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Four Pees Café – Page handling in pdfToolbox 13

Throughout pdfToolbox you can specify on which pages actions need to be taken; see how this is standardized and improved in pdfToolbox 13. But what can you do with that? In this Four Pees Café, our CTO David van Driessche will dive deeper into everything related to page handling in pdfToolbox 13, focusing on topics such as: Selecting pages Reordering pages Using Checks as page filters in fixups Placing individual text per page Webinar in english

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Mar 25, 2022

Four Pees accompanies Ubisoft on becoming the first company in Europe to receive the Ghent Workgroup Output Certification

Ghent, 24/03/2022 - Four Pees worked with French game Ubisoft to help them become the first European company to obtain the Ghent Workgroup Output Suite Certification. This conformance certification label allows Ubisoft to prove that their PDF output workflow is compliant with the PDF/X-4 standard. Four Pees has been working with Ubisoft for over 10 years to help ensure it is producing the highest quality print gaming artwork. To help Ubisoft prepare for this certification, Four Pees has created

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Mar 24, 2022

PDF Camp 2022 is here!

Let us show you the potential of automation at PDF Camp! PDF Camp Berlin is almost here, so it's time to register! As usual, the event will be held in the hometown of callas software: Berlin. This year, the main focus will be on the practical use of the new versions of pdfToolbox and pdfaPilot. Both software products contain a wide range of new features for automating PDF processing within complex workflows. So, make sure you mark May 12-13, 2022 in your calendar! Together in small groups, atten

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Mar 16, 2022

ColorLogic celebrates its 20th anniversary with 20% discount!

ColorLogic is celebrating its 20th anniversary and would like to thank its existing and new customers. During the month of March, we are offering 20% off all ColorLogic products, including upgrades and software maintenance agreements, for existing and new customers. This offer can be used as many times as you like during the month of March! Terms and condition

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Mar 15, 2022

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Four Pees Café - Insoft Imp version 12: What’s new?

Recently Insoft has released its newest version of Insoft Imp. InSoft Imp has been by far the most flexible and efficient layout planning, ganging and imposition software on the market for many years. Imp 12 takes this efficiency to even higher levels, even for the most complex planning scenarios. The application’s user interface has been refreshed to make it more intuitive and easier to work with, and the underlying algorithms received many additional optimizations. Both Imp 12 and the fully ha

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Mar 14, 2022

Four Pees café - Advantages of visual inspection in print production

How often have you noticed a mistake in a book or packaging or any other printed product and wondered "How did they miss that?" When people check their own work, even just when writing an email, it's very easy to miss errors. So sometimes these errors make it to the customer in a production environment. These could be very minor details, like a missing period in a sentence or a small piece of artwork. But they could also be very important and have great consequences. Imagine a missing "-" on the

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Feb 28, 2022

InSoft releases major update of Imp

New release further increases ganging and nesting efficiency Ghent, 22/02/2022 – Recently Insoft Imp has released its newest version of Insoft Imp. InSoft Imp has been by far the most flexible and efficient layout planning, ganging and imposition software on the market for many years. Imp 12 takes this efficiency to even higher levels, even for the most complex planning scenarios. The application’s user interface has been refreshed to make it more intuitive and easier to work with, and the under

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Feb 22, 2022

Four Pees Café - Introduction to Quite Imposing: a quite imposing topic

Four Pees Café - Introduction to Quite Imposing: a quite imposing topic

Let’s be honest, sometimes imposition, ganging and nesting can be, well… a quite imposing project. However, it often doesn’t have to be. Sometimes you just need a user-friendly tool to help create books or booklets. Enter Quite Imposing! Quite Imposing is a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat for imposition tasks. This is all about combining pages onto larger sheets to make books, booklets, or special arrangements. Creating booklets or arranging complex imposition layouts has never been easier and all wit

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Feb 14, 2022

Four Pees Café - The Ghent Workgroup Output Suite, an introduction

Four Pees Café - The Ghent Workgroup Output Suite, an introduction

During this Café we welcome our first guest speaker of the year! Stephan Jaeggi, Chair of GWG Process Control Subcommittee, will give more information on the new Ghent Workgroup Output Suite, a conformance certification program around the Ghent PDF Output Suite 5.0. Printers who obtain the conformance certification label show they have a modern workflow, that is compatible with and optimized to process PDF/X-4 files. During this Café, Stephan Jaeggi will give an overview of what the Ghent Workgr

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Feb 7, 2022

Four Pees Café – JavaScript controlled checks in pdfToolbox 13

We heard you when you said “More JavaScript!” during our last Café’s! Today we’ll be going further into JavaScript and pdfToolbox 13 and look into how we can create JavaScript controlled checks in pdfToolbox 13. In pdfToolbox 12, callas added a JavaScript / JSON based way to define fixups to be done on documents. This immediately lead to the question whether this would also be possible for preflight checks. If you miss this session but you want to see callas's answer to this in pdfToolbox 13. Da

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Feb 1, 2022

Ghent Workgroup answers all your questions about PDF standards in a new free FAQ

The Ghent Workgroup (GWG) is thrilled to announce that it has published a new user guide that provides answers to the most frequently asked questions about PDF standards. This user guide has been written by David van Driessche, Executive Director of the Ghent Workgroup and co-chair of the Specification and Process Control subcommittee.

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Jan 31, 2022

Four Pees Café – Creating a new JavaScript imposition config from scratch in pdfToolbox 13

Yes, we’re back! We’re kicking off our new Four Pees Café season right where we left off, and that’s pdfToolbox 13! While we gave you a short summary of the main features during our last Four Pees Café before Christmas, we’re going to dive into the nitty gritty for our first Four Pees Café of 2022 and more specifically JavaScript and imposition! You missed the first episode of the new season of four pees café. Don't worry, you can still find David van Driessche, who explains how to create a new

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