• Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency
  
  • Check and fix bleed

• Create spot color page based on ink amount: Creates a spot colored image on top of the current page content based on the ink amount
  
• Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Fixups: Allows for using JSON structures to select and parameterize any available Fixup
  
• Set color: Changes the color for all identified objects
  
• Create invisible text via OCR: Pages are rendered internally and an OCR is performed (languages installed by default: English and German), more information: https://ocr.callassoftware.com
  
• Create links for text: Sets a link to a specified URL at each text object which matches the defined string

• Generate bleed at page edges: New method "stretch border area", which is using page content to create a un-proportional stretched image for the created bleed
  
• Generate bleed at page edges: New sub dialog for all geometrical settings
  
• All Fixups are now taking page scaling factors into account automatically, the option "Factor in scaling factor" has therefore been removed
  
• Convert page content into image: New option to filter objects, which shall not be used for rendering
  
• Fixups setting page geometry boxes: MediaBox is set to 0/0 by default now [FP45010]

• Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency
  
  • Convert gray CMYK images to grayscale
    
  • Convert gray RGB images to grayscale
    
  • Make rich black
    
  • Generate 3mm bleed by stretching border area
    
  • Convert alternate color space for spot colors to CMYK (Coated GRACoL 2013)
    
  • Convert color to Coated GRACoL 2013 (convert spot colors to CMYK)
    
  • Convert color to Coated GRACoL 2013 (keep spot colors)
    
  • Embed Output Intent Coated GRACoL 2013
    
  • Set Overprint Mode for ICCbased CMYK to 0
  
  
• Library: PDF Standards
  
  • Make invisible text via OCR

• General: Support for "Output Intent Scope" added in Check sidebar (PDF 2.0 feature)
  
• Several new Properties for page box dimensions containing all units (old, separate Properties per value will become converted into the new ones)
  
• Content stream size of page + Content stream size of most complex page: Determine stream sizes of pages or find the page with the largest size
  
• Several new and modified Properties for PDF/X-6, PDF/A-4 and PDF/VT-3 (some with new PDF 2.0 features)
  
• Has Processing Steps metadata
  
• Find barcodes: Identifies any number of barcodes or matrix codes in specified area
  
• Size of stroked vector object [FP61233]

• All Checks are now taking page scaling factors into account automatically, the option "Factor in scaling factor" has therefore been removed

• Library: PDF Standards
  
  • Uses ICCbased CMYK: Adjusted settings
    
  • Text objects that cannot be mapped to Unicode

• Object uses black only
  
• Uses ICCbased CMYK
  
• Gray CMYK images using CMY with 2% tolerance
  
• Gray RGB images with 2% tolerance

• Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency
  
  • Apply rotate key
    
  • Duplicate all pages
    
  • Embed Output Intent PSO Coated v3 (ECI)
    
  • Embed Output Intent US Web Coated
    
  • Inject PDF/VT DPart data (blocks of 4 pages)
    
  • Insert empty page after each page
    
  • Remove all Output Intents
    
  • Rotate pages by 90 degrees counter-clockwise
    
  • Scale pages to A4
    
  • Set MediaBox to origin
    
  • Set Processing Steps metadata for layer

• PDF Standards: PDF/X-6
  
• Text: OCR
  
• Large format printing: Pole banner to create certain kinds of hemstitch banner

• Quick Fix: Perform several high-performance corrections (available on CLI and as Process plan step)
  
• Compare: New comparison methods "Delta E" and "Delta C" (both for 1976 and 2000 specifications)
  
• Visualizer: Heatmap views for ink coverage below/above per separation
  
• Visualizer: Heatmap views for out of gamut comparison
  
• Visualizer: Default output format is now images, PDF report has been deprecated
  
• Visualizer: Page border/Bleed area views: merged into one new view, where security width can be adjusted

• XML: New structure for triggers in the reports: they will now be listed as "value" and (if useful) as additional "detail"
  
• XML: New listing of "effective" page box dimensions, which include existing page scaling factors
  
• XML: New listing of several barcode or matrix codes details when barcode-related Property has been executed

• Reports in Server: Possibility to select templates for overview reports per severity added [FP60229]
  
• CLI
  
  • Extract dieline: The CropBox will be used for resulting dimension and new option --pagebox for selecting another box [CA1029822]
    
  • Quick Fix: Perform several high-performance corrections (--quickfix)
    
  • Reports: New option to define a "suffix" for created reports (suffix=___> [FP60229]
    
  • Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v18.0.3PlusP1c)
    
  • Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.2.068)

Fixes

• Enhanced Profiles
  
  • Verify compliance with PDF/X-4..: XMP metadata attached to the content stream via marked content is now also taken into account
    
  • Verify compliance with PDF/A-2..: XMP metadata attached to the content stream via marked content is now also taken into account [FP46416; CA1028118]
    
  • Verify compliance with ZUGFeRD: Adjusted schema file [CA1029819]
  
  
• Fixups
  
  • Flatten transparency (and overprint)
    
    • Problem solved, where processing resulted into a color shift caused by a RGB object above a CMYK image [CA1029728]
      
    • Problem solved, where ICC profile was removed from OutputIntent [CA1029138]
      
    • Issue fixed, where processing resulted in a thicker glyph in certain cases [FP51872]
      
    • Issue fixed, where flattening caused distorted glyphs in some cases [FP28547]
      
    • Problem solved, where an unexpected color shift occurred, when ICC v4 profile was used [CA1029182]
      
    • Problem solved, where opening the flattened file resulted in warnings for font widths or missing glyphs in some PDF viewers [FP55011]
      
    • Issue fixed, where drop shadows were not handled properly in certain cases [CA1029118]
      
    • Problem solved, where processing resulted in modified page appearance in some cases [FP60056]
      
    • Problem solved, where flattening wasn't successful and the resulting PDF could not be opened [CA1029034]
      
    • Issue fixed, where processing resulted in an empty page with a specific PDF [FP60081]
      
    • Problem solved, where flattening with fix glyph width information resulted in removed objects [FP27742]
      
    • Issue fixed, where repair invalid ToUnicode values and flattening resulted in a FixFailure for flattening [FP30167]
      
    • Problem solved, where flattening and optimization resulted in duplicated text elements [CA1028240]
    
    
  • Convert spot color names to UTF-8: Several improvements for better handling of special characters (e.g. Umlauts) and encodings [CA1029140]
    
  • Scale pages: When pages with page scaling factor are scaled to a value below the maximum page size the scaling factor (UserUnits) will now be removed [FP57818; FP58614]
    
  • Convert colors: Improved handling for ICC profile names containing characters like "*" (Windows only) [FP60771]
    
  • Downsample/recompress images: Problem solved, where images became modified [FP61697]
    
  • Font embedding: Problem solved, where embedding of "MS Mincho" font resulted in Identity encoding issues [CA1029651]
    
  • General font processing: Issue fixed, where simple encoding was added to CID fonts, although not necessary [CA1029588]
    
  • Map spot and process colors: Adjusted interpretation of RegEx to avoid creation of doubled names [FP59771]
    
  • Map spot and process colors: Problem solved, where spot color names were not properly corrected when RegEx was used (Linux Only) [FP60489; FP60438]
    
  • Remove annotations: Problem solved, where removal was not successful, if boxes were set beforehand in same Profile [FP61063]
    
  • Create and apply shapes: Issue fixed, where Asian and other non-latin glyphs were not properly handled [FP61242]
    
  • All "Set page geometry boxes"-Fixups: Optimized handling of setting "All" in "Apply to:" to increase processing speed [CA1029145]
  
  
• Checks
  
  Effective ink coverage Properties: Improved detection for low ink coverage (e.g. less than 5%)
  
  • Set overprint and knockout: Issue fixed, where generic filter for "smooth shades" did not work properly [FP61979]
    
  • General file analysis: Problem solved, where invalid image data could result into a hanging process for specific PDFs [CA1029321; CA1029749; CA1029788]
    
  • Sifter-based Properties: Issue fixed, where transparency softmasks were not taken into account for visibility or obliteration [FP58394]
  
  
• Actions
  
  MergePDF: Problem solved, where checkboxes in forms were removed [FP29681]
  
  • ToPDF: Enhanced handling for certain alert window in MS Visio [CA1029664]
    
  • Overlay : Issue fixed, where page scaling factors in PDFs were not properly respected
    
  • QuickCheck: Several smaller listing issues fixed
    
  • Split at mark: Problem solved, where the original PDF became modified
    
  • Extract dieline: Issue fixed, where wrong unit was used for creation [FP61642]
    
  • Extract dieline: Issue fixed, where for SVG was not properly defined and inline tracing comments included [FP60382]
  
  
• Desktop
  
  Layer Explorer: Improved rendering behavior when selecting and un-selecting layers
  
  • Libraries: "Essentials" removed and "Prepress" set as default Library
    
  • Bookmarks pane: Issue fixed, where content was not updated after Fixup execution
    
  • General display of pages: Reviewed highlighting of page geometry boxes in zoom mode
    
  • Compare: Issue fixed, where "Start quick change" did not respected view and zoom level [FP61446]
    
  • Issue fixed, where import or export Profiles did not remember the last used folder [FP60374]
  
  
• Distributed processing
  
  Issue fixed, where report templates were not properly transferred to the Satellite in some cases
  
  
• Reports
  
  Quick Check: Issue fixed, where entries for transparency groups on page level were not properly reported [FP60698]
  
  • XML: Issue fixed, where report listed invalid plate names (Linux Only) [FP60489]
  
  
• General
  
  Issue fixed, where file structure optimization resulted into an error with certain files [FP60028]
  
  • Issue fixed, where a Process plan step was not executed under certain circumstances [FP60986]
    
  • Problem solved, where post-processing after a DeviceLink conversion resulted in an error [FP47826]
    
  • Problem solved, where post-processing resulted in moved glyphs with a specific file [CA1026282]
    
  • Issue fixed, where post-processing took quite long on Linux and MacOS compared to Windows [FP55096]
    
  • Problem solved, where certain glyph optimization of flattened file resulted in damages content [CA1023107; CA1024019; CA1028839; FP27480]
    
  • Office conversion: External application changed to LibreOffice or OpenOffice on MacOS (MS Office no longer available) [FP60779]

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