Planet PDF Creative & Print

This week in PDF: PitStop Connect released

Dan Shea — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen the launch of a tool for simplifying PDF preflight and a website that both explains and promotes the benefits of searchable PDF documents.

Zevrix releases PDF Checkpoint 1.1

Dan Shea — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Zevrix Solutions has announced the release of PDF Checkpoint 1.1, an update to its PDF workflow automation solution. The software preflights, exports as images, splits and reduces size of multiple PDF files. PDF Checkpoint sports an intuitive flexible user interface which lets users review and analyze preflight results quickly and easily. The program is equally suitable to process hundreds of files as well as single PDF documents.

Shiraz Software releases Adobe PDF Engine plug-in

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Shiraz Software has released an integrated plug-in for use with its Signature and Server versions. The Shiraz Adobe PDF Engine plug-in embeds complete functionality within the existing RIP and enables users to adhere to the standard delivery format for the digital print market.

Zevrix announces PDF Checkpoint Beta

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Zevrix Solutions has announced PDF Checkpoint Beta 1.0 its preflight solution for Adobe PDF documents.

Cool Tool: Zmags Publicator

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The folks at Zmags have released an update to their Zmags Publicator software-as-a-service. The update enables marketers to automate conversion of collateral PDF to interactive format and share the digital versions on social network platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace.

This week in PDF: Mac-compatible magazine production software released

Dan Shea — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen the release of a Mac-compatible version of a digital magazine production product, the launch of a secure PDF delivery service, and a pair of new RIPs that incorporate version 2 of Adobe's PDF Print Engine.

callas software pdfaPilot garners top score in Bavaria Report

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Germany-based callas software received the lead score among seven tested PDF/A validation tools in a comparative study by PDF expert Thomas Merz, CEO of PDFlib GmBH.

This week in PDF: PDF validation and repair

Dan Shea — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen updates to a PDF/A validation tool and a PDF repair application, while another vendor has released an optional PDF/A-related component. Staying in the same themes of quality assurance and compliance, a standards body has released a new suite for testing PDF workflows.

PDF Standardizer released

Dan Shea — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Following its announcement in November of last year, PDF Standardizer was commercially released on Feb 24. A joint project by Enfocus Software and Alwan Color Expertise, the new product combines Alwan's CMYK Optimizer technology with Enfocus' PitStop Server, using Enfocus FullSwitch tool to automate the workflow.

Visual Integrity releases new conversion bundle

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Visual Integrity has released a bundle of pdf2cad, with Scan2CAD Pro from Softcover International Ltd. The bundle gives users both a vector-to-vector and raster-to-vector conversion tolls for converting PDF files into editable CAD formats.

QualityLogic releases free PDF direct print software

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

QualityLogic, a provider of QA and QC test tools and services for the imaging and telecom industries has announced a free version of its TestJob Sender software.

QualityLogic announces PDF testing products

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

QualityLogic, a provider of QA and QC test tools and services for the imaging and telecom industries has announced the release of three new PDF interoperability test for developers of products that consume the PDF file format.

Data exchange plug-ins for Acrobat launched

Dan Shea — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Earlier this week, SYCODE released a set of 8 plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat. The plug-ins work with CAD files and are are designed, variously, to import them to or export them from Adobe Acrobat.

Rotating pages using Acrobat

Dan Shea — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

If you have a PDF document that you have compiled from a range of sources (e.g. an Excel spreadsheet and a Word document), chances are that one or more of the pages will need to be rotated for easy on-screen viewing. Luckily, rotating pages in Acrobat is child's play. This tip explains how.

Recosoft ships PDF2ID 2.0

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The folks at Recosoft are now officially shipping PDF2ID 2.0 for both Mac and Windows platforms.

Recosoft announces PDF2ID 2.0

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Japan-based Recosoft Corporation has announced PDF2ID 2.0 and PDF2ID Profesional 2.0 for both Mac and Windows platforms.

Enfocus and Alwan unveil industry-first PDF Standardizer

Dan Shea — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Enfocus and Alwan Color Expertise have joined forces to develop Alwan PDF Standardizer, an application designed to bring simple, reliable PDF standardization and quality control to the graphic arts market.

Quadrispace offers new 3D PDF module

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Quadrispace has announced its offering of a 3D PDF module for use with its free Docuement3D Personal Edition for 3D CAD file communication and documentation.

Ghent Workgroup releases new PDF/X workflow specs

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ghent Workgroup has announced release v4 of the Ghent Workgroup specs for automated workflow efficiency. The v4 of the specs support Adobe Acrobat 9 and include the Universal Proof of Preflight developed by the Ghent Workgroup.

This week in PDF: Training video for Acrobat 9 released

Dan Shea — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen the launch of a service platform for creating interactive online PDF online catalogs, PDF support added to a graphics package and the release of a new video-based training series for Acrobat 9. Finally, the week has also seen the launch of a new digital documents blog.

This week in PDF: Datalogics to distribute Adobe JobReady 3.0

Dan Shea — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen one company announce that it will exclusively distribute Adobe's software solution for print providers, while another updated its DWG-to-PDF conversion tool and a third vendor updated its PDF-related developer products.

callas software debuts callas pdfToolbox 4.0

Nettie Hartsock — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Germany-based callas software showed off its latest and major updated release pdfToolbox 4.0 last week at Drupa 2008.

This week in PDF: Foxit Reader security hole patched

Dan Shea — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This week in PDF has seen a security and bug-fix update to a popular PDF viewer, the development of a technique for embedding 3D images into PDF documents and Xerox's adoption of the Adobe Print Engine.

PDF3D adds unified 3D file conversion in latest release

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

PDF3D has released PDF3D-SDK 1.5 which adds a new unified 3D file conversion architecture with wider support for more interface types.

WebAssist releases first PDF solution for Dreamweaver users

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

California-based WebAssist announced the release of SiteScribe, a solution targeted at Dreamweaver users which enables them to create a PDF document from any site, local or remote, directly within Dreamweaver.

Ghent PDF Workgroup releases Proof of Preflight spec

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ghent PDF Workgroup has announced the release of its free and first "Proof of Preflight" specification.

Adobe ships Photoshop Elements 6.0 for Mac users

Nettie Hartsock — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This week, Adobe shipped version 6.0 Photoshop Elements for Mac OS X. The release was announced in early January at MacWorld Expo and is now well on its way to users.

Cheap Impostor rolls out 3.1 imposition software

Nettie Hartsock — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Cheap Impostor has announced the release of version 3.1, a less expensive way for folks to transform documents into magazines or books without using a photocopier.

Ubiquitous PDF: Booklet creation made easy

Dan Shea — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

If you're looking to print PDF booklets simply and easily, you might be interested in the topic of this week's Ubiquitous PDF item: a free, online booklet creation service.

Review: callas pdfToolbox 3 and DeviceLink-Add-on

Filipe Pereira Martins and Anna Kobylinska — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The makers of Acrobat's preflight engine, callas software, have released the third generation of callas pdfToolbox to a growing interest among industry professionals in prepress and print. This review by Filipe Pereira Martins and Anna Kobylinska of Soft1T Consulting provides an in-depth look at the new product suite from callas software.