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Registration opens for callas software’s PDF Camp

Berlin, February 26, 2019 – callas software, a leading provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, is organizing another PDF Camp. This time, it takes place in the Pfefferwerk at Christinenstraße 18/19 in Berlin on April 8-9, 2019. This established event is an opportunity for users to broaden their knowledge of the PDF format and callas software’s products. The focus is throughout on interaction and exchanging ideas. Together in small groups, attendees work on real-world

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26 févr. 2019 Nouvelles

David van Driessche

Why DeviceLink profiles should interest you

In version 10, pdfToolbox introduced support for a wide range of DeviceLink profiles. They can be used – for free – from within the Switchboard or using a fixup in a preflight profile. And they can be really interesting for your production work! Hold on! What are DeviceLink profiles? That, of course, is a good and essential question, and I need to explain it before I can explain why you could use them. ICC Profiles Let’s start with regular ICC profiles, something you should be at least somewhat

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20 févr. 2019 Nouvelles

AI Integration

Better organization in pdfToolbox using libraries

Once you start creating your own Profiles, Checks, Fixups and so on, you'll see that you need some organization or you're going to loose your way. Libraries are perfect for that! And you already know them as pdfToolbox ships with a bunch of default libraries. But you can do a lot with them ...

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13 févr. 2019 Knowledge Base

Dietrich von Seggern

Understanding Overprint

When working with support cases the ones that are related to Overprint parameters in PDF are always very likely to surprise customers. This is due to the fact that the Overprint rules in PDF are - compared to other rules, let's say for transparency - much less intuitive. I think this is because Overprint was invented for PostScript and nothing has been changed in these rules for PDF. That means Overprint was defined when technology was much less powerful than today and its rules had to take into

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6 févr. 2019 Nouvelles

Dietrich von Seggern

How accessible is the documentation these days?

Today's world of Information Technology has opened the doors in many ways in order to integrate people with disabilities into our society. But there are a number of prerequisites that need to be met. PDF/UA standard for reading and editing documents and forms serves the same purpose to barrier-free PDF as served by a flattened curb or a stepless access to a wheelchair user. In PDF/UA (= Universal Accessibility), the specifications for barrier-free PDF documents are defined as an ISO standard. Wi

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23 janv. 2019 Nouvelles

New MadeToPrint version with feature extensions & improvements

Berlin – January 18, 2018 - 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, announces the immediate availability of the new version 2.7.313 of its MadeToPrint output solution. With the current MadeToPrint version, two new feature enhancements as well as improvements for a more comfortable usage of MadeToPrint have been introduced: Parameter O

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18 janv. 2019 Nouvelles

callas software presents a new update for pdfaPilot

Berlin, January 17, 2019 – callas software, a leading provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, today released version 8.1 of pdfaPilot. Among other things, this update provides users with new options for ordering pages, adding filters for automatically removing XMP metadata and an optimized tagging structure view. New options for ordering pages pdfaPilot had already included the ability to customize the order of pages within PDF files. Now, to assist users with repeti

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17 janv. 2019 Nouvelles

Dietrich von Seggern

How does PDF 2.0 affect the printing industry?

For readers who aren't much aware of PDF 2.0, it is a consistent further development of the PDF standard, which incorporates numerous practical experiences and meaningful detail improvements - it is NOT a revolution that wants to create something completely new. In more than eight years, ISO has developed a 1,000 page standard as a further development of ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7). It contains extensions, clarifications, but also deprecations of PDF functions. Wherever standards are used - which in t

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9 janv. 2019 Nouvelles

All callas software products are now PDF 2.0 ready!

Berlin, January 8, 2019 – callas software, a leading provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, has announced that its PDF solutions now fully support the PDF 2.0 standard. From now on, users of its products pdfToolbox, pdfaPilot, pdfChip and pdfGoHTML will benefit from the new possibilities that PDF 2.0 opens up. PDF 2.0 , published as an ISO standard in mid-2017, is making increasing inroads into the business world. Dietrich von Seggern, Managing Director at callas so

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8 janv. 2019 Nouvelles

Olaf Druemmer

Entirely barrier-free: PDF/UA for eGovernments

Making information easily accessible to citizens is undoubtedly a big part of eGovernment and is sought after by federal and state authorities as well as districts, cities and municipalities. 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 de

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19 déc. 2018 Nouvelles

La version 2.0 de pdfChip est disponible!

Berlin, le 17 décembre 2018 – callas software, chef de file du marché des solutions d’automatisation du contrôle qualité et de l’archivage des fichiers PDF, lance aujourd’hui la version 2.0 de sa solution logicielle pdfChip. pdfChip 2.0 offre désormais une version 64 bits pour Windows. Parmi ses nombreuses fonctionnalités figurent la manipulation des images référencées, la prise en charge d’un plus grand nombre de types d’images et celle du format PDF 2.0. Prise en charge étendue du format PDF A

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17 déc. 2018 Nouvelles

AI Integration

Webinar - Make your PDF files print ready with pdfToolbox!

In this webinar we show you how you can check in pdfToolbox whether or not your PDF files are ready to be printed. 
Get a quick overview of the functionality in pdfToolbox Desktop for PDF quality control, correction, color management, imposition and more.

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12 déc. 2018 Knowledge Base