PStill Changelog

What's new in PStill 1.84.34

• Added support to automatically embed external CID fonts for PDF.
• Added new processing mode (fast processing) to multiple file list.
• Added new sort modes to multiple file list.
• Fix sorting for multiple file list.
• Script settings are now saved in the config.
• A watched folder is now implemented in the GUI version, see network setup.
• Fixed spurious error message 'Error in init code' after a processing error.
• GUI sanitize '%' in job name from network queue. Previously this caused an alert.
• Implemented speedups.
• Added tool 'pdfasm' for fast concat PDFs in batch.
• Installer using uncompressed binaries now.
• Speedups implemented for Extraction Mode 1.
• CMaps lacking a proper header are now automatically fixed, incl. trailer.
• Auto repair for fonts with trailing garbage.
• GUI KEEPALIVE feature is updating more often.
• Added tool 'pdflin' for PDF linearisation in batch.
• Fixed bug that caused the GUI version not to accept TIFF sources, command line version was uneffected.
• GUI rework and fixes to the UI. Help dialog display error fixed.
• Fixed bug in OpenType PS-style fonts handling from PDF sources. Now supporting also 8-bit fonts with no FDSelect set.
• Added direct image (TIFF/JPEG) output for command line and PDF source.
• Added direct AI private extraction for command line and AI PDF-style source.
• Added linearization and xref stream compression for PDF Level > 1.5.
• INF-Option to run the command line from the GUI instead of the build in converter.
• Window 8/8.1 support.
• Added new option 'uberclip' to auto-remove invisible elements (PRO version).
• Optional run mode that uses the command line converter from the GUI, see PStillConfig.inf.
• Fixed Tiff Predictor 2 for FlateDecode filter.
• New CMap converter, now multiple bfranges and bfchar sections are properly handled.
• KeepSrcColor option is now mandatory for PDF/X-3
• Added 'KEEPSRCCOLOR=YES|NO' to PStillConfig.inf evaluation, if set to YES option 'keepsrccolor' is used always.
• Improved accuracy for very small font matrix value.
• Added antialiasing support for flattener.
• Now also supports progressive JPEG output (smaller output).
• Bitmap to halftone now produces better quality for monochrome images.
• Fixed color conversion issue for Gray to RGB when no RGB profile was available but only an CMYK one. Now color is converted using the default method in this case.
• PDF/A-1b output now calculates the CharSet anew for PDF input
• Option -M rotatedFontAsPaths is now part of the default settings
• Added new font gylph limiter for CID fonts based on glyph usage analysis, turned on by Option -M useSrcUnicodeMap
• Bug fixes to the flattener, now inline images are handled properly for transmode 3 and 5, fixes to shading processing
• Made transmode 5 faster as the page content is now rastered only if needed and not always
• Using Freetype now for TrueType glyph parsing, with fallback to internal parser
• Fixed flattened output for some rotated PDF pages
• Highlighting of Errors in the log output (GUI)
• UI fixes, flickering scrollbar for font processing
• Fixes for CID fonts with wrongly coded fdselect causing a crash
• For PDF input the resource extractor is faster now
• Fixed EPS preview generation/whitespace removal on 64 bit systems
• Added new script commands 'currentPageWidth/Height()'
• Added new option -M imageFileCache so the pdf backend can swap to disk if case it runs out of memory
• Changes handling of PDF/X-3, if no color conversion is requested in the GUI it defaults to -M keepsrccolor [GUI only]
• Fixed several issues in the PDF parser when using -M keepsrccolor option
• Changed PDF transcoding to multithreaded
• Added memory consumption info for PDF backend in log
• Fixed processing of subsetted TTF fonts with wrong glyph count
• Added unlock key input on the command line 'pstill.exe -key'
• Fixed Miterlimit reporting in structured output mode
• Added takeover of invisible text (PDF render mode 3)
• Added support for font versioning for EPS from MultiAd Creator
• Added support for pdfpagerange when processing in HQ mode
• Improved axial shading handling for PDF transcoding
• Chinese CMaps are now properly recoded when converting Type 0 fonts
• Changed format of cvs output to avoid invalid real formats for PDF output (pdfmark processing for some QXP EPS)
• Implemented Crop/Trim/Bleed/ArtBox check with auto correction
• Added support for unicode maps for CJK fonts
• Fixed processing of PDF that used excessivly large inline images
• Fixes to interpreter memory allocator
• Dash arrays are now written at higher numeric resolution
• Added new script functions to access the page sizes of individual pages (not just the global page sizes)
• Fixed transmode=2 for a special type of transparent form
• Fixed currentgray value after setcmykcolor when a CMYK profile but no gray profile was used
• Added 'Selective+Pat' to flattening modes (Flattening of transparency effects and pattern/shades)
• Enabled CMYK Profil support in the std. GUI version, PRO version is still needed for command line support.
• Updated TIFF preview generator, TIFF and Flattener DPI can now be set in the GUI
• New font regenerate mode 3, also uses the TTF cache for locally available fonts but works otherwise like mode 1 (can speed up processing significantly)
• Support for flattening of very large PDF pages
• Speedup for full page flattening, transcoded elements are now protected from downsampling
• Added support for ReuseableStreamFilters
• Speedup for font processing (metrics calculation)
• Fixed font name hash collision for very long font names in PDF
• Increased clip path accuracy for dpi >= 800 and num. accuracy > 5
• Fixed inverted image issue for Quark EPS using DeviceGray in Separation colorspaces and invert transfer as function
• Fixed issue with fills on empty paths for pattern colorspace
• Increased memory limits
• OV patterned imagemasks are now auto-translated to SMasks
• Fixed wrong @SNAME@ and @LNAME@ macro values for non-PS input (command line)
• Extra warning regarding problem during transcoding when processing encrypted PDFs omited. Now only the password dialog is displayed.
• Optional pre-process mode (Option: -M preconv, for GUI see PStillConfig.inf)
• Improved default RGB to CMYK conversion for images
• Fixed processing for compressed CMYK images with predictor type 2
• New option to control text output (-M noTextLayout)
• Fixed invalid (however harmless) error messages when generating EPS on the command line.
• Major improved transparency renderer, transmode 3 "Always" added (licensed use only).
• Fixed error that could cause an abort for jobs with extremely larger numbers of font updates (>2000 per single job)
• (PSRW) Setting the EPS preview desity to 0 in PStillConfig.inf now allows EPS without preview to be generated
• Extra Text output is now also generated for encrypted PDF
• Setable windows title and windows background colors for GPStill (in PStillConfig.inf).
• Stamp underlaying templates in the script (see page control scripts)
• GUI now has OUTPUTPATH setting in INF to allow to always send the output to a preset directory
• Flattening of transparency for PDF input
• Text output parallel to PDF generation, or direct (command line)
• GUI fixes for Windows 7 (appearance for UI elements was too bright on some setups)