The all-in-one desktop PDF production toolkit that’s powerful and easy-to-use

callas pdfToolbox 4 gives working with PDFs a massive boost with a greatly extended feature set to match a diversity of users’ needs.

callas pdfToolbox 4 can:

• create localized information or multiple-language versions of files even without the creator document or application
• prepare polished PDF presentations
• repurpose PDFs in any way you want.

For prepress professionals, there’s an updated preflight engine which supports

• the latest ISO standards
• advanced color management
• imposition of everything from business cards to full N-up impositions
• splitting or join-ing of PDF content
• controls to resize and reposition PDF content
• the ability to embed, subset, replace and convert fonts to outlines.

Benefits

• Productive, multifunctional tool for more users
  • Wide range of users can benefit from diversity of tools. Highly suited for electronic delivery, in-house and corporate publishing, prepress and print production.
  • Presentation tool boosts communication and appeal of PDF-based slides and handouts

• Easy to use
  • Performing complex tasks is easier than ever due to ground-breaking and appealing user interface
  • Support and updates are only a click away through the user interface
  • Use as standalone or in combination with any PDF viewer or Adobe® Acrobat®

• Enjoy highest quality and reliability
  • Production tools guarantee complete control and highest quality PDF output
  • Ensures compliancy with ISO standards

• Improve time to market and reduce cost
  • Saves time in document preparation and modification
  • Reduces software costs by creating document versions directly from the PDF 

Key Features

• Powerful Document Manipulation tools for everyone…
  • Prepares professional looking handouts and presentations for on-screen and printed delivery
  • Easily creates language or regional versions with extensive support for localization workflows
  • Imposes anything from simple booklets to fully-fledged brochures and books, as well as N-up and Step&Repeat impositions for digital printing
  • Options to scale, fit, move, extend, rotate and flip pages and content
  • Powerful layering features and the ability to slice pages into text and non-text
  • Easily split multipage PDF documents into page-range fragments and combine them
  • Selectively remove content and import new content; double burn pages; insert empty pages or duplicate pages
  • Easy access to frequently needed tools through personal workspaces
  • Appealing user interface that adds tremendous fun to dealing with PDFs
  • Ability to contact support from within the user interface and vote on features

• …And production tools for the specialists
  • Easy exporting of ICC profiles embedded in PDFs
  • Standards supported include PDFX-ready Profiles v1.2 (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-4p) based on Ghent PDF Workgroup 1v4 specifications
  • The PDF Layer Explorer allows you to manage and generate layer views (OCCDs), and includes the first-in-industry ability to generate layers in accordance with PDF/X-4
  • Font controls include embedding, subsetting already embedded fonts (saving up to 50% space over other subsetting tools); replacing fonts and converting to vector outlines
  • Advanced font-management keeps font names unique and prevents font caching problems when combining PDFs using subsets of the same font
  • Produces reports for numerous aspects of your PDF, including font usage or image overviews
  • Built-in image re-compression allows you to change the compression method of images right inside your PDF files
  • Prepress Pro Companion can replace an incorrectly defined output intent, modify overprint and knockout for black and white, adjust TVI and more

• Professional color management for non-experts
  • Includes the world’s most powerful color tools: adjust for type of output with a click; conversion to B/W that just works; converts RGB in Office PDFs to printable CMYK; sophisticated spot color handling
  • Processes all grey elements consistently (whether DeviceGrey, DeviceCMYK, DeviceN or Separation), and enables dot-gain compensation (for both process and spot colors)
  • New advanced color mapping to map between various color spaces including RGB to CMYK or vice versa,
  • Spot to Spot, Spot to CMYK or RGB, and RGB or CMYK to Spot
  • Device Link add-on for smooth CMYK to CMYK conversion (payable option). Includes a series of most-used profiles for standard printing processes

• Usability to the max!
  • Completely revamped user interface makes using pdfToolbox 4 a pleasure and a breeze!
  • Lets you place frequently needed tools, including saved pdfToolbox 4 profiles in your personal work-space
  • Easily get in touch with callas software support from within the user-interface and submit feature re-quests
  • Localized versions are available in Spanish and Italian as well as English, German, French
  • PDF/X-ready profiles translated into 5 languages (English, German, French, Spanish and Italian)
  • Updated reference manual now has comprehensive information about the creation of imposition con-figuration files and color conversions
  • Ships with additional pre-configured pdfToolbox 4 profiles to demonstrate the latest checks and fixes with the click of a button
  • Simplified yet more powerful check enhancement to create preflight rules

• Runtime variables for preflight versatility
  • pdfToolbox 4 includes Dynamic Profiles that allow variable parameters to be defined at runtime. pdfToolbox 4 Dynamic Profiles can be adjusted on the fly and checks and fix-ups can be dynamically switched on or off, creating incredible versatility in your workflow

• 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