All-in-one PDF automation from preflighting and fixing to impositioning and repurposing

Whether for print production, PDF/X standard compliant file exchange, presentation preparation, repurposing or any other type of document analysis or processing, callas pdfToolbox Server 4 surpasses its competition in ease of use, speed, and feature set.

From the developers of Adobe® Acrobat®’s Preflight technology, pdfToolbox Server 4 offers comprehensive, yet easy to use

• PDF preflighting and automatic correction
• metadata extraction
• presentation tools
• imposition
• …and more

Key Features

• General
  • Supports all PDF versions (up to PDF 1.7/Acrobat® 9)
  • Supports all PDF/X standards (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5)
  • Includes the most significant industry standard profiles like the Ghent PDF Workgroup standard
  • Connects to existing workflows through hot folders
  • Simultaneous processing of multiple files for optimized throughput
  • Splits multipage PDF files into segments
  • Creates permutations of PDF files per layer or layer view
  • Merges multiple PDF’s into a single PDF file
  • Generates configurable single page EPS files
  • Exports pages as JPEG or PNG in quality settings from thumbnail over full size preview up to high resolution content proof
  • Uses IPTC, XMP and other object related metadata and exports them in a configurable XML report
  • Allows to limit most manipulations to specific objects

• Workflow
  • Provides configuration files that can be interchanged with other servers
  • Integrates fully into FullSwitch® and PowerSwitch®
  • Updated Switch® configurator with the ability to define runtime parameters in dynamic pdToolbox 4 profiles
  • Extensive Switch® integration improvements: save as image, enhanced EPS export, crea-tion of multiple reports, severity-dependent reporting, and saving of XML reports as an XML metadata data set

• Verification & conversion features
  • Checks more than 1000 characteristics
  • Adjusts and corrects more than 100 different features
  • Supports all principle standards: validates and creates PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-4p, and validates PDF/X-5
  • Allows creation of different types of reports in one run
  • Embeds missing fonts (including Easter European, Cyrillic and Far Eastern fonts) and makes font names unique to protect against character dropouts or font substitution in down stream processes
  • Imposes any type of PDF based on extremely flexible rule based imposition schemas
  • Places page objects or new PDFs on layers
  • Creates PDF/X-4 conforming layer views (OCCDs) for using multilingual publication files or handling product variants in packaging
  • Provides adjustable compression methods for images
  • Supports smart configuration through dynamic pdfToolbox 4 profiles that allow variable parameters to be defined at runtime- creating incredible versatility in your workflow (profiles can be adjusted on the fly and checks and fix-ups can be dynamically switched on or off)

• Color-management features
  • Full support of ICC and DeviceLink profiles
  • Provides comprehensive conversion of Office RGB
  • Delivers all professional conversions - RGB grey to black only for text, line-art and images, CMYK and spot colors to RGB, spot colors to process, colored PDFs to black/white
  • Processes line-art and images separately
  • Allows to optionally preserve primary, secondary and tertiary colors
  • Offers tone value adjustment (for both process and spot colors)
  • Supports black point compensation
  • Maps between various color spaces

• DeviceLink Add-On features (payable option)
  • Includes a series of most used DeviceLink profiles for repurposing in professional printing
  • Includes DeviceLink profiles for optimization of total ink coverage and ink saving for standard printing conditions
  • Supports process conversion between sheet fed offset, web offset, news printing and gravure, supporting established best practice guidelines for Europe, North America and Japan