pdfToolBoxServer

callas pdfToolBox

All-in-one PDF automation from preflighting and fixing to impositioning and repurposing

Whether for print production, PDF/X standard compliant file exchange, presentation preparation, repurposing or any other type of document analysis or processing, callas pdfToolbox Server 4 surpasses its competition in ease of use, speed, and feature set.

From the developers of Adobe® Acrobat®’s Preflight technology, pdfToolbox Server 4 offers comprehensive, yet easy to use

  • PDF preflighting and automatic correction
  • metadata extraction
  • presentation tools
  • imposition
  • …and more
callas pdfToolBoxServer

Benefits

Focus and simplicity

  • No more need for a host of different products. Access all the PDF automation functionality you need from one application

Easy to use

  • Intuitive user interface to configure and manage hot folder automation
  • Simple setup for ad hoc batch-processing of one large set of files.
  • Clear reporting of results as a PDF, XML, Text or HTML report
  • Comes with the pdfToolbox 4 desktop version for easy configuration of PDF analysis and processing instructions
  • Highly intuitive configurators in FullSwitch® and PowerSwitch® make it easy to set up, run and monitor advanced automation features

Increase productivity through fully automated PDF processing

  • Processes large amounts of data at high speed
  • Analyzes and processes in one step as opposed to complicated and time consuming sequences of multiple steps
  • Offers comprehensive testing of all PDF file characteristics with unsurpassed performance
  • Identifies and corrects production problems and minimizes risks during the processing and releasing of PDF files

Enjoy highest quality and reliability

  • Uses the same technology that callas software licenses to Adobe® for Acrobat® Preflight
  • Achieve perfect colour, fully automated
  • Industry strength, unattended 24/7 operation
  • Easy replication of setup to additional servers
  • Ready-to-use configurations supporting established guidelines from industry association like Ghent PDF Workgroup or PDFXready

Prepare any PDF for use in various environments

  • Electronic delivery and publishing
  • In-house and corporate publishing including marketing, commercial, legal and technical documentation
  • Prepress and print production for sheet fed and web offset as well as gravure and digital printing
  • Ad delivery and handling between ad agencies and publishing houses (for newspapers, magazines, books)

Benefit from the market’s widest range of capabilities

  • PDF/X standards compliance, both in terms of validation as well as PDF/X production and value added transformation and conversion

Key Features

General

  • Supports all PDF versions (up to PDF 1.7/Acrobat® 9)
  • Supports all PDF/X standards (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4, PDF/X-5)
  • Includes the most significant industry standard profiles like the Ghent PDF Workgroup standard
  • Connects to existing workflows through hot folders
  • Simultaneous processing of multiple files for optimized throughput
  • Splits multipage PDF files into segments
  • Creates permutations of PDF files per layer or layer view
  • Merges multiple PDFs into a single PDF file
  • Generates configurable single page EPS files
  • Exports pages as JPEG or PNG in quality settings from thumbnail over full size preview up to high resolution content proof
  • Uses IPTC, XMP and other object related metadata and exports them in a configurable XML report
  • Allows to limit most manipulations to specific objects

Workflow

  • Provides configuration files that can be interchanged with other servers
  • Integrates fully into FullSwitch® and PowerSwitch®
  • Updated Switch® configurator with the ability to define runtime parameters in dynamic pdToolbox 4 profiles
  • Extensive Switch® integration improvements: save as image, enhanced EPS export, creation of multiple reports, severity-dependent reporting, and saving of XML reports as an XML metadata data set

Verification & conversion features

  • Checks more than 1000 characteristics
  • Adjusts and corrects more than 100 different features
  • Supports all principle standards: validates and creates PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-4p, and validates PDF/X-5
  • Allows creation of different types of reports in one run
  • Embeds missing fonts (including Easter European, Cyrillic and Far Eastern fonts) and makes font names unique to protect against character dropouts or font substitution in down stream processes
  • Imposes any type of PDF based on extremely flexible rule based imposition schemes
  • Places page objects or new PDFs on layers
  • Creates PDF/X-4 conforming layer views (OCCDs) for using multilingual publication files or handling product variants in packaging
  • Provides adjustable compression methods for images
  • Supports smart configuration through dynamic pdfToolbox 4 profiles that allow variable parameters to be defined at runtime - creating incredible versatility in your workflow (profiles can be adjusted on the fly and checks and fix-ups can be dynamically switched on or off)

Colour-management features

  • Full support of ICC and DeviceLink profiles
  • Provides comprehensive conversion of Office RGB
  • Delivers all professional conversions - RGB gray to black only for text, line-art and images, CMYK and spot colors to RGB, spot colours to process, colored PDFs to black/white
  • Processes line-art and images separately
  • Allows to optionally preserve primary, secondary and tertiary colours
  • Offers tone value adjustment (for both process and spot colours)
  • Supports black point compensation
  • Maps between various colour spaces

DeviceLink Add-On features (payable option)

  • Includes a series of most used DeviceLink profiles for repurposing in professional printing
  • Includes DeviceLink profiles for optimization of total ink coverage and ink saving for standard printing conditions
  • Supports process conversion between sheet fed offset, web offset, news printing and gravure, supporting established best practice guidelines for Europe, North America and Japan

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The optional DeviceLink set provides easy repurposing of files for different printing conditions.

Smooth integration with FullSwitch® or PowerSwitch® makes callas pdfToolbox Server 4 a flexible and sophisticated PDF workflow solution, offering increased productivity and ensuring reliable quality results.

callas pdfToolbox CLI

Want to integrate pdfToolbox Server 4 on UNIX Systems? Then we have the right tools for you: callas pdfToolbox CLI 4.
Read more about callas pdfToolbox CLI 4

callas pdfToolbox SDK

Interested in a library? Then you should take a look at callas pdfToolbox SDK 4.
Read more about callas pdfToolbox SDK 4

callas DeviceLink Add-on Server (payable option)

The callas DeviceLink Add-on Server enables you to perform conversions via the supplied DeviceLink profiles.

  • Includes a series of most used DeviceLink profiles for repurposing in professional printing
  • Includes DeviceLink profiles for optimization of total ink coverage for standard printing conditions
 
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