pdfToolbox 6.2.212 - Changelog

What's new in pdfToolbox 6.2.212:

January 11th, 2013

Features:
Fixups:
· New Fixup: Add white background [FP20580]
Server:
· Use of accesskey is now mandatory
· General server settings added to preferences
· Profiles can be edited directly from job settings dialogue
CLI:
· Splithalf: Add new function to make content outside of defined slot invisble [CA1021627]
· Enabled usage of Symlinks for MacOS and Unix-platforms [CA1013140]
General:
· MacOS: Installers are delievered in DMG format
· Windows: callas software is a verified publisher
Reports:
· Ink coverage in percent and area can now be listed for all pages in XML-reports

Fixes:
Profiles:
· Problem solved, where wrong error code was given after successful processing [FP20344]
· Convert to PDF/X-1a: Fixed issue, where conversion resulted in missing objects [3f8h/Heilbronner Ztg.]
Checks:
· Problem solved, where overprint not detected for SmoothShades [FP20907]
Processplans:
· Enabled handling of reports from ProcessPlans in Switch [FP20924] CaBT0008171
Fixups:
· Problem solved, where registry entry of OutputIntent was not properly embedded in some cases [FP19927]
· DeviceLink: Problem solved, where conversion resulted in unexpected result [CA1021777]
· DeviceLink: Problem solved, where conversion results in error in shading dictionary [FP21150]
Actions:
· ReDistill: Fixed issue, where processing resulted in unexpected result [FP7305]
Acrobat Plug In:
· Problem solved, where fixup “Generate bleed” did not work as expected [FP21054]
Server:
· Problem solved, where different types of licenses on a system resulted in limited functionality [CA1021784]
· Problem solved, where Office conversion did not work after update [FP20922]
CLI:
· Problem solved, where usage of additional parameter –uncompressimg had improper results [CA1021717]
· Problem solved, where use of additional parameter –uncompressimg reported 4c for a black and white image [FP21005]
· SaveAsImage: Problem solved, where simulating overprint did not work as expected [FP20989]
· Problem solved, where wrong reason code for encrypted PDFs was given [CA1021581]

What's new in pdfToolbox 4.5.098:

December 15th, 2010

· Features
· Support of Acrobat X Pro

· Fixes
· Fixups
Map spot colors:

· Problem solved where process color page objects defined as Separation or DeviceN where separated to CMYK

· Problem solved where page object defined as multi-channel DeviceN was not mapped

· Convert colors using DeviceLink profiles: Problem solved where processing ended with error message

· Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where processing time was increased

· Embed missing fonts: Problem solved under Unix where Adobe font list file was created in current working directory

· Adjust or remove annotations: Problem solved where page was rotated

· Checks

· Problem solved where processing ended with error message when analyzing a specific PDF file

· pdfToolbox Desktop

· Activation: Problem solved where activation of an older pdfToolbox version was not accepted

· Problem solved where error message occurred when executing color conversion fixup using ICC profile that was not installed in the operating system

Action Create EPS:

· Problem solved where file size of created EPS files were very large

· Problem solved where document with a created EPS file could not be printed from within InDesign

· Problem solved where CID Type 2 fonts where not properly encoded when outputting PostScript Level 2

· Impositioning Actions: Problem solved where negative values in token expression were not parsed correctly

What's new in pdfToolbox 4.5.086:

August 2nd, 2010

· Performance improvement especially when processing complex PDF files
· Higher processing speed
· Less memory consumption
· Faster creation of font cache
· Visualizer: Visualizes print-relevant characteristics of PDF documents (not available in Plug-In under Acrobat 8)
· Organize pages: Easily move pages in PDF documents
· Office document support
· Documents of all file formats supported by Microsoft Office 2010 or 2007 (Windows only) and OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Macintosh, Windows and Linux) can directly be converted to PDF
· Supported in pdfToolbox Desktop 4, pdfToolbox Server 4, pdfToolbox CLI 4 (Linux only) and pdfToolbox SDK 4 (Macintosh, Windows and Linux)
· Keep visual and semantic reproducibility by direct export from the office application
· Common issues of PDF files created from Office applications are repaired
· Office documents that can not be exported from Microsoft Office can be processed via OpenOffice.org
· Support for page scaling factors (user units) to handle sheet sizes larger than 200 by 200 inches
· Latest PDFX-ready profiles pre-installed (Version 1.3)
· PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-4p conversion extended to preserve page objects in RGB by tagging with ICC profile
· PDF/A-1 conversion and validation adapted to the modified PDF/A-1 requirements as defined in the ISO Technical Corrigendum 2 for the standard
· Fontsubstitution activated for Arial and Helvetica when converting to PDF/A
· Image export extended
· Image format TIFF (LZW) supported
· JPEG quality maximum and minimum added
· Color space of image can be set to RGB, CMYK (TIFF only) and Gray
· RGB images are tagged with ICC profile sRGB

What's new in pdfToolbox 4.3.044:

October 12th, 2009

· Features
· First release of chinese language version of pdfToolbox 4 Desktop (separate installation package)
New fixups in Standalone that were only available in Plug-In version before:
· Apply ZIP compression to uncompressed object streams
· Discard embedded thumbnails
· Discard private data of other applications
· Optimize PDF for fast web view
· Fixups Embed missing fonts and Convert fonts to outlines now list respective font name in results dialog
· Fixes
· Power tools
· Fixups
· Re-activated fixups Knockout white vector and/or text objects, Overprint black und Set Overprint Mode to 1 to be used with profiles created with pdfToolbox 4.2 and before, Note: It is not recommended to combine them with the new fixup Set Overprint and Knockout
· Convert colors: Problem solved where OPM was not set to 0 when overprinting DeviceGray was converted to DeviceCMYK
· Set transparency blend color space: Problem solved where transparency blend color space was not set to RGB ICC profile
· Remove objects outside page area: Problem solved where object was removed that was lying partly inside page area
· Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
· Fix glyph width info: Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed
· Switchboard Actions
· Fonts - Replace fonts: Problem solved where glyph width was not adapted when replacing font fully
· Pages - Scale by percent: Problem solved where execution of action did not have any effect
· Reports
· Problem solved where in PDF comments report color of comments did not match their severity
· Plug-In
· Problem solved where error message was displayed when opening Profiles dialog
· Standalone
· Problem solved where encrypted PDF files, annotations and form fields were not displayed
· Problem solved where black and white image was displayed with inverted color
· Problem solved where page number, Standards button or icon for modified file was not displayed reliably
· Problem solved where active document could not be changed when Profiles, Checks or Fixups dialog was open