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brandbox creates web - and print-ready PDF files from a single source with callas technology

Users of Konmedia GmbH’s brandbox can now automatically process PDF files using pdfToolbox from callas software. brandbox is a universal marketing instrument which enables product communication across...

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30 jun. 2020

callas pdfChip streamlines the production process for etikett.de

The label printing website etikett.de (also known as label.co.uk) recently launched a Transparency label generator. Customers can use Transparency to design their own secure labels, protecting their p...

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16 jun. 2020

PDF Camp shows the potential of automation

callas software, a leading provider of automated PDF quality assurance and archiving solutions, is organizing another PDF Camp in 2020. The focus of this year's event will be on how the new versions of pdfToolbox and pdfaPilot can be used in practice. Both software products contain a wide range of new features for automating PDF processing within complex workflows. The PDF Camp will be held on March 30-31, 2020 at the Pfefferwerk in Berlin. The event is aimed at both users of callas software pro

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29 jan. 2020

David van Driessche

Are you accessible?

In different parts of the world, rules around accessible documents and when you are required to supply them, exist under different names. As an example, in North America people will talk about section 508 or WCAG AA, in Europe, they might refer to the EU accessibility directive. But whatever the name, they usually do the same thing: they establish specific rules different documents must follow to be labeled accessible. And for PDF documents, those rules boil down to compliance with the ISO stand

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3 jul. 2019

Akash Choudhary

Is ZUGFeRD 2.0 just as easy to use as its predecessor or any other data formats for e-invoices?

Since 2014, methodical voluntary work has been done in the field of electronic invoice format in terms of ZUGFeRD. Although, this term, ZUGFeRD, should be known to most of you, especially here in Europe, this is how the Forum of Electronic Invoice Germany defines ZUGFeRD: As a hybrid data format, ZUGFeRD integrates structured invoice data in XML format into a PDF document (PDF/A-3). This means that the invoice is always sent in the form of a PDF document, which represents the visible component o

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3 jul. 2019

Akash Choudhary

A short story of callas License Server ...

After a lot of support inquiries, conversations with our partners and internal discussions, we wanted to address the general issue of licensing, hence came the idea of callas License Server. pdfToolbox is very frequently used in elastic cloud environments where new instances of hardware are provided by environments like Amazon Web Service. As soon as a customers meets with certain requirements of processing, the AWS environment provides with a new hardware, which the customer can set up himself

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19 jun. 2019

Dietrich von Seggern

SVG font issues in prepress production - and what that has to do with recent ISO meetings

Last week in Toronto, we discussed a dated revision for PDF 2.0 (dated revision means that it will not have a new version number) which has been a ‘work in progress’ since 2017 when PDF 2.0 first came out. We think it is in a really good shape resolving all issues that were reported since then (measured by the roughly 1000 pages not many, but still more than enough to do this update). We therefore decided to send it to, hopefully, a last (DIS) ballot which is always 5 months. That means that mos

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22 mei 2019

Dietrich von Seggern

Powerful coexistence of AFP and PDF

The question of data exchange between print data creators and processors has been answered with PDF for the entire graphic arts industry ... wait ... there is actually one industry, the customer communication management (that we Germans call "output management”), which resists and is sticking to the Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) developed by IBM (known as Advanced Function Printing until 1995). What are the reasons? One certainly is that many variable data printing applications are (still

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8 mei 2019

Akash Choudhary

Advanced mathematics for better (context aware) preflight

Let me illustrate the problem first. On the right hand side, you can see a blue rectangle and a red circle. If I use a traditional preflight software on a document with this rectangle and circle, it can definitely (well considering it's a somewhat good software) answer questions like: whether there are any blue objects... whether there are any red objects... how many blue or red objects are there in this document... whether their colors are correct... whether the objects are of a particular type

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4 apr. 2019

Akash Choudhary

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

The Switchboard Actions under 'Decorate' let you place a range of different object types or even pages within a PDF. But where do you find the 'Decorate' group. In pdfaPilot or pdfToolbox's standalone edition, you can open the Switchboard via Tools > Switchboard in the menu or use the keyboard shortcut Cmd+2 (Windows: Ctrl+2). Amongst other groups like Arrange (all about Imposition), Standards (PDF standards compliance), Prepress, Layers, Fonts etc, you will find the Decorate group.Introduced

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6 mrt. 2019

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 feb. 2019

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 feb. 2019

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