callas pdfToolbox Server 15 with 1 Year SMA

pdfToolbox Server gives all aspects of working with PDFs a massive boost with a greatly extended feature set for a diversity of user's needs. It offers powerful, dynamic and easy to integrate PDF processing, from quick visual inspection and fixing to fully unattended processing of thousands of files. Using reliable Adobe technology, pdfToolbox provides checking and fixing of even very complex problems, color management, impositioning, conversion to and from PDF, and more. pdfToolbox technology is used by small companies, large publishers and print providers as well as OEMs that integrate the technology in their own solution.

What is new in pdfToolbox 15

In pdfToolbox 15, the editor has been simplified to make it easier to create and understand preflight profiles. Improvements have also been made in the Process Plan editor; workflows have more options when generating extra files (such as exported images), and the result code of a process plan can be better controlled.

Editor and Workflow Enhancements:

• Simplified Preflight Profile and Process Plan Editors:The editors have been simplified to make it easier to create and understand complex profiles and workflows.
• Improved Process Plans:Workflows now have more options for generating extra files (e.g., exported images) and offer better control over the final result code.
• Customizable PDF Reports:New options allow you to easily show or hide sections for small objects and low-resolution images in the default report template. You can now also control report generation using JavaScript within Process Plans or Preflight Profiles.

Creating Preflight Checks

• Object Inspector to Preflight Check:A new feature allows you to create a preflight check directly from the properties of a selected object in the Object Inspector. This significantly reduces the time needed to create complex checks.

Usability and Testing

• Enhanced Test Mode:The test mode for profiles and process plans has been improved with a new loupe tool, better visualization options, and the ability to view objects identified by checks in isolation.
• Improved Variable Handling in Desktop:The "Ask-at-runtime" dialog for variables can now be customized more easily. You can change the order of variables and dynamically show or hide them based on other selections using simple JavaScript, without needing to create a custom HTML template.

New Checks and Fixups

• Trim and Bleed Mark Detection:This feature has been made more intelligent and can now find these marks even if they are in the wrong color spaces or are part of an image.
• Die-line Enhancements
  
  • The software can now read and convert CF2 files to PDF.
  • You can break or join die-lines.
  • New capabilities to calculate die-line length and detect sharp corners or narrow turns is added.
  • You can now place new text along existing die-lines or other vector paths.
• Bleed Creation Improvements
  
  • Bleed can now be created along the interior areas of vector paths.
  • The software can automatically detect and fix thin white areas that may appear along the trim box.
• Barcode Improvements
  
  • It's now easier to get information about detected barcodes using JavaScript.
  • The preflight engine can check for barcode rotation and quiet zones.

Features

• Native support for pdfToolbox CLI and pdfToolbox SDK for Linux ARM (for example, for the Amazon Graviton AWS platform).
• Support for cartridge pools when using an on-premise License Server.
• Support for License Server in the Cloud for pdfToolbox Desktop.
• Visualization of the form XObject structure of a PDF file.
• The possibility to flatten form XObjects in a PDF file.
• The possibility of using DPart information during preflight. This allows, for example, to perform distinct preflight checks for different parts of a document based on DPart information in the document.
• Full support for page-based output intents while doing color conversions.
• Optimized memory usage for preflight checks that rely on rendering pages. This specifically allows the resolution of the rendering to be dependent on the document's page size (and is of particular importance for sign & display PDF files).
• Fine-grained tolerances for the conversion of RGB gray to gray or CMYK.
• Exporting JPEG, PNG, TIFF, or PDF files without an included ICC profile (resulting in smaller files).
• Support for gray and RGB ICC profiles for output preview simulation.
• New quickfix to convert all PDF names (used for names of fonts, separation colors…) to Unicode (UTF-8).
• Detection and removal of page-level knockout transparency groups.
• New options to create “artificial” hits using JavaScript for page ranges and custom areas on a page.
• JavaScript support for the “manifest” file used by custom preflight profiles. This includes the ability to modify manifest values from JavaScript and support to read custom values in the manifest file from JavaScript.
  

Benefits

One-Stop-Shop for PDF Docs

• Support for all PDF standards, both from international standard organizations and from national user associations
• Covers quality control, result reporting, PDF fixing and many other PDF manipulations (generating PDF from office files, conversion from and to PostScript and EPS, imposition and much more)

Configurability

• Create an unlimited amount of jobs (watched folders)
• Configure jobs from any machine on the network
• Track server processing across the network using pdfToolbox Desktop
• Handle problem files in pdfToolbox Desktop using checkpoints, seamlessly integrating error handling for problems files in an automated workflows with pdfToolbox Server
• Run pdfToolbox Server on physical hardware or in many virtual environments
• Provide instant load-balancing with pdfToolbox Dispatcher and Satellite
• Works together with Enfocus Switch or Laidback FileTrain for further automation needs

Quality and Reliability

• Uses the same PDF preflight engine as Adobe Acrobat
• Builds on the Adobe PDF Library for PDF file processing, transparency flattening, PostScript / EPS support and more

Reduce PDF-related Costs

• Detect errors early with industry standard quality control, fully supporting PDF standards and specifications and used by major companies such as Adobe and Quark
• Fix common PDF problems automatically to improve turn-around and increase the relationship with clients
• Use electronic signatures to protect PDF documents and track errors throughout the workflow
• Repurpose PDF documents when workflow needs or customer needs change

Fully Automated Processing

pdfToolbox Server allows processing PDF documents in a fully automated mode. Any number of processing jobs can be configured. Each job is configured with an input folder that is monitored constantly by pdfToolbox Server; as soon as new files appear they are picked up and processed according to the configuration of the job. If errors are detected, the processed files are dropped into an error output folder, if everything is successful, they move to a success output folder.

pdfToolbox Server is even capable of integrating the manual and automatic parts of a workflow; need to have someone check on error files to decide whether they are really a production problem or to fix them? No problem, pdfToolbox Server can automatically hold problem files in a checkpoint. pdfToolbox Desktop operators then get a list of problem files and can check them out to their workstation to inspect or correct. After inspection the file (or a modified version) can be sent to the success or error folder and continue in the workflow.

Do you have more tasks to automate around quality control or fixing PDF documents? pdfToolbox Server seamlessly integrates into automation solutions such as Enfocus Switch and Laidback FileTrain; get and send files to FTP servers, send notification emails, connect to databases, work with XML files and much, much more suddenly becomes possible.

Report and Correct

Each job in pdfToolbox Server can be configured using a preflight profile; these profiles allow fully automated quality control but can just as easily also fix common PDF problems. Through its standard profiles, pdfToolbox Server supports a wide range of preflight standards.

• All ISO PDF standards: PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/E and PDF/VT
• All Ghent Workgroup market-segment specific specifications

Growing With Your Workflow

Because pdfToolbox Server is fully multi-processor aware, it can handle many different tasks in parallel; up to 8 files can be processed simultaneously with the standard product license. The unlimited version of pdfToolbox Server is even only limited by the power of the computer server it is installed on. When you get to the point where you want to distribute workload across multiple systems, pdfToolbox Server is ready for that as well. pdfToolbox Server can easily be upgraded to a pdfToolbox Dispatcher license; preserving all job configuration that was done already. This dispatcher now works together with one or more pdfToolbox Satellites; running on the same or different machines in the network, they allow workload distribution and return their results to the dispatcher.

Dynamic Preflighting

For years, pdfToolbox Server has had the ability to include variables in preflight profiles. This allows preflight checking and conversion to dynamically change based on the processed PDF file or its associated metadata, which is of great value in more complex preflight workflows. Now pdfToolbox also includes process plans, which brings conditional processing to preflight workflows.

The pdfToolbox preflight profile’s support for variables allows to dynamically change the properties of preflight checks and fixes in a profile. In workflows where only some parameters change often (for example when checking sizes of incoming advertisements), this can be used to dramatically reduce complexity. The same technology also allows switching specific checks or fixes on or off while processing files.

Process plans define a number of steps a PDF file should be processed through. Each step can be a preflight profile, a single preflight check or a fix or an action (such as saving images, creating a booklet…). Process plans allow for generating preflight reports based on the result of each step. It is also possible to jump between different steps based on the results of a previous step.

Configurability

Whether a single pdfToolbox Server is used, or pdfToolbox Dispatcher shares the load across different systems, setting up and monitoring processing can be a complex task. pdfToolbox simplifies this by allowing remote configuration and remote monitoring of any pdfToolbox installation.

All pdfToolbox Server management tools have been built into pdfToolbox Desktop. From the desktop application it is possible to start a local server or connect to one or more remote servers. This enables you to test preflight profiles or process plans locally and configure a remote server with them once you’re completely satisfied with what they do.

Plus More...

It can be used to impose PDF documents, automatically convert Office documents to PDF, generate thumbnails or preview images and more…

• Optimize PDFs for mobile or web use: compress, crop invisible parts of images, convert to RGB...
• Generate PostScript and EPS from PDF or create production-accurate thumbnails or preview images in TIFF, JPEG and PNG format
• Use the full-featured imposition engine to create booklets, do a step-and-repeat or perform more complex imposition tasks
• Split PDF files into separate documents or merge files together, secure PDF files with passwords or re-distill them to fix problems

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