pdfInspektor3 CLI – PDF Preflight check – reliable and high performance

pdfInspektor3 CLI is the PDF preflight standard and by far the most powerful and fastest PDF preflight tool. As Adobe uses callas’ software technology in Adobe Acrobat Professional 6 and 7, preflight profiles and results of pdfInspektor3 are fully compatible with “Preflight” in Adobe Acrobat..

pdfInspektor3 CLI overview

• over 600 different preflight features from 20 different groups, unrivaled flexibility to set up new analysis profiles
• easy to create and to test profiles in Acrobat Professional “Preflight” (version 6 or 7)
• powerful Boolean logic for combining conditions in preflight checks
• user friendly PDF reports that identify problematic objects by means of:
  masks
  comments
  layers (as available in pdfLayerMaker)
• machine-readable XML and TEXT reports with adjustable encoding and line endings
• language reports for over 10 different languages, including Japanese
• flexible monitoring through structured command line output
• integrated PDF/X creation
• supports PDF/A (ISO 19005-1 standard for archiving)
• connector for FullSWITCH and PowerSWITCH (workflow system with graphical user interface)
• same calling conventions as in pdfColorConvert CLI and pdfCorrect CLI

"Reliable pre-flight engine, quick, robust and trust worthy"

“When we set out to look for a reliable pre-flight engine that would be quick, robust and trust worthy, and easy to integrate into our numerous workflows, it was evident that there was only one clear choice: pdfInspektor3 CLI was easy to deploy and integrate into our various workflows and is now the core technology we use to pre-flight all the files we receive through our different web portals. We also use pdfInspektor3 CLI extensively internally to check the files we create. Because it is the same engine that has been proven time and time again in its use within Acrobat Professional 7 it means that there is no discrepancy between preflighting done within Acrobat and through one of our various web portals. We are extremely happy with the performance, and accuracy of the product.”
Andy Psarianos, F.E. Burman Ltd.

System requirements

Windows XP/2000
Mac OS X
Linux (RedHat and SuSe as of version 8)
Sun Solaris (as of version 8)

pdfColorConvert CLI – colour conversion in new dimensions

pdfColorConvert offers much more than colour management – professional colour conversion of RGB and Lab data as well as spot colours, for printing or web applications.

pdfColorConvert CLI overview

• special treatment of office colours takes care of brilliant colours in printing (perfect conversion of Office RGB)
• R=G=B to black (for text, graphic and image)
• separate processing of graphics and images
• black point compensation
• spot colour conversion
• unification of spot colour representation
• set black to overprint
• no more unwanted changes of overprinting properties through colour space change
• consideration of the output intent if present
• create and embed output intents
• adjustable compression method for images
• conversion to black/white for all PDF objects
• full support of PDF 1.6 standard (no problems even with complex PDFs)
• flexible control of command line outputs (for logging)
• parameter sets for source and destination can be saved in different configuration files and therefore be used in any combination
• connector for FullSWITCH and PowerSWITCH (workflow system with graphical user interface)
• same call-up conventions as in pdfInspektor3 CLI and pdfCorrect CLI

"Reliable solution, saves a great deal of time"

“We use pdfColorConvert CLI to optimize the inking of our customer data. Many customers, unfortunately, still supply data not prepared color-correct. Customers more and more take into consideration the tone value increase of the printing machine, but neglect the inking. Quite frequently we receive data with 400% ink coverage, which is evidently too much for newspaper printing. With pdfColorConvert, we have finally found a reliable solution to adapt all whole-page PDFs prior to the RIP process. In processing daily up to 650 broadsheets, pdfColorConvert saves us a great deal of time we used to spend on manually optimizing the inking. The much more flexible administration in comparison to the “Blackbox” RIP and the significant larger amount of settings to adjust colors allows us to adapt the print data individually, depending on the customer. The greatest advantage is possibility to control the adaptation in the PDF on our own, which was not possible before. The high reliability and easy-to-monitor server process makes pdfColorConvert even more worthwhile. We are very satisfied with callas’ command line version, pdfColorConvert CLI.”
Marco Rauber, Badischer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG

System requirements

Windows XP/2000
Mac OS X
Linux (RedHat and SuSe as of version 8)
Sun Solaris (as of version 8)

This PDF precision tool puts an end to production stoppers even with complex PDF construction. The high performance of pdfCorrect CLI corrects PDFs in a matter of seconds and therefore fits very smoothly into web applications.

pdfCorrect CLI overview

• unrestricted support of PDF 1.6, reliable processing even of complex PDF files
• easy creation and testing of new correction profiles with the plug-in version of pdfCorrect
• solves over 60 different production problems in PDF files: thickens hairlines, modifies overprinting features,
• removes CMYK profiles, OPI comments and a lot more
• adjusts about 80 different PDF features: reduction of image resolution, setting of the initial view,
• inserts meta data etc. (a complete list of all features is listed in the Manual).
• downgrades to previous PDF version (PDF 1.3 through 1.5)
• includes numerous correction profiles to solve individual problems or to prepare for certain printing methods
• all correction profiles for printing processes are compatible with Adobe Acrobat 7 Preflight checks
• supports all PDF/X standards
• connector for FullSWITCH and PowerSWITCH (workflow system with graphical user interface)
• logging of every performed correction
• flexible control of command line outputs (for logging)
• identical call-up convention as in pdfInspektor3 CLI and pdfColorConvert CLI

"meets all requirements in performance and stability"

“With pdfCorrect, we have found a tool with which we can automatically adapt PDFs to our requirements. We have integrated pdfCorrect into our ad transmission system Poldirect in order to automatically generate a monitor version (LowRes) of all PDF files. pdfCorrect CLI from callas meets all our requirements in performance and stability, and last but not least, it is easy to integrate into our Linux-based system.”
Roman Vogel, PrintOnline AG

System requirements

Windows XP/2000
Mac OS X
Linux (RedHat and SuSe as of version 8)
Sun Solaris (as of version 8)