New pdfToolbox2 Plug-Ins for Adobe Acrobat 8

PRESS RELEASE

Berlin, November 9 2006 – With impec­ca­ble tim­ing, callas soft­ware has announced the imme­di­ate avail­abil­i­ty of these tried and tested
pdfToolbox2 tools as spe­cial plug-ins that have been opti­mized for the new Adobe Acrobat 8. pdfColorConvert, pdfCorrect, and pdfLayerMaker now allow you to car­ry out exten­sive and pro­fes­sion­al colour con­ver­sions, to cor­rect com­mon sources of error in print­ing, and to cre­ate lay­ers in PDF files with Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional Version 8.

The user-friendly plug-ins are based on the most up-to-date PDF tech­nol­o­gy – which is also used in the new Acrobat 8. They already pro­vide native sup­port for MacIntel proces­sors in cur­rent Apple Macintosh com­put­ers as well as Vista, Microsoft’s new oper­at­ing sys­tem for Windows environments.

callas soft­ware used the exten­sive PDF exper­tise that it has gath­ered dur­ing many years of devel­op­ing Acrobat Professional pre­flight func­tion­al­i­ty to mod­i­fy the tools to suit the require­ments of Adobe 8. The pre­flight mod­ule devel­oped by the Berlin-based com­pa­ny has effec­tive­ly set the stan­dard for the pro­fes­sion­al check­ing of PDF files in the print indus­try since Acrobat Professional Version 6.

Anyone who uses PDF as a pro­fes­sion­al data for­mat – in pre-pressing, print­ing, and pub­lish­ing at pub­lish­ing hous­es and agen­cies – will ben­e­fit from pdfToolbox2, which con­tains all the tools required for mak­ing nec­es­sary repairs: pdfColorConvert allows non-expert users to quick­ly and eas­i­ly mod­i­fy colours direct­ly in the PDF to meet dif­fer­ent print con­di­tions or to con­vert spot colours to CMYK at the click of a mouse but­ton. pdfCorrect locates and cor­rects more than 60 dif­fer­ent prob­lems that can occur in the pro­fes­sion­al print­ing process and pdfLayerMaker sep­a­rates and sorts page objects into lay­ers, to make them acces­si­ble for editing.

Upgrading to Acrobat 8 is a trouble-free process for exist­ing users of callas soft­ware prod­ucts: Registered users can sim­ply down­load the new plug-ins as a free update from callas soft­ware’s Web site or using the links ref­er­enced below.

Users who are not yet famil­iar with the fea­tures of the plug-ins but are inter­est­ed in learn­ing more can down­load a 30-day, ful­ly func­tion­al tri­al ver­sion from the callas soft­ware Web site.

Download links for pdfColorConvert, pdfCorrect, pdfLayoutMaker:

http://​www​.backand​forth​.org/​c​a​l​l​a​s​_​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​s​/​p​d​f​C​o​l​o​r​C​o​n​v​e​r​t​_​m​ac.zip
http://​www​.backand​forth​.org/​c​a​l​l​a​s​_​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​s​/​p​d​f​C​o​r​r​e​c​t​_​m​ac.zip
http://​www​.backand​forth​.org/​c​a​l​l​a​s​_​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​s​/​p​d​f​L​a​y​e​r​M​a​k​e​r​_​m​ac.zip

http://​www​.backand​forth​.org/​c​a​l​l​a​s​_​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​s​/​p​d​f​C​o​l​o​r​C​o​n​v​e​r​t​_​w​in.zip
http://​www​.backand​forth​.org/​c​a​l​l​a​s​_​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​s​/​p​d​f​C​o​r​r​e​c​t​_​w​in.zip
http://​www​.backand​forth​.org/​c​a​l​l​a​s​_​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​s​/​p​d​f​L​a​y​e​r​M​a​k​e​r​_​w​in.zip

Download links for pdfToolbox2, which con­tains all three plug-ins and more infor­ma­tion on pdfToolbox, pdfColorConvert, pdfCorrect, and pdfLayerMaker, see http://​www​.callas​soft​ware​.com.