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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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Jan 24, 2022

Four Pees Café - What's new in pdfToolbox 13, a short summary!

Did you miss the pdfToolbox 13 Launch event week? No problem, in this Four Pees Café we give you a short overview of all the new features in pdfToolbox 13! (Video in English)

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Dec 3, 2021

Four Pees Café - Discover REST API for pdfToolbox CLI

Let’s be honest, when it comes to automating all your preflight procedures in your platform, you can’t go wrong with pdfToolbox CLI. However, perfection does not exist, as we’ve heard some popular requests from clients such as the availability of job queuing, working different jobs in parallel and calling the CLI from a different location. So what did we do? We brought together our brightest minds (that were available at the time) to solve those issues by creating a REST API for pdfToolbox CLI w

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Nov 15, 2021

Four Pees Café - prepress, there's an app for that

Let’s be honest, preflighting documents and getting approval from clients can be a tedious and repetitive process. But what if there’s an app for that? Enter 3CPDF! It could hardly be more efficient: select PDF files to be checked or drag and drop them into 3CPDF, then just click on “Check” or “Check and correct”. Within seconds, 3CPDF creates a meaningful, easy-to-understand, and explanatory error and correction reports. These and the corrected PDF files can be downloaded with a single click or

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Nov 8, 2021

Automation in Indesign with axaio MadeToPrint

Great, you've created multiple variants, languages, and layers of a design in Indesign. Now begins the long, time-consuming journey in making all the different versions. But what if you could do that with just one click? During this Four Pees Café, Christian Blaise, our Director of Professional Services and Support, will dive deeper into MadeToPrint, an Adobe Indesign plugin that allows manual, one-click, print, and export from your design document to one or more output targets. Helping you gain

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Nov 3, 2021

Four Pees Café - Creating “Apply To”-checks for Fixups in pdfToolbox

The ability to use checks and fixups in pdfToolbox helps you create the best possible PDF for the application you need it for. But what if you need to add page numbering, but don’t want to apply that to the first page of your document? Or what if you want to remove a specific object, and would have to apply the Remove objects fixup to only that object? Seeing a pattern here? Luckily, pdfToolbox has an “Apply to” option in Fixups, where you can insert a Check. That way you can have your specific

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Oct 26, 2021

Four Pees Café - Copra 8, welcome to a world of color

Ready to bring some color to your world? Recently ColorLogic launched CoPrA 8 with various new features to elevate CoPrA to the next level. In addition, new profiling presets for Printer and especially DeviceLink Profiling have been added that make use of the new auto rendering feature. Also improved exceptions, better black point calculation - especially for Multicolor target profiles - and the new channel combination feature. In this Four Pees Café, Dietmar Fuchs, Product Manager at ColorLogic

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Oct 21, 2021

Four Pees Café - There's an app for that

Did you know there’s an app for that? During our projects, we get to know companies from all over the industry. Based on their requests, comments, and feedback, we have developed a series of apps for the Enfocus Appstore, which help large and small companies in all market segments to make the most of their Switch workflow by integrating it into the entire print workflow. In this Four Pees Café, CTO David van Driessche will dive deeper into our Monday.com integration app which offers you a full p

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Oct 11, 2021

Four Pees Café - Automation with iC3D

Let’s be honest, in a world with dozens of consumer products, it’s the design that sells the product! But how is that packaging created? Mostly it starts with a 3D visualization of the product. Together with Creative Edge Software, Four Pees has created a series of three free webinars to dive deeper into the possibilities of 3D modeling with tools such as iC3D. You’ve created a great model, placed your artwork on it, dealt with all the fancy finishing effects and built your scene. All done, grea

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Oct 4, 2021

Four Pees Café - Link your web-to-print to your RIP

Have you jumped on the web-to-print train and set up your first portal yet? Great! Do you know what’s better? Get all those new shiny orders preflighted automatically and sent to your RIP! But that’s going to cost an arm and a leg, right? Not really, if you use the right tools, then you can create a fully automated flow from your webshop to the RIP of the printer without a huge investment! That way the added value you gained via your shiny new web-to-print portal will still be added value at the

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Sep 27, 2021

Four Pees Café - Creating a custom preflight report in pdfToolbox

You’ve got errors in your preflighted document, now to communicate those to your clients. Why not do it via a custom-made template that has all the data you want to share and has your company’s look and feel to it? In this Four Pees Café, our CTO David van Driessche will show you how to create a fully custom template for your preflighting reports in pdfToolbox that can be sent to a client with all the necessary information that they need. (Video in English)

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Sep 13, 2021

Four Pees Café - iC3D, what's new?

Let’s be honest, in a world with dozens of consumer products, it’s the design that sells the product! But how is that packaging created? Mostly it starts with a 3D visualization of the product. Together with Creative Edge Software, Four Pees has created a series of three free webinars to dive deeper into the possibilities of 3D modeling with tools such as iC3D. In this first webinar, we provide an overview of iC3D to show you what the tool can do and what’s new in the latest version of iC3D. Thi

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Sep 6, 2021

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