pdfaPilot Desktop

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Version: 8.1.303

Verfügbar seit: 09.01.2019 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Features

• Desktop
  
  • New Switchboard Action in Arrange group: "Split or reorder", to split certain pages or page ranges into several or single PDF
    
  • Unchanged Profiles, Fixup, Checks and Process Plans in default Libraries will be automatically updated with latest settings in the future (can be disabled in Library settings)
    
  • Variables: Defined JavaScript objects are now available across all Libraries
    
  • Libraries: Possibility to create a new empty Library, which includes the default resources (e.g. Output Intents, curve files etc)
    
  • Compare Libraries: Included settings of the scope of a specific check (e.g. limited to boxes or including soft masks etc.) to the comparison result for checks
    
  • Profile editing: "Report PDF syntax issues" option is no more active in newly generated Profiles
    
  • Improved visualization of non-supported custom Checks from Acrobat Preflight Profiles

• Updated Profiles, Fixups, Checks and Process Plans
  
  • Fix potential font problems: Replaced Fixup "Make font name unique for all fonts" with new Fixup "Make font name unique for all fonts with same name"

• New and enhanced predefined Fixups
  
  • Make font name unique for all fonts with same name

• New and enhanced predefined Checks
  
  • Origin of MediaBox is not 0/0

• Enhanced Fixups
  
  • Remove XMP Metadata: Extended with possibility to define namespace and properties to be kept or to removed
    
  • Convert fonts to outlines: Enabled page-based Checks for "Apply to" selection
    
  • Discard private data from other applications: Has been extended to remove private information also in the PieceInfo
    
  • Rotate page content: Rotates the page content by a given degree and optionally enlarge the page accordingly
    
  • Insert pages: Page geometry boxes are also inserted for new empty pages
    
  • Place text / Place barcode: Improved fallback for fonts if the default fonts (Arial/Helvetica, Times, Courier) can not be found on the respective system

• Actions
  
  • ToPDF:
    
    • New option "--topdf_noremotecontent" to disable loading of external resources from HTML (and eMail) [CA1025127]
      
    • Support for conversion of the most common variants of Photoshop files (PSD) and GIF to PDF, directly as input file as well as when referenced in HTML
      
    • Added support for page scaling factor (UserUnit) in resulting PDF, if input image exceeds the maximum dimension of a PDF page
    
    
  • Email to PDF: Bookmarks will now work for embedded files

• Server
  
  • The "Server.log" logfiles in the shared preferences folder are now created on a daily basis and are named accordingly

• Distributed Processing
  
  • New option "--noshadowfiles" to suppress the creation of a place holder file (which normally reserves the intended file name in the file system)
    
  • New option "--setvariablepath", which will transfer the referenced file or folder to the satellite (e.g. as additional resources)
    
  • The log files in the shared preferences folder are now created on a daily basis and are named accordingly for Dispatcher and Satellite
    
  • New option "--verbosity" to activate extensive logging for debugging processing problems

• Updated internal visualizer of tagging structure to the latest version of callas pdfGoHTML (v2.0.025)
  
• Updated internal HTML converter to the latest version of callas pdfChip (v2.0.056)
  
• Updated MailConverter component
  
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v15.0.4PlusP4e)
  
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Converter integrated (PostScript to PDF conversion; v1.1PlusP1m)

Fixes

• Desktop
  
  • Batch processing: Problem solved, where resulting files were not stored according to their severity in the correct output folder
    
  • Switchboard: Problem solved, where changed PDF wasn't marked as such, therefore no "Save as" was requested when closing the document
    
  • Switchboard: Issue fixed, where deleting a saved Action wasn't successful
  
  
• Standalone
  
  • Recently saved files are now also included in the "Open recent files" menu
    
  • Compare: Issue fixed, where "Min/Max differences" and "Area" values were not properly updated

• PDF Standards:
  
  • PDF/A conversion: Annotations with "NoView" flag will be removed
    
  • PDF/A conversion: Improved handling for PDF 2.0 files
    
  • PDF/A-2u conversion: Problem solved, where errors regarding Unicode values occurred after processing
    
  • PDF/A-2 + PDF/A-3 conversion: Improved handling to set the overprint mode (OPM) for ICCbased CMYK object also if DefaultCMYK is introduced during processing
    
  • PDF/A validation: Adjusted recognition to detect invalid XMP metadata with more than one occurrence of "pdf:Producer"

• Fixups
  
  • Flatten transparency:
    
    • Issue fixed, where rendering or flattening resulted in cropped image in certain cases
      
    • Issue fixed, where processing resulted in shifted glyphs and other objects in certain cases
      
    • Problem solved, where glyphs were changed and wrong glyph widths were created in some cases
    
    
  • Font to outline: Problem solved, where processing resulted in missing glyphs if specific TrueType font was converted to CFF beforehand
    
  • Place content: Improved handling of existing Layer of placed PDF documents
    
  • Remove objects outside page area: Reviewed functionality to ensure proper handling of objects
    
  • Downsample/compress color/grayscale images: Issue fixed, where processing results in visual differences due to improper handling of Matte entry
    
  • Create bookmarks from headings: Issue fixed, where tag tree was not properly recognized
    
  • Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Problem solved, where text color changed during processing in certain PDF
    
  • Convert colors: Existing Matte entries are now calculated into the image data to prevent color shifts in the resulting PDF
    
  • Adjust or remove annotations:
    
    • Problem solved, where annotations became rotated in rare cases
      
    • Problem solved, where white background rectangles for "Square" annotations appeared in certain cases
      
    • Fixed issue, where annotations became scrambled due to page rotation
    
    
  • Embed missing fonts:
    
    • Issue fixed, where glyph widths for Latin glyphs in Asian fonts were not respected properly for CID fonts
      
    • Possibility to map defined glyph names of a font to an Adobe glyph names using the FontSubstitution config file
      
    • Issue fixed, where certain fonts with Unicode characters in their font name were not properly determined (Unix only)
    
    
  • Convert TrueType font to CFF: Issue fixed, where umlauts were changed to rectangles
    
  • Convert TrueType font to CFF: Added support for simple TrueType fonts using rendering mode 3
    
  • Merge adjacent headings if heading level is the same: Problem solved, where certain nesting of table fields was not properly handled
    
  • Font handling: Fixed issue, where certain .notdef glyph encodings in the Differences array were not removed
    
  • Content stream analysis: Problem solved, where invalid command resulted in loss of content after processing under certain circumstances

• Actions
  
  • To PDF:
    
    • Issue fixed, where conversion of certain JPG (created by some mobile devices) resulted in a blank pages
      
    • Issue fixed, where conversion of TIFF containing a special kind of thumbnail preview of the content resulted in a 2-page PDF
      
    • Problem solved, where certain corrupt PDFs resulted in an unstable behavior
      
    • Implemented improved handling for certain TIFF variants (e.g. some JPEG compressions) to ensure proper conversion to PDF
      
    • Office files will be opened as read-only to allow conversion of files protected against editing (Microsoft Word on Windows only)
      
    • Problem solved, where the Exif information regarding the image orientation was not respected properly
    
    
  • Email to PDF:
    
    • Reviewed placement and formatting of email content, e.g. to avoid unnecessary scaling [CA1027583; CA1027166; CA1027577; CA1024898]
      
    • Added conversion of attached GIF files to PDF [CA1022965; FP27244]
      
    • Problem solved, where an embedded RTF file referencing a non-existing inline image attachment resulted in an unstable behavior [CA1026798]
      
    • Issue fixed, where attachments ending with a dot or space character could not be processed [CA1027432]

• Reports
  
  • QuickCheck: Problem solved, where some font infos were not correctly listed in the resulting JSON report
    
  • XML reports: Problem solved, where reports were not created with certain PDFs (MacOS only)