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    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/UA, PDF/VT and PDF/E

      • Supports all PDF/X standards:
        PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5, PDF/X-6

      • 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 trimbox and bleedbox

      • 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:
      • Earliest supported version: macOS 10.13 (Intel)

      • Starting with macOS 11.0,
        also running on Apple Silicon Rosetta 2

      • Native Apple Silicon (ARM/M1) support
        starting with pdfToolbox 14.0

      • Newest tested version: macOS 12.61.1



    • Windows:
      • Earliest supported version: Windows 10

      • Newest tested version: Windows 11




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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/UA, PDF/VT and PDF/E

      • Supports all PDF/X standards:
        PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5, PDF/X-6

      • 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 macOS, Windows or Linux 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
    - See pdfToolbox CLI.

    • Mac:
      • Earliest supported version: macOS 10.13 (Intel)

      • Starting with macOS 11.0,
        also running on Apple Silicon Rosetta 2

      • Native Apple Silicon (ARM/M1) support
        starting with pdfToolbox 14.0

      • Newest tested version: macOS 12.61.1



    • Windows:
      • Earliest supported version: Windows 10

      • Newest tested version: Windows 11



    • Windows Server:
      • Earliest supported version: Windows Server 2012 R2

      • Newest tested version: Windows Server 2022



    • Linux:
    • The minimum required Linux OS versions are shown below
      (Linux OS versions with a higher number are
      always supported as well):

      • Debian 8 (and derivates like Ubuntu 16.x )

      • RedHat RHEL7
        (and derivates like CentOS7 or CentOS Stream)

      • SuSE SLES11
        (and derivates like OpenSuSE11 or
        OpenSuSE LEAP 42 or OpenSuSE TumbleWeed)

      • Note: Other Linux distributions are also supported
        if the version of the glibc is at least v2.12


    • 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/UA, PDF/VT and PDF/E

      • Supports all PDF/X standards:
        PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5, PDF/X-6

      • 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.

    • Mac:
      • Earliest supported version: macOS 10.13 (Intel)

      • Starting with macOS 11.0,
        also running on Apple Silicon Rosetta 2

      • Native Apple Silicon (ARM/M1) support
        starting with pdfToolbox 14.0

      • Newest tested version: macOS 12.61.1



    • Windows:
      • Earliest supported version: Windows 10

      • Newest tested version: Windows 11



    • Windows Server:
      • Earliest supported version: Windows Server 2012 R2

      • Newest tested version: Windows Server 2022



    • Linux:
    • The minimum required Linux OS versions are shown below
      (Linux OS versions with a higher number are
      always supported as well):

      • Debian 8 (and derivates like Ubuntu 16.x )

      • RedHat RHEL7
        (and derivates like CentOS7 or CentOS Stream)

      • SuSE SLES11
        (and derivates like OpenSuSE11 or
        OpenSuSE LEAP 42 or OpenSuSE TumbleWeed)

      • Note: Other Linux distributions are also supported
        if the version of the glibc is at least v2.12


    • 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 macOS, Windows, Linux

      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/UA, PDF/VT and PDF/E

      • Supports all PDF/X standards:
        PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5, PDF/X-6

      • 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:
      • Earliest supported version: macOS 10.13 (Intel)

      • Starting with macOS 11.0,
        also running on Apple Silicon Rosetta 2

      • Native Apple Silicon (ARM/M1) support
        starting with pdfToolbox 14.0

      • Newest tested version: macOS 12.61.1



    • Windows:
      • Earliest supported version: Windows 10

      • Newest tested version: Windows 11



    • Windows Server:
      • Earliest supported version: Windows Server 2012 R2

      • Newest tested version: Windows Server 2022



    • Linux:
    • The minimum required Linux OS versions are shown below
      (Linux OS versions with a higher number are
      always supported as well):

      • Debian 8 (and derivates like Ubuntu 16.x )

      • RedHat RHEL7
        (and derivates like CentOS7 or CentOS Stream)

      • SuSE SLES11
        (and derivates like OpenSuSE11 or
        OpenSuSE LEAP 42 or OpenSuSE TumbleWeed)

      • Note: Other Linux distributions are also supported
        if the version of the glibc is at least v2.12


    • Recommended are at least 2 GB of free storage



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