callas pdfToolbox 5 keeps evolving!

callas software have now released pdfToolbox 5.3, the latest maintenance update for the pdfToolbox product line. This new version introduces a number of (smaller) features and fixes a significant amount of problems encountered by customers.

New features

The following is a list of the most important new possibilities and changes in this maintenance release:

• A full Japanese localization, including a number of specific features for the Japanese market such as support for adding and recognizing Japanese printer marks and support for common color conversion profiles.
• A new preflight check to detect the use of roman ligatures.
• When rendering images, it is now possible to restrict the area rendered to existing page boxes (such as the trim box) or custom areas.
• When splitting PDF files, there are more possibilities for naming the split files.
• Additional options in the page scaling fixups.
• Integration of the latest version of the Adobe PDF library
• Full support for Apple Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).

Fixes

The following list contains some of the most important fixes in this maintenance release:

• When generating XML reports, special characters will now be handled correctly and the name of not-embedded fonts is now properly mentioned in the details for the fixup.
• Several transparency flattening problems are resolved.
• In certain cases, converting fonts to outlines or subsetting fonts caused problems; these have now been resolved.
• A significant number of problems with special case color conversions have been resolved.
• Creating a booklet sometimes caused a missing or shifted page – this has been fixed.
• A significant number of problems related to processing special case PDF files (corrupted files, encrypted files...) have been resolved.

This update release is free of charge for all owners of a pdfToolbox 5 license.  If you have any questions or would like more information please don't hesitate to contact us on 0333 123 1240.