pdfToolbox Desktop
Versionshistorie
Version: 9.2.423
Verfügbar seit: 10.04.2017 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads
Features
Desktop
- Cross-Library-Search
- Explore Fonts with more information
- Use external Text-Editor for JavaScript-Variables
- Improved Handling Keyboard Shortcuts in Ask-as-runtime and Variables Editor
- Switchboard: Dynamic button to corresponding help article
- Standalone application on Windows is now also available as 64-Bit [FP34993]
PDF Standards
- PDF/A validation: Compatibility with veraPDF Test Corpus
- PDF/A-1 validation: Adjusted validation and correction for form fields u.a.
- PDF/A-1 conversion: Improved creation of appearance streams for PDF/A-1
- PDF/A-1 conversion: Improved "Prepare forms" to cover hidden form fields as well
- PDF/A-1 conversion: Improved "Prepare annotations" to avoid removal of file attachment annotations
- PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 conversion: New Fixup: Set Supplement entry in CIDSystemInfo of CIDFont to corresponding entry in CMap
- All PDF/A conversions: Improved "Remove actions" to cover more types of actions (e.g. hidden ones) [CA1025903]
- All PDF/A conversions: StemV entry for fonts will be added automatically if missing (and if insertion is possible)
- All PDF/X conversions: Added Fixup "Remove all view and print area settings in ViewerPreferences dictionary"
- All GWG 2015 validation Profiles: Adjusted recognition of used transparency blend color spaces
Fixups
- Place text/page number: optional white background
- Outline page geometry boxes: selective outline of edges
- Rotate pages: multiple configurable [FP33043]
- Insert empty page: multiple configurable
- Enlarge page: new settings for top/bottom, left/right, all; multiple configurable
- Embed OutputIntent with specified parameters
- Set Supplement entry in CIDSystemInfo of CIDFont to corresponding entry in CMap
- Set page zoom for bookmarks
- Remove all view and print area settings in ViewerPreferences dictionary [FP36867]
- Convert colors: New set of policy parameters (e.g. "RGBImage-R_eq_G_eq_B_is_Black_ExcludeBlendModes") to suppress special rules for white/gray/black objects using specified bland modes, but apply regular CMYK conversion instead [CA1025230; CA1025554; CA1025637]
- Place date (YYYY-MM-DD)
New Checks and Properties
- Font is not valid (strict): To determine problems that are usually not critical in embedded fonts
- Blend mode (cumulative): To determine effective blend modes objects nested in Form XObjects
- Blend space in Luminosity soft mask [CA1024860]
- Color values for fill/stroke: Operators "is contained in list" and "is not contained in list” are now available [CA1025514]
Actions
- Impose: Overprinting for placed text in runlists can be defined
- ToPDF: Support for LibreOffice v5.x (Linux + MacOS) [CA1025782]
Reports
- XML: Details of OutputIntent are listed
General
Fixes
Desktop
- Switchboard: Colors: Optimized processing duration for spot color conversion (Problem on MacOS only) [FP28629; FP34237; FP38054]
- Switchboard: LFP: Add grommets by distance/by number: Option to open respective folder added [FP34486]
- Unsupported Checks from Adobe Acrobat Profiles are no more shown in imported Profiles
- Manage Libraries: Several smaller improvements
- Profile edit dialog: New Filter: "Uses same Fixup type"
- Profile edit dialog: Default filter in Custom Checks/Fixups is now "Not referenced from current profile"
- Profile window:
- Fixed issue, so that "Most recently/frequently used" can be used across multiple sessions
- Fixed issue, where ProcessPlan could not be exported [FP38062]
- Fixed issue, where locked Profiles could not be imported into another system in certain cases [FP37531]
- Profile window:
- ServerUI: Fixed issue, where editing Process Plans did not worked as expected [FP34298]
- ServerUI: Problem solved, where an external Profile could not be used [FP37903]
- Improved text color for locked Process Plans and Profiles for better readability [FP34272]
- Checkpoint: Fixed issue, where "List Checkpoint Files" needed an activated version [FP36675]
Standalone
- Object inspector: Improved visualization of ClippingBoxes and BoundingBoxes
- Problem solved, where analysis of certain PDF files resulted in an unstable behavior [FP38081]
PDF Standards
- PDF/A-1 conversion: Problem solved, where processing was not successful due to invalid font
- PDF/A-1 conversion: Fixed issue, where annotations became visually changed during conversion
- PDF/A-2 conversion: Fixed problem, where the Subtype of embedded files was changed, although not necessary
- PDF/A-2 conversion: Solved issue, where the ModDate of EF entry was set 2 hours earlier than actual time
- PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 conversion: Automatic correction of bitmap filter shortcuts like "CFF" to "CCITTFaxDecode"
- PDF/A validation: Optimized recognition for invalid ICC profiles to avoid additional hits for wrong ICC profile version
Checks
- Table evenly structured: Optimized recognition for tables using certain combinations of rowspan and colspan
- Adjusted recognition of certain font issues to avoid unnecessary warnings
- Result file different from original (visual comparison): Problem solved, where non-painting spot colors resulted in false hits [FP37365]
- Color values for fill/stroke: Fixed issue, where certain usage of thresholds didn't result in the expected hit [FR35448]
Fixups
- Repair invalid bookmark hierarchies: Problem solved, where valid bookmarks became removed [CA1023352; CA1023146]
- Repair invalid bookmark hierarchies: Fixed issue, where bookmark structure was not properly handled in certain cases
- Discard/Flatten hidden layer content: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an unexpected behavior [CA1025057]
- Flatten visible layers: Problem solved, where flattening resulted in an unexpected behavior in certain cases [FP35445]
- Fix glyph width information:
- Fixed issue, where glyph width problems were not solved
- Problem solved, where resulting PDF triggered a warning in various PDF viewers [FP36895]
- Problem solved, when used in conjunction with “Font to Outline” [FP28635]
- Fixed issue, where glyph width problems were not solved
- Optimized font embedding to avoid problems with .notdef glyphs after creating an invisible text copy [FP26551]
- Embed missing fonts: Fixed issue, where the order in the FontSubstitution config file was not properly respected
- Font to outline:
- Problem solved, where glyphs were removed, if some tables in the font were improperly formatted [CA1025632]
- Fixed issue, where text was not properly handled in certain cases [FP28898]
- Fixed issue, where text positioning was changed in specific PDF files [CA1025463]
- Problem solved, where glyphs were removed, if some tables in the font were improperly formatted [CA1025632]
- Convert TrueType fonts to CFF: Problem solved, where visual appearance was changed after processing [CA1025464]
- Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where quality setting for image compression was not properly respected [FP35459]
- Flatten transparency: Fixed issue, where the ICC source profile of objects was not taken into account [CA1025535]
- Crop to BoundingBox: Problem solved, where content was in certain cases not properly cropped when the background was a SmoothShade [CA1025793]
- Convert colors:
- Fixed issue, where decalibration was not performed when a Custom Check was used [CA1025173]
- Problem solved, where a "Matte" entry in a SoftMask was not properly handled [FP35619]
- Problem solved, where a SoftMask of type Luminosity was not properly converted [FP28131; FP32521]
- Fixed issue, where a Radial SmoothShade (used as filling pattern) became a gray rectangle after conversion [CA1025611]
- Fixed issue, where processing was not successful, if downsampling was performed in the same Profile on specific PDF [CA1025459]>/ul>
- Map colors: Fixed issue, where images became inverted when opened in Adobe PhotoShop [FP28663]
- Map spot and process colors:
- Improved consideration if an OutputIntent exists, changed alternatively used Profile to PSO Coated V3 [FP35048]
- Improved color management: If an OutputIntent exists, this ICC profile will be used for simulation; alternatively PSO Coated V3 will be used [FP35048]
- Problem solved, where images became invalidated when CMY were mapped to Black [CA1025755]
- Fixed issue, where processing together with "Make spot color appearance consistent" resulted in unexpected output [FP34658; FP37686]
- Improved consideration if an OutputIntent exists, changed alternatively used Profile to PSO Coated V3 [FP35048]
- Make Pantone spot color names consistent: Fixed issue, where processing was not successfully executed [CA1025718; CA1025189]
- Make spot color consistent: Problem solved, where a parallel adjustment of colors resulted in improper results
- Normalize spot color names: Fixed issue, where Fixup was not successful after Convert colors on specific PDF [FP33025]
- Convert registration color to black: Problem solved, where conversion of vector objects resulted in an error [FP32866; FP37434]
- Set page label: Fixed issue, where the Fixup UI only allowed numbers for input [FP27217]
- Create and apply shapes:
- Fixed issue, where region inside was not clipped [CA1025656]
- Fixed issue, where very large formats were not handled properly [CA1025458]
- Problem solved, where objects defined by "apply to" were not excluded from generated shape
- Fixed issue, where region inside was not clipped [CA1025656]
- Remove objects outside page: Fixed issue, where images inside page area became removed in certain cases [FP35565; FP37704]
- Remove objects outside page: Problem solved, where text inside page area became removed [FP35565; FP35812]
- Flip pages: Problem solved, where result was not flipped if processed together with "Rotate pages"-Fixup [CA1025231]
- Put objects on layer: Fixed issue, where the Property "Belongs to a layer" could not be used as a Custom Check [CA1025626]
- Place text: Problem solved, where small text was not properly handled [FP35471]
- All predefined, template-based "Place content"-Fixups: Problem solved, where positioning was not correct if MediaBox didn't start at 0/0 [FP]
- "Place content"-based templates have now an entry for meta charset in UTF-8 [FP33009]
Actions
- Export to HTML: Fixed issue, where PDF could not be exported properly
- Impose: Problem solved, where custom sheet sizes were not respected [CA1025944]
- Impose: Fixed issue, where runlist Variable "ShinglingValue" did not worked as expected
- ToPDF:
- Fixed issue, where converting office files using Libre/OpenOffice was not successful in certain cases (Problem on MacOS only) [FP32686]
- Fixed issue, where a time limited activation prevented the conversion of Office files [FP34517]
- Dialog handling for "Deactivate Macros" in Word 2016 (Windows only) [CA1025868]
- Problem solved, where special characters in office file names prevented conversion (MacOS only) [FP22084]
- Added support for CJK for PostScript to PDF conversion [CA1025018]
- Problem solved, where an indexed PNG or certain JPEG resulted in white page [FP37476]
- Fixed issue, where converting office files using Libre/OpenOffice was not successful in certain cases (Problem on MacOS only) [FP32686]
- SaveAsImage:
- Fixed issue, where the simulation profile was not respected in certain cases [CA1025582; CA1025824]
- Problem solved, where output could become scaled, if origin destination was not 0/0 [CA1024771]
- Fixed issue, where smoothing was not performed [FP35415; FP37540]
- Fixed issue, where the simulation profile was not respected in certain cases [CA1025582; CA1025824]
CLI
- Reporting of Variables: Improved error message when Variables in Fixups are pointing to non-existing external resources [CA1025163; CA1025633]
- Tiling: Problem solved, where --overwrite could not be used properly [CA1025501]
- ExtractText: Fixed issue, where not all characters were extracted [CA1025537]
- Improved handling for PDF with corrupt document structure (will result on CLI in Error 1013 with exit code 107) [CA1025209]
Distributed Processing
- Fixed issue, where a simulation profile for SaveAsImage was not transferred to the Satellite [FP38409]
- Fixed issue, where the imposition SheetTemplate was not transferred to the Satellite [FP38376]
- Problem solved, where the specified cachefolder of a Satellite was not used for saving Profiles
Reports
- XSLT based reports: Calculation of ink amount enabled [FP36329]
- Yellow color adjusted for highlighting of "Warning" in reports to be easier visible [FP33543]
General
- Problem solved, where processing resulted in an error due to an invalid color space
- Improved recognition of illegal content streams and parameters
- Problem solved, where wrong header in font was not properly handled
- Fixed issue, where linearization of a PDF was not terminated properly [CA1025653; FP36439; CA1025448]
- Problem solved, where content was displayed clipped in certain cases [CA1025775; FP35374]
- Fixed issue, where ICC-Profiles in JPG2000 images were not handled properly in certain cases [CA1024861]
- Log profile execution: Better reporting for used Variables and errors for actions in Process Plans
- Variables in Process Plans: Variables from previous steps are now available for use in Action steps as well
- Optimized trigger reporting for objects which are causing an "Missing extended graphic state" error for easier analysis [CA1025324]
Updateinfos
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Alle Versionen der pdfToolbox Desktop 7.x und 8.x. Frühere Versionen können nicht mehr upgegradet werden - Fixed issue, where decalibration was not performed when a Custom Check was used [CA1025173]