
callas pdfToolbox Desktop - Details
Key Features
The best PDF quality control on the planet
- Full support for all ISO PDF standards: PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/VT and PDF/E
- Supports all PDF/X standards (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5)
- Full support for specifications from industry associations;
such as the Ghent Workgroup and PDF/X-Ready
- Reporting of problems through different types of predefined PDF reports
- Customizable PDF reports based on HTML templates for maximum
adjustment to brands and users (including easy adaptation of colors,
layout, icons and logos and textual content)
- Interactive identification of problem objects after preflight
Don’t just report problems – fix them
- Many instant fixes for common PDF problems
- Run fixes individually or build them into preflight profiles
- Secured fixing by using PDF comparison technology;
easily identify when a fix causes visual differences
- Build process plans: customizable lists of fixes that can
be executed on PDF documents conditionally
- Fix broken documents by "re-distilling" or by rasterizing each page
(re-destilling means generating PostScript and conversion back into PDF)
Customize quality control and fixing
- Insert variables into checks or fixes
- Modify values for variables whenever run in pdfToolbox Desktop
- Decide on the fly whether checks or fixes need to be run for a specific document
More than fixes – PDF actions with pdfTooolbox Desktop
- Convert office documents, images and PostScript / EPS files
into good PDF documents with simple drag-and-drop
- Save images for each page of a PDF documents (can be used to
generate preview images or high resolution TIFF files for production)
- Generate PostScript or EPS files from PDF documents
- Perform simple impositioning tasks (creating a booklet, doing a step-and-repeat…)
or create complete impositioning templates
- Prepare professional looking handouts and presentations
for on-screen and printed delivery
- Scale, move, extend, rotate and flip pages and content
- Change page size to what is visible on the page
- Add printer marks based on the trim and bleed-box
- Detect printer marks in PDF documents and fix the trim and bleed-box accordingly
- Flatten transparency to support older workflows/devices
- Work with PDF documents containing layers (option content)
- Embed and/or subset fonts, outline fonts if necessary
- Change image compression
- Sharpen images in your PDF documents
Professional color management without the hassle
- Convert PDF documents using ICC profiles; wizard takes the guessing out of the job
- Use your DeviceLink profiles for color conversion, TAC reduction or ink saving
- Use DeviceLink pack (payable option) for smooth CMYK to CMYK conversion
- Convert all spot colors to CMYK
- Modify individual spot colors in a PDF document
(change names, modify alternate color space and values,
remap to another spot color or process color or convert to CMYK)
- Quickly convert PDF documents to RGB or gray (with dot-gain compensation)
Get the most out of metadata
- Provides convenient browsing of document metadata as well as
object-level metadata for images embedded inside the document
- Support for all relevant industry metadata standards including
Dublin Core, IPTC, PRISM, GWG AdTicket/AdsML, PLUS, EXIF and Camera Raw
- Facilitates metadata based researching in Yahoo, Wikipedia,
Amazon, Google and AskMetaFilter
- Supports GPS data for use with Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and Google Earth
- XML export of all document and object level metadata for tracking image use and licenses
Benefits
Handle all of your PDF needs in a single application
- 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)
- Provides the freedom to work inside of Adobe Acrobat or as a standalone application
(without requiring Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to be installed)
Speed up the way you work with PDF documents
- Identify PDF problems quickly through preflight with customizable profiles
- Further qualify production problems by using the visualizer;
judge problems such as total ink coverage, image resolution and
separations in a single glance
- Apply pre-configured fixes to solve problems immediately
- Create lists of corrections and checks to be executed in a single click
- Batch process folders with up to 100 PDF documents
Unparalleled ease-of-use
- Intuitive user interface providing functionality at different
levels of complexity to support every type of user
- Smartphone alike user interface (the Switchboard) with
low entrance level functionality neatly grouped by functionality
- A workspace area you can customize to contain all features you frequently use
- Tons of predefined preflight profiles, checks and fixes with
the ability to customize what is there or to create your own
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
System requirements
callas pdfToolbox Desktop runs inside Adobe Acrobat, or as a standalone
(without requiring Adobe Acrobat to be installed).
- Mac: Requires Mac OS X (Intel), version 10.7 or newer, 64-bit-compliant.
- Windows: Windows Server 2008 R2 / Server 2012 / 7 / 8 / 10
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callas pdfToolbox Server - Details
Key Features
Complete automation
- Create an unlimited amount of jobs (watched folders)
- Configure jobs using pdfToolbox Desktop from any machine on the network
- Use jobs to perform preflight (using a profile or process plan)
or perform automated PDF actions
- Modify job processing with additional command-line parameters,
straight from the job configuration interface
(without scripting or development needed)
- Process 8 documents in parallel using the regular license or scale up to
the full power of your hardware or virtual environment with an unlimited license
- Setup pdfToolbox Server with a dispatcher or satellite license
for load-balancing across several machines
- Distributed processing; allows easy load-balancing between
multiple pdfToolbox Server instances in high-volume workflows
- Monitor server processing from any machine on the network using pdfToolbox Desktop
- Setup jobs with checkpoints allowing pdfToolbox Desktop to see and fix problem files
- Integrate into Enfocus Switch and Laidback Solutions FileTrain
The best and most complete PDF quality control on the planet
- Full support for all ISO PDF standards: PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/VT and PDF/E
- Supports all PDF/X standards (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5)
- Full support for specifications from industry associations;
such as the Ghent Workgroup and PDF/X-Ready
- Reporting of problems through different types of predefined PDF reports
- Customizable PDF reports based on HTML templates for maximum
adjustment to your brand and users
(including easy adaptation of colors, layout, icons and logos and textual content)
- Integrated fixes allows quickest handling of PDF documents
- Secured fixing by using PDF comparison technology;
easily identify when a fix causes visual differences
- Build process plans: customizable lists of fixes that can
be executed on PDF documents conditionally
- Fix broken documents by "re-distilling" or by rasterizing each page
(re-destilling means generating PostScript and conversion back into PDF)
Customize quality control and fixing
- Insert variables into checks or fixes
- Modify values for variables in each job
- Decide on the fly whether checks or fixes need to be run for a specific document
More than fixes - PDF actions with pdfTooolbox Server
- Convert office documents, images and PostScript / EPS files
into good PDF documents with simple drag-and-drop
- Save images for each page of a PDF documents (can be used to
generate preview images or high resolution TIFF files for production)
- Generate PostScript or EPS files from PDF documents
- Perform simple impositioning tasks (creating a booklet, doing a step-and-repeat…)
or create complete impositioning templates
- Prepare professional looking handouts and presentations
for on-screen and printed delivery
- Scale, move, extend, rotate and flip pages and content
- Change page size to what is visible on the page
- Add printer marks based on the trim and bleed-box
- Detect printer marks in PDF documents and fix the trim and bleed-box accordingly
- Flatten transparency to support older workflows/devices
- Work with PDF documents containing layers (option content)
- Embed and/or subset fonts, outline fonts if necessary
- Change image compression
- Sharpen images in your PDF documents
Professional color management without the hassle
- Convert PDF documents using ICC profiles; wizard takes the guessing out of the job
- Use your DeviceLink profiles for color conversion, TAC reduction or ink saving
- Use DeviceLink pack (payable option) for smooth CMYK to CMYK conversion
- Convert all spot colors to CMYK
- Modify individual spot colors in a PDF document
(change names, modify alternate color space and values,
remap to another spot color or process color or convert to CMYK)
- Quickly convert PDF documents to RGB or gray (with dot-gain compensation)
Benefits
Handle all of your PDF needs in a single application
- 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)
- callas pdfToolbox Server runs on any recent Mac OS X or Windows platform
Configure your automation exactly as you need it
- 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 Solutions FileTrain
for further automation needs
Enjoy highest 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
System Requirements
callas pdfToolbox Server runs with its full hot folder interface and
has command-line support on Windows and Mac.
A command-line only version is available on
Linux, Oracle/Sun Solaris and IBM AIX - See callas pdfToolbox CLI.
- Mac: Requires Mac OS X (Intel), version 10.7 or newer, 64-bit-compliant.
- Windows: Requires Windows Server 2008 R2 / Server 2012 / 7 / 8 / 10
- Linux: Reference platform is Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Other distributions require at least glibc-2.10 for full support of all features.
On distributions with an older glibc (e.g. glibc-2.5 on RHEL5/CentOS5) some
features are not available (e.g. HTML based reports or "Place content”-Fixups)
- Oracle/Sun Solaris
- Solaris SPARC: Solaris 8 (Solaris SPARC v5.8) or newer
- Solaris x86: Solaris 10 (Solaris Intel v5.10) or newer
- IBM AIX: AIX 5.3 (oslevel 5300-07) or newer
- Recommended are at least 2 GB of free storage
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callas pdfToolbox CLI - Details
Key Features
Complete automation
- Perform preflight by running any pdfToolbox profile or process plan
- Generate an unlimited amount of preflight reports from a single preflight
- With special command-line commands, run a PDF action on PDF files
- Process 8 documents in parallel using the regular license or scale up
to the full power of your hardware or virtual environment with an unlimited license
- Alternatively launch pdfToolbox CLI as server, dispatcher or satellite
to create a standalone server or a component in a load-balancing workflow
- Integrate into Enfocus Switch and Laidback Solutions FileTrain
More than preflight - PDF actions with pdfToolbox CLI
- Convert office documents, images and PostScript / EPS files
into good PDF documents with simple drag-and-drop
- Save images for each page of a PDF documents (can be used to
generate preview images or high resolution TIFF files for production)
- Generate PostScript or EPS files from PDF documents
- Perform simple impositioning tasks (creating a booklet, doing a step-and-repeat…)
or create complete impositioning templates
- Prepare professional looking handouts and presentations
for on-screen and printed delivery
- Scale, move, extend, rotate and flip pages and content
- Change page size to what is visible on the page
- Add printer marks based on the trim and bleed-box
- Detect printer marks in PDF documents and fix the trim and bleed-box accordingly
- Flatten transparency to support older workflows/devices
- Work with PDF documents containing layers (option content)
- Embed and/or subset fonts, outline fonts if necessary
- Change image compression
- Sharpen images in your PDF documents
The best and most complete PDF quality control on the planet
- Full support for all ISO PDF standards: PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/VT and PDF/E
- Supports all PDF/X standards (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5)
- Full support for specifications from industry associations;
such as the Ghent Workgroup and PDF/X-Ready
- Reporting of problems through different types of predefined PDF reports
- Customizable PDF reports based on HTML templates for maximum
adjustment to your brand and users
(including easy adaptation of colors, layout, icons and logos and textual content)
- Integrated fixes allows quickest handling of PDF documents
- Secured fixing by using PDF comparison technology;
easily identify when a fix causes visual differences
- Build process plans: customizable lists of fixes that can
be executed on PDF documents conditionally
- Fix broken documents by "re-distilling" or by rasterizing each page
(re-destilling means generating PostScript and conversion back into PDF)
Customize quality control and fixing
- Insert variables into checks or fixes
- Modify values for variables in each job
- Decide on the fly whether checks or fixes need to be run for a specific document
Professional color management without the hassle
- Convert PDF documents using ICC profiles; wizard takes the guessing out of the job
- Use your DeviceLink profiles for color conversion, TAC reduction or ink saving
- Use DeviceLink pack (payable option) for smooth CMYK to CMYK conversion
- Convert all spot colors to CMYK
- Modify individual spot colors in a PDF document
(change names, modify alternate color space and values,
remap to another spot color or process color or convert to CMYK)
- Quickly convert PDF documents to RGB or gray (with dot-gain compensation)
System Requirements
callas pdfToolbox CLI is a command-line only version available on
Linux, Oracle/Sun Solaris and IBM AIX.
- Mac: Requires Mac OS X (Intel), version 10.7 or newer, 64-bit-compliant.
- Windows: Requires Windows Server 2008 R2 / Server 2012 / 7 / 8 / 10
- Linux: Reference platform is Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Other distributions require at least glibc-2.10 for full support of all features.
On distributions with an older glibc (e.g. glibc-2.5 on RHEL5/CentOS5) some
features are not available (e.g. HTML based reports or "Place content”-Fixups)
- Oracle/Sun Solaris
- Solaris SPARC: Solaris 8 (Solaris SPARC v5.8) or newer
- Solaris x86: Solaris 10 (Solaris Intel v5.10) or newer
- IBM AIX: AIX 5.3 (oslevel 5300-07) or newer
- Recommended are at least 2 GB of free storage
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callas pdfToolbox SDK - Details
callas pdfToolbox SDK - a programming library for standards compliant PDF.
It is aimed for developers with a need to automate callas pdfToolbox or when integrating
callas pdfToolbox into an existing workflow for PDF optimization, validation and correction.
Key Features
Close integration
- C library for easy integration in C project or C++ headers (through custom headers)
- Easy support for .Net and Java projects through custom wrappers
- Full set of callback functions to take close control of processing
- Parallel processing through multi-threaded library
- Perform preflight by running any pdfToolbox profile or process plan
- Generate an unlimited amount of preflight reports from a single preflight
- Duplicate, merge and modify preflight profiles in code
- Combine usage of Adobe PDF Library and pdfToolbox SDK
- Available on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris and IBM AIX
More than preflight - PDF actions with pdfToolbox SDK
- Convert office documents, images and PostScript / EPS files
into good PDF documents with simple drag-and-drop
- Save images for each page of a PDF documents (can be used to
generate preview images or high resolution TIFF files for production)
- Generate PostScript or EPS files from PDF documents
- Perform simple impositioning tasks (creating a booklet, doing a step-and-repeat…)
or create complete impositioning templates
- Prepare professional looking handouts and presentations for
on-screen and printed delivery
- Scale, move, extend, rotate and flip pages and content
- Change page size to what is visible on the page
- Add printer marks based on the trim and bleed-box
- Detect printer marks in PDF documents and fix the trim and bleed-box accordingly
- Flatten transparency to support older workflows/devices
- Work with PDF documents containing layers (option content)
- Embed and/or subset fonts, outline fonts if necessary
- Change image compression
- Sharpen images in your PDF documents
The best and most complete PDF quality control on the planet
- Full support for all ISO PDF standards: PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/VT and PDF/E
- Supports all PDF/X standards (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5)
- Full support for specifications from industry associations;
such as the Ghent Workgroup and PDF/X-Ready
- Reporting of problems through different types of predefined PDF reports
- Customizable PDF reports based on HTML templates for maximum
adjustment to your brand and users
(including easy adaptation of colors, layout, icons and logos and textual content)
- Integrated fixes allows quickest handling of PDF documents
- Secured fixing by using PDF comparison technology;
easily identify when a fix causes visual differences
- Build process plans: customizable lists of fixes that can
be executed on PDF documents conditionally
- Fix broken documents by "re-distilling" or by rasterizing each page
(re-destilling means generating PostScript and conversion back into PDF)
Customize quality control and fixing
- Insert variables into checks or fixes
- Modify values for variables in each job
- Decide on the fly whether checks or fixes need to be run for a specific document
Professional color management without the hassle
- Convert PDF documents using ICC profiles; wizard takes the guessing out of the job
- Use your DeviceLink profiles for color conversion, TAC reduction or ink saving
- Use DeviceLink pack (payable option) for smooth CMYK to CMYK conversion
- Convert all spot colors to CMYK
- Modify individual spot colors in a PDF document
(change names, modify alternate color space and values,
remap to another spot color or process color or convert to CMYK)
- Quickly convert PDF documents to RGB or gray (with dot-gain compensation)
System Requirements
- Mac: Requires Mac OS X (Intel), version 10.7 or newer, 64-bit-compliant.
- Windows: Requires Windows Server 2008 R2 / Server 2012 / 7 / 8 / 10
- Linux: Reference platform is Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Other distributions require at least glibc-2.10 for full support of all features.
On distributions with an older glibc (e.g. glibc-2.5 on RHEL5/CentOS5) some
features are not available (e.g. HTML based reports or "Place content”-Fixups)
- Oracle/Sun Solaris
- Solaris SPARC: Solaris 8 (Solaris SPARC v5.8) or newer
- Solaris x86: Solaris 10 (Solaris Intel v5.10) or newer
- IBM AIX: AIX 5.3 (oslevel 5300-07) or newer
- Recommended are at least 2 GB of free storage
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