New Fixup: Remove XFA ressource entry [CA1021127]

Fixes

Fixups

Problem solved where objects shift after changing the content stream [CA1021052, CA1021055, CA1021083, FP17126]

Reports

Problem solved where creation of MHT reports failed [FP18241]

PDF/A Analysis

Improved check

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Release notes callas pdfaPilot 4

pdfaPilot 4.3.186 

Release date: 2013-05-28

Update of pdfaPilot 4 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot 4 Desktop license

Features

New Fixups

Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images

PDF/A Conversion

New Fixup “Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images” added to standard conversion for PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3

Export to EPUB

Added new optional parameter for creation of chapters

Fixes

PDF/A conversion

Problem solved, where inconsiste

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Release notes callas pdfToolbox 6

pdfToolbox 6.3.225 

Release date: 2013-05-17 

Update of pdfToolbox 6 Desktop free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox 6 Desktop license

Features

New properties

Effective ink coverage for registration color per plate [FP21919]

Fixes

Profiles

Harmonized handling and recognition of values defined as RegEx [FP21956]
PDF/X-Wizard: Problem solved, where omitting ICC profiles did not worked properly [FP21820]

Fixups

Remove Layers: Problem solved, where La

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Release notes callas pdfaPilot 5

pdfaPilot 5.5.230 

Release date: 2015-03-19 

Update of pdfaPilot Desktop 5 free of charge for owners of a pdfaPilot Desktop 5 license

Update of pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfaPilot Server 5 or pdfaPilot CLI 5

Features

Enhanced Profiles

All “Convert to PDF/A…”-Profiles

New Fixup “Remove glyphs with invalid encoding definition” [CA1023466; CA1023522]

New Checks

Has pr

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General questions on callas software products

Question: What is the target user group of the callas software pdfToolbox products? Answer: pdfToolbox Desktop is targeted towards people who want to manually inspect or correct PDF files. It can be used either as a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat or as a standalone application (without requiring any Adobe software to be installed). pdfToolbox Server is oriented towards environments where fully unattended inspection and fixing is required. It can be configured with hot folders (also called watched fol

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Questions on command-line modules

Question: Can callas software command-line versions also be downloaded directly from the site?

Answer: Yes. On Mac or Windows, download the server version of the product - this will include the CLI module and its documentation. On Linux or Unix platforms, download the CLI version (no server version is available on those platforms).

Question: How do I call the command-line modules?

Answer: You call the command-line modules using a script command. This allows them to be integrated individually

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Questions on pdfToolbox: Warning "Invalid Compact Font"

Question: What does the error message “Corrupt Font. Invalid Compact Font” that arises in Acrobat after creating a preflight or inventory report mean?

Answer: Some 3rd party plug-ins like PitStop Professional are incompatible with the method to create the preflight or inventory report. Currently this error message can only be avoided by deactivating the 3rd party plug-in.

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Questions on archiving PDF print files with PDF/A and PDF/X

Question: In which ISO format is print data best archived?

Answer: As PDF/A is rather emphatic and distinctive about assuring long-term reproducibility or reutilization of PDFs, the print data that is sent to the printers as PDF/X must best be created as PDF/A too, so that archiving is possible immediately without additional processing.

Question: I already have printable PDF/X files. Will I face problems when converting to PDF/A?

Answer: No, conversion takes place mostly without problem – ba

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Requirements for conversions to PDF

pdfChip, pdfToolbox and pdfaPilot offer the possibility to convert several file formats to PDF. In order to receive the best results, the applications in which the files have been created are used for this conversion. Supported applications and files Application Operating system As of product version pdfToolbox pdfaPilot Microsoft Word 2007 Windows 4.5 2.1 Microsoft Word 2010 (32bit and 64bit) Windows 4.5 2.1 Microsoft Excel 2007 Windows 4.5 2.1 Microsoft Excel 2010 (32bit and 64bit) Windows 4.5

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DeviceLink Add-on Server - Integrated DeviceLink profiles

Definition

This is a special variant of ICC profiles that maps a color conversion directly from the source to the target in ONE profile. Each color of the source color space is hence directly mapped to a specific color of the target color space. Thereby, source and target color space can vary or be the same depending on the purpose of a DeviceLink profile. Unlike in ICC profiles that can be combined freely as source and target profiles, a special DeviceLink profile is calculated for each specif

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Release notes callas pdfToolbox 7

pdfToolbox 7.6.314 

Release date: 2015-03-19 

Update of pdfToolbox Desktop 7 free of charge for owners of a pdfToolbox Desktop 7 license

Update of pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7 free of charge for owners of a Software Maintenance Agreement (SMA) for pdfToolbox Server 7 or pdfToolbox CLI 7

Features

Enhanced Profiles

All “Convert to PDF/A…”-Profiles

New Fixup “Remove glyphs with invalid encoding definition” [CA1023466; CA1023522]

New Checks

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