callas pdfaPilot 2.2.118 - Changelog

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 2.2.118:

June 3rd, 2010

Features:
· Improved font embedding
· Settings for font substitution improved to embed even more fonts (updater need to remove fontsubstitution.cfg in user prefs in advance)
· Font substitution activated when converting via
· Switchboard action PDF/A-1
· Power tools profiles “Convert to PDF/A-1a” and “Convert to PDF/A-1b”
· Switchboard action Embed font

Fixes:
· Office document conversion to PDF/A
· Problem solved under Windows where office document could not be processed because Word instance was not able to close the document processed before

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 2.2.116:

May 5th, 2010

Features:
· Conversion of OpenOffice.org documents to PDF/A
· Documents of all file formats supported by OpenOffice.org 3.2 can directly be converted to PDF/A-1a or PDF/A-1b
· Supports latest version of OpenOffice.org 3.2 besides Microsoft Office 2007
· Supported in pdfaPilot Desktop 2, pdfaPilot Server 2 and pdfaPilot SDK 2 under Windows
· Keep visual and semantic reproducibility by converting to PDF/A-1a
· Common issues of PDF/A files created from Office applications are repaired
· Office documents that can not be exported from MS Office can be processed via OpenOffice.org
· Performance improved when converting MS Word documents to PDF/A
· Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
· Removal of incompatible XMP Metadata is now activated by default to convert even more PDF files to PDF/A
· Font substitution improved: Pre-installed setting extended to support more font styles
· New correction: Map structure to predefined types improves mapping of structure for PDF/A-1a compliance
pdfaPilot Desktop:
· One click conversion can be customized via Preferences
· PDF/A compliance level
· Custom font folder
· Font substitution
· Transparency flattening under Windows
· XMP Metadata removal
· Custom settings in Power Tools are taken over from prior pdfaPilot Desktop 2 version 2.1

Fixes:
· PDF/A conversion
· Problem solved where Launch action was not converted to PDF/A compliant GoToR action
· pdfaPilot Plug-In and Standalone
· Power tools
· Fixups
· Set PDF version: Problem solved where PDF version was not set
· Flatten transparency: Problem solved where glyphs and page objects where modified
· Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where creating of font cache took long time
· Convert fonts to outlines: Problem solved where glyphs were modified
Convert colors:
· Problem solved where conversion of JBIG2 image caused error message
· Problem solved where tone values of smooth shade defined in Separation or DeviceN where too low
· Problem solved where image mask with pattern object remained colored after conversion to grayscale
· Problem solved where file size increased when converting smooth shades
Conversion to RGB:
· Problem solved where page objects remained CMYK when converting to RGB
· Problem solved where smooth shade defined in process colors as Separation and DeviceN where not converted to RGB
· Problem solved where file size increased during RGB conversion
· Map colors: Problem solved where error message occurred
· Flip/Rotate/Scale pages: Problem solved where pattern object was modified
· Set media box to origin: Problem solved where smooth shade object was clipped
· Set Overprint and Knockout: Problem solved where OPM was not set for DeviceCMYK page object
· Switchboard Actions
· PDF/A-1: Problem solved where page objects defined in DeviceGray where converted to Separation Black
· Flip, Move content, Rotate, Scale by percent, Scale page content, Scale to format: Problem solved where page object defined as Pattern was modified
· Problem solved under Windows where language of user interface did not match to language of operating system
· Problem solved where user preferences could not be saved on an AFP file server
· pdfaPilot Standalone
· Problem solved where view could not be changed to other document when more than one document and Power tools where open
· Some problems in user interface and loupe solved
· Activation
· Problem solved where automatic activation failed when sending activation information from certain E-Mail clients
· Problem solved where activation info was not displayed after activating
· Problem solved where activation could not be made for all users of a computer
· Problem solved where activation got invalid after changing network device
· Problem solved where pdfaPilot was not activated when parameter cachefolder was used

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 2.1.112:

May 5th, 2010

· Plug-In and Standalone: Problem solved where result file was not opened after converting a PDF

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 2.1.111:

May 5th, 2010

· Features
· Conversion of Office documents to PDF/A
· Documents from Word, Excel, PowerPoint can directly be converted to PDF/A-1a or PDF/A-1b
· Keep visual and semantic reproducibility by converting to PDF/A-1a
· Common issues in fonts and XMP Metadata of PDF/A files created from Office applications are repaired
· Support Microsoft Office 2007
· Adapted to the modified requirements of Technical Corrigendum 2 for PDF/A-1
· Transparency flattening
· New in Windows Desktop, Server and SDK
· Based on Adobe PDF Library 9 and additionally highly improved file optimization like improved preservation of image quality
· Extension schemas can be captured from PDF files and embedded during PDF/A conversion
· Use of most recent version of Adobe PDF Library 9
· Corrections added or extended to convert more files to PDF/A
· New Correction “Remove additional encoding entries in CMap of symbolic TrueType fonts”
· New Correction “Set values to implementation limits of PDF/A if possible”
· Correction “Reduce structure to predefined types” improved
· Adjusts XMP entries attached to font object created by Microsoft Office
· Adjusts URI entries that do not start with an identifier created by Microsoft Office
· Performance improved in pdfaPilot Desktop when converting PDF files using Switchboard Actions, Profiles or Fixups dialog
· Loupe window in pdfaPilot Standalone
· Extension schema editor
· Schemas and properties for PDF/X and PDF/E added
· Filter added “Document Metadata (undefined)” that filters custom metadata which are not yet defined
· Improved software licensing
· Full support for Windows 7
· Chinese language version: Activation for international and chinese version can be combined on one machine
· pdfaPilot Standalone: kfpx profiles can be imported via Drag&Drop on pdfaPilot application
· pdfaPilot Plug-In and Standalone: Reference manual can be accessed via menu entry
· Fixes
· PDF/A analysis
· Problems solved with the following checks where problem was reported although there was no problem
· Mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table (adapted to Technical Corrigendum 2 for PDF/A-1)
· CharSet missing or incomplete for Type 1 font
· Font is not valid
· Errors in PDF syntax
· Problem solved where optional entry for pdfaSchema:schema was treated as mandatory
· Problem solved where analysis was stopped because CourierNew was not in list of Base14 fonts
· Problem solved when validating against PDF/A-1a where missing Unicode support of fonts was not detected
· Problem solved when malformed tagging information could not be analysed
· PDF/A conversion
· Problem solved where font could not be embedded
· Problem solved where glyph widths could not be adjusted
· Problem solved where some JPEG2000 images could not be converted to JPEG
· Problem solved where PDF could not be converted to PDF/A due to a very low StemV entry
· Plug-In and Standalone
· Power tools
· Fixups
· Convert colors: Several problems solved
· Embed missing fonts: Problem solved where PDF could not be printed or EPS creation failed after processing
· Convert fonts to outlines: Several problems solved where fonts could not be converted to outlines
· Subset fonts: Several problems solved where fonts could not be subsetted
· Fix glyph width information: Problem solved where EPS creation failed after processing
· Add missing space glyph: Problem solved where EPS creation failed after processing
· Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts: Problem solved where error message was displayed after processing
· Convert to PDF standard: names of Output Condition Identifier and Output Condition not properly written to embedded Output Intent
· Downsample/Compress images: Problem solved where appearance of JPEG 2000 image was modified
· Adjust or remove annotations: Problem solved where annotations were not modified as requested
· Checks
· Problem solved where analysis ended with error message because of a certain type of pattern object
· Switchboard Actions
· Replace font: Problem solved where font could not be replaced
· Problem solved where PDF was not rendered when page boxes are malformed
· Problem solved where network user with home directory on an AFP server could not use Profiles dialog
· Problem solved when file was closed during conversion
· Several minor problems in Extension schema editor solved
· Some minor GUI problems solved

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 2.0.097:

December 17th, 2009

· Features
· Extension schema for xmpMM:InstanceID is embedded during PDF/A conversion
· Usability improved: where possible the conversion of Actions in the desktop flavours is made on the open document and no Save as dialog is displayed
· Fixes
· PDF/A analysis
· Problem solved where transparent FormXObject was not found with respective check
· Problem solved where glyph mismatch was reported although there was no problem
· Problem solved where unexpected error occurred when analysing a PDF file
· Problem solved where mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table was detected although there was no problem
· PDF/A conversion
· Problem solved where OPI was not removed completely
· Problem solved where unexpected error occurred when converting a PDF file to PDF/A
· Switchboard Actions
· Booklet: Cut marks are also set for pages if they are added dynamically by pdfToolbox to fill the sheet
· Optimize for internet: Fonts are no longer converted to outlines
· Plug-In and Standalone
· Problem solved where processing was not applied to currently active document
· Problem solved where ICC profile could not be embedded as source profile when converting via PDF/A in one click dialog
· Plug-In
· Problem solved under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard where some predefined color conversion fixups using preinstalled ICC profiles could not be executed

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 2.0.095:

December 17th, 2009

· Features
· First release of chinese language version of pdfaPilot 2 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
· Fixes
· PDF/A conversion
· Problem solved where glyph width could not be corrected
· Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
· Power tools
· Fixups
· Fix glyph width info: Problem solved where glyph width was not fixed
· Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved where error message was displayed after conversion
· 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
· Switchboard Actions
· PDF/A - 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
· 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

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 2.0.093:

December 17th, 2009

· Features
· First release of pdfaPilot 2
· Including Standalone version for Mac and Windows as part of pdfaPilot 2 Desktop version
· First release of Plug-In version for Mac
· Extension schema editor added
· Lists most frequently used extension schemas
· Lists extension schemas of current PDF document
· Allows for creating custom extension schemas
· Allows for embedding extension schemas to keep custom metadata in PDF/A files
Feature set of Plug-In greatly expanded, amongst others these are:
· Switchboard
· Action to convert a PDF to both PDF/A-1b & PDF/X-3
· Actions to create detailed PDF reports about fonts, images and colors
· Actions to optimize PDF files for size or printing
· Actions to adapt the brightness of a PDF file
· Actions to scale and rotate pages
· Actions to arrange pages for print out and presentation
· Actions to (re-)embed fonts or convert them to outline
· Actions to easily get in contact with callas software
· Profiles
· Very detailed possibilities to analyse and modify PDF files
· Correction to make text visible that was created during scanning by an OCR software
· Analysis profile to list potential font problems
· Tools to
· Explore PDF
· Explore Fonts
· Explore Metadata
· Analysis extensions
· Date string uses Unicode added
· Check for invalid extension schemas improved
· Conversion extensions
· Convert TrueType fonts to CID fonts added
· Reduce structure to predefined types added
· Insert missing Type entry in StructElem objects added
· Prepare encoding entry in TrueType fonts for PDF/A added
· Font embedding only performed if text rendering mode is not 3
· Corrects several syntax problems during conversion
· Fixes
· Analysis
· XMP
· Problem solved where wrong value type for XMP property dc:creator was not detected
· Problem solved where invalid URI was not detected
· Problem solved where missing xpacket entries in XMP metadata was not detected
· Problem solved where form field with an appearance and an N entry that has two appearance streams was not detected
· Problem solved where syntax problem was not detected (indirect object has object number not preceded by an EOL marker)
· Problem solved where mismatch between ID in linearization info and ID in main cross reference table was not detected
· Conversion
· Problem solved where correction to remove metadata that is not compliant with PDF/A did not remove all metadata that was not compliant
· Problem solved where appearance of certain form fields could not be made PDF/A compliant
· Problem solved on Mac where pre-installed font Symbol could not be embedded during conversion
· Problem solved where TrueType fonts were embedded with an encoding entry as a dictionary
· Reports
· Problem solved in XML reports where details for problems were only listed for the first 30 hits

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 1.3.080:

December 17th, 2009

· Features
· New conversion features
· Option added to remove XMP Metadata that is not compatible with PDF/A
· Correction to add the Type entry in the StructElem which is required by PDF/A-1a
· Correction to convert SMasks to image masks that are allowed by PDF/A
· Converted PDF files are optimized for fast web view (Acrobat 9)
· Font handling extended
· Adobe standard fonts are automatically available for font embedding
· Correction to remove Differences entry from TrueType font by converting the font to CID font
· Cross type embedding of fonts extended
· Optimization in font caching
· Fixes
· Problems solved where fonts where not embedded in specified PDF files (fonts Times, Symbol and MS Gothic for japanese glyphs)
· Problem solved where glyph width mismatch was not corrected

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 1.2.077:

March 4th, 2009

Features:
· Language support added for French, Spanish, Italian

Fixes:
· Improved progress when creating font cache (font names are listed)
· Problem solved where incompatible xmp could not be removed
· Problem solved where CMap was not embedded properly for a PDF
· Problem solved where encoding was not adapted after font embedding for a PDF
· Problem solved where Acrobat message appeared in Acrobat 9 after font substitution because “Use local fonts” was activated in user preferences