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callas pdfaPilot Changelog

What's new in callas pdfaPilot 5.5.230

Mar 24, 2015
  • Features:
  • Enhanced Profiles:
  • All “Convert to PDF/A…”-Profiles
  • New Fixup “Remove glyphs with invalid encoding definition” [CA1023466; CA1023522]
  • New Checks:
  • Has private Illustrator information [FP23244; FP26833]
  • Radial smooth shade without radius
  • Several new properties related to embedded files (especially for PDF/A-3)
  • Enhanced Checks:
  • Possibility to use negation of regular expressions in those checks added, where values can be defined
  • Remove object level metadata: Option to remove XMP metadata from structure elements added
  • New Fixups:
  • Replace glyphs without Unicode to SPACE characters
  • Enhanced Fixups:
  • New function to switch between normal and table view in certain fixups [FP27603]
  • Set relationship entry for embedded files: “Apply to” added for more flexibility
  • Actions:
  • e-mail to PDF:
  • Support for additional archive formats for e-mail attachments (z7, tz, rar) [CA1022881]
  • Optimized naming for converted attachments keeps now their original file extension in attachment names and bookmarks
  • Support for HTML and HTM as e-mail attachments [CA1023701]
  • Improved handling for multi-level nested msg and eml files [CA1023102]
  • ToPDF: Added support for OpenOffice using 64Bit JavaVM
  • Reports:
  • XML-Reports: Page label is listed in page information
  • General:
  • Incorporate new ZUGFeRD schema (as defined in a corrigendum, published October 17, 2014)
  • Deactivation of licenses using Desktop and CLI
  • Introduced a validity period for activation with generated license file
  • License files used in CLI-only environments needs to be activated before deployment
  • Improved reporting if a Fixup is not successful for all objects (especially on CLI Fix and FixFailure will become reported now)
  • Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP3n)
  • Fixes:
  • Checks:
  • Fixed issue, where certain PDF structures resulted in false hits [FP27559; FP27939]
  • Fixed issue, where some kinds of Smooth Shades were mistakenly flagged as invalid [CA1023332]
  • Fixups
  • Make XMP metadata compliant: Problem solved, where multiple creator entries were not respected
  • Convert SMask to image mask: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an unexpected result [CA1023528]
  • Fixed issue, where an incomplete CIDset prevented a successful conversion to PDF/A [FP25347]
  • Problem solved, where conversion to PDF/A resulted in an unexpected behavior [CA1023509]
  • Problem solved, where conversion to PDF/A of certain PDFs resulted in an improper result [CA1023626]
  • Problem solved, where images were not properly converted during conversion to PDF/A in special cases [CA1023306]
  • Fix glyph width information: Fixed issue, where positioning of glyphs changed in certain cases [FP25990; FP26244; FP27795; CA1023570]
  • Fix glyph width information: Problem solved, where glyphs are distorted in some cases [FP24435]
  • Flatten transparency:
  • Problem solved, where text was not properly formatted after processing [FP24371]
  • Problem solved, where text vanished in certain cases [FP25667; FP27233; FP27270; FP27639]
  • Problem solved, where glyphs were displaced [FP26089]
  • Make font names unique: Problem solved, where processing resulted in an improper behavior during postprocessing [FP20693; CA1022294]
  • Set MIME type entry for embedded files: Fixed issue, where entry was not properly set in certain cases
  • Fixed issue, where some PDF viewers were showing ab unnecessary warning when opening processed files in some cases [FP25347]
  • Embed missing fonts: Problem solved, where font was not embedded due to missing Subtype-entry [FP27498]
  • Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where conversion was not successful in certain cases [FP26772]
  • Problem solved, where Smooth Shades were not properly handled in some cases [CA1022421]
  • Problem solved, where invalid UTF-8 font names were not corrected [CA1023559]
  • Actions:
  • ReDistill: Fixed issue, where processing special PDFs files causes an error [FP27494; FP27635]
  • ToPDF: Fixed issue, where the print area of XSLX-Excel-documents were not properly respected [FP27328]
  • ToPDF: Problem solved, where Unicode file names of TIFF files resulted in an unexpected behavior [CA1023605]
  • e-mail to PDF:
  • Problem solved, where nested msg or eml files were not properly handled [CA1022881; CA1023102; CA1023717]
  • Problem solved, where protected PDFs as e-mail attachment were not properly handled [CA1023442]
  • Desktop:
  • Reports: Problem solved, where custom PDF reports were not properly created in certain cases [FP27718; FP27979]
  • Variables dialog: Problem solved, where quotation marks became replaced by operating system (MacOS only) [FP27547]
  • General:
  • Fixed problem, where special characters in name of Output Intent avoided a proper profile export [FP28111]
  • Desktop: Fixed issue, where text was not properly displayed (MacOS Retina only)
  • CLI:
  • Improved handling of hotfolders when user “nobody” is used (Linux only)
  • Problem solved, where no template based PDF reports were created if ProcessPlans has been used [FP27087]

New in callas pdfaPilot 5.2.221 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • Features:
  • New Fixups:
  • Remove bookmarks: Removes all bookmarks in a PDF
  • New Checks:
  • Page has objects using transparency
  • Enhanced Profiles:
  • All PDF/A-1 and PDF/X-1 and -3 based Profiles, Profiles for Online Publishing and Digital Printing:
  • Flatten Transparency: Internal optimization has become deprecated and has been removed from the user interface
  • Enhanced Fixups:
  • All “Flatten transparency” Fixups:
  • Internal optimization has been deprecated and has been removed from the user interface
  • Actions
  • ToPDF: Additional file formats supported for MS Word (.dot; .dotx; .dotm; .txt; .xml), MS Excel (.xslm; .xlt; .xltx; .xltm) and MS Powerpoint (.ppa; .ppam)
  • ToPDF: Font substitutions, which took place in MS Word can be reported on CLI and in SDK
  • CLI
  • Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame works now also for office conversion processes
  • Distributed Processing
  • Improved reporting for errors on CLI
  • Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v10.1.0PlusP3c)
  • All components on MacOS are x64 now
  • Fixes:
  • PDF/A Conversion:
  • Conversion of TrueType to CFF limited to fewer cases when absolutely needed
  • Fixed issue, where glyphs were removed in some cases
  • Problem solved, where an improperly defined annotation size was not properly handled
  • Problem solved, where nested PDF files were not validated correctly
  • Profiles
  • Verify compliance with PDF/VT-1: Adjusted analysis of DPart structure
  • Fixups:
  • Set document language to language in tagging structure: Problem solved, where Figure Tag description was removed
  • Subset fonts: Fixed issue, where glyphs were removed in some cases
  • Flatten transparency: Problem solved, where annotations were removed during processing
  • Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Fixed issue, where invisible layers were not properly removed
  • Remove layer: Problem solved, where content remained in the document
  • Fix font encoding: Fixed issue, where text was improperly positioned in some cases
  • Fix glyph width info: Problem solved, where width was not corrected
  • Checks:
  • Glyph width is inconsistent: Problem solved, where widths were not properly calculated in some cases
  • MD5 checksum of ICC profiles: Corrected naming of reported results
  • Actions
  • ToPDF: Problem solved, where certain PNG images were rotated
  • Create PostScript: Problem solved, where objects were moved in some cases
  • Create PostScript: Problem solved, where text became converted to images
  • Extract text: Fixed issue, where extracting text caused an error with some files
  • E-mail to PDF: Fixed issue, where bookmarks were not properly created
  • E-mail to PDF: Problem solved, where empty pages were added unnecessarily
  • E-Mail to PDF: Problem solved, where the created file was invalid
  • Collection: Fixed issue, where links were not properly created for embedded non-PDF files
  • Reports:
  • Font inventory report: Fixed issue, where glyphs and Unicode values were not listed
  • Desktop:
  • Various improvements for usability and stability
  • Fixed problem, where creating a Check out of editing a Fixup resulted in an improper behavior
  • Server:
  • Problem solved, where Japanese language was not properly handled
  • Distributed Processing
  • Problem solved, where an unavailable dispatcher resulted in an unstable behavior in certain cases
  • General:
  • Improved handling for font files without extension (Unix only)
  • Problem solved, where customized Profiles did not handled embedded files properly

New in callas pdfaPilot 5.1.211 (Aug 13, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Support for released ZUGFeRD version 1.0 (German e-invoice standard

New in callas pdfaPilot 5.1.210 (Jul 9, 2014)

  • Features:
  • New Fixups:
  • Remap characters from Unicode Private Use Area: Map Unicode from PUA to another valid Unicode [FP21906]
  • Remove all tagging information: Removes all tagging structure [CA1022859]
  • Enhanced Fixups"
  • Font to outline: “Apply to” added to control, which fonts are outlined
  • Desktop:
  • Visualizer: Added option to set simulation profile and improved handling if an OutputIntent exists
  • Profile editor: Several predefined filters in search field for Checks and
  • Fixups:
  • CLI:
  • Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame
  • Server, Dispatcher or Satellite can be used as service on Windows
  • Distributed processing:
  • Optional failover for Dispatcher in Client-mode
  • Possibility for typification for Satellites
  • Timeout parameter to abort processing after a defined time frame for distributed processes
  • Local processing (as a fall-back) can be disabled
  • Optimization for connecting process between Dispatcher and Satellite
  • Fixes:
  • PDF/A conversion:
  • Added correction “Substitute characters using .notdef glyph with space characters” to conversion using CLI, Switchboard, QuickConversion
  • Fonts used for form fields will be embedded completely to ensure full functionality after conversion to PDF/A [CA1020787]
  • Fixups:
  • Fix glyph width information: Problem solved, where text was not properly handled for certain PDF created by PhotoShop
  • Rotate pages: Problem solved, where page rotation factor was not handled correctly for links in some cases [CA1022891]
  • Font-related corrections: Problem solved, where false entries in PostScript font resulted in an improper behavior
  • Font-related corrections: Problem solved, where glyphs seemed to be corrupt when viewed in Acrobat 8
  • Font-related corrections: Fixed issue, where glyph widths did not match after processing [CA1023004]
  • Remove JavaScript not associated with actions: Problem solved, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly removed
  • Remove actions: Problem solved, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly removed
  • Convert TrueType to CFF: Problem solved, where fixup did not work like expected
  • Remove or adjust annotations: Problem solved, where annotation was moved outside page area instead of being flattened into page content
  • Remove or adjust annotations: Fixed issue, where annotations were not properly rotated
  • Subset fonts: Optimized handling for width entries of unused glyphs [CA1022860]
  • Make font names unique: Problem solved, where errors occurred during postprocessing in certain cases
  • Substitute characters using .notdef glyph with space characters: Fixed issue, where text was moved during processing
  • Create bookmarks from headings: Problem solved, where existing bookmarks were removed
  • Checks:
  • Document contains actions: Fixed issue, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly detected
  • Document contains JavaScript: Fixed issue, where JavaScript in NamesTree was not properly detected
  • Symbolic TrueType font has Encoding dictionary: Problem solved, where unusual encoding entry was not detected properly
  • Character references .notdef glyph: Problem solved, where .notdef glyphs were not recognized in certain cases
  • Actions:
  • ToPDF: Support for latest Pages (Version 5.2) for Mac
  • ToPDF: TXT files will be handled by MS Office if no OpenOffice is installed (Windows + MacOS)
  • e-mail-to-PDF: Problem solved, where certain MIME type entry in e-mail were not handled properly [CA1022881]
  • e-mail-to-PDF: Fixed issue, where umlauts were not converted in certain cases [CA1022881]
  • Reports:
  • Template-based PDF-Reports: Corrected use of time zone of local computer time
  • Problem solved, where MHT reports could not be created using the Server UI [FP25271]
  • Desktop:
  • Some Problems solved, where user interface did not work as expected
  • Acrobat PlugIn
  • Problem solved, where batch processing resulted in an improper behavior in Acrobat 9
  • General:
  • Desktop: Optimized handling of unused conditions
  • Desktop: Improved indexing of check and fixup names during import of profiles
  • ProcessPlans: Optimization for PostCheck when standard conversion is used
  • Checks: Optimized analysis to reduce needed amount of memory

New in callas pdfaPilot 5.0.203 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • Features:
  • New function to convert email to PDF, supporting email formats EML, EMLX and MSG
  • New internal engine for rendering, transparency flattening, optimization and creation of PS/EPS
  • New internal engine for font handling
  • Official support for ZUGFeRD (German initiative for electronic invoicing), according to the release candidate of the specification
  • Customizable PDF-Reports (incl. support for creation of XML-Reports on the fly and adding content to the PDF-Report)
  • Checkpoint for pdfaPilot 5 Server
  • New and enhanced Profiles
  • Verify compliance with PDF/VT-2
  • All “Convert to PDF/A-2-…”- and “Convert to PDF/A-3…”-Profiles
  • Added new fixup “Insert missing F and UF entries for embedded files” [CA1022655]
  • All PDF/A-1…, PDF/X-1…, PDF/X-3 based profiles:
  • Flatten transparency: Internal optimization deactivated
  • Flatten transparency: Color images created by the flattener are not always using JPEG
  • Flatten transparency: “Convert text to outline” option has been deactivated by default
  • All GWG2012-Profiles:
  • Minor adjustments for “black object”-checks to match requirements of the latest specification errata document
  • Replaced existing check for ICC-profile version with 2 new profiles to enhance reporting
  • Modified check: Transparency blend color space not DeviceGray or DeviceCMYK in softmask of type Luminosity
  • Settings in Custom Fixups will override settings from automatically generated Fixups from Standard-Conversion (Wizard)
  • New and enhanced Fixups
  • All “Flatten transparency” fixups:
  • Internal optimization deactivated
  • Color images created by the flattener are not always using JPEG
  • “Preserve Overprints” works also on pages that do not contain transparency
  • “Convert text to outline” option has been deactivated by default
  • All “Downsample bitmap|color|grayscale images” fixups:
  • Recompression will not take place if images are not downsampled
  • Remove re-mapping of predefined tags
  • Convert TrueType fonts to CFF fonts
  • Convert color to grayscale: Adjusted setting to avoid conversion of objects which are using only black
  • Remove all object level XMP metadata
  • Convert page into image: extended settings so that it is now e.g. possible to convert those pages that have certain problems
  • Remove objects based on check for objects
  • Remove all objects using Registration color inside TrimBox
  • Remove all objects using spot color with specified name
  • Set MIME type entry for embedded files (for PDF/A-3)
  • Add Modification Date to an embedded file's Params dictionary (for PDF/A-3)
  • New Checks
  • Transparency group has transparent objects
  • Transparency group on page level has transparent objects
  • ToUnicode CMap has syntax problems
  • New Properties in order to determine possible PDF version entries in a PDF file
  • Acrobat Extension Level
  • Developer names in Extension dictionary
  • Developer names in Extension dictionary
  • Developer Extension Level BaseVersion does not match Version entry in Catalog
  • Value of version in PDF header his lower than Version entry in Catalog
  • Version entry in Catalog
  • General
  • ProcessPlans: Improved performance
  • Enhanced handling of fonts in ”.dfont” file format (MacOS only)
  • Font analysis: Improved speed of checks
  • XML Report: SequenceSteps from ProcessPlans and Fixups of last step are added
  • XML Report: Various information added about PDF version and Developer extensions level
  • Actions
  • Export to EPUB
  • Added support for EPUB 3.0
  • New Config-file to control advanced handling of tags and attributes
  • Now also supported on Linux
  • pdfaPilot Standalone
  • Added update notification and direct download link for latest version (MacOS and Windows)
  • CLI
  • Conversion to PDF:
  • New options for conversion of Excel documents to show hidden columns, to adjust content size for overflowing cells and to use Excel page layout (without white space removal)
  • Collection: New option to embed files as PDF - without conversion to PDF/A
  • PostScript to PDF conversion now also x64 when using Linux x64
  • New optional warning if font substitution takes place in PDFs created from MS Word documents
  • New option for defining a max. used amount of memory during processing (Linux only)
  • Fixes:
  • PDF/A analysis
  • Problem solved, where a missing ”%EOF” marker was not handled properly in some cases
  • Fixed issue, where glyphs were falsely marked as missing or using wrong widths
  • PDF/A conversion
  • Problem solved, where signed PDF/A file was not properly handled if converted again in certain cases
  • Problem solved, where a CID fonts without Unicode CMap resulted in conversion failure
  • Problem solved, where content on inline image was falsely interpreted as PDF source content
  • Fixed issue, where EXIF data of JPEG images were not handled properly in some cases
  • Fixed issue, where colors were not properly adjusted if used in an annotation
  • Problem solved, where text vanished after processing in certain cases
  • Problem solved, where resources of fonts where not properly handled in some cases
  • Problem solved, where annotations were not properly flattened
  • Problem solved, where resulting PDFs were not properly generated with certain files
  • Problem solved, where SoftMask objects were not flattened successfully in some cases
  • Fixed issue, where mapping of text to UniCode was not properly corrected, if the CMap had problems which are now resolved
  • Fixed issue, where annotations with mirrored coordinates caused by applying rotation factor of page were not properly handled
  • Problem solved, where annotations were shifted during conversion in some cases
  • Fixed issue, where Unicode information was not properly kept during conversion in certain cases
  • Problem solved, where text information vanished in certain cases
  • Profiles
  • Harmonized handling and recognition of values defined as RegEx
  • Fixups
  • Embedd missing fonts: Problem solved, where missing fonts were not properly embedded in some cases
  • Mark all non-structure elements as artifact: Problem solved, where FormXObjects were falsely marked as Arifacts
  • Create bookmarks from heading: Fixed issue, where wrapping headlines were not properly handled
  • Convert SoftMask to ImageMask: Problem solved, where images were not visible after processing
  • Remove additional encoding entries in cmap of symbolic TrueType fonts: Fixed issue, where not all glyphs were properly handled
  • Fix glyph width info:
  • Problem solved, where glyphs were not properly handled
  • Problem solved, where result was not displayed properly in some viewers
  • Problem solved, where image objects were affected
  • Flatten annotations and form fields: Problem solved, where position of signatures were not kept
  • Subset fonts: Problem solved, where glyphs were not handled properly in certain cases
  • Remove Differences array from TrueType fonts: Problem solved, where processing resulted in improper file in certain cases
  • Prepare annotations for PDF/A-1: Problem solved, where processing failed
  • Substitute characters using .notdef glyph: Problem solved, where glyphs moved in certain cases
  • Repair invalid ToUnicode CMap information: Extended function to ensure valid mapping to Unicode
  • Checks
  • General: Enhanced stability during analysis of partly corrupt files
  • Invalid language identifier: Fixed issues, where an empty language identifier was not ignored
  • Problem solved, where check for font sizes reported negative values
  • Desktop/PlugIn
  • Batch in Switchboard
  • Problem solved, where file was moved into failure folder although successfully converted to PDF/A.
  • Adjusted file handling during processing
  • Problem solved, where processing only handled 1 file [MacOS 10.7 only)
  • ZUGFeRD verification: Problem solved, where validating could not be properly executed
  • Problem solved, where files could not be displayed properly
  • Server
  • Enhanced processing stability
  • Problem in ServerUI fixed, where processed files remained visible
  • Server/CLI
  • Problem solved where creation of PDF/A files failed during fallback processing
  • Improved handling of licenses if more than 1 license (with different limitations) are on the respective system
  • Distributed processing: Problem solved, where processing of folders were not properly handled
  • General
  • Conversion to PDF:
  • Changed behaviour to disable footer in Excel sheets
  • Optimized handling of invisible pages
  • Problem solved, where file permissions form original file (read-only) were also applied to the result PDF
  • Added parameter to set searchpath for fonts to be used during conversion from PostScript
  • Optimized conversion handling for OEM integration
  • Fixes issue, where time zones with different offset than a full hour were not properly handled in the XMP metadata
  • Standard14 fonts: Adjusted recognition, so that an existing FontDescriptor is tolerated
  • Fixed problem, where longer processing time could result in improper behavior in OEM integration
  • Optimization: Problem solved, where processing resulted in improper PDF
  • ReDistill: Increased stability of processing

New in callas pdfaPilot 4.3.186 (May 28, 2013)

  • Features:
  • New Fixups:
  • Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images
  • PDF/A Conversion:
  • New Fixup “Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images” added to standard conversion for PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3
  • Export to EPUB:
  • Added new optional parameter for creation of chapters
  • Fixes:
  • PDF/A conversion:
  • Problem solved, where inconsistent spot color representations were not corrected
  • Profiles:
  • Harmonized handling and recognition of values defined as RegEx
  • Fixups:
  • Remove Layers: Problem solved, where Layers were only removed from first page of the PDF
  • Checks:
  • Problem solved, where check for font sizes reported negative values
  • Actions:
  • Problem solved, where empty image data caused in inproper behaviour during conversion [FP21906]
  • Server/CLI:
  • Problem solved, where processing of Profiles containing DeviceLink-Profiles were not properly supported
  • Improved handling of licenses if more than 1 license (with different limitations) are on the respective system
  • Distributed processing: Problem solved, where processing of folders were not properly handled
  • Reports:
  • Added destination information for hyperlinks in annotations into XML Reports
  • Added information of UserUnits (if existing) into CompactHTML Reports and Result dialog

New in callas pdfaPilot 4.1.184 (Apr 12, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Profiles:
  • New profile for optimized conversion of Office documents to CMYK (based on recommendations of FOGRA/PSD)
  • Fixups:
  • New Fixup to create embedded thumbnails of pages
  • New Fixup: Disambiguate APPROX values in JPEG2000 images
  • Folder used in fixups for config files can now directly opened
  • Fixes:
  • PDF/A analysis:
  • Problem solved, where invalid widths entries for a font were not properly detected [CA1021220]
  • PDF/A conversion:
  • Problem solved, where text encoding malformed after PDF/A conversion
  • Problem solved, where a false coded inline image caused an improper result [CA1021751]
  • Problem solved, where conversion of certain tagged and scanned PDF failed [FP21699]
  • Profiles:
  • List potential font problems”: Check “Text cannot be mapped to Unicode” added
  • Fixups:
  • Remove empty group and block level elements from tagging structure: Problem solved where table cells were not properly handled
  • Actions:
  • Office conversion: Problem solved, where table of content was not properly converted (OpenOffice only) [FP21213]
  • Server:
  • Distributed processing: Ports for server communication changed
  • CLI:
  • Problem solved, where UTF16 encoding was not properly respected (SunOS only) [FP21451]
  • Changed reporting of standard-fixups (Convert to PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/E): If conversion is not successful, it will show up as FixFailure
  • Sanity: Improved performance and stability for office files [FP17838]

New in callas pdfaPilot 4.1.176 (Jan 11, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Acrobat Plug-In:
  • Support for Acrobat 11
  • Server:
  • Use of accesskey is now mandatory
  • General server settings added to preferences
  • Profiles can be edited directly from job settings dialogue
  • General:
  • Windows: callas software is a verified publisher
  • Fixes:
  • PDF/A analysis:
  • Problem solved, where a missing nbspace in CharSet was falsely flagged as a PDF/A-1 problem [CA1021591]
  • PDF/A conversion:
  • Force conversion: Problem solved, where Re-Convert resulted in failure when performed in profile [FP21148]
  • Problem solved, where a wrong PDF/A-OutputIntent was embedded if a PDF/X-OutputIntent was already present [FP19661]
  • Fixed issue, where signature appearance was flipped after flattening [CA1021632]
  • Problem solved, where preflight certificate prevented a PDF from being converted to PDF/A [CA1021696]
  • Actions:
  • MergePDF: Tagging structure of source PDF will now be kept [FP19942]
  • General:
  • Office conversion: Improved handling for several warnings for MS Office 2010 [CA1021744]

New in callas pdfaPilot 3.1.156 (Sep 29, 2012)

  • PDF/A collections may now contain not just only other PDF/A files but arbitrary file formats like Word- or Excel-files or XML structures. These are new features of the the standard part PDF/A-3 which is going to be published beginning of 2012. pdfaPilot 3 will already support these new features.
  • Distributed processing; allows easy load-balancing between multiple pdfaPilot 3 Server instances in high-volume workflows.
  • Guaranteed PDF/A conversion; this automatically tries different conversion methods to create the best PDF/A file possible.
  • Integration with Microsoft SharePoint.
  • Support for running as a Windows service.
  • Improved conversion of form fields and annotations, object level metadata in PDF/A-2 and the possibility to remove incompatible signatures when converting to PDF/A-2.
  • An Enfocus Switch configurator to fit pdfaPilot 3 Server into a Switch workflow.

New in callas pdfaPilot 2.2.118 (Sep 29, 2012)

  • PDF/A collections may now contain not just only other PDF/A files but arbitrary file formats like Word- or Excel-files or XML structures. These are new features of the the standard part PDF/A-3 which is going to be published beginning of 2012. pdfaPilot 3 will already support these new features.
  • Distributed processing; allows easy load-balancing between multiple pdfaPilot 3 Server instances in high-volume workflows.
  • Guaranteed PDF/A conversion; this automatically tries different conversion methods to create the best PDF/A file possible.
  • Integration with Microsoft SharePoint.
  • Support for running as a Windows service.
  • Improved conversion of form fields and annotations, object level metadata in PDF/A-2 and the possibility to remove incompatible signatures when converting to PDF/A-2.
  • An Enfocus Switch configurator to fit pdfaPilot 3 Server into a Switch workflow.

New in callas pdfaPilot 2.2.118 (Jun 3, 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

New in callas pdfaPilot 2.2.116 (May 5, 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

New in callas pdfaPilot 2.1.112 (May 5, 2010)

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

New in callas pdfaPilot 2.1.111 (May 5, 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

New in callas pdfaPilot 2.0.097 (Dec 17, 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

New in callas pdfaPilot 2.0.095 (Dec 17, 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

New in callas pdfaPilot 2.0.093 (Dec 17, 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

New in callas pdfaPilot 1.3.080 (Dec 17, 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

New in callas pdfaPilot 1.2.077 (Mar 4, 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