callas software releases, explained

• New Fixups: Convert dashed rectangle into solid rectangle; Copy objects; Harmonize values of all form field Widget Annotations
• Enhanced Fixups: Discard private data of other applications: Extended scope to also remove PieceInfo in Form XObjects; Downsample/compress gray|color images: Support for custom compression values for JPEG and JPEG2000 (therefore, the default settings for compression have also been adjusted slightly); Put on layer: New filter to define the handling of objects already on a layer; Put on processing steps layer: Revised and improved handling of Processing Steps details of existing layers if they do not have PS yet; and 3 more
• New Properties: Form Field has Widget Annotation with inconsistent values
• Enhanced Properties: Report PDF syntax issues: Extended scope to detect certain XObjects with missing or incorrect resources; Page has only one image: Added support for the Processing Steps sidebar entry; Image is not valid: Extended to detect mismatches between the dimensions specified in an Image XObject and those of the image data
• New or enhanced Actions: Image export: Support for custom JPEG and WebP compression values; Image export: Extended listing of simulation profiles now also lists RGB + Gray color spaces; Image export: New options to include or exclude layers and to respect layer states; Visualizer methods: Support for custom JPEG and WebP compression values
• New or enhanced Quick Fix: Resave PDF: New option for how to compress objects
• CLI: SaveAsImage: Support for custom JPEG and WebP compression values; SaveAsImage: New options to include or exclude layers and to respect layer states; Visualizer: Support for custom JPEG and WebP compression values; Compare: Support for custom JPEG and WebP compression values
• General: Automatical repair for incorrect embedding of C2PA credentials when saving PDF files created by certain AI generators; Most recent version of Adobe PDF Library integrated (v21.0.0PlusP1c); Most recent version of Adobe PDF Converter integrated (PostScript to PDF conversion; v3.2.0Plus1p)

Plus 68 fixes.

• Version jump to 17 to align the version number with pdfToolbox and the pdfEngine SDK
• Desktop
• Process plans
• New Fixups
• Enhanced Fixups
• New Properties
• Enhanced Properties
• New or enhanced Actions

Plus 50 fixes.

Plus 1 fix.

• Desktop: Imposition Wizard; Transparency grid view; Profiles window: Search in name and comments; Export non-Profile items (Checks, Fixups, Actions, Quick Fixes) without wrapping them into Profiles; and 6 more
• Process plans: New “Export…” function; Context menu to cut, copy, paste and do alignments
• New Fixups: Simplify vector paths; Place pages on file; Modify Processing Steps layer metadata; Generate bleed by pattern extension; and 1 more
• Enhanced Fixups: Create and apply shapes: New create shape mode: “Create outline from path objects”; Place rectangle: Support for corner styles; Scale pages: New input mode for width / height; Replace barcode: Support for “Micro QR Code”; and 4 more
• New Properties: Identify empty areas; Is at location; Number of layers an object belongs to; List of layer names used
• Enhanced Properties: Barcode properties: Support for “Micro QR Code”; “MD5 checksum of ICC profile” properties: New functionality to insert MD5 hash values based on an ICC profile; Bleed missing for irregular shape: Improved algorithm; ICC profile is not valid: Extended recognition of potential problems in ICC profiles; and 1 more
• New or enhanced Actions: Repeat pattern; Image export:; ToPDF: Support for conversion of WebP images to PDF
• New or enhanced Quick Fix: Extract static content from VDP files; “Set layer properties” (previously “Set layer visibility”) extended with settings for “print” and “export”; Duplicate pages: Extended with “Number of duplicates” and “Keep page order”

• New parameter to abort conversion if referenced resources are missing: ,fail-on-missing-resources

Plus 12 fixes.

• Enhanced Quick Fix: Resave PDF: Option “Repair image streams” now fixes JPEG images without “end of data” entry, which could cause issues e.g. in RIPs

Plus 1 fix.

• Desktop: Library manager: New “Remove empty groups…”; Process plan Editor: Various improvements e.g. to avoid creation of incomplete plans; Test mode: Width of preview and result areas are now remembered; Test mode: The value of “Preflight only pages” from the profile window will be used automatically
• New Properties
• New Fixups
• Enhanced Fixups
• Actions
• Reports
• CLI
• Reports

Plus 54 fixes.

Plus 4 fixes.

• Desktop: Library manager: New “Remove empty groups…”; Switchboard: Pre-separate pages: New option to suppress empty separations; Process plan Editor: Various improvements e.g. to avoid creation of incomplete plans; Test mode: Width of preview and result areas are now remembered; and 1 more
• New Properties: Uses ICCbased Gray; Uses ICCbased Lab; Metadata namespace for PDF/UA identification schema uses ‘pdfuaid’ prefix
• New Fixups: Separate vector objects with fill and stroke into two objects
• Enhanced Fixups: Remove layers and content that are initially invisible: Support for the generic Processing Steps filter; Remove layers and content that are initially invisible: New “Apply to” filter; Discard hidden layer content and flatten visible layers: Support for the generic Processing Steps filter; New engine for various Layer-related Fixups , as a consequence, it is no longer possible to make multiple changes to the same layer in one file; and 4 more
• Actions: Create separations: New action to create separation renditions (similar to what so far was only possible in the Visualizer); Imposition: New option for imposition Runlists to place crop marks even for empty slots; Overlay: New option “Place below”; Pre-separate pages: New option to suppress empty separations; and 1 more
• Reports: Quick Check: Added reporting for number of existing Form XObjects and number of calls for Form XObjects (both per page and in document for identification of VDP files)
• CLI
• Reports

Plus 78 fixes.

Plus 6 fixes.

• Desktop: Testmode: A new “Cancel” button next to the progress bar, makes it easier to cancel the run when it takes too long, while keeping the Check results collected so far; ProcessPlan editor: Improved “snap to grid” functionality for steps and annotations; ProcessPlan editor: Annotations now support different text alignment options
• Fixups: Remove invisible image data: New option “Duplicate multiple used images if necessary”
• Actions: MergePDF: Pagelabels of input files will now be maintained
• Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.6.098)
• Updated signatures of audit trail for preflight certification

Plus 32 fixes.

Plus 6 fixes.

• Desktop: Testmode: A new “Cancel” button next to the progress bar, makes it easier to cancel the run when it takes too long, while keeping the Check results collected so far; ProcessPlan editor: Improved “snap to grid” functionality for steps and annotations; ProcessPlan editor: Annotations now support different text alignment options
• Fixups: Remove invisible image data: New option “Duplicate multiple used images if necessary”
• Actions: MergePDF: Pagelabels of input files will now be maintained
• Server: Content from Sidecar files is now available in the app.context.sidecar object in JavaScript Variables
• CLI: Support for cancelling a preflight run while keeping the results collected so far (e.g. for reports): ,timeout_withresults
• Reports: Quick Check: MD5 hash values of ICC profiles used in Output Intents are now also listed
• Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.6.098)

Plus 56 fixes.

• Support for HEIC images
• Better proxy support and new parameter “,insecure” to ignore SSL handshake errors (e.g. when using internal proxy servers)

Plus 7 fixes.

Plus 2 fixes.

• Desktop: Space usage dialogue; Edit Checks: New “Mouse selector” to define a custom area; Edit Fixups: New “Mouse selector” to define a custom area; Library Manager: Support for exporting multiple libraries simultaneously; and 4 more
• Process plans: Editor: Process plans can have annotations; “Process plan” step: Option to process only certain pages; “Process plan” step: Process pages individually in a loop; Create PDF file copy: Option “Copy into variable” to save the path of the created PDF for later use; and 6 more
• New Fixups: Place file on path; Derive stroked from filled vector path; Replace barcode; Adjust Form XObject BBoxes to CropBox; and 1 more
• Enhanced Fixups: Convert colors: Optimized processing of multipage PDFs and multiple referenced objects; Convert page content into image: Support for Lab color space; Flatten transparency: Filter to exclude objects from flattening; Place barcode: New option to define the background color of a placed barcode; and 3 more
• New Properties: Size of document XMP; Size of object XMP (on page level); TrimBox is landscape; TrimBox is portrait
• Enhanced Properties: Find barcodes: Support for DataBar (RSS 14) codes; Find barcodes: “Color distance between barcode / matrix code and background” check works better for non-uniform colors; Operators for text input fields: “is contained in list (ignore upper/lower case)” and “is not contained in list (ignore upper/lower case)”; Text on page: RegEx capture groups are now reported in trigger values in XML, JSON and JSONv2 reports as well as in JS Variable “app.doc.result” objects; and 1 more
• New or enhanced predefined Profiles and Process plans: Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:
• New or enhanced predefined Fixups: Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:

Plus 38 fixes.

• Internal HTML converter updated to callas pdfChip (v2.6.096)

Plus 7 fixes.

• Desktop: Space usage dialogue; Page geometry box editor (Print production mode); Switchboard:; Edit Checks: New “Mouse selector” to define a custom area; and 8 more
• Process plans: Editor: Process plans can have annotations; “Process plan” step: Option to process only certain pages; “Process plan” step: Process pages individually in a loop; Create PDF file copy: Option “Copy into variable” to save the path of the created PDF for later use; and 6 more
• New Fixups: Place file on path; Derive stroked from filled vector path; Replace barcode; Adjust Form XObject BBoxes to CropBox; and 1 more
• Enhanced Fixups: Create spot color plate based on ink amount: New option to exclude certain spot colors from ink amount and support for Processing Steps; Create spot color plate based on ink amount using script variables: New option to exclude certain spot colors from ink amount and support for Processing Steps; Convert colors: Optimized processing of multipage PDFs and multiple referenced objects; Convert page content into image: Support for Lab color space; and 7 more
• New Properties: Bleed missing for irregular shape; Bleed missing for page; Size of document XMP; Size of object XMP (on page level); and 6 more
• Enhanced Properties: Find barcodes: Support for DataBar (RSS 14) codes; Find barcodes: “Color distance between barcode / matrix code and background” check works better for non-uniform colors; Operators for text input fields: “is contained in list (ignore upper/lower case)” and “is not contained in list (ignore upper/lower case)”; Options to either use an existing Output Intent or a defined ICC profile for rendering; and 3 more
• New or enhanced predefined Profiles and Process plans: Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:
• New or enhanced predefined Fixups: Library: Prepress, Color and Transparency:

Plus 53 fixes.

Plus 1 fix.

• New CLI options to set the PDF page size: ,default-page-size and ,force-page-size
• Support for setting the white point parameter of Lab colors (D50 or D65)

Plus 5 fixes.

Plus 4 fixes.

• New functionality to import a JSON file with DPart structure into a PDF

• Support for Acrobat DC x64 on Windows
• Support for Acrobat DC on MacOS Arm/M1
• Initial release to the public
• Support as Plug-in for Acrobat DC

• Support for Acrobat DC on MacOS Arm/M1
• Reviewed and improved table caption highlighting
• Support for Acrobat DC x64 on Windows
• Reviewed and improved table highlighting (e.g. extended for tables using the “Scope” attribute)
• Complete revision of the display of tagging structures
• Improved stability especially with unusual or very complex tag structures

Plus 14 fixes.