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Version: 11.0.340

Verfügbar seit: 17.01.2022 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

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Features

• Desktop
  
  • Edit Profiles: Defined Checks and Fixups from other Libraries can easily imported into the current Library while editing
  
  
  • Edit Fixups: Several editors for config files added
    • Create spot color place based on ink amount
    • Embed missing fonts
    • Adjust dot gain
  
  
  • New in Switchboard
    
    
    • Text: Unembed all fonts
    
    
    • Document: Resample to JPEG2000
  
  
  • Process plan UI
    
    
    • Added default values to several step types to facilitate the configuration
    
    
    • Several usability improvements like better visualisation of transitions, the possibility to save the current state in between
    
    
    • Defined Profiles, Checks etc. from other Libraries can easily imported into the current Library while editing
  
  
  • A Quick Fix or Action can be directly exported as kfpx and will imported as a single step Process plan
  
  
  • Search all Libraries view: New option to import a Profile, Check etc. into the current Library via the menu
  
  
  • Delete Profiles/Process Plans with all their objects
  
  
  • Standalone: New marquee zoom functionality (CTRL + mouse)
  
  
  • Variables ask-at-runtime dialog: Custom templates can now also be defined for Process plans
    

• General
  
  
  • Unified concept for defining page areas to harmonize configuration possibilities in Checks and Fixups
    
    
    • Fixups
      
      
      • Place Barcode
      
      
      • Create and apply shapes
      
      
      • Create links for text
      
      
      • Set page geometry boxes ("Set page geometry boxes (page box dimensions)" has been deprecated)
    
    
    • Properties:
      
      
      • Is in custom area
      
      
      • Barcode is in area
      
      
      • Effective ink coverage in custom area
      
      
      • Find Barcodes
      
      
      • Text on page
      
      
      • Shape definition
  
  
  • Page selector: Allows using multiple and mixed page expressions for various Checks, Fixups and Actions

• Process plans
  
  
  • Create PDF copy: New option to create temporary copies, so that the copy is deleted after processing
  
  
  • Compare: Support for threshold for contiguous areas (mm)
  
  
  • Compare: Support for selecting Processing Steps types used for comparison
  
  
  • Compare: Support for page selector (separately for input and output file)
  
  
  • Add Files: Support for page selector
  
  
  • Split layers: Improved support for Processing Steps layers
  
  
  • New report type JSON added for all suitable transitions
  
  
  • Reports: Various new options like subfolders, suffix, ink coverage etc. can be defined depending on the respective report type
    

• Variables
  
  
  • JavaScript Variables: Type of environment of script and homeDir available in app.env
  
  
  • Find barcode Check: Position of a Bar-/QR-Code is now supplied in result.checks.hits

• New and enhanced predefined Profiles and Process plans
  
  
  
  • Library: Shapes, Variables, JavaScript, Place content
    
    
    • Place individual text per page

• New Fixups
  
  
  • Remove empty layers
  
  
  • Upsample images|monochrome images

• Enhanced Fixups
  
  
  • Convert colors: Apply conversion for specified pages only
  
  
  • Convert colors using n-channel profile: New option to include softmasks
  
  
  • Convert colors using DeviceLink: New option to include softmasks
  
  
  • Convert colors using n-channel DeviceLink profiles: New option to include softmasks
  
  
  • Downsample/compress ... images: Additional sampling methods: Lanczos and BlackmanSinc
  
  
  • Place content: Identical layer names will become indexed, if initial visibility or Processing Steps metadata is different
  
  
  • Place Text / Place Barcode: New functionality to select font files (which
    will also be included in an exported Profile) or to a webfont
  
  
  • Create and apply shapes: Create separate vector stroke objects per found shape if "Reduce shape to outer borders" is active
  
  
  • Create links for text: Support for deriving the destination URL from the matching text
  
  
  • Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Fixup: Enhanced handling for external resources

• New and enhanced predefined Fixups
  
  
  • Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:
    
    
    • Add links to URLs
    
    
    • Convert to B/W except first and last two pages
    
    
    • Upsample color and grayscale images to 300 ppi if below 225 ppi
    
    
    • Upsample bitmap images to 800 ppi if below 550 ppi
    
    
    • Downsample/compress ... images: Change used method to Lanczos
  
  
  • Library: Shapes, Variables, JavaScript, Place content
    
    
    • Downsample/compress ... images: Change method to Lanczos
    
    
    • Place text / barcode"-based Fixups: Changed default font to NotoSans

• New predefined Actions
  
  
  • Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:
    
    
    • Resample images to JPEG2000
    
    
    • Unembed all fonts

• New Properties
  
  
  • General: Support for "Processing steps" added in Check sidebar
  
  
  • Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Checks: Allows for using JavaScript structures to represent any available Property
  
  
  • Effective ink coverage - limit to custom area (to be combined with other "effective ink" Properties)
  
  
  • Sequential page number matches page selector

• Enhanced Properties
  
  
  • Line width: Lines with a width of "0" (which usually are displayed as 1 pixel lines) will now be taken into account
  
  
  • Text on page: Positions of found text made available in details of hits
  
  
  • Text on page: Optimized recognition of special glyphs like e.g. "." (period) in the search term

• New predefined Checks
  
  
  • Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:
    
    
    • All pages except first and last two

• Actions
  
  
  • New:
    
    
    • Unembed all fonts
    
    
    • Resample to JPEG2000
    
    
    • Tiling by number
    
    
    • Tiling by size
    
    
    • Visualizer (safety zone)
    
    
    • Visualizer (gamut views)
    
    
    • Visualizer (small objects)
    
    
    • Visualizer (ink coverage)
    
    
    • Visualizer (separations)
    
    
    • Visualizer (image resolution)
  
  
  • Compare: Support for threshold for contiguous areas (mm)
  
  
  • Compare: Support for selecting Processing Steps types used for comparison
  
  
  • Compare: Support for page selector (separately for input and output file)
  
  
  • Compare: Added optional logging functionality to enable access to details similar to those in the UI
  
  
  • Split layers: Improved support for Processing Steps layers
  
  
  • ToPDF: Conversion of office files using OpenOffice/LibreOffice will maintain existing form fields
  
  
  • Image export: Support for defining a custom box for rendering
  
  
  • Image export: Support for page selector
  
  
  • EPS export: Support for defining a custom box for cropping
  
  
  • EPS export: Support for page selector
  
  
  • Duplicate page: Support for page selector
  
  
  • Split PDF: Added possibility to define multi packages to split expressions (e.g. "2x3,2x2")
    

• New Quick Fix
  
  
  • Re-order pages (with support for page selector)
  
  
  • Remove page level Output Intents

• Reports
  
  
  • New report type: JSON


• CLI
  
  
  • Predefined Profiles:
    
    
    • Downsample/Recompress ... images: Change method to Lanczos
  
  
  • SaveAsImage: New optional parameter for parallel processes of page rendering (e.g. --parallel=8)
  
  
  • Quick Fix: A pre-configured quickfix.json sample has been added to the installation package
  
  
  • Compare: Support for threshold for contiguous areas (--contareathreshold)
  
  
  • Compare: Support for selecting Processing Steps types used for comparison (--processingsteps)
  
  
  • Compare: Support for page selector (separately for input and output file) (--pagerange_compare; --pagerange_input]
  
  
  • EnumerateProfiles: Support for Process plans
  
  
  • Profile execution: New report type JSON (--report=JSON)
  
  
  • Split layers: Improved support for Processing Steps layers(--processingstepsnames)
  
  
  • Pagerange supports page selector for Profile execution and suitable Actions
  
  
  • MaxMemory: Maximum size of memory in MB to be used during processing made available for Windows and Linux (--maxmemory)

• Improved file optimization to repair more issues in the PDF structure automatically


• Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.4.072)

Fixes

• PDF Standards
  
  
  • PDF/A-1 conversion: Optimized handling of annotations to avoid unnecessary removal of AcroForm dictionary entries
  
  
  • PDF/A-1 conversion: Existing page scaling factors (UserUnit) will no longer be removed automatically
  
  
  • PDF/A-1 validation: Check if size of MediaBox exceeds 14.400 pt in either direction

• Desktop
  
  
  • Organize pages: Several usability improvements and optimized preview handling
  
  
  • Edit Fixups: Optimized update handling for displayed content based on selected pop-up entry
  
  
  • Page sizes: Relaxed behavior for invalid entries in the respective config file
  
  
  • Process plan editor: Available reports per sequence type reviewed and corrected
  
  
  • Update notification: Improved message for updates if no internet connection is available
  
  
  • Update notification: Direct link to release infos
  
  
  • Output preview: Problem solved, where determining the ink coverage resulted into an error with certain mouse positions
  
  
  • Ask-at-runtime: Format of exported JSON for Variables harmonized to those created during logging execution
  
  
  • Switchboard - Decorate: Reviewed and optimized processing to improve duration

• Process plan
  
  
  • Compare: Settings from compare step will be used for generated compare report
  
  
  • Compare report has been deprecated as report type for all step types except "Compare PDFs"
  
  
  • Rename PDF: Reviewed and optimized handling of filenames
  
  
  • Pick up PDF: Reviewed and optimized handling of files and filenames will be restored, if file has been renamed in previous step

• Fixups
  
  
  • Place content: Problem solved, where logging
    execution resulted into an invalid prepared profile if a Variable was
    used for referencing a template
  
  
  • Adjust or remove annotations: Problem solved, where flatten annotations resulted in a distorted result for some rare cases
  
  
  • Subset fonts: Problem solved, where processing resulted in high memory consumption and long processing time in rare cases
  
  
  • Convert
    fonts to outlines: Issue fixed, where Properties from the document,
    colors or page description area were not allowed in apply to filter
    Checks
  
  
  • Remove invisible image data: Problem solved, where images inside page area could be affected in certain cases
  
  
  • Downsample/recompress
    images: Problem solved, where pure recompression without downsampling
    could result into improperly handled images in certain cases
  
  
  • Create
    an invisible text copy for all text: Issue fixed, where marked font was
    highlighted as a thin line in some PDF viewers (e.g. Chrome browser)

• Checks
  
  
  • Text on page: Limited reported text in trigger values to matching string
  
  
  • Find barcodes: Adjusted defaults for active Bar-/QR-Codes types
  
  
  • Find barcodes: Problem solved, where small QR-Codes were not found in some cases
  
  
  • ICC
    profile is not valid: Problem solved, where invalid ICC profiles was
    not properly detected if used in alternate colorspace in certain cases
  
  
  • Report PDF syntax errors: Improved recognition for FormXObject using a Dict instead of a Stream (which could into RIP errors)
  
  
  • Image is not valid: Improved recognition for invalid /DecodeParams entries in streams

• Actions
  
  
  • Email to PDF: RTF body content in EML will be
    ignored and the plain text part will be used instead (harmonized to
    behavior of e.g. Thunderbird and MS Outlook) [CA1030403]
  
  
  • Compare: UserUnits will be taken into account for report type images
  
  
  • N-up
    and StepAndRepeat: Problem solved, where no page scaling factor
    (UserUnit) was inserted in resulting PDF if sheet size exceeded 14.400 pt
  
  
  • ToPDF: Problem solved, where conversion failed for GIF if filename contains special characters (Windows only)
  
  
  • ToPDF: Problem solved, where only a part of a RGB-TIFF with alpha channel was visible after conversion to PDF
  
  
  • ToPDF: Issue fixed, where a certain TIFF could not be processed anymore
  
  
  • MergePDF: Issue fixed, where an AcroForm entries from merged PDFs were not properly maintained

• Quick Fix
  
  
  • Issue solved, where JSON configuration saved as UTF8 with BOM was not accepted
    

• License Server
  
  
  • Issue fixed, where requesting an activation from a License Server without a matching cartridge took unnecessary long

• CLI
  
  
  • Improved progress update when executing Process plans
  
  
  • SecurePDF: Adjusted usage to enable setting an open password:
    
    
    • Set open password (--openpassword)
    
    
    • Set permissions password (--password)

• General
  
  
  • Optimized font processing for TrueType fonts to avoid display issues in iOS 15 Preview
  
  
  • Font
    handling: Problem solved, where some unusual referencing of resource
    dicts was not properly maintained and resulted in a visual difference
  
  
  • File processing: Problem solved, where missing resources for Marked Content could result into visual differences certain cases
  
  
  • General file processing: Problem solved, where glyphs are moved at the bottom in seldom cases
  
  
  • Fixed issue, where processing (like PDF/A validation and conversion) had an increased duration compared to previous version
  
  
  • Fixed issue, where Boolean values for Variables where not properly handled under certain circumstances

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