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Product category: Management and Administration Software and Systems
News Release from: Positive Focus | Subject: PDFToolbox 3, PDFToolbox Server
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial Team on 01 February 2008

Pre-Press Software Range Offers Value
For Money

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The Callas software range of PDF tools has been restructured by UK and Ireland distributor Positive Focus to provide what are claimed to be value for money composite products.

The software is to be marketed under the PDFToolbox name PDFToolbox 3, for desktop use on Mac or PC, is a series of plug-ins for Acrobat that includes PDFCorrect, PDFColorconvert and PDFLayermaker

With PDFInspektor already embedded in Acrobat, PDFToolbox 3 is claimed by Positive Focus to be suitable for anyone involved in professional print production.

Its visual inspection and automatic correction functions are claimed to allow files to be prepared for their intended output and the automatic correction capabilities are easy to operate, with PDFToolbox making documents compliant with selected production process.

The product also allows for colour conversion and font embedding.

Positive Focus said that for pre-flight, correction and colour management, in an industry increasingly driven by standardisation and automation, Callas's PDFToolbox Server provides the tools to check, correct and manage print jobs.

Based on the same technology that drives Adobe Acrobat's pre-flight feature, but in a stand alone application, PDFToolbox Server enables fast, efficient, hotfolder-based automation.

With over 800 individually configurable checks, PDFToolbox Server is described as offering automatic PDF pre-flighting with a set of automatic correction features that are said to allow files to be prepared, or re-purposed, for specific production processes.

Through its integration with Gradualswitch, PDFToolbox Server is also said to be able to be linked to other third party applications to produce a workflow system with automated PDF capabilities to reduce errors.

For desktop and server products there is a Device Link Profile add-in with a set of 15 ready-prepared, approved profiles.

Device Link Profiles are a form of ICC profile, which offer a colour transformation from source to destination in ONE profile.

Each colour of the source colour space is directly transformed to a certain colour in the destination colour space, added Positive Focus.

Ivor Dixon, Positive Focus's managing director, explained: "Callas has a very comprehensive and well-respected range of products, with a technology base that is the envy of others in the industry.

Users often required two or more individual products to perform the tasks needed in their workflow systems, so by consolidating the individual products in to PDFToolbox and with price reductions made at the same time, we now have a highly competitive product that is remarkably easy to use, yet powerful and controllable." He added: "We would encourage anyone needing to pre-flight and manage their PDF workflows to look seriously at PDFToolbox Server.

Speed of processing, particularly on Mac OS, is significantly faster than other systems.".

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