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Features

Desktop

• New in Switchboard: PDF/A & PDF/UA: "PDF/A-2 and X/4" added
  
• Plug-in: Support for 64bit Acrobat Pro on Windows (Desktop installer contain 32bit and 64 bit, separate Server installer containing either 32bit or 64bit Plug-in)
  
• Process plan UI: Several improvements implemented, e.g. multi-selection, mouse gestures for scroll and zoom, easier selection of transitions for re-assignments
  
• Test mode: Snap view added to show objects detected by a Check
  
• Test mode: Diff view added which highlights areas with visual changes
  
• Ask-at-runtime for Variables: New options to control display of Variables in UI (app.context.steps, app.context.dialog.__ __)

New Profiles

• Library: PDF Standards
  
  • Convert to PDF/X-4 and PDF/A-2 (for Coated GRACoL 2006, Coated GRACoL 2013, ISO Coated v2, Japan Color 2001 (Coated), PSO Coated v3, US Web Coated (SWOP) v2)
    
  • Convert to PDF/X-6 and PDF/A-4 (for Coated GRACoL 2006, Coated GRACoL 2013, ISO Coated v2, Japan Color 2001 (Coated), PSO Coated v3, US Web Coated (SWOP) v2)

Enhanced Profiles

• Library: PDF Standards
  
  • Fix problems in PDF tagging structure: Fixup "Remove re-mapping of predefined tags" added

New Fixups

• Convert PDF internal names to UTF-8: Completely revised approach to correct invalid UTF-8 encodings (will also be used for respective font and spot color name Fixups)

Enhanced Fixups

• Adjust or remove form fields: New option "Repair invalid form fields" to repair e.g. form fields with wrong BBox entries

New Properties

• Specified XMP property uses specified value: Detect XMP metadata values for Document Metadata + Object Metadata

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v18.0.3PlusP1m)

Updated MailConverter component

Fixes

Desktop

• Organize pages: Several minor issues reviewed and optimized
  
• Footer bar: Issue fixed, where displayed values for UserUnits were rounded to 1 digit (will list up to 6 digits now)
  
• Standalone: Reviewed and improved scrolling behavior for track pads and similar devices (e.g. Apple MagicMouse)

PDF Standards

• Convert to PDF/A-4e: Issue fixed, where 3D annotations were falsely removed, although allowed in this substandard [CA1030074]
  
• Validation for PDF/A-4..: Some minor adjustments (e.g. regarding valid entries in XMP "pdfaid:rev")
  
• Validation for PDF/A-4e: Problem solved, where RichMedia annotation falsely flagged as not allowed [CA1030074]
  
• Validation for PDF/X-5n: Issue fixed, where an ICC profile was marked as invalid, although compliant

Fixups

• Downsample/recompress images: Problem solved, where the "Apply to" filter was not properly respected and a wrong number of corrections were reported
  
• Downsample/recompress images: Issue fixed, where softmasks were not properly handled in some cases
  
• Downsample/recompress images: Problem solved, where certain usage of softmask images could result in a visual change
  
• Make document XMP Metadata compliant with PDF/X-4: Problem solved, where certain image metadata could not be corrected
  
• Set page zoom for bookmark destinations: Issue fixed, where processing resulted into another zoom behavior in certain cases
  
• Create bookmarks from headings: Problem solved, where bookmarks were created for page breaks in some cases
  
• Set text render mode: Problem solved, where stroke could not be generated if text was drawn with a pattern color space
  
• Fix glyph width information: Problem solved, where text was shifted caused by wrong types defined in used CID font

Checks

• Image not valid: Problem solved, where certain invalid JPEG image streams were not detected
  
• Place content: Issue fixed, where placed content of PDF was cropped at the TrimBox
  
• Number of hits in this check: Problem solved, where number of hits were not determined properly
  
• Include other check: Problem solved, where certain kind of nesting of Checks did not result in the expected hit

Actions

• Find barcodes:
  
  • Issue fixed, where "PDF 417" barcodes were seldom detected
    
  • Problem solved, where barcodes with the symbology "RSS Expanded" were not properly detected
    
  • Issue fixed, where "Bar Width Reduction" measurements did not match the expected values
    
  • Issue fixed, where wrong bounding box for "EAN 13 + 2" was reported
    
  • Optimized reporting if multiple barcode properties are combined in a Check to avoid unnecessary redundancy in reporting
    
  • Issue fixed, where a barcode check did not derived a proper result anymore
  
  
• Text on page: Issue fixed, where RegEx icon was missing
  
• Text on page: Problem solved, where some operators were not properly handled
  
• Font processing: Problem solved, where a Type0 fonts sharing the same CID font was not properly handled
  
• Font processing: Problem solved, where processing certain Type3 fonts could cause font issues in the PDF

Actions

• Email-to-PDF: Problem solved, where images from content in MSG became attached as separate files in certain cases [CA1030167]
  
• Email-to-PDF: Problem solved, where attachments could not be converted if they had no file extension [CA1028434; CA1030221]
  
• Overlay:
  
  • Corrected default behavior for --placebelow: the input file name will be used for the naming of resulting file and contained number of pages
    
  • Issue fixed, where page scaling factors in PDFs were not properly respected
    
  • Issue fixed, where a UserUnit entry was not respected for overlay PDFs
    
  • Fill page: Issue fixed, where a minimal bigger size of A4 caused problems when placing 2 pages on an A3 sheet
    
  • ToPDF: Problem solved, where certain EPS structures could result into a blank PDF
    
  • CreateEPS: Support for page box and page area selection
    
  • Compare: Changed default behavior: only overlapping areas of documents will be compared

Reports

• XML: Issue fixed, where values for UserUnit and page geometry boxes were rounded to 1 or 3 digits (will list up to 6 digits now)
  
• XML: Changed default INKCOV resolution to 10ppi (can be adjusted when using the CLI)

General

• Issue fixed, where a certain invalid image stream resulted in endless analysis
  
• Problem solved, where a RegEx back-reference in a destination string was not properly handled anymore

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Features

• PDF/A-4 Support
  
• PDF/X-6 Support
  
• PDF/VT-3 Support
  
• QuickFix - Perform high-performance corrections as CLI action or as Process plan step
  
  • Adjust page tree
    
  • Adjust spot colors
    
  • Apply Rotate key
    
  • Auto-correct page geometry boxes
    
  • Duplicate pages
    
  • Embed Output Intent
    
  • Enlarge pages
    
  • Flip pages
    
  • Inject DPart
    vInsert empty pages
    
  • JavaScript based configurations
    
  • Merge spot colors
    
  • Remove all Output Intents
    
  • Remove pages
    
  • Remove page geometry boxes
    
  • Rename spot colors
    
  • Rotate pages
    
  • Scale page content only
    
  • Scale pages
    
  • Set MediaBox to origin
    
  • Set layer visibility
    
  • Set page geometry box
    
  • Set page geometry box by dimensions
    
  • Set Processing Steps metadata for layer
  
  
• Desktop
  
  • Listing of page geometry boxes in separate Pop-up in page size display in footer
    
  • Optimization of PDFs when saved can now be adjusted in the user preferences
    
  • New "Free tools" in Standalone, which can be used without activation
    
  • Export Profiles for a previous pdfaPilot version
    
  • Actions for Process plans can now be created and edited directly using a new user interface
    
  • Visualizer: Heatmap views for ink coverage below/above per separation
    
  • Visualizer: Heatmap views for out of gamut comparison
    
  • Visualizer: Page border/Bleed area views: merged into one new view, where security width can be adjusted
    
  • Compare: New comparison methods "Delta E" and "Delta C" (both for 1976 and 2000 specifications)
    
  • Compare: Resolution and navigation keys added along with zoom functionality
    
  • License Server: Settings for Server can now be defined in the user interface
  
  
• Process plans
  
  • New step type "Add files" for adding additional documents as file attachments to the PDF
    
  • New step type "Compare PDFs" which allows an automated comparison of files (based on rendered pages)
    
  • New "QuickFix" for performing high-performance corrections are available as new step type
  
  
• General
  
  • Page scaling factors (UserUnits) are now taken into account for all reported values (e.g. text sizes, line widths, image resolutions, ...)
    
  • Optimization of PDF structure when saved will no longer optimize fonts
  
  
• New Profiles and Process plans
  
  • Library: PDF Standards
    
    • Convert to PDF/A-4, A-4e, A-4f (without fallback conversion)
      
    • Convert to PDF/X-6 (for Coated GRACoL 2006, Coated GRACoL 2013, ISO Coated v2, Japan Color 2001 (Coated), PSO Coated v3)
      
    • Convert to PDF/X-1a, X-4, X-6 (Coated GRACoL 2013)
      
    • Verify compliance with PDF/A-4, A-4e, A-4f
      
    • Verify compliance with PDF/X-6, X-6n, X-6p
      
    • Verify compliance with PDF/VT-3
      
    • PDF/A-2u: Outline non-Unicode text if it is below specified share of all text
  
  
• New Fixups
  
  • 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
    
  • Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Fixups: Allows for using JSON structures to select and parameterize any available Fixup
  
  
• Enhanced Fixups
  
  • Convert page content into image: New option to filter objects, which shall not be used for rendering
    
  • All Fixups are now taking page scaling factors into account automatically, the option "Factor in scaling factor" has therefore been removed
  
  
• New and enhanced predefined Fixups
  
  • Library: PDF Standards
    
    • Make invisible text via OCR
  
  
• New Properties
  
  • 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/A-4, PDF/X-6 and PDF/VT-3 (some with new PDF 2.0 features)
    
  • Find barcodes: Identifies any number of barcodes or matrix codes in specified area
    
  • General: Support for "Output Intent Scope" added in Check sidebar (PDF 2.0 feature)
  
  
• Enhanced Properties
  
  • All Checks are now taking page scaling factors into account automatically, the option "Factor in scaling factor" has therefore been removed
  
  
• New and enhanced predefined Checks
  
  • Library: PDF Standards
    
    • Uses ICCbased CMYK: Adjusted settings
      
    • Text objects that cannot be mapped to Unicode
  
  
• New in Switchboard
  
  • PDF/A & PDF/UA: PDF/A-4 variants added, as well as "A-4 & X-6"
    
  • Text: OCR

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Fixes

• Fixups
  
  
  • Subset fonts: Problem solved, where glyph became invisible in some special cases for Type 1 Simple fonts
    
  • Conversion to PDF/A: General font handling: Fonts will be converted to CFF in most cases for non-symbolic TrueType fonts to avoid several issues in post processing
    
  • Conversion to PDF/A: Issue fixed, where annotations were not properly handled in certain cases
  
  
• Checks
  
  • Problem solved, where combined "Include other Check" Properties with "Fire if any condition is met" didn't work properly, e.g. when used in a Fixup
    
  • Problem solved, where a combination of 2 "Include other Check" Properties did not find the intersection of both Checks
  
  
• Actions
  
  • ToPDF: Improved handling for multiple, parallel executed LibreOffice conversions
  
  
• Desktop
  
  • Process plan: Issue fixed, where "Rename PDF" if used as last step lost its transition to the "End"
    
  • Profile import: Issue fixed, where a hash error was displayed, although not necessary
  
  
• CLI
  
  • ToPDF: Issue fixed, where a --topdf_parameter had to be written in upper case
    
  • Profile processing: Improved error handling for certain processing issues (CLI and SDK only)
  
  
• Reports
  
  • XML: Problem solved, where XML version 1 and text reports were not created
  
  
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Converter integrated (PostScript to PDF conversion; v1.1PlusP3c)

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Features

General

• Process Plans: Support for HTML-based template reports in Process Plan steps
  
• Support for ZUGFeRD 2.1

Desktop

• Standalone: New zoom functionality, page navigation and unit selector for page dimensions in footer
  
• Variables: JavaScript-Editor with enhanced functionalities like highlighting of errors for exceptions during script evaluation

Distributed Processing

• Support for files sizes larger than 4 GB

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v15.0.4PlusP7d)

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Converter integrated (PostScript to PDF conversion; v1.1PlusP3a)

Fixes

Desktop

• Visualization of tagging structure as HTML: Issue fixed, where URLs starting with "https://" were extended with "http://"
  
• Reviewed and revised handling of window tiling, page zooming and the compare mode
  
• Process Plans: Problem solved, where new user interface for creating and editing Process Plans did not work properly in Acrobat Plug-In using MacOS

PDF Standards

• All PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 conversions: Added Fixups "Convert spot color names to UTF-8" and "Convert font names to UTF-8" to ensure conversion
  
• All PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 conversions: Added Fixups "Convert spot color names to UTF-8" and "Convert font names to UTF-8" to ensure conversion
  
• All PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 conversions: Added Fixup "Fix glyph width information"
  
• All PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 conversions: Issue fixed, where a mismatch of the Creation date caused by invalid entries in DocInfo and XMP was not repaired
  
• All PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-5 validations: Adjusted recognition of JPEG 2000 images using more than 1 color space

Fixups

• Flatten annotations and form fields: Completely reviewed and revised integration to solve several issues
  
• Prepare annotations for PDF/A-2: Issue fixed, where annotations with no defined size got a size entry [CA1029035; CA1028573]
  
• Place content: Problem solved, where certain special characters in the kfpx or template file name resulted into an error (Linux only)
  
• Place content: Issue fixed, where positioned PDFs were losing contained link annotations
  
• Discard hidden layer and flatten visible layers: Issue fixed, where processing resulted in missing resource in certain cases
  
• Create content entry for link annotations: Issue fixed, where TOC bookmarks were not regarded for creation
  
• Flatten transparency:
  
  • Problem fixed, where certain glyphs became corrupted and an error warning occurred in PDF viewers
    
  • Problem fixed, where outlined text became malformed if file was imposed afterwards
  
  
• Remove invisible image data: Problem solved, where images were not handled properly in certain cases
  
• Remove XMP Metadata compliant with PDF/X-4: Issue fixed, where removal was not successful in some cases
  
• Font processing: Issue fixed, where font embedding failed on a system with non-latin characters
  
• Font processing: Problem solved, where conversion resulted into an invalid 2-Byte value entry in bfrange in certain cases
  
• Embed missing fonts: Problem solved, where processing resulted into shifted glyphs in special cases
  
• Embed missing fonts: Issue fixed, where processing resulted in shrunken capital glyphs with specific font
  
• Convert colors: Issue fixed, where advanced settings were not shown, if Profile was exported from Preflight
  
• Convert spot color names to UTF-8: Reviewed and improved handling of non-compliant spot color names with umlauts
  
• Convert font names to UTF-8: Problem solved, where invalid UTF-8 names were not repaired in certain cases [FP52034]

Actions

• ToPDF:
  
  • Images:
    
  • Support for TIFF using 16Bit with Big Endian
    
  • Problem solved, where certain PSD files resulted into an invalid PDF
  
  
• Office:
  
  • New --topdf_parameter "NoBitmapMissingFonts" for MS Office, which do not rasterize fonts if embedding is not possible (fonts will be substituted by another font then)
    
  • New --topdf_parameter "CSV_IMPORT" for LibreOffice to define field separator, text delimiter and character set (as ASCII values) for CVS file import
    
  • Problem solved, where office conversion wasn't successful on Windows 2008 Server R2 SP1 64bit
    
  • Issue fixed, where conversion in MS Excel failed due to missing external pivot sources
    
  • Issue fixed, where an Excel file could not be converted when --topdf_useexcelpagelayout was used (caused by empty pages)
    
  • Problem solved, where office conversion failed due to a missing .dll file
    
  • Issue fixed, where a Unicode encoded string indicating an error from Office was not properly displayed in the STDOUT (e.g. on a Japanese system)
  
  
• PostScript:
  
  • Problem solved, where processing was not successful randomly when converting PostScript to PDF (Windows only)
    
  • Problem solved, where Chinese, Japanese and Korean fonts were not properly handled in certain cases (might affect conversion of PostScript files which extract internal resources during processing)

Reports

• Mask reports: Fixed issue, where the "hide" option had no effect on created bookmarks for the respective severity
  
• XML report: Problem fixed, where report creation with ink coverage was not successful on PDFs with non UTF-8 compliant spot color names

General

• Problem solved, where some kind of processing could result in unnecessarily extensive memory usage
  
• Problem solved, where order of Properties in a Check could cause different results if "Fire if any condition is met" is active
  
• Issue fixed, where file structure optimization resulted into an error with certain files
  
• Issue fixed, where resources dictionary was not fixed when --nooptimization was used
  
• Problem solved, where internal optimization of the file structure resulted in an unstable behavior
  
• Issue fixed, where logging file was not properly filed in certain cases (e.g. with "Convert pages with very complex page descriptions into CMYK images")
  
• Problem solved, where certain structures of signed PDFs could not be properly validated [CA1028730]
  
• Problem solved, where images using a specific "JPEG2000 Codestream Format" could not be analyzed

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Features

Desktop

• Process Plans: New objects can now be inserted into transitions between existing steps
  
• Process Plans: Newly added steps have all transition types activated by default
  
• New, built-in editor for improved visualization and usability

Enhanced Fixups

• Put objects on layer: Checks from the Group "Context aware object detection" are now available in the "Apply to:" filter

New Properties

• Font is not valid (specific problems): New Property to find certain errors in fonts; can be used with the trigger values of "Font is not valid (strict)" for find a single problem

Fixes

Fixups

• Remove page objects completely outside page area: Problem solved, where some kind of pattern was removed within page area in certain cases
  
• Scale pages: Problem solved, where the page scaling was done based on the MediaBox instead of the TrimBox
  
• Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved, where text (used as a clipping path) appeared as a gray box after processing in special cases
  
• Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved, where certain text parts with missing UniCode representation were shifted
  
• General font handling: Issue fixed, where certain encoding issues resulted in missing glyphs or .notdef glyphs after processing
  
• General font handling: Enhanced repair for certain syntax problems in embedded CFF fonts
  
• Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Problem solved, where some text objects were vanishing caused by old, invalid layer information in the PDF

Checks

• Sifter-based Properties: Optimized analyzing for defined custom areas on pages with a rotate entry
  
• Number of hits in this check: Issue fixed, where an "Number equal to = 0" was not properly handled

Desktop

• Process Plan UI: Problem solved, where editing of details resulted in an empty window on non-English systems in some cases
  
• Process Plan UI: Problem solved, where an error message occurred when saving in some cases
  
• Issue fixed, where certain special glyphs caused an incomplete activation request and therefore a failing activation

Actions

• Collection: Problem solved, where layout of overview page was mingled [CA1029000]

CLI

• ZUGFeRD: Issue fixed, where XML schema was not found if references using UNC paths

Reports

• PDF: Problem solved, where file size of generated reports increased due to fully embedded Asian fonts
  
• XML: Issue fixed, where reports generated by Process Plan steps did not contain the "" and "" parts

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Features

Desktop

• Support for ZUGFeRD 2.0 and FACTUR-X [CA1028219]

Desktop

• New in Switchboard
  
  • Arrange - Split at mark: Splits the PDF into parts based on pages identified by a Check
    
  • Explore - Read barcode: Detect value and other technical details of a barcode in a specified area of a page
  
  
• Process Plans: Completely new user interface for creating and editing Process Plans
  
• Variables: New, HTML-template-based Ask-at-runtime dialog, which can also be adjusted to individual requirements
  
• New toolbar offers direct access to various functionalities
  
• DPart viewer allows in-depth analysis of the DPart metadata structure of respective PDF files
  
• Shortcut for direct Profile export (Mac: CMD+E / Windows: CTRL+E)
  
• Saved Actions are now listed in the list of Fixups

Profile, Checks and Fixups

• New option to set a Profile to invisible in list of existing Profiles (incl. respective filter to show such "invisible" Profiles)
  
• New option to set a Check to invisible in list of existing Checks (incl. respective filter to show such "invisible" Checks); they will only be listed in the Custom Checks section of Profiles, within the "Apply to" filter of single Fixups and in Process plan steps of type "Check"
  
• New option to set a Fixup to invisible in list of existing Fixups (incl. respective filter to show such "invisible" Fixups); they will only be listed in the Custom Fixups section of Profiles and within Process plan steps of type "Fixup"

General

• Process plans
  
  • Add new step type "Rename PDF" to define the output filename
    
  • Create PDF copy: All input fields can now be used with Variables
    
  • New option to skip a Process plan step (can also be set via a Variable)
    
  • Profile sequence step: "Do not apply Fixups" can now also be controlled using a Variable
  
  
• Variables
  
  • New function "app.setTimeout(seconds)" to define the timeout for JavaScript evaluation
    
  • Geometry information are now available in to app.doc.result.checks[i].hits
  
  
• Server
  
  • JobTickets: Allow to define an individual processing configuration for each file
    Sidecar files: New functionality to define Variables per incoming file and to retrieve information from previous processing steps

New Profiles and Process Plans

• Find barcode value in a specified area and print the value on the page
  
• Convert pages with very complex page descriptions into CMYK images

Enhanced Profiles

• All Profiles with "Convert colors"-Fixups have been updated to use "Advanced settings" instead of Policy files

New Fixups

• Place circle/ellipse
  
• Place line
  
• Place rectangle

Enhanced Fixups

• Convert colors:
  
  • New area "Advanced settings", which replaces the deprecated Policy files
    
  • All settings from the "Advanced settings" dialog can be controlled using Variables
  
  
• Set Overprint and Knockout: New option to leave OPM unchanged
  
• Set Overprint Mode to 1:Is deprecated, use "Set overprint and knockout" Fixup instead

New and enhanced predefined Fixups

• Convert colored Type 3 fonts to outlines
  
• Place black circle at specified position
  
• Place red rectangle at specified position
  
• Place blue line at specified position

New Properties

• Text on page: Finds text on pages or within page areas; can be combined with Action "Split at mark"
  
• Several new barcode/matrix code related Properties:
  
  • Barcode is in area
    
  • Barcode value
    
  • Barwidth reduction (%|mm|pt)
    
  • Height of barcode / matrix code (mm|pt)
    
  • Width of barcode / matrix code (mm|pt)
    
  • Module width of barcode / matrix code (mm|pt)
    
  • Symbology (type of barcode / matrix code)
  
  
• "Log Profile execution" will save the created rendered areas as images into the temporary log folder for review
  
• Stream object is uncompressed
  
• Font is not valid (specific problems)

Enhanced Properties

• All Sifter-based properties: Extended possible combinations with other types of Properties and further enhanced analysis

New and enhanced predefined Checks

• Is colored Type 3 font
  
• Type 3 font has all required resources
  
• Find specified text: Searches for the specified text on all pages
  
• Find barcode in specified area
  
• Size is not equal for all pages

Actions

• SplitAtMark: Splits the PDF into parts based on pages identified by a Check
  
• ToPDF: Support for conversion of TIFF files with CuttingPaths
  
• ToPDF: Support for conversion of TIFF files with Transparency
  
• ToPDF: Support for PSB files ("Photoshop Big")
  
• ToPDF: Support for .vtx und .vxd files (MS Visio) with MS Office and Open/LibreOffice
  
• QuickCheck: Extended sample configuration file with more comments and examples

Reports

• XML reports: Added references for Annotations to reported hits

CLI

• ToPDF: Several new --topdf_parameter for handling of Office in MS Office:
  
  • NoMemoryOptimization: Disables the internal memory optimization
    
  • DoNotHideOffice: The respective MS Office will show up and not work hidden in the background
    
  • UpdateChangedFields: Requests a content update from MS Office to update fields (e.g. page numbers in the table of content)

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v15.0.4PlusP6d)

Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.1.062)

Fixes

Desktop

• Object inspector and Visualizer: Issue fixed, where displayed content was not updated after the execution of Fixups
  
• New dialog with additional information if PostScript or Office conversion to PDF fails
  
• Switchboard: Move objects: Issue fixes, where Text and Vector were not moved properly

PDF Standards

• PDF/A and PDF/X conversions: Added Fixups "Remove page level output intents" and "Remove Black Point Compensation entries" to ensure conversion of PDF 2.0 files to the respective standard
  
• PDF/A validation: Adjusted detection of compressed object level metadata
  
• PDF/A validation: Adjusted detection for signature fields where their ByteRange does not span the entire document
  
• PDF/A-2 conversion: Problem solved, where pattern name object was invalidated during processing [FP52034]

Fixups

• Flatten transparency:
  
  • Problem solved where recursion of Form XObjects in the content stream resulted into infinite processing
    
  • Problem solved where flattening resulted in displaced Asian glyphs in certain cases
    
  • Issue fixed where bullet glyphs were removed in some cases
    
  • Issue fixed where bullet glyphs were converted to "F" glyphs in specific font situation
    
  • Issue fixed where square bullets became .notdef glyphs after flattening
    
  • Issue fixed where some kind of ligatures were converted to .notdef glyphs
    
  • Issue fixed where quotation marks became .notdef glyphs after flattening
    
  • Issue fixed where glyph (defined as .notdef) was no more embedded after flattening and resulted in a warning in some PDF viewers
    
  • Problem solved where background images using Indexed color spaces with Separation Black were not properly handled
    
  • Problem solved where flattening resulted in a completely rasterized page although only small areas were affected by transparency
    
  • Problem solved where processing caused a distortion of text
    
  • Issue fixed where flattened PDF triggered a font error warning in certain PDF viewers (MacOS only)
    
  • Issue fixed where flattening with high resolution resulted in damaged fonts in certain cases (MacOS only)
    
  • Problem solved where processing wasn't successful with specific PDF
    
  • Problem solved where resulting PDF had different glyph widths in PDF and embedded font
  
  
• Add unique ID to Note elements in tagging structure: Issue solved, where Endnotes mapped to Notes via RoleMap were not properly handled
  
• Convert to PDF/A-2: Issue fixed where invalid XMP was created during PDF/A conversion in some cases
  
• Convert to PDF/A-2: Issue fixed where the conversion failed due to a missing Subtype entry
  
• Remove pages: Issue solved where remaining page label were not properly corrected after removal of a page
  
• Make font names unique: Problem solved where glyphs were not properly handled in certain cases
  
• Adjust annotations and form fields: Issue fixed, where a missing subtype on an Annotation was not properly set in special cases [FP52794]
  
• Fix glyph width info: Problem solved, where space glyph was converted to a .notdef glyph after processing in some cases [CA1028398]*SDK
  
• Subset fonts: Issue fixed, where subsetting resulted in an empty space for some foreign characters in special cases [CA1027731]*SDK
  
• Put objects on layer: Issue fixed, where Sifter-based Checks could not be used as an "Apply to" filter [FP56397]*TB
  
• Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved, where outlining resulted in a gray area in some rare cases [CA1027161; FP53392; FP54904]
  
• General font handling: Problem solved, where invalid operands in fonts could not be repaired [CA1028835]

Checks

• Verify compliance with PDF/A-2b: Issue fixed where validation failed caused by a unnecessary hit for "Signature has no ByteRange entry"

• ToPDF: Issue fixed where office files using special characters (like % or #) in their filename resulted in errors with LibreOffice (Windows only)
  
• ToPDF: Adjusted the predefined Default.joboptions file (used for PostScript conversion) to create PDF 1.6 instead of older versions
  
• ToPDF: Fixed issue, where certain kind of transparent PNG were not properly converted
  
• ToPDF: Optimized handling for timeout setting and improved error reporting [CA1028782]
  
• OptimizePDF: Issue fixed where multiple identically named fonts were resulting in rectangles for some glyphs after merging the fonts
  
• Email-to-PDF:
  
  • Issue fixed, where an image moved to the right [CA1028532]
    
  • Problem solved, where an unnecessary extra page was added, when 'add attachments as additional pages' was set [CA1028698]
    
  • Problem solved, where the size of text became very small under certain circumstances [CA1028197]
    
  • Problem solved, where conversion failed with specific EML [CA1028323]
    
  • Fixed issue, where a lot of unnecessary empty space were created in some cases [CA1028646]

Desktop

• Problem solved where using a License Server based activation could not be used in the Acrobat Plugin
  
• Object inspector: Alternate values for spot colors added
  
• Object inspector: Issued fixed where a filter for objects was not properly respected on multi-page documents
  
• Improved window handling, especially for tiled views
  
• Library manager: "Custom template reports" and "Ask at runtime dialog templates" added as resources
  
• Activation via License Server: New optional method to define automatic search for License Server by placing a specific JSON file e.g. into the user preferences

• XML: Issue fixed, where certain spot color names where not properly listed in the "hits" area of the report [CA1028876]

• Improved information when Server, Dispatcher or Satellite is started without a valid license

• Timeout: Issue fixed where some additional seconds were added to the given time limit in certain cases
  
• PDF/A mode: --incremental: New option to save the resulting file incremental [CA1028781]

• Office conversion: A 64-bit installation of pdfToolbox requires a 64-bit version of OpenOffice/LibreOffice (similar for 32-bit)
  
• MacOS installer for CLI: Format changed to .pkg

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Features

General

• Support for ZUGFeRD 2.0 and FACTUR-X [CA1028219]

Desktop

• Compare PDF: Origin of page positioning can be defined
  
• Standalone now shows an indicator in the footer areas if PDF is encrypted
  
• Switchboard: Batch processing for Process Plans if linked into Workspace

Profile

• New option "PDF Version 2.0" in Document group to check if a PDF contains features which require this PDF version

New Fixups

• Set PDF version in header: Sets the PDF version independent from what features are used in the PDF

Enhanced Fixups

• Convert fonts to outlines: Extended scope to Type 3 fonts
  
• Flatten transparency: New option to set a timeout, after which the whole page gets rasterized
  
• Flatten transparency: Some conflicting settings will be handled in a more intelligent way (e.g. "JPEG" compression and "lossless" quality)
  
• Remove actions: New option "With invalid destination"
  
• Convert page into image: New option to take layer visibility into account and to preserve invisible layers
  
• Create invisible text copy for all text: When deactivating the new checkbox "Merge all font resources", the existing fonts will be reduced and used with empty glyphs
  
• Set PDF version if compatible: Has been renamed from "Set PDF version" and sets the PDF version in the PDF header only if all features in the PDF are defined in that version.

New Properties

• Colored Type 3 font
  
• Uncolored Type 3 font

Reports

• QuickCheck: Content stream length can be determined e.g. to detect very complex files
  
• QuickCheck: Support for DPart metadata
  
• XML Report: Added color space for image masks

CLI

• Compare: Origin of page positioning can be defined
  
• OpenPassword: New parameter to define an "open" password for encrypted PDFs: "--openpassword=..."

License Server

• Support for activation using the callas License Server for Desktop and CLI

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v15.0.4PlusP5c)

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Converter integrated (PostScript to PDF conversion; v1.1PlusP2d)

Internal HTML converter updated to the latest version of callas pdfChip (v2.1.059)

Fixes

Desktop

• Object inspector and Visualizer: Issue fixed, where displayed content was not updated after the execution of Fixups
  
• New dialog with additional information if PostScript or Office conversion to PDF fails
  
• Switchboard: Move objects: Issue fixes, where Text and Vector were not moved properly

PDF Standards

• PDF/A and PDF/X conversions: Added Fixups "Remove page level output intents" and "Remove Black Point Compensation entries" to ensure conversion of PDF 2.0 files to the respective standard
  
• PDF/A validation: Adjusted detection of compressed object level metadata
  
• PDF/A validation: Adjusted detection for signature fields where their ByteRange does not span the entire document
  
• PDF/A-2 conversion: Problem solved, where pattern name object was invalidated during processing [FP52034]

Fixups

• Flatten transparency:
  
  • Issue fixed, where certain, already embedded fonts became unembedded after flattening
    
  • Problem solved, where flattening resulted in visible text, which was invisible before
    
  • Problem solved, where processing resulted in a missing image
    
  • Issue fixed, where bookmarks lost their not destination after processing
    
  • Problem solved, where certain glyphs got damaged after processing
    
  • Issue fixed, where visible glyph defined as .notdef was removed
    
  • Issue fixed, where transparent objects remained in PDF under certain circumstances
  
  
• Substitute characters using .notdef glyph with space characters: Problem solved where certain Type 3 font became bullets after processing
  
• Convert page content into image: Problem solved, where invisible layers from the PDF were visible in the resulting output image
  
• Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Problem solved, where visible layers were removed in some cases
  
• Convert colors: Enhanced handling for Type 3 fonts to avoid visual changes
  
• General: Automatic repair for Type 3 fonts which are using very unusual resource dictionaries introduced by certain DTP software
  
• General: Length of Code Ranges in ToUnicode CMap Streams is now adjusted to 255 to match specification
  
• General: Problem solved, where text got displaced, caused by positioning of vectors within text objects which is not allowed

Checks

• Problem solved, where initial analysis on specific PDFs resulted in an unstable behavior or long processing time
  
• Font is embedded: Problem solved, where a certain PDF with empty FontBBox values resulted in an unstable behavior

Actions

• Email-to-PDF: Problem solved, where Bookmarks were missing in resulting PDF when attachments were added as pages [CA1028046]
  
• Email-to-PDF: Issue fixed, where resulting PDF contained a invalid Subtype entry for the embedded file in certain cases [CA1027931]
  
• ToPDF:
  
  • Office: Support for file formats .wmf, .emf, .pcx, .bmp and .pgm to be converted using LibreOffice [CA1027903]
    
  • PostScript:
    
    • Problem solved, where conversion of PostScript (which extracted internal resources during processing) could not be properly processed
      
    • Problem solved, where glyph positioning changed while converting certain PostScript files
      
    • Issue fixed, where objects below a certain scaling factor were dropped in certain PostScript files
      
    • Issue fixed, where PostScript could not be converted if a specific font was installed on the system
    
    
  • TIFF:
    
    • Issue fixed, where rather large TIFF files (3 GB or more) could not be converted to PDF
      
    • Problem solved, where conversion of certain TIFF files resulted in an un-proportionally scaled result
      
    • Issue fixed, where TIFF with AlphaChannels (spot color) were not properly converted
      
    • Issue fixed, where 16bit TIFF images were not properly converted
      
    • Issue fixed, where existing image XMP metadata was not preserved
      
    • Problem solved, where RGB TIFF with alpha channels could not be converted
      
    • Issue fixed, where certain types of shadows resulted in striped output
      
    • Problem solved, where certain TIFF resulted in a very different visual result
      
    • Problem solved, where specific, ICC-tagged TIFF resulted in shifted colorants
      
    • Issue fixed, where transparency in TIFF was not properly regarded
      
    • Problem solved, where CMYK TIFF with additional spot channels could not be converted
      
    • Problem solved, where some JPEG compressed TIFF images resulted in un-proportionally scaled result
    
    
  • JPEG
    
    • Issue fixed, where a JPEG without a proper resolution could not be converted to PDF (will be set to 72 ppi by default now)
      
    • Problem solved, where certain very big JPEG images could not be converted to PDF
    
    
  • PSD
    
    • Issue fixed, where PSD images with an obsolete entry for spot colors could not be converted
      
    • Problem solved, where PSD images marked as CMYK, but also included spot color data, were converted to CMYK only
      
    • Issue fixed, where certain files using n-color- or alpha-channels could not be converted
    
    
  • SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where invisible layers from the PDF were visible in the resulting output image
    
  • Slice: Problem solved, where separation of objects into 2 files did not work properly anymore

Reports

• HTML-based template report: Issue fixed, where default images were not properly resized
  
• HTML-based template report: Problem solved, where report could not be created using Linux

Server

• Issue fixed, where original PDF was moved to "Success" folder instead of "Processed" when Profile error code was "0" (= no Hit, no Fixups executed)
  
• Disabled report generation for non-Profile-based processing [FP52796]

CLI

• Profile execution: Identical Checks (e.g. contained as Custom Check and via Standard validation) will not be merged anymore but reported separately
  
• Server/Dispatcher on CLI: Issue fixed, where wrong layout glyphs were shown in the command shell on first startup (Windows only)
  
• Improved management for temporary files to avoid remaining data in TEMP folder
  
• Trace: Added process ID to UUID to avoid creation of identically named logging folders
  
• Adjusted error codes in cases where report creation failed due to encrypted input PDFs

General

• Problem solved, where certain PDFs could not be rendered properly anymore
  
• Windows Service: Updated to .NET 4.0 framework to avoid installation issues on latest Windows Server versions
  
• Installer: On Unix based systems the installer will not extract into the "basename" directory of the respective package
  
• Activation: Improved handling for all non-ascii glyphs

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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)

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Features

Standalone

• New Switchboard Action in Document group: "Remove invisible objects", which removes objects with are completely covered, clipped or outside of the page area
  
• Reviewed and improved zoom functionality

General

• Checks can now be a part of other Checks using the Property "Include other check"
  
• New option in Checks: "Invert check result"
  
• Process Plans:
  
  • New Sequence step type "Process Plan" to include other Process Plans as sub-parts
    
  • New Sequence step type "Save PDF copy" allows to save intermediate results, optionally with suffix, prefix or in a sub-folder of the output path
    
  • New Sequence step type "Quick Check" allows for high-speed determination of a custom set of PDF details as a JSON expression
    
  • New Sequence step type "File pick up" allows for getting back to a previous state of the processed file and for using this version for further processing [CA1026498]
  
  
• Profiles: Severity for generic syntax checks can be defined
  
• Variables:
  
  • Licensing details are now listed in JavaScript object app.env
    
  • Created files from Sequence steps are logged in the app.doc.result.resultfiles JavaScript object
    
  • Results for all Sequence steps are stored in the app.doc.result.fixups JavaScript object
    
  • Page scaling factor (UserUnits) is available in the app.doc.pages JavaScript object
    
  • Create a checkbox in the ask at runtime dialogue (via the app.requires object)
  
  
• Reports
  
  • Template based PDF reports can be used as an overview page in all PDF reports
    
  • Bookmarks have been added to all PDF report types
  
  
• License Server
  
  • Manages activation of pdfToolbox in cloud environments

New Profiles and Process Plans

• Convert to PDF/A-2b (any fallback conversions use the original file)
  
• Verify compliance with Processing Steps (ISO 19593-1) for packaging and label
  
• Uses PDF 2.0 Features
  
• Quick Check example
  
• Bring 100% black text to front

Enhanced Profiles and Process Plans

• List page objects, grouped by type of object: annotations are now also listed
  
• List Processing Steps metadata information
  
• Convert spot to CMYK (for transparency flattened PDFs)
  
• Prepare PDF for specified page size

New Fixups

• Bring to front
  
• Send to back
  
• Set line width now adds a stroke if not present beforehand
  
• Convert Type 1 and CFF fonts to CID
  
• Repair invalid or empty FontBBox values

Enhanced Fixups

• Adjust or remove annotations can now create appearance streams for annotations
  
• Place content: Optional content (layers) in placed PDF files will be maintained
  
• Place content: Page scaling factor (UserUnits) is available in cals_doc_info.js
  
• Fix glyph width information: Extended scope to fix also font widths of Type 3 fonts

New and enhanced predefined Fixups

• Duplicate all pages
  
• Insert empty pages as 2nd and last but one page
  
• Re-encode images with Indexed color space to base color space
  
• Convert DeviceN CMYK to DeviceCMYK
  
• All "Place content"-based Fixups: New templates and utility functions (available in new Libraries)

New Properties

• Various new Properties in the new Group "Context aware object detection" (Sifter), e.g.
  
  • Context aware object detection (Sifter)
    
  • Object below other object
    
  • Object covered by other object
    
  • ...
  
  
• Various new Properties to determine different details of path objects
  
• Number of hits in this check in document
  
• Various new properties to determine values of text and character spacing:
  
  • Character spacing of text
    
  • Word spacing of text
    
  • Text leading
    
  • Text rise
  
  
• Unicode of ligature (via ToUnicode CMap) does not match PDF encoding
  
• Various new properties for Processing Steps
  
• Embedded font file uses invalid or empty BBox values

New and enhanced predefined Checks

• Aspect ratio of TrimBox does not correspond to European standard sizes (A4, A3, ...)
  
• Uses ICCbased RGB

• HTML-based template reports:
  
• Optional creation of more than one page preview image
  
• Variables from executed Profile are now available in cals_params.js
  
• Pages with hits from executed Checks are now listed in cals_params.js

• Server jobs from pdfaPilot 7 can now be imported at first startup of the Server component for pdfaPilot 8

• New high-speed functionality to determine a custom set of information of the PDF file (--quickcheck)
  
• Creating and using custom dictionaries for Profiles to use custom translations for Profiles, Fixups, Checks etc. in reports (--createcustomdict, --customdict)
  
• Multiple reports can be created using different languages in a single CLI call
  
• New option to create JSON log files for Profile execution during runtime (--trace)

Fixes

• Fixed issue, where generic check "Font is not embedded" was not properly executed
  
• PDF/A validation: Problem solved, where analysis took very long, caused by very high number of form fields [CA1027150]
  
• PDF/A conversion: Optimized handling of TrueType fonts, which are now preferably converted to CID instead of CFF if necessary

• Flatten transparency:
  
  • Fixed issue, where softmask objects were removed in certain cases
    
  • Problem solved, where vector objects vanished in some cases
    
  • Problem solved, where image objects vanished in certain cases
    
  • Problem solved, where resulting PDF was visually changed
    
  • Fixed issue, where objects were slightly shifted after processing
    
  • Problem solved, where processing resulted in an unstable behavior
    
  • Problem solved, where link destinations were not properly maintained
    
  • Fixed issue, where glyphs from a Helvetica font were not properly handled in a specific case (MacOS only)
• Font to outline:
  
  • Fixed issue, where diacritical marks were shifted after processing
    
  • Problem solved, where text was not properly handled in some cases
    
  • Fixed issue, where some text operators ("BT") remained in content stream after font to outline
    
  • Problem solved, where glyphs were displaced if executed together with "Fix glyph width" and "Embed fonts"
    
  • Issue fixed, where a certain combination of invisible and clipping text objects was not properly handled
• Fix glyph width: Issue fixed, where fonts were displaced when Fixup was executed together with "Embed missing fonts"
  
• Embed missing fonts: Issue fixed, where font style was not properly regarded in certain cases
  
• Make font names unique: Problem solved, where already unique fonts were processed as well
  
• Make font names unique: Issue fixed, where fonts used in SoftMask were not properly handled in certain cases
  
• Problem solved, where .notdef glyphs were not properly handled
  
• Fixed issue, where PDF/A-2b conversion using a Profile resulted in width information problems
  
• Fixed issue, where glyphs were replaced with .notdef glyphs in certain cases

• Image is not valid: Fixed issue, where a corrupt image was not properly detected
  
• Number of hits in this check: Fixed issue, where "0" as value was not properly handled

• To PDF:
  
  • Problem solved, where text from PostScript files was not properly rendered after conversion
    
  • Problem solved, where PostScript could not be processed in certain cases
    
  • Added handling for "Unsupported formula" warning in Microsoft Excel files
• Create PostScript:
  
  • Fixed issue, where created PostScript was not valid
    
  • Problem solved, where objects were missing in resulting PostScript file
    
  • Problem solved, where created PostScript resulted in shifted glyphs on certain output devices
    
  • Fixed issue, where visual appearance of some objects was changed after processing
• ReDistill
  
  • Fixed issue, where images were not properly handled in certain cases
    
  • Problem solved, where spot color images were not properly converted
• Optimize PDF
  
  • Problem solved, where data after the end-of-file marker in the file structure were not properly handled in certain cases
    
  • Fixed issue, where some invalid references in the file structure were not repaired and resulted in an error
• SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where some shadings were not properly rendered in high resolutions

• XML Report: Added trigger values for generic syntax Checks
  
• XML reports and Result dialog: Graphic state details for Smooth shades added

• Variables: Order of Variables in ask-at-runtime is now derived from the KEY value (in alpha-numerical order)
  
• Deactivation of a Server license will now also remove the Desktop activation (if Desktop was activated via the Server license)
  
• Default values for number of displayed hits result dialog increased
  
• PDF/A in one click: Option "Re-convert via PostScript" deactivated
  
• PDF/A in one click: Default resolution for fallback conversion to images increased to 150 ppi
  
• Problem solved, where the profile summary report did not contain Custom Fixups [FP47869]

• Improved reporting, when the limit of parallel processes allowed by license is exceeded so that processes have to wait

• Process Plans: Fixed issue, where processing could not be executed successfully in certain cases
  
• Fixed issue, where processing a password-protected file resulted in a wrong error code
  
• Problem solved, where in certain cases changes from Fixups were not taken into account by the "Flatten transparency" Fixup when part of the same Profile
  
• Optimized generation and analysis of ToUnicodes CMaps to improve performance
  
• Problem solved, where certain rare function operators in the content stream resulted in unstable behavior
  
• Issue fixed, where some rare font structures resulted in an unstable behavior
  
• Problem solved, where some new PDF structures (introduced with PDF 2.0) were not properly handled
  
• Problem solved, where a rare usage of PostScript code in a font resulted in an unstable behavior

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Features

Desktop

• Display of activation status: Only activated components will be shown

Standalone

• Go to page: Jump to entered page number in current document

General

• Save as image: PDF files, where the permission setting "Copying content" is set to "allowed" can now also be saved as images [FP44878]
  
• ToPDF: Added support for WordPerfect (.wpd) as input files

Fixes

Fixups

• Convert to PDF/A-1: Problem solved, where recompression of JPEG2000 to JPEG resulted in a color shift in some cases
  
• Place content: Fixed issue, where using a Variable to define the template path was not properly working

Actions

• EmailToPDF: Fixed several formatting issues when converting RTF content [CA10226599]
  
• EmailToPDF: Problem solved, where a unusual charset-encoding entry was not properly interpreted [CA1026656]
  
• EmailToPDF: Fixed issue, where certain Unicode characters were not properly handled [CA1026881]

Desktop

• Explore Metadata: Fixed issue, where preview images were not properly displayed (MacOS only)

Plug-in

• Compare: Support for the latest Acrobat DC Version

CLI

• ToPDF: Fixed issue, where conversion of non-PDF formats failed for certain licensing types
  
• ToPDF: Fixed issue, where HTML files with a "#" character in their name could not be processed
  
• ToPDF: Problem solved, where empty Excel sheets resulted in an error in certain cases

General

• Fixed issue, where Profile property "Font is not embedded" was not properly regarded
  
• Problem solved, where editing Profiles was not possible in certain cases
  
• Fixed issue, where special characters in Variables were not properly handled

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Features

Standalone

• Compare Libraries and Profiles
  
• Explore PDF: New views of PDF structure and possibility to export selected objects into a new PDF
  
• Output Intents on page level will be listed in the footer of the standalone and in the result dialog (PDF 2.0 Feature)

New Fixups

• Insert pages: Insert empty pages or duplicates from previous or following page
  
• Remove measurement properties (Viewport)
  
• Several new Fixups for PDF 2.0:
  
  • Embed Output Intent on page level
    
  • Embed Output Intent with specified parameters on page level
    
  • Remove page level Output Intents
    
  • Remove all Black Point Compensation entries
    
  • Set Black Point Compensation

New Checks and Properties

• Uses ICCbased RGB
  
• Page uses measurement properties (Viewport)
  
• Several new and extended Properties for PDF 2.0:
  
  • Has halftone origin entry (HTO)3
    
  • Value of the Black Point Compensation entry
    
  • Requirements array in Catalog requires PDF 2.0
    
  • Output Intent has Mixing Hints entry
    
  • Printing Order entries in Mixing Hints dictionaries consistent across document
    
  • Solidities entries in Mixing Hints dictionaries consistent across document
    
  • Has Black Point Compensation entry
    
  • Has page level Output Intent
    
  • Set PDF version: Added "2.0" as possible version entry

CLI

• Suppress generic syntax checks or define a specified severity with new parameter: --syntaxchecks
  
• ToPDF for PostScript: Font substitution is now reported on CLI StdOut and in SDK

Distributed Processing

• Enhanced display of status and details when components are started using CLI

General

• Support for PDF 2.0
  
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v15.0.4PlusP2p)

Fixes

PDF Standards

• PPDF/A-2 + PDF/A-3 conversion: Fixup "Reduce bit depth for 16 bit images to 8 bit" removed
  
• PDF/A-1 validation: Adjusted analysis for Type3 font with empty ResourceDict to avoid unnecessary hits
  
• PDF/UA-1 validation: Fixed issue, where untagged images were not properly recognized [CA1026588]
  
• PDF/VT-1 validation: Adjusted recognition of nesting of encapsulated XObjects and their respective graphic states
  
• PDF/X conversion: Fixed issue, where setting in Custom Fixup "Embed Output Intent" did not overrule the PDF/X conversion settings
  
• PDF/X-5n conversion: Fixed issue, where multichannel Output Intent from Custom Fixup was not respected in color conversion for PDF/X

Fixups

• Flatten transparency: Fixed issue, where rotation of graphic was not properly respected
  
• Flatten transparency: Fixed issue, where processing was not successful with certain PDF
  
• Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where bookmarks became invalidated
  
• Put objects on layer: Problem solved, where objects were no more properly assigned to a layer
  
• Convert TrueType to CFF: Fixed issue, where resulting file could not be properly displayed in viewers
  
• Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where glyphs exceeding the allowed size were nor properly handled
  
• Repair invalid ToUnicode CMap information in fonts: Fixed issue, where processing resulted in missing glyph after processing in some cases
  
• Make font name unique: Problem solved, where hyphen or softhyphen were not properly displayed in certain viewers
  
• Set XMP Metadata: Improved handling of empty settings in Fixup to avoid unstable behavior
  
• Merge adjacent headings if heading level is the same: Problem solved, where redundant entries in Role Map were not properly handled in certain cases
  
• Uncompress XMP Metadata objects: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an unexpected result if "Remove XMP Metadata" were contained in same Profile

Checks

• Set PDF Version: Automatic check for PDF version was executed, although Fixup was disabled using a Variable

Actions

• SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where page scaling factor (UserUnit) was not take into account for created image
  
• ToPDF: Fixed issue, where umlauts or unicode characters in filename of jobsetting or logfile were not properly handled
  
• ToPDF: Added dialog handling for invalid references in Excel files to default dialog handling
  
• Optimization: Problem solved, where processing resulted in shifted glyphs
  
• EnumerateProfile: Fixed issue, where invalid path in Variable resulted in an error

Desktop

• Switchboard - Document - PostScript to PDF: Fixed issue, where selected joboptions settings were not properly respected
  
• Edit Profiles dialog: Fixed issue, where button for Profile export became grayed out after export (MacOS only)

CLI

• Fixed issue, where resulting file could not be stored on a mounted device with high nesting depth of folders

Reports

• Layer reports: Problem solved, where hits were no more assigned to respective layer
  
• XML: Fixed issue, where specified number of "hitsperdoc" and "hitsperpage" were not properly respected

General

• Problem solved, where processing of specific file resulted in an error
  
• Updated signing of pdfaPilot installer for MacOS

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Features

Checks and Properties

• Aspect ratio of CropBox|BleedBox|TrimBox|ArtBox: Determines the aspect ratio the respective dimensions
  
• Font is not valid/Font is not valid (strict): Extended scope to find glyphs with corrupt data

Desktop

• Variables: Values in Ask-at-runtime dialog will now be remembered during one session and can be exported/imported as JSON to be used on command line or with the library [CA1025547]

Standalone

• More recently opened files are available at the corresponding menu item
  
• Organize pages: Multiple pages can now be selected by using the "Shift"-key

CLI

• --setvariable: Support for values as JSON added, e.g. for values exported from Desktop

Distributed Processing

• Enhanced display of status and details when components are started using CLI

General

• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v15.0.1PlusP2f)

Fixes

Analysis

• PDF/A: Fixed issue, where a certain kind of duplicate XMP metadata resulted in an unnecessary hit [FP39255]
  
• PDF/A-3: Adjust Validation for embedded files (will now accept an "array of file specifications")
  
• Fixed issue, where analysis resulted in an error due to certain, corrupt structures within the PDF
  
• Validation of ZUGFeRD: Problem solved, where Names entry using UTF-16 encoding resulted in a hit [FP41113]

Fixups

• Flatten transparency: Fixed issue, where content became clipped in certain cases
  
• Font to outline: Problem solved, where text was moved, when certain filter settings were used
  
• Font to outline: Fixed issue, where selective outlining of certain fonts resulted in missing glyphs of other fonts
  
• Set transparency blend color space: Fixed issue, where an ICC profile from the system was used although there was one attached to the Profile
  
• Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where glyphs were missing after conversion in certain cases

• General font handling:
  
• Fixed issue, where glyphs were not properly handled in some cases
  
• Fixed issue, where an empty composite glyph could not be properly processed [FP40205]
  
• Problem solved, where certain not well formed glyph charstrings for Type3 fonts resulted in a modified visual appearance
  
• Problem solved, where a specific encoding with a wrong encoding table entry resulted in invisible glyphs [CA1026193]General

PDF Standards

• PDF/A-2 validation: Some minor adjustments regarding validity of Extension Schema according to VeraPDF test suite
  
• Remove glyphs with invalid encoding definition: Optimized handling to exclude symbolic fonts [CA1025348]

General

• Fixed issue, where some unnecessary coordinate values were not properly handled [CA1026366]
  
• Problem solved, where a wrong syntax in the PDF was not properly corrected so that the result file contained empty pages [CA1026313]

Actions

• EmailToPDF: Fixed issue, where conversion to PDF/A-1 resulted in an syntax error for values out of range [CA1026241]
  
• ToPDF: Problem solved, where conversion for Excel files were not successful in certain cases [CA1026237]

Desktop

• Activation: Fixed issue, where request could not be sent to the activation server (MacOS only)
  
• Manage Libraries: Fixed issue, where searching for e.g. Curve files did not properly work
  
• Problem solved, where a certain Process Plan could not be deleted
  
• ToPDF: Location for log files created during conversion of PostScript files changed to user preferences
  
• Log Profile execution: Intermediate results for "Place content" (HTML-Template, calsDocInfo.js and PDF) are saved as well
  
• ToPDF for Office files: Improved error message, if no Office application is installed on the respective system [FP38812]
  
• Overlay: Fixed issue, where processing was not successful [FP38945]

Standalone

• Problem solved, where parts of the PDF became cropped

Plug-In

• Fixed issue, where processing was not successful for some functions with the latest Acrobat DC update
  
• Fixed issue, where the Plug-In was not installed into Acrobat Pro 2017

CLI

• ToPDF for PostScript files: Fixed issue, where sub-folders of additional search paths for fonts were not taken into account
  
• ToPDF for PostScript files: Fixed issue, where font folders of the system where taken into account, although "--topdf_psfontsonly" was used
  
• ExtractContent: Added extractcontent.xsd to installation packageFixed conversion for resources of Type3 fonts for an issue that invalidated glyph lookup

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Fixes

PDF Standards

• PDF/A-1 validation: According to veraPDF real numbers too close to zero are not a problem, check removed

General

• Fixed conversion for resources of Type3 fonts for an issue that invalidated glyph lookup

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Features

General

• Extended Variable features: Variables on Profile level and as step in Process Plans, access to metadata and other information via JavaScript, calculating and propagating values using JavaScript, using Variables for Pop up controls (like ICC profiles)
  
• New, PDF-based activation process

Desktop

• Wireframe mode in Object inspector
  
• Zoom functionality
  
• All Profiles have been arranged into Libraries
  
• User interface: Improved recognition and notification when changing Fixups and Checks which are referenced in Profiles or ProcessPlans
  
• Debugging functionality to store intermediate results and processing details for Profiles and ProcessPlans
  
• Various "Decorate" functions in new Switchboard group to add objects or pages:

• Place folding marks
  
• Text
  
• Page number
  
• Date
  
• Logo/Image
  
• Watermark
  
• Mail stamp
  
• Letter background
  
• Add summary page
  
• Add divider page
  
• Move objects

• Cross-Library-Search
  
• Explore Fonts with more information
  
• Use external Text-Editor for JavaScript-Variables
  
• Standalone application on Windows is now also available as 64-Bit
  
• Improved Handling Keyboard Shortcuts in Ask-as-runtime and Variables Editor
  
• Switchboard: Dynamic button to corresponding help article

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 [CA1025903]
  
• PDF/A-1 conversion: Improved "Prepare annotations" to avoid removal of file attachment annotations [CA1025638]
  
• PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-2 conversion: New Fixup: Set Supplement entry in CIDSystemInfo of CIDFont to corresponding entry in CMap [CA1022919; CA1024170]
  
• 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) [CA1025436]

Fixups

• Insert empty page
  
• Move objects
  
• Place content on page: Support for SVG as input format
  
• Flatten transparency: Several compression methods added for images, which are created during transparency flattening
  
• Place Barcode: A quiet zone for barcodes will now apply add space if required for the barcode type
  
• Convert page content into image: "Maximum" and "High" now use Chroma Subsampling to enhance quality
  
• Create shapes
  
• Set page geometry boxes based on rendered page
  
• Place text/page number: optional white background
  
• Outline page geometry boxes: selective outline of edges
  
• Rotate pages: 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
  
• Place date (YYYY-MM-DD)
  
• Set page zoom for bookmarks [CA1024986]

New Checks and Properties

• Several new properties related to CxF validation
  
• Number of hits in this check: Allows for defining a minimum number of occurrences per page before a hit is generated
  
• Number of components in ICC profile dictionaries N entry does not match ICC profile
  
• Rotation of text
  
• Is in custom area
  
• 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

Actions

• eMail-to-PDF: Support for ics/iCal files added [CA1024119]
  
• eMail-to-PDF: Support for content in (signed) winmail.dat attachments in MSG files [CA1025062]
  
• ToPDF: Support for LibreOffice v5.x (Linux + MacOS)

CLI

• New parameter "--novariables" to suppress output of Variables on CLI (stdout)
  
• Variables for Profiles or Process Plans are only listed when actually used

Reports

• XML: Details of OutputIntent are listed
  
• XML: Variables in rules are listed
  
• Updated translation repository of additional languages for Profiles, Checks and Fixups

General

• Updated engine for conversion of content for all "Place ..."-Fixups
  
• Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v15.0.4PlusP2a)

Fixes

Desktop

• 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 [FP37458]

Verfügbar seit: 06.12.2016 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Features

Enhanced Profiles

•  Conversion to PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-4
  
• "Uncompress XMP Metadata objects" correction added

New Fixups

• Uncompress XMP Metadata objects

Actions

• ToPDF: Support for Prologue and Epilogue files for conversion of PostScript files

Fixes

Fixups

• Convert colors: Fixed issue, where bitmaps using JBIG2 compression were not properly converted in certain cases
  
  
• Remove all object level XMP Metadata: Problem solved, where certain files had missing resources after processing

Distributed Processing

• Problem solved, where a defined output file name was not properly respected
  
• Problem solved, where distributed files could not be opened on a Satellite (Windows only)
  
• Fixed issue, where additional files created by a ProcessPlan were not transferred back to the Client
  
• Reports: HTML-Template from Client will now be used on Satellite, even when identically named Template exists on Satellite

General

• Conversions based on HTML-Templates: Problem solved, where  processing was not successful due to missing runtime (Windows only)

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Features

Enhanced Profiles

PDF/X-4 and X-5 validation
"Has non plain text XMP Metadata" added [FP]
"Registration or process color representations are inconsistent" added [FP]
All "GWG 2015"-based profiles for Sheetfed, Newspaper/Newsprint and Web offset:
Removed check for recommended destination profiles
Fix problems in PDF tagging structure
"Remove CIDSet if incomplete" added
"Add unique ID to Note elements in tagging structure" added

New Fixups

Remove all objects except [FP]
Convert spot color names to UTF-8
Convert font names to UTF-8
Open/Close all bookmarks [CA1024348]
Set miter limit [CA1024500]
Add unique ID to Note elements in tagging structure

Enhanced Fixups

Make spot color appearance consistent: Added scope to separation colors "All", "None" and CMYK colorants

New Checks and Properties

Registration or process color representations are inconsistent (for page and document level)
4 new properties to find colorant values of alternate color spaces [FP23194; FP27300; FP29575]

Desktop/PlugIn

PlugIn: Improved stability for parallel usage of Acrobat Preflight and pdfaPilot PlugIn
Update notification: Possibility to deactivate notifications added (Standalone only)
Update notification: Manual check for updates added to "Help" menu (Standalone only)

CLI

XML-Report: Maximum number of pages to be contained as resources in report can be defined [CA1024710]
Option to suppress listing of severities in reports

Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP4q)

Updated signatures of audit trail for preflight certificationNew Profiles

Fixes

Fixups

Merge adjacent headings if heading level is the same: Fixed issue, where headings were not merged in all cases [CA1024489]
Embed missing fonts: Fixed issue, where "nbspace" and "softhyphen" were not properly handled if used in simple fonts [CA1024564]
Embed missing fonts: Problem solved, where wrong CMap encodings resulted in false glyph replacement of certain glyphs in Asian languages [CA1024007; CA1024543]
Problem solved, where conversion of inline bitmaps resulted in an improper behavior [CA1024600]
Font to outline: Fixed issue, where not all glyphs were properly converted in certain cases [CA1024629; FP31750]
Font to outline: Problem solved, where encoding mismatch resulted in removed text in some cases [FP31648]
Font to outline: Problem solved, where glyphs were moved after processing [CA1024501]
Repair invalid ToUnicode CMap information in fonts: Problem solved, where processing resulted in invisible glyphs and damaged font [CA1024595]
Repair invalid bookmark hierarchies: Fixed issue, were color of bookmarks was not retained [CA1024492]
Fix glyph width information: Enhanced processing to correct special structures as well [CA1024251]
Discard hidden and flatten visible layers: Problem solved, where resulting PDF had visual changes due to not respected OCMD setting [CA1024399]
Font related Fixups: Problem solved, where text was missing after PDF/A conversion in certain cases [CA1023859]
Internal optimization: Problem solved, where processing did not found an end [CA1024624]

Desktop/PlugIn

Activation: Problem solved, where some special characters in customer name or company resulted in a failed activation (MacOS only)
Activation: Improved handling for instable or missing Internet connection
Save as dialog: Fixed issue, where changed destination file name was not properly displayed [FP30295; FP31644]

Reports

XML: Optimized reporting of processing duration within report
XML: Problem solved, where non existent bookmarks resulted in an invalid XML structure [FP30962]

General

Improved handling for files with a extreme high number of recursions [CA1024508]

ToPDF: Extended scope to convert shape-only Excel spreadsheets as well [CA1024727]
Improved handling of resources for document-only Fixups to increase processing speed [CA1024430]
Improved merging of Custom Fixups and identical Fixups  within conversions to PDF-based ISO-Standards [CA1024476]

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Fixes

Fixups

• Conversion to PDF/A-2: Problem solved, where errors for "CIDset in subset font is incomplete" remained after conversion in certain cases [CA1024245]
  
• Conversion to PDF/A: Fixed issue, where invalid /FirstChar + /LastChar entries were not properly handled [CA1024185]
  
• Substitute characters using .notdef glyph with space characters: Problem solved where glyphs were not properly handled if Simple-CFF-Font is embedded as CID-Font [FP30031]

ProcessPlans

• Problem solved, where processing resulted in an error

Actions

• PDF/A ForceConversion: Fixed issue, where re-conversion using PostScript resulted in an unexpected behavior [FP26716]
  
• eMail-to-PDF: Fixed issue, where VCF attachments were not properly extracted if embedded as some kind of nested MSG [CA1023089]
  
• eMail-to-PDF: Problem solved, where referenced HTML content was displayed too small [CA1024244]
  
• eMail-to-PDF: Problem solved, where images from HTML content were handled as separate attachments [CA1024150]

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Blick unter die Haube: Interne Strukturen von PDF-Dokumenten mit pdfaPilot Version 6

Die callas software GmbH hat die Version 6 ihrer Softwarelösung pdfaPilot freigegeben. Bestandteil des neuen Releases ist ein Objekt-Inspektor, mit dem Anwender die interne Struktur von PDF-Dokumenten analysieren können. Ebenfalls dazugekommen ist die Möglichkeit, GiroCodes bei der Erzeugung ZUGFeRD-kompatibler Rechnungen mit aufzunehmen, Dokumente gleichzeitig nach PDF/A und PDF/X zu konvertieren, sowie eine verbesserte Unterstützung von PDF/UA, dem ISO-Format für eine barrierefreie Darstellung von PDF-Dateien. Darüber hinaus sind nun Übersichtsseiten, die die Inhalte einer PDF/A-3-Datei darstellen, individuell anpassbar.

callas pdfaPilot zählt zu den führenden Lösungen für die Konvertierung und Validierung von PDF-Dokumenten. Die Software basiert auf derselben PDF/A-Technologie, die Adobe in Acrobat verwendet.

Ein sogenannter Objekt-Inspektor ist ab der Version 6 Bestandteil von pdfaPilot Desktop. Er erlaubt einen Blick auf die interne Struktur von PDF-Dateien. Anwender erhalten detaillierte Informationen über die Eigenschaften von einzelnen Objekten wie beispielsweise Farbe oder Bildauflösung.

Lieferanten können mit dem neuen Release ihre ZUGFerD-konformen Rechnungen optional mit einem GiroCode versehen. Dabei handelt es sich um einen QR-Code, in dem alle zahlungsrelevanten Daten, also Empfänger, IBAN, BIC, Betrag und Verwendungszweck enthalten sind. Der Kunde liest diesen über eine entsprechende App aus und die Daten werden automatisch in das Überweisungsformular übertragen.

Neu ist die gleichzeitige Konvertierung von Dokumenten nach PDF/A und PDF/X. Anwendern steht somit komfortabel sowohl ein langzeitarchivtaugliches als auch ein druckaufbereitetes PDF zur Verfügung. Zusätzlich hat callas software die Unterstützung von PDF/UA vervollständigt. Dazu ist in pdfaPilot die Software pdfGoHTML integriert, die die Dokumentstruktur samt Lesereihenfolge und Alternativtexten für Bilder in einer leicht verständlichen Schnelldiagnose-Ansicht mit farblichen Markierungen wiedergibt. Die PDF/UA-Prüfung kann dadurch sowohl den maschinellen als auch den interaktiv zu kontrollierenden Teil umfassen. Nach erfolgreichem Abschluss ist eine Protokollierung mit pdfaPilot möglich.

Eine weitere neue Funktion betrifft den dritten Normteil von PDF/A, der das Einbetten beliebiger Dateien erlaubt, die von pdfaPilot dann auf einer Übersichtsseite aufgelistet werden können. Mit pdfaPilot 6 können Anwender über HTML-Templates diese Übersichtsseite individuell anpassen und beispielsweise ihr Firmenlogo aufnehmen oder Umfang und Art der dargestellten Daten beeinflussen.


Preise und Verfügbarkeit

callas pdfaPilot 6 ist ab sofort in zwei Versionen verfügbar:

• Der callas pdfaPilot Server kostet 4.499 Euro zzgl. MwSt. und beinhaltet eine vollständige Hotfolder-Schnittstelle und ein Kommandozeilen-Werkzeug (CLI). Die Serverkomponenten unterstützen Multiprozessor-Umgebungen bei der Konvertierung und Validierung von PDF/A-Dateien. Für pdfaPilot Server ist der Abschluss eines Software-Wartungsvertrags obligatorisch.
  
• Der callas pdfaPilot Desktop kostet 379 Euro zzgl. MwSt.. Er verarbeitet einzelne Dokumente oder bei Nutzung der Stapelfunktion komplette Ordner. Als Plug-in für Adobe Acrobat oder als schnelle Einzelapplikation beinhaltet der callas pdfaPilot zahlreiche nützliche Tools, um Dokumente PDF/A-kompatibel zu machen oder an weitere Anforderungen anzupassen.

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Verfügbar seit: 28.04.2015 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Features

Acrobat PlugIn
Support for Acrobat DC
Fixes
Fixups
Problem solved, where umlauts in external config files were not handled properly [CA1023786]
Adjust or remove Image Interpolate entry: Problem solved, where Interpolate entries used in image masks were not discarded [FP28303]
Map spot and process colors: Problem solved, where multiple settings within one Fixup were not respected [CA1023817]
Actions
Save as image: Problem solved, where PNG with transparent background were not created properly [CA1023672]
ProcessPlans
Problem solved, where import of ProcessPlans resulted in an unstable behavior in certain cases [FP27803]
Reports
XML-Reports: Added listing of fallback conversion steps for profile-based PDF/A conversion [CA1023662]

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Verfügbar seit: 11.08.2014 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Features

Support for released ZUGFeRD version 1.0 (German e-invoice standard)

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Features

New Fixups

Verfügbar seit: 13.03.2014 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Die Neuerungen in Version 5.0.2013 finden Sie auf der Herstellerseite unter:

pdfaPilot Versionshistorie

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Verfügbar seit: 16.04.2013 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Neue Funktionen

Profiles

• New profile for optimized conversion of Office documents to CMYK (based on recommendations of FOGRA/PSD)

Fixups

• Fixup to create embedded thumbnails of pages
  
  
• New Fixup: Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images
  
• Folder used in fixups for config files can now directly opened

Fehlerbehebungen

PDF/A analysis

• Problem solved, where invalid widths entries for a font were not properly detected [CA1021220]

PDF/A conversion

• Problem solved, where text encoding malformed after PDF/A conversion
  
  
• Problem solved, where a false coded inline image caused an improper result [CA1021751]
  
• Problem solved, where conversion of certain tagged and scanned PDF failed [FP21699]

Profiles

• "List potential font problems": Check "Text cannot be mapped to Unicode" added

Fixups

• Remove empty group and block level elements from tagging structure: Problem solved where table cells were not properly handled

Actions

• Office conversion: Problem solved, where table of content was not properly converted (OpenOffice only) [FP21213]

Server

• Distributed processing: Ports for server communication changed

CLI

• Problem solved, where UTF16 encoding was not properly respected (SunOS only) [FP21451]
  
  
• Changed reporting of standard-fixups (Convert to PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/E): If conversion is not successful, it will show up as FixFailure
  
• Sanity: Improved performance and stability for office files [FP17838]

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Neue Funktionen:

Acrobat Plug In


• Support for Acrobat 11
  Server
  
• General server settings added to preferences
  
• Profiles can be edited directly from job settings dialogue
  General
  
• MacOS: Installers are delievered in DMG format
  
• Windows: callas software is a verified publisher

Verbesserungen

PDF/A analysis


• Problem solved, where a missing nbspace in CharSet was falsely flagged as a PDF/A-1 problem
  PDF/A conversion
  
• Force conversion: Problem solved, where Re-Convert resulted in failure when performed in profile
  
• Problem solved, where a wrong PDF/A-OutputIntent was embedded if a PDF/X-OutputIntent was already present
  
• Fixed issue, where signature appearance was flipped after flattening
  
• Problem solved, where preflight certificate prevented a PDF from being converted to PDF/A
  Actions
  
• MergePDF: Tagging structure of source PDF will now be kept
  General
  
• Problem solved, where invalid keycodes where not properly reported on Unix platforms
  
• Office conversion: Improved handling for several warnings for MS Office 2010

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Features

Verfügbar seit: 22.03.2012 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Folgende Punkte wurden überarbeitet:

Features

Verfügbar seit: 16.12.2011 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Verfügbar seit: 25.05.2011 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Neue Funktionen und Produktverbesserung zeichnen diese Version aus. Dazu zählen u.A.:

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In dieser Verison ist neu:

Verfügbar seit: 03.06.2010 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Neue Funktionen

Verfügbar seit: 04.05.2010 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Neue Funktionen

Konvertierung von OpenOffice.org-Dokumenten nach PDF/A

Verfügbar seit: 08.02.2010 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Neue Funktionen

Verfügbar seit: 30.10.2009 | Aktuelle Demos & Downloads

Neue Funktionen

• Extension-Schema für xmpMM:InstanceID wird während PDF/A-Konvertierung eingebettet
  
• Bedienbarkeit verbessert: sofern möglich wird die Ausführung von Aktionen der Desktop Produkte am offenen Dokument ausgeführt, es erscheint dann kein Speichern-unter-Dialog mehr

Anpassungen

PDF/A-Analyse

• Problem beseitigt, bei dem transparentes FormXObject nicht durch die entsprechende Prüfung gefunden wurde
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem Zeichenweitenunterschiede gemeldet wurden, obwohl kein Problem vorhanden war
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem ein unerwarteter Fehler bei der Analyse einer PDF-Datei auftrat
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem Unterschied zwischen ID in der Linearisierungs-Info und ID in der Haupt-Querverweistabelle (main cross reference table)
  
• ermittelt wurde, obwohl kein Problem vorhanden war

PDF/A-Konvertierung

• Problem beseitigt, bei dem OPI nicht komplett entfernt wurde
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem ein unerwarteter Fehler bei der Konvertierung einer PDF-Datei nach PDF/A auftrat

Switchboard-Aktionen

• Broschüre: Schnittmarken werden auch für Seiten gesetzt, wenn diese dynamisch von pdfToolbox angelegt werden, um den letzten Ausschießbogen aufzufüllen
  
• Internet optimiert: Schriften werden nicht mehr in Kurven gewandelt

Plug-In und Standalone

• Problem beseitigt, bei dem die Verarbeitung nicht auf das gerade aktive Dokument angewendet wurde
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem ICC-Profil nicht als Quellprofil eingebettet werden konnte, wenn über “PDF/A mit einem Klick” konvertiert wurde

Plug-In

• Problem unter Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard beseitigt, bei dem einige vordefinierte Farbkonvertierungskorrekturen, die mitinstallierte ICC-Profile
  
• verwenden, nicht ausgeführt werden konnten

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Neue Funktionen

• Verfügbar als Standalone oder Acrobat Plug-In Version
  
  
• Extension-Schema-Editor hinzugefügt
  
• Listet die am häufigsten verwendeten Extension-Schemas
  
• Listet alle Extension-Schemas des aktuellen PDF-Dokuments
  
• Erlaubt das Anlegen neuer Extension-Schemas
  
• Erlaubt das Einbetten von Extension-Schemas, wodurch benutzerdefinierte Metadaten in PDF/A-Dateien erhalten bleiben können
  
• Funktionen des Plug-Ins stark erweitert, unter anderem:
  Switchboard
  
• Aktion zum gleichzeitigen Konvertieren einer PDF-Datei nach PDF/A-1b & PDF/X-3
  
• Aktionen zum to Erzeugen von detaillierten PDF-Reports über Schriften, Bilder und Farben
  
• Aktionen zum Optimieren von PDF-Dateien für Dateigröße oder Druckausgabe
  
• Aktionen zum Anpassen der Helligkeit einer PDF-Datei
  
• Aktionen zum Skalieren und Drehen von Seiten
  
• Aktionen zum Anordnen von Seiten für die Druckausgabe oder zum Präsentieren
  
• Aktionen zum (Neu-)Einbetten von Schriften oder Konvertieren von Schriften in Kurven
  
• Aktionen, um einfach mit callas software in Kontakt zu kommen
  Profile
  
• Sehr detaillierte Möglichkeiten zum Analysieren und Modifizieren von PDF-Dateien
  
• Korrektur zum Anzeigen von Text, der beim Scannen von einer OCR-Software erzeugt wurde
  
• Analyseprofil zum Auflisten potentieller Schriftenprobleme
  Werkzeuge zum
  
• Erkunden von PDF-Dateien
  
• Erkunden von Schriften
  
• Erkunden von Metadaten
  Analyse-Erweiterungen
  
• Prüfung der Datumsangabe auf Unicode-Kodierung hinzugefügt
  
• Prüfung für ungültige Extension-Schemas verbessert
  Korrektur-Erweiterungen
  
• TrueType-Schriften nach CID konvertieren hinzugefügt
  
• Struktur auf Standard-Typen reduzieren hinzugefügt
  
• Fehlenden "Type"-Eintrag in "StructElem"-Objekten einfügen hinzugefügt
  
• Encoding-Eintrag in TrueType-Schriften für PDF/A aufbereiten hinzugefügt
  
• Schrifteneinbettung nur noch durchgeführt, wenn Text nicht Rendering-Modus 3 hat
  
• Mehrere Syntax-Probleme in PDF-Dateien werden nun bei der Konvertierung behoben

Anpassungen

Analyse XMP


• Problem beseitigt, bei dem falscher Typ des XMP-Property-Wertes dc:creator nicht ermittelt wurde
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem eine ungültige URI nicht ermittelt wurde
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem fehlende xpacket-Einträge in den XMP-Metadaten nicht ermittelt wurden
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem ein Formularfeld mit einer Darstellung (Appearance) und einem N-Eintrag mit zwei Darstellungen nicht ermittelt wurde
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem ein Syntax-Problem nicht ermittelt wurde (indirektes Objekt hat Objektnummer, der kein EOL-Marker vorangestellt ist)
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem Unterschied zwischen ID in der Linearisierungs-Info und ID in der Haupt-Querverweistabelle (main cross reference table) nicht ermittelt wurde
  Konvertierung
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem die Korrektur zur Entfernung von Metadaten, die nicht PDF/A-konform sind, nicht alle Metadaten entfernte
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem Darstellung (Appearance) eines Formularfeldes nicht PDF/A-konform gemacht werden konnte
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem auf Mac die mitgelieferte Schrift Symbol nicht eingebettet werden konnte
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem TrueType-Schriften mit einem Encoding-Eintrag als Dictionary eingebettet wurden
  Reports
  
• Problem beseitigt, bei dem in XML-Reports die Details nur für die ersten 30 Treffer einer Prüfung ausgegeben wurden

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