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Four Pees Café - PDF-bestanden verfraaien met HTML - pdfToolbox vs pdfChip

Hoe vaak wilt u inhoud toevoegen aan PDF-bestanden? Of u nu lijnen, tekst, paginanummers, barcodes... wilt toevoegen, pdfToolbox heeft een manier om dat te doen en het is met behulp van de "Pace Content" technologie geïntegreerd in het product. Hoe werkt dit precies en wat zijn je mogelijkheden? En wanneer loop je tegen de beperkingen van pdfToolbox aan en moet je in plaats daarvan naar pdfChip kijken? In dit Four Pees Café duiken we in de nitty gritty betreffende place content en hoe het te geb

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20 jun. 2022 Nieuws

Four Pees Café - Rendering intents in color management: a closer look

Following up on the previous Four Pees Café’s concerning color, here is a fifth installment about one of the more complicated and ‘magical’ elements in color management: Rendering Intents. Anyone who has printed a picture knows that what you see on your screen will always differ from the final print. We already know colors can change when converting from one color space to another, but this mostly happens when we’re going from a larger color space to a smaller one. But why does this happen? And

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3 jun. 2022 Nieuws

Four Pees Café - The importance of staying in shape (in pdfToolbox 13)

Don’t know what we’re referring to here? Well, pdfToolbox has a shape feature that can help you out with soooo many issues (except how to get yourself in better shape unfortunately). So how do you add undercolor white, varnish, cut contours, registration marks, fold lines for letters, trim marks… With the shape functionality! Join this café and our CTO David van Driessche will show you how to use the shapes option in pdfToolbox. The easy, the not so easy and the very surprising. Come and discove

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23 mei 2022 Nieuws

Four Pees Café - The Durst 360 approach: an introduction

The news is out! As of April 1 (no joke), Four Pees will be teaming up with Durst Software Solutions! In this position, Four Pees will assist Durst to implement its Pixel to Output strategy and integrate their software solutions such as Durst Workflow or Durst Smartshop in France, Benelux, Spain and UK. Want to discover the total package that Durst and Four Pees will be offering? In this Four Pees Café, Tom Peire, CEO at Four Pees and Michael Deflorian, Business Unit Manager Software & Solut

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9 mei 2022 Nieuws

Four Pees Café – pdfToolbox 13.1, what’s new?

Hurray, callas pdfToolbox 13 is six months old now! And there has been a lot of positive feedback. We were able to integrate some of you feedback in updates, new features and bugfixes, which have resulted in *drumroll* pdfToolbox 13.1. During this Four Pees Café we present you everything that is new in pdfToolbox 13.1 with the dynamic duo of callas software's Managing Director Dietrich von Seggern and Four Pees CTO David van Driessche. Webinar in english

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27 apr. 2022 Nieuws

Four Pees Café – The new Ghent Workgroup specifications: how does this impact your printing process?

Recently the Ghent Workgroup released the GWG 2022 specifications. That’s great of course, but how does that impact you and your printing processes? We’ll we’re in luck! Since happily enough, David van Driessche, the Ghent workgroup Executive Director is also our CTO! During this Café he’ll dive deeper in all that is new in the GWG 2022 specifications and how it impacts your print production. Video youtube

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11 apr. 2022 Nieuws

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Four Pees Café – Page handling in pdfToolbox 13 (ADD VIDEO MONDAY)

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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25 mrt. 2022 Nieuws

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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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14 mrt. 2022 Nieuws

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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28 feb. 2022 Nieuws

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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14 feb. 2022 Nieuws

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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7 feb. 2022 Nieuws

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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1 feb. 2022 Nieuws