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How to use pdfToolbox CLI

pdfToolbox can be integrated into a webstore or automation system with great ease through the use of pdfToolbox CLI: the command-line version of the product. How do you get going with that and where can you find help?

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Apr 10, 2019 Knowledge Base

Akash Choudhary

Advanced mathematics for better (context aware) preflight

Since the existence of PDF preflight, it was always available in all products based on an object by object analysis. Today, preflight has become a major building block of modern prepress workflows, however, the object by object approach has some limitations. Read to find out more about what context aware object detection technology is and how it helps in achieving better preflight results. Let me illustrate the problem first. On the right hand side, you can see a blue rectangle and a red circle.

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Apr 4, 2019 News

Justine Trio

axaio software launches new company logo & website!

Axaio software, developer of solutions for PDF creation, printing and content correction workflows for the publishing and printing markets as well as for the creation of tagged, accessible PDF documents, presents their new company logo. With the new branding, a new website design has also been introduced: www.axaio.com . The website as well as the product logos were given a fresh and modern look . The product colors have remained the same in order to maintain the recognition value for customers

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Apr 4, 2019 News

AI Integration

Converting PDF's to an ISO standard

If you have established that you want to work with the ISO PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4 standard, the next question is what you do with PDF documents that are not compliant to those standards.

callas pdfToolbox can help you to convert the majority of PDF documents to those standards, and if that's not possible, it will tell you exactly why that is.

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Apr 3, 2019 Knowledge Base

Beuth Verlag (since April 2024 “DIN Media”) trusts callas software for quality assurance of PDF/A files

Berlin, March 26, 2019 - Beuth Verlag has introduced pdfaPilot and pdfToolbox solutions from callas software for the automated quality validation of PDF/A files. Both products ensure that the DIN standards published by Beuth Verlag comply with the ISO standards and are therefore suitable for long-term archiving. At the same time, a high degree of automation has significantly reduced the amount of manual work required. Beuth Verlag produces thousands of standards every year. Beuth Verlag, based i

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Mar 26, 2019 News

AI Integration

Profile creation in pdfToolbox

In this video, Dietrich von Seggern (Managing Director at callas software) shows you how you can edit profiles in pdfToolbox, as well as create your own profiles.

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Mar 25, 2019 Knowledge Base

Dietrich von Seggern

Do PDF/A and Enterprise Content Management systems complement each other (perfectly)?

With Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems, companies can better distribute information, collaboratively edit documents, digitally archive or simply retrieve information faster. This is particularly successful if files are stored in a suitable format that reflects the typical requirements for processing documents. So, what is the first choice of document format here? There are numerous tools on the market, including freeware, with which users can create PDFs. But are the results of this al

Mar 20, 2019 News

AI Integration

Organising your designs in Picador PackLib

If you're designing a lot of custom packaging you probably have a way to keep track of all those drawings. Did you know you can actually use treeDiM's PackLib to organise your own designs besides using it to open existing standards?

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Mar 20, 2019 Knowledge Base

callas software presents solution for auto-scalable & pay-per-use environments

Berlin, March 15, 2019 – callas software, a leading provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, presents the callas License Server, a product that addresses the needs of a modern, cloud-based world. Conceived with cloud infrastructure in mind, it introduces a more dynamic way of licensing processing capacity based on peak performance. The callas License Server fits in callas’ long-standing tradition to provide a maximum of flexibility when it comes to the use and deploym

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Mar 15, 2019 News

AI Integration

Jobs with an irregular shape in Imp

InSoft Imp can deal with rectangular jobs, and with jobs that have an irregular shape. For the latter, the shape can be extracted from the PDF or can be supplied in a separate DXF or CF2 file. This is important to allow Imp to correctly gang or nest such files to reduce paper wastage.

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Mar 13, 2019 Knowledge Base

Akash Choudhary

What can you do with pdfToolbox's 'Decorate' feature?

Do you know that the Switchboard actions under 'Decorate' let you place a range of different object types or even pages within a PDF in no time. We receive tons of support queries about placing text, fold marks, page numbers or dates to adding empty pages, divider pages or summary pages. In addition, customers who knew about these Actions didn't really know that multiple files can be handled using 'Batch' processing, a reason good enough to write this blog post. Let's dive deep into it! The Swit

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Mar 6, 2019 News

AI Integration

Site Groups in Pressero

In the web-to-print platform of Aleyant Pressero, you can make multiple sites to cater to different groups of users. On the other hand, you can also set up a personalized experience and privileged pricing for key customers, while maintaining only one site.

In this video, you'll see an example of such a site, where the visible products are controlled by Site Groups, and you'll see how to set this up in the Pressero administration section.

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Feb 27, 2019 Knowledge Base