pdfToolBox
The all-in-one desktop PDF production toolkit that’s powerful and easy-to-use
callas pdfToolbox 4 gives working with PDFs a massive boost with a greatly extended feature set to match a diversity of users’ needs. callas pdfToolbox 4 can:
For prepress professionals, there’s an updated preflight engine which supports
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Benefits
Productive, multifunctional tool for more users
- Wide range of users can benefit from diversity of tools. Highly suited for electronic delivery, in-house and corporate publishing, prepress and print production.
- Presentation tool boosts communication and appeal of PDF-based slides and handouts
Easy to use
- Performing complex tasks is easier than ever due to ground-breaking and appealing user interface
- Support and updates are only a click away through the user interface
- Use as standalone or in combination with any PDF viewer or Adobe® Acrobat®
Enjoy highest quality and reliability
- Production tools guarantee complete control and highest quality PDF output
- Ensures compliancy with ISO standards
Improve time to market and reduce cost
- Saves time in document preparation and modification
- Reduces software costs by creating document versions directly from the PDF
Key Features
Powerful Document Manipulation tools for everyone...
- Prepares professional looking handouts and presentations for on-screen and printed delivery
- Easily creates language or regional versions with extensive support for localization workflow
- Imposes anything from simple booklets to fully-fledged brochures and books, as well as N-up and Step&Repeat impositions for digital printing
- Options to scale, fit, move, extend, rotate and flip pages and content
- Powerful layering features and the ability to slice pages into text and non-text
- Easily split multipage PDF documents into page-range fragments and combine them
- Selectively remove content and import new content; double burn pages; insert empty pages or duplicate pages
- Easy access to frequently needed tools through personal workspaces
- Appealing user interface that adds tremendous fun to dealing with PDFs
- Ability to contact support from within the user interface and vote on features
...And production tools for the specialists
- Easy exporting of ICC profiles embedded in PDFs
- Standards supported include PDFX-ready Profiles v1.2 (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-4p) based on Ghent PDF Workgroup 1v4 specifications
- The PDF Layer Explorer allows you to manage and generate layer views (OCCDs), and includes the first-in-industry ability to generate layers in accordance with PDF/X-4
- Font controls include embedding, subsetting already embedded fonts (saving up to 50% space over other subsetting tools); replacing fonts and converting to vector outlines
- Advanced font-management keeps font names unique and prevents font caching problems when combining PDFs using subsets of the same font
- Produces reports for numerous aspects of your PDF, including font usage or image overviews
- Built-in image re-compression allows you to change the compression method of images right inside your PDF files
- Prepress Pro Companion can replace an incorrectly defined output intent, modify overprint and knockout for black and white, adjust TIV (Total Ink Values) and more
Professional colour management for non-experts
- Includes the world’s most powerful colour tools: adjust for type of output with a click; conversion to B/W that just works; converts RGB in Office PDFs to printable CMYK; sophisticated spot color handling
- Processes all gray elements consistently (whether DeviceGray, DeviceCMYK, DeviceN or Separation), and enables dot-gain compensation (for both process and spot colors)
- New advanced color mapping to map between various color spaces including RGB to CMYK or vice versa,
- Spot to Spot, Spot to CMYK or RGB, and RGB or CMYK to Spot
- Device Link add-on for smooth CMYK to CMYK conversion (payable option). Includes a series of most-used profiles for standard printing processes
Usability to the max!
- Completely revamped user interface makes using pdfToolbox 4 a pleasure and a breeze!
- Lets you place frequently needed tools, including saved pdfToolbox 4 profiles in your personal work-space
- Easily get in touch with callas software support from within the user-interface and submit feature re-quests
- Localised versions are available in Spanish and Italian as well as English, German, French
- PDF/X-ready profiles translated into 5 languages (English, German, French, Spanish and Italian)
- Updated reference manual now has comprehensive information about the creation of imposition con-figuration files and color conversions
- Ships with additional pre-configured pdfToolbox 4 profiles to demonstrate the latest checks and fixes with the click of a button
- Simplified yet more powerful check enhancement to create preflight rules
Runtime variables for preflight versatility
- pdfToolbox 4 includes Dynamic Profiles that allow variable parameters to be defined at runtime. pdfToolbox 4 Dynamic Profiles can be adjusted on the fly and checks and fix-ups can be dynamically switched on or off, creating incredible versatility in your workflow
Get the most out of metadata
- Provides convenient browsing of document metadata as well as object-level metadata for images embedded inside the document
- Support for all relevant industry metadata standards including Dublin Core, IPTC, PRISM, GWG AdTicket/AdsML, PLUS, EXIF and Camera Raw
- Facilitates metadata based researching in Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, Google and AskMetaFilter
- Supports GPS data for use with Google Maps, OpenStreetMap and Google Earth
- XML export of all document and object level metadata for tracking image use and licenses
Need to automate? Check out callas pdfToolbox Server
If you need to automate pdfToolbox or wish to integrate pdfToolbox into an existing workflow, check out pdfToolbox Server 4.
Learn more about pdfToolbox Server 4...
callas DeviceLink Add-on (payable option)
callas DeviceLink Add-on enables you to perform conversions via the supplied DeviceLink profiles.
callas pdfToolbox SDK 4
callas pdfToolbox 4 SDK (Software Development Kit) is a programming library that incorporates everything developers need to to quickly incorporate robust, fully featured preflighting, correction, and color-conversion and imposition functionality.
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