The new benchmark for standards-compliant transparency flattening

Drop shadows, vignettes, translucent objects, objects softly blending into each other and other effects based on transparency have added a great deal of creative freedom to designers.
Unfortunately, many production systems are poorly prepared to deal with these cool features. The only workaround: “flattening” the PDFs.

callas pdfAutoOptimizer 2 allows you to flatten files fully automated, handling both CMYK and spot colors, while keeping most raster, vector and text elements intact.
While pdfAutoOptimizer 2 overcomes most of Acrobat's limitations on top of fully automating the flattening process, callas pdfAutoOptimizer allows to maintain flexibility in design and safeguard investment from the past.

Key Features

• Highest quality live transparency flattening
• Handles drop shadows and masks, in both process color and spot color pages.
• Real flattening of objects instead of just turning a complete page into an image.
• Setting of blend color space used for transparency flattening. No forced conversions of spot colors to CMYK.
• Powerful color control, allowing removal of ICC profiles introduced during flattening.
• Improved JPEG compression handling to reduce artifacts.
• Professional automation capabilities.
• Make PDFs compliant with PDF/X standard –even PDFX/4- and get files ready for GWG recommendations.
• Automate and perfect functions of Adobe Acrobat 8.1 Professional and 9 Pro’s PDF Optimizer tool, including image optimization, file size reduction and removal of unneeded elements.
• Easy integration with leading workflow solutions such as Enfocus Switch

Benefits

• Save time by automating PDF flattening
• Allows printers and publishers to accept files with transparencies without having to upgrade their entire output infrastructure
• Low investment in professional software prevents large investments for equipment update or replacement. Ideal pre- output specific conversion as far back as possible in the production process
• Reduce error levels by letting designers focus on design instead technical aspects of PDF delivery
• Enables designers to create one un-flattened PDF master and deliver standards-compliant PDFs according to the supplier’s needs

System Requirements

Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1 or 9 Pro (use with Adobe Acrobat Standard 8 or Adobe Acrobat Reader not supported)

• Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/7 - Switch and Acrobat version
• Mac OS X (version 10.4 and newer) - Switch version only
• Enfocus Fullswitch or PowerSwitch - Switch version only