pdfToolbox integration in automation systems
Instead of using pdfToolbox Server in hot folder mode (Working with hot folders in pdfToolbox Server), it can also be used integrated in automation systems such as Enfocus Switch. This article provides an introduction to how pdfToolbox can be used in such tools.
Enfocus Switch
Switch from Enfocus is a modular automation solution that can automate manual tasks; it includes both built-in tools (for FTP, renaming, grouping and ungrouping...) and connects to third-party tools. From the start, Switch has had a number of pdfToolbox configurators (the Switch name for the plug-ins that create a connection to a third-party tool).
- The list of flows (the Switch terminology for a workflow that automates a series of tasks).
- The list of built-in tools and configurators; at the top in the favorites section, three of the pdfToolbox configurators.
- A workflow featuring two pdfToolbox configurators to automatically merge PDF files into a single file and subsequently impose them using the imposition engine built into pdfToolbox.
pdfToolbox provides the following configurators for Switch:
- Actions: runs one of the pdfToolbox actions (roughly equivalent to the functionality available in the Switchboard).
- Profiles: runs a pdfToolbox Profile or Process Plan.
- Compare: compares two incoming PDF files and determines whether they are visually the same or different.
- Impose: runs the pdfToolbox imposition engine.
- ConvertColors: runs a color conversion using pdfToolbox.
How to integrate callas pdfToolbox Server with Enfocus Switch can be found in the online documentation under the chapter: pdfToolbox Server integration in automation systems.