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How PDF changed prepress production dramatically in the last 25 years

In the early 1990s, Desktop Publishing (DTP) technology had superseded the proprietary typesetting and image processing systems of the eighties. Because of the relatively low investment and the ease-of-use of the new technology, a new division of work became possible. Ad agencies, graphic designers and even print customers started to create print layouts on their own. Eventually these pages needed to be transferred to the print shop. At the beginning, imaging service bureaus which imaged the pag

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Oct 24, 2018

MadeToPrint, MadeForLayers & MadeToTag immediately available for Adobe InDesign CC 2019

Berlin – October 22, 2018 – axaio software, developer of automation solutions for PDF creation, printing and content correction workflows for the publishing and printing markets, announces the availability of MadeToPrint, MadeForLayers and MadeToTag for Adobe’s just released InDesign CC version 2019. With the new features and enhancements in InDesign CC 2019, such as the option to convert footnotes and endnotes, an enriched font panel and the ability to import PDF comments into InDesign, Adobe o

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Oct 22, 2018

New: MadeToTag supports Caption, Blockquote & Index

Berlin – October 12, 2018 – axaio software, developer of automation solutions for PDF print workflows for the publishing and printing markets as well as for accessible PDF creation, announces the availability of a new MadeToTag version for Adobe InDesign CS6 - CC 2018. MadeToTag version 1.9.093 contains new options for the export tag selection to map the semantic structure in a PDF document even more accurate. axaio MadeToTag is an Adobe InDesign plug-in for preparing and exporting InDesign file

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Oct 16, 2018

David van Driessche

Watch this video!

How can you learn the most about our software? Well, the obvious answer would be the Online Documentation of course; we have an Online Documentation website where you find lots of background information about the products and their features. But there’s another source you should know about, as it will teach you things you won’t easily find in the Online Documentation. Every year, callas answers about 1500 support questions. These questions deal with everything: problems with licenses, activation

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Oct 10, 2018

callas pdfGoHTML 2.0 released

Berlin, October 4, 2018 – callas software, a leading provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, today published version 2.0 of callas pdfGoHTML. This free Adobe Acrobat plugin converts tagged PDF files into HTML format. A key feature of this new release is the total redesign of the way that tag structures are visualized. callas pdfGoHTML 2.0 is also significantly more robust when handling PDFs with unusual or very complex tag structures, and it now also fully supports P

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Oct 4, 2018

Dietrich von Seggern

The future of documents

At the DocEng conference, I met a lot of academics and professionals discussing interesting requirements and solutions related to PDF documents. It was impressive to see what these people are working on, what they (don't) know about PDF and whether it works according to their needs. Here is my experience ... I just met a lot of academics and professionals discussing interesting requirements and solutions related to documents. The DocEng (pronounce ˈdɒkndʒ for document engineering) is organized b

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Sep 19, 2018

Akash Choudhary

A tour of the PDF standards

Everybody whose occupation is related to a business process that relies on a subset standard will know it: somebody working in prepress will know PDF/X as an archivist knows PDF/A. But for PDF professionals, it also makes senses to know something about other subset standards. One reason could be that it is technically not complicated to create PDF files that comply with more than one standard (major portions of their text are exactly the same). Therefore, we wrote this article with a short descr

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Sep 5, 2018

Akash Choudhary

Archive e-mails system-independently with PDF/A

E-mails are increasingly replacing paper mail and are therefore an integral part of processes. So, it might be interesting to do e-mail archiving as their content must be retained for years. Furthermore, there are more good reasons for e-mail archiving. If e-mails and their attachments are structured in the same way as all other documents and stored in a uniform format, this facilitates the comprehensive information search. However, e-mails are often - if at all - stored in proprietary formats.

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Aug 16, 2018

Entirely barrier-free: PDF/UA in the Banking Industry

Increasingly, information is only offered and passed on in digital form, whereby the reliable and user-friendly Portable Document Format (PDF) has established itself worldwide as the preferred file format. To ensure unrestricted access in every respect, PDF files must meet certain requirements. These are defined in PDF/UA as the ISO standard for accessible PDF documents. It ensures that even people with greatly diminished vision, insufficient command of written language or physical limitations c

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Aug 1, 2018

Dietrich von Seggern

Does PDF 2.0 have any effect on PDF/A?

PDF 2.0 (ISO 32000-2) has been available as a new standard since August 2017. The result of almost ten years of work by about 30 experts from all over the world is the first PDF specification that has been completely developed within the ISO. Important sections, for example digital signatures, metadata and tagged PDF, have been completely revised. The enormous effort involved in creating PDF 2.0 and the numerous practical tips that have been taken into account are also proof of the importance th

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Jul 18, 2018

MadeToPrint for Woodwing Enterprise supports Adobe CC 2018

Berlin – July 5, 2018 - axaio software, developer of solutions for PDF creation, printing and content correction workflows for the publishing and printing markets, announces the availability of MadeToPrint Auto and Server for Woodwing Enterprise for Adobe’s latest Creative Cloud version 2018. This week Woodwing Software released the new version of its publishing system Enterprise for Adobe CC 2018. With the new version, Woodwing further simplifies modern publishing workflows and makes digital ch

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Jul 5, 2018

Akash Choudhary

Complex projects become compact files - Mapping document structures with PDF/A-3

PDF/A-3 is a powerful tool for mapping projects and document structures and also for converting work documents into archive documents. Compared to PDF/A-1 and PDF/A-2, which are nonetheless valid, this standard part is characterized by the fact that any file formats can be embedded. Even those that are not PDF/A-compliant, i.e. long-term archivable. On the one hand, this involves risks, since the archivability of embedded files can only be partially checked. On the other hand, companies can adap

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