pdfLayerMaker sorts all PDF objects by different criteria onto layers, allowing innovative and extended editing of PDF documents – quick, flexible and simple.

Simplify life with layers in your PDF files?

Layer PDFs are intuitive reports, which highlight production-critical PDF aspects in a unique manner and separates them from the remaining objects.

Layers enable new and simplified workflows with PDF documents e.g. containing cutting dies or language layers

"quickly detects typical errors"

“pdfLayerMaker allows our production staff to quickly detect typical errors in PDF files, for example, color images in black-white headings that can lead to print output problems. Since our publishing house has been using pdfLayerMaker, we are able to detect the problems while compiling the data. Looking for problems before took up a lot of time and was annoying.”
Andreas Jaeckel, Cornelsen Verlag

pdfLayerMaker overview

• object types such as text, images, graphics, transparencies and colour spaces are separated on new layers
• displays, hides, combines and deletes PDF page objects
• isolates and removes page objects such as cutting dies and fold marks
• problem objects are separated from other page contents
• highlights white or very light objects with help of background layers
• navigates easily between layers
• imports layer profiles from Adobe Acrobat Preflight

System requirements

Adobe Acrobat 6 or 7 (not usable with Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Mac OS X or Windows 2000/XP
pdfLayerMaker is available as a standalone plug-in to Acrobat or as a part of pdfToolbox2 (which also includes pdfColorConvert, pdfCorrect)