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1. Installation, activation, deactivation, updates 14
- 1.1 Installation of pdfToolbox Desktop or Server on Mac
- 1.2 Installation of pdfToolbox Desktop or Server on Windows
- 1.3 Activation and Deactivation of pdfToolbox
- 1.4 Multi-user system (Activating additional users on the same system)
- 1.5 Migrating the pdfToolbox to another computer (Deactivation)
- 1.6 Uninstalling the pdfToolbox Acrobat plug-in
- 1.7 Change language of user interface (desktop only)
- 1.8 Using pdfToolbox and Preflight in Acrobat Pro parallel
- 1.9 Notifications about available updates
- 1.10 Update path to pdfToolbox CLI in Switch when installing new version of pdfToolbox
- 1.11 Run as a Service (Windows)
- 1.12 Create a Daemon using Mac
- 1.13 Create a Daemon using Linux
- 1.14 System paths for preferences
2. callas pdfToolbox Basics 19
- 2.1 Profiles, Checks, Fixups, Process Plans and Libraries
- 2.2 Protect Profiles, Checks, Fixups, Process Plans and Libraries against changes
- 2.3 Duplicate and edit Profiles, Checks and Fixups
- 2.4 Creating Profiles
- 2.5 Running a Profile and examining results
- 2.6 Export Profiles to a previous pdfToolbox version
- 2.7 Features enabling/preventing Profile export to a previous version
- 2.8 Actions in pdfToolbox
- 2.9 Syntax Checks
- 2.10 Search Libraries
- 2.11 Examining page content
- 2.12 Requirements for conversions to PDF
- 2.13 Add your own Output Intents
- 2.14 Checking the ISO standards using callas Desktop products
- 2.15 Compatibility between pdfToolbox and Acrobat
- 2.16 Deleting multiple Fixups or Checks at once
- 2.17 Automatic optimization of PDFs
- 2.18 Keyboard shortcuts and additional Hotkeys
- 2.19 Page selector and Split scheme
3. Process Plans in detail 11
- 3.1 When Profiles are not enough: Process Plans
- 3.2 Actions in Process Plans
- 3.3 Using Quick Check as a step in a Process Plan
- 3.4 Using Process Plans in Process Plans (11.0)
- 3.5 Generating additional PDF output from a Process Plan step
- 3.6 Using the PDF input file from a previous Process Plan step (11.0)
- 3.7 Switch on/off a Process Plan step via a Variable (11.0)
- 3.8 New Process Plan step "Rename" (11.0)
- 3.9 New Process Plan step "Add files" (12.0)
- 3.10 Modifying the result (return code) of a Process Plan with the Check property "Create a hit (or not)"
- 3.11 Process Plans: tips and tricks
4. Protected Profiles and Process Plans 4
- 4.1 What are protected Profiles and Process Plans
- 4.2 Protecting one or more Profiles or Process Plans
- 4.3 Modifying one or more protected Profile or Process Plan
- 4.4 Unprotecting one or more Profiles or Process Plans
5. Actions and their use in callas' products 12
- 5.1 Actions: Arrange and Present files
- 5.2 Actions: Standards
- 5.3 Actions: Prepress
- 5.4 Actions: Document
- 5.5 Actions: Pages
- 5.6 Actions: Text
- 5.7 Actions: Colors
- 5.8 Actions: Images
- 5.9 Actions: Layers
- 5.10 Actions: Reports
- 5.11 Actions: Large Format Printing
- 5.12 Actions: Decorate
6. Libraries 3
- 6.1 Libraries - Overview
- 6.2 Create new, Manage, Import or Export Libraries
- 6.3 Search in or across Libraries
7. Color conversion 17
- 7.1 Color conversion overview
- 7.2 Setting up a "Convert colors" Fixup
- 7.3 Convert colors: Advanced settings (previously "Policies") (v11.0)
- 7.4 Policies (deprecated, available till v10.2)
- 7.5 Processing black objects with Advanced settings (v11.0)
- 7.6 Processing black objects (deprecated, available till v10.2)
- 7.7 Color convert to PSO Coated v3 (ECI)
- 7.8 Adjust tone values and apply gradation curve to selected objects
- 7.9 How to convert CMYK in DeviceN to DeviceCMYK
- 7.10 DeviceLink conversion
- 7.11 Use included DeviceLink profile to convert ISO Coated v2 ↔ PSO Coated v3 (ECI)
- 7.12 Replace existing ICC profile
- 7.13 Convert spot color names to UTF-8
- 7.14 Update all spot colors in a PDF using a spot color Swatch library
- 7.15 Internal spot color library
- 7.16 Convert RGB to CMYK using custom tolerance for gray (v11.0)
- 7.17 Extract CMYK from DeviceN
8. PDF/X-5 and n-channel color 4
- 8.1 Color convert with n-channel ICC profiles
- 8.2 Convert to PDF/X-5n
- 8.3 Validate against PDF/X-5n standard
- 8.4 Softproof PDF/X-5n files
9. Spectral color and CxF 4
- 9.1 Introduction: CxF and spectral data
- 9.2 Embed CxF data (import)
- 9.3 Extract and remove CxF information
- 9.4 Analyze CxF information
10. Spotify - Derive spot colors from content (v11.0) 4
- 10.1 Why Spotify?
- 10.2 How does Spotify work
- 10.3 Spotify in callas pdfToolbox
- 10.4 Spotify parameters
11. Fonts and Text 7
- 11.1 Embedding fonts
- 11.2 Embedding fonts: Font substitution file
- 11.3 Subset Fonts
- 11.4 Unembed all fonts
- 11.5 Convert fonts to outlines
- 11.6 Convert Type 3 fonts to outlines (10.2)
- 11.7 Search text
12. Images 2
- 12.1 Resample to JPEG2000
- 12.2 Upsample/downsample images
13. Prepare PDF documents for production 10
- 13.1 Generate bleed from page content: updated in pdfToolbox 12
- 13.2 Generate bleed for irregular shapes (v11.0)
- 13.3 Check and fix bleed
- 13.4 Create a dieline and bleed for irregular shapes (v11.0)
- 13.5 Create a dieline and bleed for irregular shapes with gaps in outer border (v11.0)
- 13.6 Change page size with the help of the “Set page geometry boxes” Fixup
- 13.7 Outline page geometry boxes in a specified tint value of a spot color
- 13.8 Create pre-separated pages
- 13.9 How to 'Split or reorder' PDF
- 13.10 Create white underlays for printing on transparent foil using "Create spot color plate based on ink amount"
14. Large format 7
- 14.1 Adding grommets using a Fixup
- 14.2 Add ink layer
- 14.3 Adding grommets
- 14.4 Tiling
- 14.5 Add borders
- 14.6 Add bleed
- 14.7 Create pole pocket banner
15. Variable Data Print (VDP) 3
- 15.1 Create VDP files from PDF templates
- 15.2 Fast VDP mode
- 15.3 DPart metadata injection
16. Debugging of Profiles and Process plans 6
- 16.1 Why a test mode?
- 16.2 How to use test mode
- 16.3 Purpose of logging feature
- 16.4 Activating logging
- 16.5 How to create a detailed log when executing Process Plans (or Profiles, Checks or Fixups)
- 16.6 The JSON log files
17. Variables and JavaScript, Ask-at-runtime dialog 24
- 17.1 Simple variables
- 17.2 Variables using JavaScript: Overview
- 17.3 JavaScript in pdfToolbox: Custom data objects and methods
- 17.4 Variables using JavaScript: pdfToolbox objects and methods
- 17.5 Interpretation of the app.requires values
- 17.6 Using variables in a property - The TrimBox example
- 17.7 Extracting information from an XML Report file via XPath
- 17.8 Using an external JSON jobticket file
- 17.9 Defining variables using app.requires with closed choice of allowed values
- 17.10 Using "trigger" values to adjust processing in a Process Plan
- 17.11 Debugging JavaScript Variables
- 17.12 How to branch processing in a Process Plan using JavaScript
- 17.13 Use RegEx in variables
- 17.14 Using object coordinates from a hit in a Process Plan
- 17.15 Map (spot and process) colors using script variables
- 17.16 Ask-at-runtime Dialog: Introduction
- 17.17 Working with ask-at-runtime templates
- 17.18 Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Fixups
- 17.19 Using JavaScript in an (apply to) filter
- 17.20 Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Checks
- 17.21 Using JavaScript for pop up values in "Arbitrary JavaScript controlled Fixups"
- 17.22 Execute external application via JavaScript function
- 17.23 Autocomplete while writing JavaScript
- 17.24 Editing JavaScript in Visual Studio Code
18. Advanced configuration of Profiles 3
- 18.1 Boolean logic and conditions in preflight checks
- 18.2 Combining different checks to solve complex problems
- 18.3 Negating Check results
19. Reports for Profiles 8
- 19.1 PDF reports (using masks or layers)
- 19.2 HTML based custom reports
- 19.3 HTML based custom reports – generate optional information
- 19.4 Dump variables report (using JSON)
- 19.5 Command line options for multi-language support
- 19.6 Modify strings for internal syntax checks using Custom Dicts
- 19.7 XML report: Convert pt to mm
- 19.8 JSON reports
20. Place content 13
- 20.1 Place dynamic page numbers
- 20.2 Place dynamic text
- 20.3 Place individual text per page
- 20.4 Place barcodes and matrix codes
- 20.5 Place any content: Basics (“Place Content” via HTML templates
- 20.6 Place any content: Preparation
- 20.7 Place any content: Positioning content
- 20.8 Place any content: Simple example placing content in the upper left
- 20.9 Using Variables in a Place Content HTML template to place text
- 20.10 Place any content: Use information about the PDF document
- 20.11 Place barcode: Using an HTML-template for an extended configuration
- 20.12 Advanced 2D code use cases
- 20.13 Place content transparently or opaquely
21. Shapes 6
- 21.1 Shapes: An overview
- 21.2 Defining shapes
- 21.3 Applying shapes
- 21.4 "Shapes" features extended in pdfToolbox 9.1
- 21.5 Efficiently creating varnish or white background (requires at least v9.1)
- 21.6 Use shapes to visualize small distances between objects or inside of outlined objects
22. Optical character recognition (OCR) 3
- 22.1 Create invisible text via OCR
- 22.2 OCR support for additional languages
- 22.3 Partial OCR (filtering page content)
23. Barcode recognition 3
- 23.1 Find barcodes
- 23.2 Supported Barcode symbologies
- 23.3 Read Barcode or Matrix code and determine properties
24. Context aware object detection: Sifter 25
- 24.1 Beyond classic preflighting: Context aware object detection (Sifter)
- 24.2 Finding the right "Context aware object detection" property
- 24.3 Proximity: Object reaches into edge area of a shape
- 24.4 Proximity: Object crosses shape
- 24.5 Proximity: Objects close to each other
- 24.6 Above versus below: Object on top of other object(s)
- 24.7 Above versus below: Object not on top of any other object
- 24.8 Above versus below: Object below other object
- 24.9 Above versus below: Object not below any other object
- 24.10 Above versus below: Object covers other object
- 24.11 Above versus below: Object covered by other object
- 24.12 Inside versus outside: Object inside other object
- 24.13 Inside versus outside: Object outside other object
- 24.14 Inside versus outside: Object inside shape
- 24.15 Inside versus outside: Object outside shape
- 24.16 Inside versus outside: Object crosses other object
- 24.17 Visibility: Object is invisible
- 24.18 Visibility: Object is visible
- 24.19 Visibility: Object is partially obliterated
- 24.20 Visibility: Object is completely obliterated
- 24.21 Visibility: Object is partially clipped
- 24.22 Visibility: Object is completely clipped
- 24.23 Advanced "Context aware object detection" property
- 24.24 "Shapes" Property for use in "Context aware object detection" checks
- 24.25 How to debug Sifter Checks and see their results
25. Processing Steps 11
- 25.1 Design and more
- 25.2 Using metadata for standardisation
- 25.3 Viewing the layers in a document
- 25.4 Working with processing steps metadata for a layer
- 25.5 Predefined Profiles and result view for Processing Steps
- 25.6 Checking processing steps information
- 25.7 Fixing processing steps data
- 25.8 Overview of predefined groups and types for processing steps
- 25.9 Configurable Checks and Fixups for Processing Steps
- 25.10 Split PDFs based on Processing Steps
- 25.11 Index layer names if initial visibility or Processing Steps metadata is different
26. DPart metadata 3
- 26.1 Display DPart metadata
- 26.2 Use DPart metadata in a Process Plan via QuickCheck
- 26.3 DPart metadata injection
27. Interactively analyse and explore PDF documents 15
- 27.1 Visually inspect PDF files
- 27.2 Display ink coverage information for all separations
- 27.3 View ink coverage per separation
- 27.4 View safety zone in PDF
- 27.5 Heat map for «Out of gamut» visualization
- 27.6 Examining page content: The Object Inspector
- 27.7 Examining page content: Filter in the Object Inspector
- 27.8 Compare documents
- 27.9 Log comparison based information
- 27.10 Explore Metadata
- 27.11 Explore Layers
- 27.12 Explore PDF
- 27.13 Explore Fonts
- 27.14 Explore tagging
- 27.15 XMP Metadata reports
28. Quick Check 8
- 28.1 Quick Check – Introduction
- 28.2 Using Quick Check as a step in a Process Plan
- 28.3 Quick Check configuration syntax
- 28.4 All "aggregated" Quick Check objects and output
- 28.5 "direct" data structures and output
- 28.6 "status" data structure and output
- 28.7 Using Quick Check directly on the command line
- 28.8 Error codes and Return codes for Quick Check Results
29. Quick Fix 6
- 29.1 Quick Fix overview
- 29.2 Quick Fix configuration essentials: String comparison operators and page selection expressions
- 29.3 Quick Fix features
- 29.4 Using Quick Fix on the command line
- 29.5 Reorder pages using Quick Fix
- 29.6 JavaScript based configuration Quick Fix
30. Impose 16
- 30.1 Imposition overview
- 30.2 Building blocks of an Impose configuration
- 30.3 Controlling the imposition process
- 30.4 Runlist
- 30.5 Token Engine
- 30.6 Token and Variables for dynamic imposition
- 30.7 Using variables defined in command line calls
- 30.8 Creating an Imposition configuration
- 30.9 Editor and debugger for Imposition configuration files
- 30.10 Dynamic imposition
- 30.11 Add sheet sizes for imposition
- 30.12 Create Booklet
- 30.13 JavaScript based imposition runlists
- 30.14 Use of JavaScript runlists
- 30.15 JavaScript runlist object definitions
- 30.16 JavaScript runlist convenience functions
31. callas pdfToolbox CLI (command line interface) 25
- 31.1 Introduction to pdfToolbox CLI
- 31.2 Installation and activation of pdfToolbox Server/CLI
- 31.3 Displaying program information – Hints and troubleshooting
- 31.4 Processing
- 31.5 Using Profiles
- 31.6 General command line options
- 31.7 Converting office documents to PDF or PDF/A
- 31.8 Additional command line options and response files
- 31.9 Creating a report using Profiles
- 31.10 Enumerate Profiles
- 31.11 Results (Return codes, Error codes and Reason codes)
- 31.12 Commands related to Arrange
- 31.13 Commands related to Large format printing
- 31.14 Commands related to Present
- 31.15 Commands related to Document
- 31.16 Command to add bookmark structure
- 31.17 Commands related to Colors
- 31.18 Commands related to Layers
- 31.19 Commands related to Reports
- 31.20 DeviceLink Conversion
- 31.21 Run as a Server
- 31.22 Distributed Processing
- 31.23 Running pdfToolbox via Webservices (SOAP)
- 31.24 Activating logging
- 31.25 Predefined Profiles
32. Using pdfToolbox in cloud environments 3
- 32.1 Using pdfToolbox Docker images from docker hub
- 32.2 License Server in the cloud
- 32.3 Create your own pdfToolbox Docker images from scratch
33. callas pdfToolbox SDK 6
- 33.1 Activation and Deactivation of pdfToolbox SDK
- 33.2 callas pdfEngine SDK: First steps
- 33.3 Help? Displaying program information for pdfToolbox SDK
- 33.4 File components and their use in pdfToolbox SDK
- 33.5 .Net Core migration guide
- 33.6 Predefined Profiles
34. Server 4
- 34.1 Using Job Tickets (11.0)
- 34.2 Sidecar files and their use when processing files with a Server-Job (11.0)
- 34.3 How to upgrade pdfToolbox Server successfully (without losing server jobs)?
- 34.4 pdfToolbox Server integration in automation systems (Switch, FileTrain)

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